Erik David Even

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Experience

Zoic Studios Culver City, CA

Internal Brand Manager 9/09 – Present

• Design, create, edit and maintain a daily news and features blog covering the VFX and CGI industries
  

• Provide editorial services for public relations and marketing projects
  

JDJournal.com Pasadena, CA

Lead Copywriter 8/08 – 9/09

• Researching, editing and writing news and blog posts for professional legal blog and employment blog; create editorial graphics

• Write weekly scripts for online video content; work with video production team

Professional Interactive Entertainment, Inc. Santa Monica, CA

Head Writer / Senior Editor 9/05 – 3/08

• Wrote and edited news & features for network of video game sites

• Managed permanent staff of three off-site writers and numerous freelancers

• Liveblogging and photo coverage of gaming events, including BlizzCon and the WWI; gaming and fan conventions; professional gaming competitions

• Created and managed blog properties; led company-wide initiative to create GGLWire, a network of gaming-related blogs

• Created editorial graphics in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

• Produced marketing email and PR blasts

• Contributed content to daily video show www.epilepticgaming.com

Self-Employed Northridge, CA

Assistant Editor / Copy Editor 11/01 – 9/03

• Copy editing, basic research and test bank writing for various publishing projects. Clients were The McGraw-Hill Companies and ETC Inc.

Norm Marshall & Associates Sun Valley, CA

Web Producer 10/98 – 11/01

• Designed and maintained web presence for entertainment marketing agency

• Developed internet-related entertainment marketing initiatives

• Managed Graphics Arts department; produced print materials and promotional gift packages for clients

RealSelect, Inc. Thousand Oaks, CA

Web Designer, Copywriter 6/97 – 10/98

• Wrote content, created graphical elements for realtor.com, the nation’s largest realty web site; team member for $2 million site redesign launched in 1998.

United Education Institute Van Nuys, CA

Multimedia Instructor 1996-1997

• Instructed adult students in multimedia vocational program; Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Macromedia Director, HTML. Also taught MS Office.
  

Commercial Programming Systems Pasadena, CA

User Interface Designer/Icon Artist 1995, 1997

• Employed as contractor by Kaiser Permanente / Deloitte & Touche, to design and implement user interface elements.

Writing Samples

Writing samples available at http://www.kunochan.com.

Web design examples available upon request.

Recent appearance on G4’s “Attack of the Show:”

http://wire.ggl.com/2007/08/29/ggls-erik-kunochan-even-on-attack-of-the-show/

Skills

Windows and Mac OSX proficient; Microsoft Office

Writing Adobe Photoshop HTML

Copyediting Adobe Illustrator Adobe Dreamweaver

Editorial Management Adobe InDesign WordPress

Graphic Design Adobe ImageReady Blogger

Page Layout QuarkXPress Forum/Community Management

Research

Professional Certifications

ETP Multimedia Authoring University of Southern California

• Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Director

• HTML, Web Design

Flash Authoring Moviola Digital Education Services

Web Server Administration Learning Tree University

Macromedia Director Multimedia Workshop

Education

University of California, Los Angeles Westwood, CA

B.A. Anthropology 1994