Jeff Carpenter

7776 Mayower Hill, Waterville, ME, 04901 (949) 280 4075 hello@jeffcarp.com EDUCATION

Waterville, ME

Colby College

Bachelor of Arts, Social Informatics, May 2012 Minored in Japanese, designed independent major Colby Film Society (president), The Colby Echo, Colby Cycling

Kansai Gaidai University

International Student, August - December 2010 Studied Japanese at the intermediate level

Osaka, Japan

Stanford University

Summer Term, June - August 2009
Courses and research in cognitive psychology
WRITING EXPERIENCE

Stanford, CA

WBUR, Bostons NPR News Station

Boston, MA Intern, May - August 2010 Adapted on-air stories for written publication on wbur.org, seen by 5 million visitors/year Produced photo essays and expository lms complementing nationally syndicated stories Built charts, tables, and interactive features for WBUR articles in HTML, CSS and Javascript
TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

StudyAbroad101 (MassChallenge startup)

Boston, MA Intern, May - August 2011
Devised and coded Blog and Video directory to aggregate study abroad student content Coded China $10K scholarship essay contest using Facebook API for Like based ranking Shot and produced viral video campaign

The Colby Echo

Waterville, ME Tech Editor, September 2009 - present
Orchestrated Web, Blog, Photo, and Video departments in print and online editions Built TheColbyEcho.com and custom CMS from scratch, optimized for collegiate journalism Shot and edited investigative journalism lms complimenting our written publication
SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Spoken Languages: Japanese (conversational), French (amateur) Programming Languages: Javascript (jQuery, Prototype), Ruby, PHP, Python, MySQL Teaching:
Teaching Assistant, Colby Computer Science Department Certications:
Lifeguard, CPR, First Aid, Water Safety Instructor Academic:
Won 1st place of 11,800 entrants in San Juan Capistrano essay scholarship contest Filmmaking:
Featured by Ira Glass on home page of This American Life (thisamericanlife.org)


Produced marketing videos for The Colby Fund, airing for over 25,000 Colby alumni
Made 3 of Hufngton Posts Open for Student Questions videos for President Obama
Worked on 7 episodes of Back at the Barnyard, aired nationally on Nickelodeon