David Cort – Cameraperson/Interviewer, Media Producer, Editor, Executive Producer
138 North Dr. San Antonio, TX 78201 Tel 210-999-5928; Cell 617-970-2669
Email: david@davidcort.com    Website: http://davidcort.com

Objective

To find a work that will use my skillset, creativity, and experience in envisaging, designing, managing, and producing interactive empowering media.

Summary

1.       Producer skilled in all aspects of the production and management of videos and TV
2.       Hands On Production: video, websites, databases, presentations, graphics,
3.        Team Player: Experienced participant and manager in high technology teams
4.        Resource Specialist: Broad network of world-wide content producers
5.        Mentor for New Staff: Taught media at UCLA and MIT graduate schools

Skillset

I produce. I am expert in the use of Adobe After Effects, Captivate 2, Premiere Pro, Flash MX 2004, Dreamweaver MX 2004,  PhotoShop CS, MS Word, and Excel. I work mostly with Windows. I write in HTML, CFML (Cold Fusion), XML, CSS, SMIL, and Actionscript. I have a working knowledge of 3d Studio Max.

Some of my Media (Sponsors)

  1. Cultural Alliance of San Antonio , CASA 2007 , San Antonio , TX
  2. New York State Council of the Arts
  3. Harvard University, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA
  4. Boston University, The Executive MBA program, Boston, MA
  5. Wheelabrator Environmental Systems, Danvers, MA
  6. The Travelers Insurance Company, Hartford, CT
  7. The Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA
  8. Boston Security Counselors, a division of Advest, Boston, MA
  9. The United Jewish Appeal, New York City, NY
  10. The Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, Israel
  11. The World Union for Progressive Judaism, Jerusalem, Israel 

Video and Television

Videogames, WKTV Utica, NY: Produced and wrote children’s comedy-fantasy show now being distributed as videotape as Explorations in the Videospace by Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc., 84 5th Ave., New York, NY 10011.

 

VTR, WNET, New York, NY: For series aired on PBS stations, produced a segment entitled, Explorations, which was initially commissioned by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.

 

Trans, Mysterium, and One Two Three, Spiral Productions, Westwood, California: Co-produced these dance films. Trans was a first place winner at the N.Y. Educational Film Festival.

 

Mayday Realtime: A documentary of civil unrest. Distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc., 84 5th Ave., New York City, NY 10011, The Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., NY, and The American Federation of the Arts, which toured it worldwide. Archived at MOMA, NY, SFMOMA, Video Data Bank, Chicago, and EIA, NY

 

Interviews on conditions leading up to and including the immigration and resettlement of Jews to Israel from Eastern Europe, Russia, Central Asia and Ethiopia, 1990-1997: The United Jewish Appeal, New York and The Jewish Agency, Jerusalem, Israel. Produced, operated camera and sound, wrote a variety of interviews shot in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan; Russia; Ukraine; Byeloruss; Israel; U.S.

 

The Nineties: Produced videotape documentary pieces for nationwide PBS series. The last was a story on Israeli Soldiers Serving in Gaza During the First Intifada.

 

Subject To Change: Columbia Broadcasting System, NYC, NY. Produced many segments for pilot.

 

Lanesville TV, Media Bus, Inc., Woodstock, NY:  Involvement in series of TV programs aired over an experimental station in Lanesville, NY.

Cooperstown TV is a Museum, New York State Council of the Arts: Produced cable TV programming experiment written mostly by trained historians and museum curators.

 

Shorts, Post Newsweek Group: Produced and wrote fantasy-comedy shorts for 2 specials syndicated and picked up by 165 stations including the NBC-owned group.

 

VideoImage, Inc./Shirley Clarke Ltd. Produced, directed, wrote films and videos

  1. for the Swarovski Crystal Corporation, 4 training modules
  2. for The Polaroid Corporation, 1 technical training piece
  3. for Davox, Inc., 1 report by the CEO to the board of directors
  4. for Wheelabrator Environmental Systems, 1 infomercial addressing community concerns
  5. for The Travelers Insurance Company; 1 culture change dramatic program
  6. for The Boston Univ. Executive MBA Program, 1 recruitment piece
  7. for Boston Security Counselors, a division of Advest, 1 personalized view of money managers

Teaching

  1. MIT under Professor Ricky Leacock, head of the Film Section
  2. UCLA under Professor Shirley Clarke in the graduate program in film  

Awards, Prizes, and Honors

Massachusetts Software Council, Fellowship Recipient

The Museum of Modern Art, The American Documentary Video, Tour & Archive

The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, California, Fellowship Recipient

The NY Educational Film Festival, TRANS, First Prize

Education

Brandeis University, Bachelor of Arts

 

Recent Work History

 

San Antonio Film Repertory , January 2007 to present as a an Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Camera Person, and Editor CASA 2007

 

General Dynamics Information Technology, Contractor June 2006 to December 2006 in the position of Lead Programmer/Analyst

  1. Using Adobe Captivate 2 and Flash MX2004 storyboarded and emulated a full technical manual on how to administer and operate a new software program for the US Army's Defense Medical Logistics Support System
  1. To see my work in Captivate click to http://davidcort.com/IDMT/IDMTxxx.htm ONLY USE INTERNET EXPLORER TO VIEW THIS SIMULATION The department of Defense does not require cross browser support.
  1. Analyzed the workflow environment and submitted a full report to the executives for implementing major changes, which they did.

 

 The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium, Staff October 2004 to April 2005 in the position of Production Designer

  1. Design, code & manage a total redesign of the Planetarium’s web site
  2. Produce and edit video segments of the Planetarium’s shows
  3. Design and perform in new Planetarium shows
  4. Connect the Planetarium to fund raising opportunities

 

Anteon Corp,, Staff  November 2002 to September 2004 in the position of Senior CBT Programmer

  1. Design, Code and Manage a major medical training refresher CBT for the USAF
  2. Design the hardware and software production  environment for training media production at the 882trs group at Sheppard AF, Wichita Falls, TX
  3. Training Personnel of the 882trs in development environment for CBT production
  4. Producing a complete multimedia documentation and training of the above medical CBT development process. This will enable continuing rapid deployment of future CBT trainings.

    

NaviSite, Inc., Contract November 2000 to May 2001 in the position of Webmaster.

http://www.navisite.com

  1. Reorganized the server environments into a production area of four online computers in a load balancing cluster
  2. Created a web development environment within the company LAN
  3. Created workflow content update database system
  4. Created downloading areas for streaming video

 

State Street Global Advisors, Contract March 2000 to November 2000. http://www.ssga.com

  1. Coded in HTML Realpix, SMIL; Using PhotoShop , Flash & Cold Fusion Studio
  2. Created snippet coding objects & templates in Cold Fusion Studio to streamline coding production
  3. Developed a one day turnaround streaming video system with built in hyperlink controls