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Professional Experience | Education | Awards | Grants | Professional Organizations

Professional Experience

Case Western Reserve University [CWRU] – Cleveland, Ohio 1994 – Present

Kelvin Smith Library – Digital Learning & Scholarship 2006 – Present

Digitization & New Media Specialist 2025 – Present
Creative New Media Officer (CNMO) 2011 – 2025
Creative Director of New Media 2006 – 2011

Adjunct Lecturer 2006 – Present

Cognitive Sciences 2020 – Present
Art Education / Art Studio 2006 – 2021
Music / Teacher Licensure 2011 – 2016
SAGES 2009 – 2013

Information Technology Services 1994 – 2006

Creative Director of New Media 2003 – 2006
Instructional Multimedia / Virtual Reality Specialist 2000 – 2003
Instructional Technologist / Courseware Designer 1994 – 2000

The Cleveland Museum of Art [½ time by special arrangement] 2005 – 2007

Virtual Reality Specialist

Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences 2021 – Present

Lecturer – Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies Graduate Program

Cleveland Institute of Art [CIA] – Cleveland, Ohio 2013 – 2024

Associate Professor & Chair – Game Design 2021 – 2024
Adjunct Faculty – Game Design 2013 – 2021

Infantest Corporation –Cleveland, Ohio 1990 – 1994

Director of Research and Development

ATBOSH Media Limited – Cleveland, Ohio 1988 – Present

Owner – Book Publisher & Agency, Media/Web/Game/App Production, Consulting
Brands owned by ATBOSH Media Ltd. include: Lemming Labs, From Castle to Castle Films, Granola Games, Silly Services, True Love Personals, & Buckeye Country Kennel

Education

Case Western Reserve University

M.F.A. – Masters of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance

Focus in Performance Media 05/2016

M.A. – Masters of Arts in Art Education

Joint program with The Cleveland Institute of Art 05/2004

B.A. – Bachelor of Arts in Psychology

Minors in Art Studio and Music 01/2002

Unfinished – PhD in Museum Studies 05/2011

Joint program with The Cleveland Museum of Art
Completed all coursework & internships (22 credits)
Withdrawn in Good Standing

Jacob Saperstein Mesivta High School

Diploma 05/1989

Valedictorian

Awards/Honors

Judges Choice Award – Cast aside into the public domain: The resurrection of an esoteric Jules Verne adventure novel! (Poster & Presentation), The NMC Summer Conference Rochester, NY. 06/2016

The Naomi Wolin Award for Excellence in Collaborations or New Directions in Dance – Department of Dance, Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), Cleveland, Ohio. 05/2016

Judges Choice Award – The Golden Age of Video Games: A New/Old Approach to Video Game Design (Poster & Presentation), The NMC Summer Conference Portland, Oregon. 06/2014

Graduate Research Award – Chroma – Performance Media & Modern Dance: Dancing with Light & Color (Poster & Presentation), Research ShowCASE at CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 04/2015

Outstanding Achievement Award – SimMarch 1812 [Fort Meigs Development team & Lemming Labs] (iPad app), Ohio Local History Alliance. 10/2013

Best of NMC Award – Resurrecting Century Old Virtual Reality: Bringing new life to Rainforth’s Stereoscopic Skin Clinic [with J. Edmonson] (Poster & Presentation), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference. 06/2013

Judges Choice Award – Panorama of Yedikule Fortress (Photograph), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts. 06/2012

Judges Choice Award – Can I Borrow Your Underwear? Strategies When Lending Personal Technology (Poster), The New Media Consortium Summer (NMC) Conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison. 06/2011

Judges Choice Award – Mandalas (Installation), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at University of Wisconsin, Madison. 06/2011

Peoples Choice Award – Less Filling, Same Great Taste – Comic Books instead of Video for Student Projects [with T. Oestreich] (Poster & Comic Book), The New Media Consortium Summer (NMC) Conference at The University of Southern California, Anaheim, California. 06/2010

Peoples Choice Award – Making Color Theory Palatable (Digital Poster), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. 06/2008

2nd Place Award Winner – Ubiquitous Shovel [with Brian Pomerantz] (Short film), 2^nd Annual Cleveland Christian Film Festival, Cleveland, Ohio. 11/2007

Honorary Title – “Su-fo” (Friend of the King) to the King of Bafounda, Fó Tchio, Western Province of Cameroon. 08/2007

Judges Choice Award – Chromostereoscopy for Use in Visualization (Poster), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, Indiana. 06/2007

Judges Choice Award – Introduction to Multimedia Technology: A New Course for Art Educators [with T. Shuckerow] (Poster), The New Media Consortium (NMC) Summer Conference at CWRU, Cleveland, Ohio. 06/2006

Award Winner – The Digital Me: Pixel Mask (Collage on Ceramic Mask), 19^th Annual Juried Exhibit, National Collage Society. 10/2003

Grants

Artist Grant – Of Castle and Crepes: A Film of French History and Culture The Maison Française de Cleveland. 02/2009

Adobe Atmosphere Curriculum Grant – The Halls of Time Virtual World Project Adobe Inc. & The New Media Consortium (NMC). 06/2004

Phi Beta Kappa Graduate Research Grant – Stereoscopic/3D Images in Education CWRU. 01/2004

Professional Organizations

Current & Former

Theta Chi Fraternity (Beta-Nu Chapter) Alumni Association
CWRU Alumni Association
IGDA (International Game Developers Association)
NAEA (National Art Education Association)
OAEA (Ohio Art Education Association)
ACM SIGGRAPH
OSS (Ohio Stereographic Society)
Northeastern Ohio Professional Chapter ACM SIGGRAPH (Former Chair)
Playwrights Local (Board)
Pachyderm Development Council
Ohio High School Athletic Association – Umpire (retired)