Co-Creator, Composer; The Unexplainable Bonefish

A proposed television series in which host Dr. Wiley Bonefish and a crew of puppet lab assistants would humorously help kids explore paranormal science using the scientific method.
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Marketing Analyst, Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), New York, NY

  • Created numerous inventive and dynamic tools in MS Excel, MS Access and propriety systems to support the Development department in planning, implementing, analyzing and growing its fundraising program.
  • Managed departmental budgeting. Innovated effective methods for forecasting fundraising performance up to $138 million and expenses up to $15 million across diverse efforts and multiple budget iterations.
  • Managed acquisition and renewal efforts in mail, telemarketing, web, toll-free number and other media, including acquisitions up to 17 million contacts annually and renewals up to 9 million contacts annually.
    • Led implementation of and collaborated on strategy for creative treatment testing, population segmentation, data quality control, production coordination, acquisition list selection, merge-purge processing and all other campaign management activities.
    • Achieved strong performance in all marketing efforts, including an average profit of about 65% for acquisition mail, growing the database from 178,000 to over 1 million donors.
    • Assisted in maintenance of www.doctorswithoutborders.org Web site.
  • Produced in-depth, insightful narrative and numerical analyses with actionable results that repeatedly improved performance as well as efficiencies in cost and operations.
  • Oversaw a massive transition to Target Software’s industry-leading Team Approach database, including development of comprehensive new coding systems and detailed mapping of thousands of legacy codes to integrate historical results for analysis on the new platform.
  • Supervised several staff members and volunteers in Marketing and Donor Services.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Team Approach

Donor Services Assistant, Doctors Without Borders

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), New York, NY

  • Administered Oaktree Systems’ DB Cultivator donor database and monthly electronic funds transfer program through Chase banking.
  • Developed and documented systems for coding, data entry and production of all donor service mailings, expanding departmental manual from 12 to 105 pages.
  • Resolved donor inquiries via phone, mail and E-mail.
  • Supervised two Donor Services Assistants.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Oaktree Systems

Co-Screenwriter; Citizen Arcane, a.k.a. The Lion’s Share

  • Based on the true story of the man who plotted to assassinate Richard Nixon, written nearly a decade before the Sean Penn film on the same subject.
  • Represented by Susan Smith & Associates, Beverly Hills, CA, 1996-1998.

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Composer, Co-Lyricist, Co-Librettist; The Right Circles

  • Scheming Broadway writers make fun of avant garde theatre, but what goes around comes around.
  • Represented by the Farber Literary Agency, New York, NY, 1994-1996.

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Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound, Composer; Gratuitous Violence

  • A spoof of Hollywood spy movies.
  • Created for Introduction to Filmmaking class, Department of Theatre Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
  • Premiere screening in the Willard Strait Theatre, Willard Strait Hall, May 10, 1992.
  • 17 minutes, b/w, 16mm.

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Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance

Screenwriter, Bait and Switch

  • A dysfunctional couple is made moreso when a television ratings company lures them into what is later revealed to be an Orwellian conspiracy.
  • Winner, Cornell Department of Theatre Arts Screenwriting Competition, June 1991.
  • Produced by the Film Program of the Department of Theatre Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, during a Summer 1991 course in video production.
  • 29 minutes, color, S-VHS.

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Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film and Dance

Composer, Co-Lyricist, Co-Librettist, Orchestrator, Director, Musical Director; Cupid’s Arrow

  • A hip immortal helps college students find love.
  • Produced by the Masque and Mime Society, Roy C. Ketcham High School, Wappingers Falls, NY.

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Masque and Mime Society
Roy C. Ketcham High School