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This presentation was recorded by the University of Maine's New Media program. For more information, contact jippolito@maine.edu.

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This New Media workshop from 20 January 2022 featured alumni of UMaine's New Media program, who share practical advice for choosing and sustaining a creative life in the 21st-century job market.

The career landscape of 2022 offers a rich array of options for graduates with an interest in the creative application of technology. One of the presenters designs interfaces for healthcare services; another composes avant-garde music; others make mobile apps and websites. They work at organizations ranging from the University of California to The New York Times to a thriving startup just off the UMaine campus. All are former New Media Majors.

This 2022 webinar follows on a successful Discover New Media Careers webinar in 2021, which featured alumni working everywhere from Salt Lake City to Switzerland.

Presenters include:

• Ashley Duggan White (2018) is a software interaction designer interested in the biotechnology and animal care. She works at IDEXX, one of the leading veterinary diagnostic companies in the world, headquartered near Portland, Maine. Ashley loves UX/UI (User Experience/User Interface) design, prototyping, user research, and front-end programming. Ashley's combined her Bachelors degree in New Media at UMaine with a minor in Computer Science and also studied graphic design at Massasoit Community College. In her free time she enjoys hiking, fishing, canoe camping, and gardening.
• Zev Eisenberg (2011) was raised by clowns, but he ran away to join the circuits. After completing a New Media degree with a focus on interaction design, he worked as an iOS developer at a home automation company and a software agency. In 2020, he joined the New York Times to work on their iOS news app, and in 2021, he moved to a new team at the Times to build a kids' how-to app. In his free time, Zev juggles, gives talks about juggling, writes apps about juggling, and gives talks about writing apps about juggling.
• Matt James (2005) is Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of CourseStorm, an education technology startup located in Orono, Maine. Using the skills he gained from the UMaine New Media program, Matt helped build a software company from scratch and design applications that hundreds of thousands of people across the country use to connect to education. CourseStorm serves people who enroll in classes outside of traditional school, which is twice as many students as all public schools, colleges, and universities combined. CourseStorm has worked with over 750 organizations across the US, making nearly one million connections to education with students in all 50 states.
• Ryan Page (2011) is an award-winning electronic music composer whose work focuses on the intersection of technology and human perception. He has worked as an audio engineer for the videogame company Electronic Arts, an audiovisual technician for the California Academia of Sciences, and product technician for Keith McMillen Instruments. He's produced his own software, exhibited installations, released two dozen recordings, and performed his music on the East and West Coast. Ryan is currently a Ph.D candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

This is part of a series of free webinars on cutting-edge technologies offered by the University of Maine's New Media program, which teaches animation, digital storytelling, gaming, music, physical computing, video, and web and app development. These are not Powerpoint lectures but guided demonstrations that students can follow at school or at home on their laptops. More about these webinars.

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