Résumé

Erik David Even
Contact: erikeven[at]gmail.com

Experience

Zoic Studios, Culver City, CA
Internal Brand Manager 9/09 – Present

  • Design, creation, editorial and content for a new VFX industry news and features blog
  • Editorial assistance to public relations and marketing efforts
  • In-house Firefly/BSG fanboy

JDJournal.com / EmploymentCrossing, Pasedena, CA
Lead Copywriter 8/08 – 9/09

  • Researching, editing and writing blog posts for professional law blog, and a related network of employment web sites. Write video content, work with production crew and talent
  • Create editorial graphics for news videos

Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Head Writer/Senior Editor 9/05 – 3/08

  • Wrote and edited news & features for network of video game sites. Managed permanent staff of three off-site writers and numerous freelancers
  • Liveblogging and photo coverage of gaming events, including BlizzCon and the WWI
  • Created and managed blog properties; led company-wide initiative to create GGLWire, a network of gaming-related blogs
  • Worked with SEO Director in an Editorial capacity
  • Created editorial graphics in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
  • Produced marketing email and PR blasts

Self-Employed, Northridge, CA
Assistant Editor/Copy Editor 11/01 – 9/03

  • Copy editing, basic research and test bank writing for various publishing projects. Clients were The McGraw-Hill Companies and ETC Inc.

Norm Marshall & Associates, Sun Valley, CA
Web Producer 10/98 – 11/01

  • Designed and maintained web presence for entertainment marketing agency
  • Developed internet-related entertainment marketing initiatives
  • Managed Graphics Arts department; produced print materials and promotional gift packages for clients

RealSelect, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
Web Designer, Copywriter 6/97 – 10/98

  • Wrote content, created graphical elements for realtor.com, the nation’s largest realty web site; team member for $2 million site redesign launched in 1998.

United Education Institute, Van Nuys, CA
Multimedia Instructor 1996-1997

  • Instructed adult students in multimedia vocational program; Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Macromedia Director, HTML. Also taught MS Office.

Commercial Programming Systems, Pasadena, CA
User Interface Designer/Icon Artist 1995, 1997

  • Employed as contractor by Kaiser Permanente / Deloitte & Touche, to design and implement user interface elements.

Writing Samples

Writing samples available at http://www.kunochan.com.
Web design examples available upon request.
Recent appearance on G4′s “Attack of the Show:”

http://wire.ggl.com/2007/08/29/ggls-erik-kunochan-even-on-attack-of-the-show/

Skills

Windows and Mac OSX proficient
Microsoft Office
Writing
Adobe Photoshop
HTML
Copyediting
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Dreamweaver
Editorial Management
Adobe InDesign

WordPress
Graphic Design
Adobe ImageReady

Blogger
Page Layout
QuarkXPress

Forum/Community Management
Research

Professional Certifications

ETP Multimedia Authoring University of Southern California

  • Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Director
  • HTML, Web Design

Flash Authoring Moviola Digital Education Services

Web Server Administration Learning Tree University

Macromedia Director Multimedia Workshop


Education

University of California, Los Angeles Westwood, CA

B.A. Anthropology