Education
MFA – Film, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2007
BA – Communication, Loyola University Chicago, 2001

Teaching Experience
Chicago Filmmakers – Instructor – Post-Production, 2009-present
Loyola University Chicago – Adjunct Instructor – School of Communication, 2010-2011           
Columbia College Chicago – Adjunct Instructor – Department of Film and Video 2010-2011
Syracuse University – Visiting Assistant Professor – Department of Transmedia, 2008-2009
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Associate Lecturer – Department of Film, 2007-2008
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Adjunct Instructor – Department of Film, 2004-2007
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee Teaching Assistant – Department of Film, 2002-2004

Film Festivals
2011
Deux Petits Bateaux
Philadelphia Film and Animation Festival, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Kansas International Film Festival, Overland Park, Kansas
Louisville International Film Festival, Louisville, Kentucky
Nevada City Film Festival, Nevada City, California
Hardacre Film Festival, Tipton, Iowa
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival, Vancouver, Washington
Fear No Film Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah
Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, North Carolina
East Carolina Film Festival, Greenville, North Carolina
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio
Talking Pictures Film Festival, Evanston, Illinois
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, Wisconsin
Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, North Dakota
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois
Green Bay Film Festival, Green Bay, Wisconsin
I Love(Hate) You Series, HCL Slumber Party, High Concept Labortories, Chicago, Illinois
The City in Which: A Chicago Cine-Poem, The Nightingale, Chicago, Illinois
2010
Flying Alice, Super-8 Rides Again, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Illinois
Love Draws Blood:
The Broad Shoulders Tour, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Fear No Film Festival, Salt Lake City, Utah
Twin Rivers Media Festival, Asheville, North Carolina
The Broad Shoulders Tour, Chicago, Illinois
The Broad Shoulders Tour, Iowa City, Iowa
The Broad Shoulders Tour, St. Louis, Missouri
I Love(Hate) You: Mitchum, Talking Pictures Festival, Evanston, Illinois
I Love(Hate) You: Gloria, Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina
2009
I Love(Hate) You: Gloria:
Gender and the Body in Contemporary Found Footage Filmmaking, Los Angeles, California
Best of the Hinterland Film Shorts, Lowell, Massachusetts
Hinterland Film Festival, Montague, Massachusetts
Video Now, Syracuse, New York
I Love(Hate) You: Mitchum:
Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Phantom Brain Exchange, Turner Falls, Massachusetts
Detour: A Film Noir & Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York
I Love(Hate) You: Rita, Phantom Brain Exchange, Turner Falls, Massachusetts
Paradoxes and Oxymorons:
Hardacre Film Festival, Tipton, Iowa
Artsfest Film Festival, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, Wisconsin
SXSW Film Festival, Austin, Texas
Macon Georgia Film and Video Festival, Macon, Georgia
2008
Fondu It!, Locally Grown, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I Love(Hate) You: Mitchum, Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
Paradoxes and Oxymorons:
Milwaukee Spotlight Film Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
School of the Arts Open House, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Poetry Everywhere Project Premiere, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2007
I Love(Hate) You Series, MFA Thesis Solo Show, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
I Love(Hate) You: Gloria, Wonder Women Short Film Competition, New York
2006
I Love(Hate) You: Rita, Lost & Found: New Video Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mapping the Lengths Between, Saturation Series: Youth, Innocence, and Doubt, Chicago, Illinois
2005
I Love(Hate) You: Rita, Heat: Tenseforms Summer Showcase, Chicago, Illinois
I Love(Hate) You: Gloria, Culture of Fear Screening & Masquerade, Chicago, Illinois
2004
Babette’s Folly, An Orgasm of Expression:  Sex Tangents Art Show, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“One Night You Hear a Scratching....” Culture of Fear Screening & Masquerade, Chicago, Illinois
2003
“One Night You Hear a Scratching....”
Mosaic Night of Shorts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
West Allis Public Access Channel, West Allis, Wisconsin
UWM Student Film Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mapping the Lengths Between
Mosaic Night of Shorts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
West Allis Public Access Channel, West Allis, Wisconsin                                   
UWM Animation Screening, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Awards
Sponsored Artist, High Concept Laboratories, Chicago, Summer 2011
Best Independent Animation – Deux Petits Bateaux – Blue Plum Animation Festival 2011
Runner-up for Best Experimental Film – Paradoxes and Oxymorons – Hardacre Film Festival 2009
Best Experimental – I Love(Hate) You: Mitchum – Artsfest Film Festival 2009
Best of Wisconsin, Animated College Short – Paradoxes and Oxymorons – Milwaukee Spotlight Film Festival 2008
Director’s Award for Union Employee, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2007
Chancellor’s Award University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2002-2004
Teaching Assistantship University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee 2002-2004

Lectures
Screening and Visiting Artist Lecture, Loyola University Chicago, 2010
Screening and Lecture on Animation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2009
Screening, Visiting Artist Lecture and After Effects Workshop, Loyola University Chicago, 2006
Animal Representation, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2004
Animated Adaptations, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2003
Experimental Animation Lecture, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, 2002