KEVIN JOHNSON
17 Worth Road
Neptune, NJ 07753
E-mail: kjohnson1585@gmail.com

Dartmouth graduate seeking to provide freelance writing pieces, specifically focusing on film, television, video games, or various forms of entertainment media. Experienced with complex, long pieces of critical analysis or critique as well as family-friendly screenplays. Style is loose, down-to-earth and accessible.

WRITING EXPERIENCE

Self-Published Professional Blog

Feb. 10, 2009 – Present: Blog Editor and Administrator

• Total Media Bridge: URL at http://www.totalmediabridge.com
• Definitive weekly updates as well as in-depth analysis and critical reviews
• Approximately twenty hits per day and growing
• Knowledgeable about WordPress and various WordPress features, such as plug-ins, themes, widgets, and post/comment maintenance

Self-Produced and Written Fan Project

March 1, 2010 – Present: Writer/Producer

• The Mario/Sonic Chronicles: URL at http://www.mariosonicchronicles.com
• Organized finances, artists and content
• Site maintained through self-taught XHTML and CSS coding, as well as WordPress
• Two full-length screenplays written by myself with a third one in development

Other Writer Projects

• Currently providing content as a minor blogger to Destructoid (http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/kjohnson1585)
• Guest contribution to the website Overthinking It (http://www.overthinkingit.com/2009/08/21/super-mario-toadstool/)
• Reviewer for classic films at Wildsound Filmmaking (http://www.wildsound-filmmaking-feedback-events.com/classic_movie_reviews.html)
• Columnist for the new website DamnLag (http://www.damnlag.com/columns/264-the-eclectic-perspective/)
• Writer of several spec screenplays including three original full length movie scripts, six episodes for an animated sitcom, and two full length fan scripts

WORK EXPERIENCE

Berwyn Editorial, New York, NY

May 13, 2008 – Present: Vault Manager

• Organize and maintain over a thousand forms of tape stock for various clients, including ExxonMobil, Jaguar, Glaxo SmithKline, Reckitt Benckiser and Schering Plough
• Experienced with: FileMaker Pro, DataNet, Retrospect, Document Manager, Final Draft, Final Cut Pro, Administrative Tool, Fibre Manager, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage
• Backup and protect over five hundred forms of storage devices, including IDEs, ATAs, SATAs, G-Raids and Lacie Drives, and LTO Data Cartridges

National Basketball Association, Secaucus, NJ

Feb. 18, 2008 – March 31, 2008: Temporary Assistant in IT

• Assisted in the implementation of Document Manager software, which files and sustains corporate agreements. My position includes uploading, profiling, securing and retaining said agreements

Sept. 19, 2007 – Oct. 11, 2007: Temporary Assistant in Events

• Print, copy, laminate and fax letters, messages, signs, and contracts
• Handled expense reports and wire transfers

NY1 News, New York, NY

Nov. 13, 2007 – Jan. 11, 2008: Temporary Video Librarian

• Logged and transfer data from P2 Cards to DVDs
• Dubbed footage of various formats, including P2 Cards, DigiBeta, DVCPro, Mini-DV, and DVDs
• Maintain and stock the video library, including EPKs, K-Tapes, Day Reels, Airchecks

Theater Department at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Sept. 20, 2004 – June 1, 2007: Work-study Student

• Worked with tools such as table and electric saws; pneumatic staple and nail guns; electric drills
• Constructed sets with materials such as wood, metal, aircraft cable, pipe, and wires
• Staged manage various duties, including prop preparation, show calling, hanging and striking
• Hanged and focused Source 4, Parnells, and Parcans lighting equipment

EDUCATION

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Sept. 13, 2003 – June 6, 2007

• B.A. in Film and TV Studies and Minor in Mathematics, with 3.5/4.0 GPA
• Directorate member of The Dartmouth Film Society
• Secretary of MONTAGE, The Dartmouth Film Journal

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Familiar with digital film techniques (pan, tilts, fades, focus), cameras (Panasonic PV-GS250, Sony DSR-VX2100), equipment (tripods, boom mics) and terminology (sound check, run-through, blocking, etc.)
• Personally designed, developed, and directed several student films
• First place in Dartmouth’s Alexander Laing Memorial Award for Best Original Screenplay, 2007
• Second place in the Screenwriting Contest for the White River Indie Film Festival, 2007
• Finalist in the Screenwriting Expo’s Cyberspace Open Competition, 2009

References available upon request