Christian Popolo

OBJECTIVE
Production assistant position for an innovative Colorado television program requiring prior experience in children’s television and a strong technical background.

SUMMARY OF SKILLS
On-location production, studio-based production, news production, children’s television, management, fundraising, animation, AVID Media Composer, AVID Xpress DV, MSWord, MS Office, fluent Spanish, detail-oriented, articulate, excellent writer

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Boston College, May 2001 GPA: 3.65/4.0

WORK EXPERIENCE
Producer, All the News, BCTV Campus Television, Chestnut Hill, MA, August 1998–May 2001. Produced a weekly, half-hour campus news program. Supervised seven studio staffers and eight reporters. Spearheaded successful initiative to increase Student Services funding of the program by fifteen percent.

Intern, Zoom, Boston, MA, May 2000–May 2001. Interned in the production department of award-winning national children’s television program. Assisted in production of on-location shoots. Wrote and produced three 2-minute “Hablamos” segments, designed to teach Spanish phrases.

Technician, Communications Media Lab, Chestnut Hill, MA, August 1997–April 2000. Maintained over $300,000 worth of the latest filming and editing technology. Provided technical support to five to six Communications courses each semester. Led monthly seminars for undergraduates on the Avid nonlinear editing system.

HONORS
Dean’s List, Boston College, August 1997–May 2001
Presidential Scholar, August 1997–May 2001
BCTV Excellence Award, May 1999 and May 2000
Georgia Young Memorial Prize, May 2001

REFERENCES
Available upon request from the Career Center, Boston College, Southwell Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 at (617) 555-3430.