David Balcom
tel: 404-378-3752
e-mail: dbalcom@mindspring.com
Education
M.S. in Information Design and Technology, June 1996, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. GPA 4.0/4.0.
B.A. in English, January 1993, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Experience
Turner Broadcasting System,
Atlanta, GA. July 2002 to present.
Product
Development Director, CNN Internet Technologies. Manage product development for CNN
broadband, wireless and interactive television products. Responsibilities include
retail and wholesale broadband video, wireless, and ITV product strategy and
execution for Turner Broadcasting properties, including CNN and CNN Money. Work
with broadband partners such as RealNetworks, AOL Broadband, and Road Runner to
develop and deliver CNN broadband video content. Develop wireless broadband
products for global business opportunities in the U.S., Asia and Europe. Work
closely with Turner Network Sales and cable providers such as Time Warner Cable
on interactive television applications and emerging broadband products.
IBM Global Services, Atlanta, GA. April 1996 to July 2002.
Principal, IBM Centers for e-Business Innovation::Atlanta. Business and delivery owner for Event-Casting Services practice, specializing in Web events and high-profile cybercast projects.
Responsibilities included practice deployment strategy, overall practice budget and project planning, new business development efforts, and strategic technical innovations such as wireless and broadband applications, and publishing solutions.
(As Executive
Producer, 1998 – 2000)
Delivery owner and team leader for special events practice. Owned responsibility for all special event cybercast deliveries, including the official Web sites for the Masters and Ryder Cup golf tournaments, Australian Open, Roland Garros, Wimbledon, and US Open tennis tournaments, the Grammy and Tony awards, and other special event projects such as the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the National Education Summit.
Owned relationship for practice with IBM events hosting and systems group, IBM Corporate for IBM sponsorship and branding requirements, and the IBM Surfaid Analytics group on data mining efforts. Worked with worldwide customers and IBM colleagues nationally on domestic efforts, and in the U.K., Australia, France, Italy, and Russia on international project deliveries. Traveled frequently to special event sites to manage cybercast efforts such as the Masters golf and US Open tennis tournaments, which included content creation and publishing solutions with a full production team, live scoring, e-Commerce, and deployment of new IBM technologies.
(As Producer, 1996 - 1998)
Produced and managed interactive solutions for IBM Global Services cybercast and special events efforts.
Worked closely with customer and worldwide IBM project teams on all aspects of project deliveries, from initial consulting engagement and requirements definition, to visual and information design, technical development, and interface design and usability testing.
Apple Computer, Atlanta, GA. June 1996 to August 1996.
New Media Journalist, Atlanta96 Webcast. Covered the “street scene” for Apple Computer’s Atlanta96 Webcast during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Developed daily content for the site, such as writing original stories, shooting original video and digital photos; conducting interviews around town at venues, cultural events and daily happenings.
School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA. July 1995 to June 1996.
Multimedia Developer. Developed multimedia documentary CD-ROM, Women of the World Talk Back, for School of LCC, using Macromedia Director and Adobe Premiere for the Macintosh. Project was demonstrated at the United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in August 1995, and was shown at conferences and art events across the country. Digitized and edited original sound and video contributions in Premiere, incorporated original graphic design elements, and coordinated and manipulated these elements with Director and Lingo.
LCC Continuing Education, School of Literature, Communication and Culture, Georgia Institute
of Technology, Atlanta, GA. June 1995 to June 1996.
Facilitator, Multimedia Production Workshop. Taught Continuing Education multimedia production workshops; assisted clients with conceptual and technical design and development issues in workshop, specifically helping clients with Macromedia Director, Macromedia Authorware, and Adobe Premiere. Facilitated production workshops at AT&T School of Business in Somerset, New Jersey.
Spelman College, Atlanta, GA. Spring/Summer 1996.
Course Instructor. Designed and taught multimedia design and information design courses to faculty at Spelman College. Assisted faculty technically and conceptually with educational design projects and courseware at the Writing Center.
AT&T Network Operations
Education and Training Organization, Atlanta, GA. January 1995 to December 1995.
Project Manager / Course Instructor. Managed development of online and print materials for delivery in 3-day course, “Concepts of Information Design.” Delivered course to AT&T internal NOET organization members, focusing on electronic document authoring techniques and issues.
Publications, Awards and
Presentations
Presenter and author, “Hypervideo: Notes Toward a Rhetoric,” at Imagina 98, March 6-8, 1998, Monaco.
Co-author, “Authoring and Navigating Video in Space and Time,” appearing in Winter 1997 issue of IEEE Multimedia, with Nitin Sawhney and Ian Smith.
Presenter, “Hacking the Videotext: Towards A Grammar Of Hypervideography,” with John Tolva at Writing and Computers 10, September 18-19, 1997, University of Brighton, Brighton, U.K.
Accepted as presenter, with Nitin Sawhney, at the Eighth International Symposium of Electronic Arts at the Art Institute of Chicago for HyperCafe, hypervideo CD-ROM, September 22-27, 1997, Chicago, IL, USA.
Member of New Talent Pavilion at MILIA '97, Cannes, France, February 8-12, 1997, for HyperCafe.
Presenter, “Re-visioning Film Studies With Hypervideo,” at Attending to Technology conference, November 8, 1996, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Co-author, “This Is Your Brain on the Internet: A Review of Stuart Moulthrop's Hegirascope,” with John Tolva, in Kairos: A Journal for Teachers of Writing in Webbed Environments, Summer 1996.
Presenter, HyperCafe, at the Atlanta ArtParty, as part of CUED exhibit, sponsored by Nexus Contemporary Art Center, September 7, 1996, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Awarded, with Nitin Sawhney and Ian Smith, Engelbart Best Paper Award at Hypertext '96 conference in Washington, DC, USA, March 1996, for paper “HyperCafe: Narrative and Aesthetic Properties of Hypervideo.”
Consulting Reader, specializing in creative hypermedia, for
the online journal Postmodern Culture.