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Spencer Stuart (Striker)LecturerOffice: MG 104c |
MAGD Courses
Intro to Multimedia; Multimedia 1; Web Video & the Game Industry: GameZombie; Social Media Optimization & Web Analytics
Teaching Experience
Media Arts & Game Development Lab at UW - Whitewater; Indiana University at Bloomington; Ivy Tech - Bloomington
Work Experience
Founder, Creative Director & Exec Producer
GameZombie TV
Specialties
Final Cut Pro 2 Suite: Expert level. Trained 100+ editors and produced over 300 original web videos
Adobe Creative Suite: Advanced level
TV Studio Production: 3 years experience teaching and producing in a $2.5mill HD studio
Writing & Producing for Games & Web TV: 2 novels, 3 feature scripts, a game design document, 7 original web series, and a fully conceptualized secondary world
Project Mgmt: built and oversee a smart, flexible, and highly productive media co. of 50+ people
Education
PhD, Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Communications & Technology, University of Wisconsin at Madison (Expected: 2013)
M.S., Telecommunications, Indiana University at Bloomington
B.S., Radio-TV-Film
B.A., History
University of Texas at Austin
Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
Web Awards & Distinctions
2009 Webby Honoree Award
2008 Webby Honoree Award
25 front page video stars by DailyMotion
3 full months on the front page of Revver
10 front page editor's picks on Crackle
10 featured videos on YouTube’s Gaming Channel
20 featured videos on Gametrailers
2 full months on the front page of Bebo
over 50 additional featured GZ vids
over 7 million global video views
Background & Goals
I grew up in New England, Southern California, and Europe, went to high school in Chicago, and received highest honors degrees in History and Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation, I tried my hand at a writer’s life, traveling throughout Central, South, and North America, a journey that resulted in the novels, Fury & Redemption and Bad Blood Born. In the fall of 2006, I entered the Telecommunications Program at Indiana University at Bloomington. My thesis project was the two-time Webby Honoree Award winning original series, GameZombie TV. I am currently a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater in their Media Arts & Game Development Lab. Simultaneously, I’m pursuing a PhD in Curriculum & Instruction, Educational Communications & Technology, at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. My professional objective is to design cutting edge, hands-on new media education projects--like GameZombie--that compete and succeed on the web.
Special Areas of Interest In Digital Media
New Media Production, Social Media Optimization, Game Media, Project Management, Writing & Producing for Web Video
Professional Objective
To design cutting edge, hands-on new media education projects that succeed on the web.