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Curriculum Vitae

Michael R. Nutt, born July 30, 1979 in Jackson, MS

Education

M.S., Information Science, expected completion May 2011
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership, 2008
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
School of Social Work

B.A., Communication Studies, 2004
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Media Studies/Production emphasis
cumulative GPA 3.57; major GPA 3.93

Employment and Work History

Research Assistant, August 2010-present
Carolina Digital Library and Archives
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Developing information architecture, wireframes, and CSS for new digital humanities project Commemorative Landscapes
• Marked up editorial content for Driving Through Time, a geospatial digital humanities project
documenting the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway
• Georeferenced historical maps

Information and Technology Resource Center Lab Assistant, August 2009-July 2010
School of Information and Library Science
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Supported school currently ranked #1 by US News and World Report
• Provided technical solutions for faculty, staff, graduate and undergraduate student desktop computing problems
• Assisted with re-design of sils.unc.edu

Multimedia Technician & Lab Manager, August 2005-August 2009
Communication Studies Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Supported undergraduate Media Production program for 800-student department, third largest department in the College of Arts and Sciences
• Trained faculty and students to use media production equipment
• Managed and repaired $.5M equipment inventory
• Supervised two student employees in an equipment room that checks out 1938 pieces of equipment per semester
• Increased students' digital camcorder usage by 24%

Assistant Manager/Disc Jockey, June 2002-February 2008
WXYC, Chapel Hill, NC
• Served as Special Events Director
• Interviewed, hired, trained, and mentored new DJs
• Wrote articles for In/Audible magazine
• Wrote reviews for rotated albums
• Hosted regularly scheduled variety show

Reporter, September 2004-May 2005
WCHL, Chapel Hill, NC
• Produced daily What You're Saying series
• Researched, reported, and produced 2-3 stories daily for morning news show
• Conducted and edited interviews

Field Representative, August 2004-April 2005
eMusicLive
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
• Secured recording contracts with bands playing at Cat's Cradle
• Recorded live concerts
• Marketed and sold eMusicLive products

Administrative Assistant, March 2004-May 2004
Center for Educational Development and Informatics
School of Dentistry, UNC-CH
• Executed digital transfer of film slides
• Managed front reception desk

Intern, May 2003-August 2003
Merge Records, Durham, NC

Lead Grocery Clerk, June 2000-2002
Weaver Street Market, Carrboro, NC

Head Waiter/Corporate Opener, September 1999-June 2000
Amerigo, Jackson, MS
• Supervised morning wait staff 5 days a week
• Trained and counseled new servers
• Evaluated restaurant operations
• Directed new wait staff for the opening of a new Amerigo restaurant

Professional Skills

Audio/Video Equipment

Four years of professional experience repairing, maintaining, and operating:
• Sony, Panasonic, and Kodak high definition cameras
• Sony and Canon miniDV cameras
• Sennheiser, Audio-Technica, AKG, Shure, Electro-Voice microphones
• Fostex, Tascam, Marantz digital audio recorders
• Lowel, Mole-Richardson, and Kliegl studio and field lighting equipment
• various digital SLR cameras, Super 8mm cameras, 16mm film cameras and projectors

Multimedia Software

Adobe CS4 suite, Apple Final Cut Pro Studio Suite, Apple iLife suite, Digidesign Pro Tools,
Audacity, Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip, ffMPEGx, Toast

Additional Computer Experience

Mac OS X, Windows XP, UNIX, XHTML, CSS, WordPress, TikiWiki CMS, Joomla!, Drupal,
Microsoft Office Suite, Access, Visio, Swift Publisher, Blogger, Google Apps, Java, XML

Honors and Awards

2009

Scholar, Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory Scholars program, hastac.org
Juror, Carolina Film Festival, UNC-CH
Recipient, Friend of the Department Award, Department of Communication Studies, UNC-CH
Juror, Student Documentary Contest and Screening for fellowships to Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, UNC

2008

Juror, Advanced Projects Course, Department of Communication Studies, UNC
Juror, ScreenArts Annual Student Film Festival, UNC
Juror, Eva Marie Saint-Jeffrey Hayden Media Award, UNC

2007

Juror, ScreenArts Annual Student Film Festival, UNC
Juror, Eva Marie Saint-Jeffrey Hayden Media Award, UNC

2004

James C. Lampley Award for Excellence in Multimedia, UNC-CH

2002

Employee of the Month, Weaver Street Market, Carrboro, NC

1997

Finalist, National Merit Scholarship, Murrah High School, Jackson, MS

Publications and Web Projects

Community Collecting
http://communitycollecting.web.unc.edu
December 2010-present
• Project manager for collaborative research project to envision a community-owned social archive site for sharing and preserving the digital stories of Orange County, NC
• Administrator and webmaster for WordPress-based site
• Blogger

Carolina Digital Story Lab
http://www.uncstorylab.org
May 2010-present
• Administrator, webmaster, and designer of WordPress-based website for official UNC student group
• Blogger
• Social media manager

Historic Parrish Street
http://mainstreet.lib.unc.edu/projects/parrish_st_durham/
Fall 2010
• Web editor for site developed using Main Street, Carolina digital humanities content management system
• Delivered product for Durham Office of Economic and Workforce Development
• Produced through Dr. Bobby Allen's AMST 890: Virtual Cities class

School of Information and Library Science website redesign
http://sils.unc.edu/
May 2010-August 2010
• Moved content from static HTML to Drupal-based redesign of SILS website
• Developed information architecture for IT Services category
• Integrated social media presence in new site
• Delivered social media policy recommendations for SILS

radicaLISm: the zine of radical library and information science
http://www.ils.unc.edu/~nutt/files/radicalism.pdf
February 2010
• Editor-in-chief
• Author, The Creative Commons License Is For Rich People

HASTAC Scholar blog
http://www.hastac.org/blogs/mikenutt
August 2009-present
• blogger for the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory

Growing the New Technopolis
http://thenewtechnopolis.edublogs.org
2008
• Contributing blog author
• Website goal is to promote scholarship, civic engagement & social entrepreneurship through technology integration
• Writing team includes Doug Edmunds, Assistant Dean for IT at the UNC School of Law and Robert Bradley, Director of Technology Integration at Tennessee State University

http://wikumentary.net
December 2007-2010
• Creator of web project to explore community development through the intersection of wikis and documentaries
• Administered TikiWiki CMS based website
• Authored On Wikumentary blog

Nutt, M. and Schwartz, G. (2008). The Story Economy: Digital Storytelling in Community and Economic Development. 5th Prato Community Informatics & Development Informatics Conference 2008: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality? (ISBN 978-0-9581058-4-2). Caulfield, East Australia: Centre for Community Networking Research.

Nutt, M. and Kirven, K. (2007). Carboy: A Five Gallon Bucket of Homebrew for the Masses. Self-published zine.

Nutt, M. (2004). West Coast Waves. In/Audible, vol. 3, Fall.

Stewards of the Land
http://stewardsoftheland.org/
May 2002-April 2003
• Audio producer for 5 profiles of organic/sustainable farmers
• Recorded oral histories

Exhibits, Screenings, and Invited Talks

2011

Community Collecting: Building a Social Archive Site, invited presentation
2011 DigCCurr Public Symposium, "Curate Me: Stewardship of Personal Digital Archives"

2010

Guest, Music Manumit podcast
Episode 101220 "Buyer's Guilt"

Organizer and Moderator, YouTube and Test Tubes: Digital Storytelling in the Sciences
• Screening and discussion of five student-created videos about science research at UNC
• Official event at UNC Science Expo, capstone of the state-wide North Carolina Science Festival

"A Slow Finger"
WXYC Locally Produced Digital Music Showcase, C.H.A.T. Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Running time: 3:54
Media: digital audio

"Disestablishmentarianism"
C.H.A.T. Festival, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Running time: 4:41
Media: high definition digital video, super 8 film, miniDV, document scans

2006

Fire! Patty Learns What to Do, 3:20, Super 8 film and audio, Attack of the 50' Reels, Carrboro, NC

2004

Acquisition, 4:00, audio, ScreenArts Annual Student Film Festival
The Body Electric, 15:20, audio, Johnston Center Multimedia Festival

2003

Stewards of the Land, multiple audio documentaries, Century Center, Carrboro, NC
Stewards of the Land, multiple audio documentaries, Central Carolina Community College, Pittsboro, NC

Scholarships and Grants

2010

$1500 APPLES Act Out! Social Entrepreneur Fellowship (adviser on Social Media Stories application)
$750 Scholarship Award, Epsilon Chapter of Beta Phi Mu (International Library and Information Studies Honor Society)

2009

Michael Hooker Fellowship, School of Information and Library Science, UNC-CH

2008

$500 International Conference Award, Center for Global Initiatives, UNC
$500 Staff Development Grant, Department of Communication Studies, UNC-CH

2004

$1790 Escheats Grant, UNC-CH
$2000 Pell Grant, UNC-CH
$650 Tuition Grant, UNC-CH

2002

$500 Tuition Grant, UNC-CH

2001

$500 Tuition Grant, UNC-CH

1997

$3275 Presidential Scholarship, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN

Community Involvement

Present

Founder, Carolina Digital Story Lab
• Started UNC student group to increase student and community digital media literacy through digital storytelling and service projects

Past

Volunteer, Growing Healthy Kids Project, Carrboro, NC
Volunteer Board Operator, Golden Hours Radio
Oregon Public Broadcasting, Portland, OR

Professional Affiliations

Present

Member, UNC General Alumni Association
Member, American Society for Information Science and Technology
Participant, Community Informatics Research Network

Past

Member, ScreenArts Executive Committee, UNC-CH
Member, Interdepartmental Communication Committee, Weaver Street Market, Carrboro, NC


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