jamie arkin

66 pine brook road

bedford, ny 10506

914.400.9013

JamieLauren.Arkin@gmail.com

jarkin.expressions.syr.edu

jamiearkinWEBSITE & PLUGIN DEVELOPER

professional experienceWEB DEVELOPMENT FREELANCINGWeb Developer April 2011 – present

Developed websites for clients such as Developed websites for clients such as Writeflick, IMUZIK, WordToast, Marian Rissenberg and Lynda

Sumner (Personal Website for an Artist). Communicated with client regularly. jQuery & PHP plugins built as

needed (built for Wordpress specifically)

E-LEARNING AT WORK LLCFreelanced Web Developer April 2011 – present

WWorked as a freelanced programmer for an e-learning consulting business with clients such as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Managed and organized content for HTML documents. Transferred content from word documents to

HTML documents in Adobe Dreamweaver. Project management and document preparation.

ITS SPIDERS | Syracuse, NYWWeb Developer April 2011 – December 2011

Developed Syracuse University online platforms with a Developed Syracuse University online platforms with a collaborative team. Facilitated online publishing and dissemination of content and information. Worked primarily on building new platforms in Wordpress.

Primary worked on a private web server. Plugins made regularly including a schedule source & desk assignment software (built in PHP, javascript, SQL, and jQuery). Worked Primarly in Eclipse & NetBeans development Worked Primarly in Eclipse & NetBeans development

platforms for PHP and JavaScript.

FAEGAN’S PUB | Syracuse, NYWeb Developer April 2011 – August 2011

Worked with management to develop the website. Used wordpress as the content management system to build the website. Continued on updating and fixing any technical difficulties after website development.

DETERMINATION CENTER | Syracuse, NYWeb & Video Developer January 2011 – May 2011

Gathered information and video footage for a local center Gathered information and video footage for a local center for kids. Edited footage and developed a Wordpress website for the center. Project management and

organized production timelines.

MIKE KAPLOWITZ | Bedford, NYPolitical Campaign Manger Summer 2010

Maintained goals and voter lists for Mike Kaplowitz. Maintained goals and voter lists for Mike Kaplowitz. Organized important documents and marketing

campaigns. Communicated and networked with several different political organizations

education ENGAGEMENT FELLOWSHIP | May 2012Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY

B.S. IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | May 2011Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY

STUDY ABROAD | May 2010Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore | Milan, IUniversita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore | Milan, IT

web skills & platformsHTML, PHP, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins, JavaScript, JQuery, JQuery UI, CSS, SQL, MySQL, database development, web hosting skills, social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Linken & Foursquare), Facebook application development, Adobe Dreamweaver, Google/Facebook APIs, Eclipse, NetBeans and beginner in C++

PHPHP Function development for plugins and Wordpress themes - for looping, accessing the database, returning specific values, arrays and a variety of others

Plugins development experience that have included:

Registration & login/logout forms, user profile, and the ability for the user to upload/add/edit/delete posts. | PHP, MySQL, jQuery UI Small shopping cart for a personal artistSmall shopping cart for a personal artist’s website - in progress | PHP, MySQL, jQuery UI - and PayPal intergration Schedule source plugin: displayed all desk & employee schedules, add an employee schedule, delete an employee schedule, employee dashboard, & admin dashboard (for full control of all employees) | PHP, MySQL, jQuery UI Search engines for more efficient searches | PHP, MySQL

exhibitions, awards & articles exhibitions, awards & articlesChancellor’s Award for Public Engagement & Scholarship Determinaion Center | 2011

Emerging Talk - Chosen Student VentureStudent-Entrepreneurship Conference | 2011

WISE ConventionWomen Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship | 2011

Speaker - Student Start-Up CompanySpeaker - Student Start-Up CompanySyracuse Student Sandbox Demo Day | 2011 Special Writer - Young Entrepreneur

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amie Arkin ’11 has always wanted to be an enter-tainment manager, which was why she planned on transferring out of the Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool) when she was a freshman. Instead, after a few classes, she discovered she really liked information technology and could apply what she learned in her iSchool classes to the career she planned for herself in the

entertainment industry.“It’s not really set in stone what you do at the iSchool, unlike the other

schools,” said Arkin, a senior Information Management and Technology major. “I got to personalize what I wanted to do in my classes. I really like marketing, design, communication, networking, and learning about social media.”

Arkin has channeled her passions into an entrepreneurial project combining photography, video, web design, and content management for four handpicked Syracuse University drama students: Lori Pasqualino ’11, Joseph Fierberg ’13, Francesca Santoro ’14, and Christian Leadly ’11.

The project started when her childhood friend, Morgan Modugno, a senior majoring in business administration at George Washington University, requested a promotional video to open the path to a planned acting career in LA after graduation. Modugno flew to Syracuse from Washington, D.C., for a weekend, and Arkin set up photography sessions with a green screen and other props.

“I was really impressed with everything she’d put together,” Modugno said. “Jamie has been really good at the kind of stuff she’s doing now, but she always did it as a pastime or hobby, making short movies about stuff we’ve done. One day, she just put it together, that this is what she really liked and she could make a career out of it.”

Modugno’s portfolio web site was just a jumping off point for Arkin. She needed more content for a project in her Digital Documentation for the Arts class, and because Modugno lives in D.C., creating original content for just her was difficult due to the distance. Arkin’s instructors, Jaime Snyder and Anne Cofer, suggested that she solicit the help of the drama department to create content for other students.

“We weren’t sure she would follow through with our suggestion, and she could easily have just continued to focus on her friend,” Snyder said. “But, in fact, that very week she made a connection with one of the drama faculty, who let her announce her project to his students, and she got an overwhelming response.”

Arkin estimates that 15 actors showed up to her audition, of which she selected the four that stuck out in her mind.

“I just felt comfortable around them, and I wanted people with distinct personalities because that would be best for photos and film,” she said. “I chose people I remembered at the end of the day.”

Arkin then solicited the help of photojournalism student Matthew Ziegler ’11 to help shoot artistic portraits of the actors. She also wanted

to go beyond traditional headshots to allow the actors to convey a sense of their personality and identity.

“All these scenes are describing who they are and how they want to present themselves,” Arkin said. “I already started building the web site, but they had to write a bio for themselves, in the third person. I thought it was a good idea to have their personality in their bios.”

For example, on Lori Pasqualino’s shoot, the team focused on old Hollywood glamour.

“I like to think of the theme as a classy and elegant throwback to the ’30s and ’40s. That’s also how I plan to portray myself in the music industry,” said Pasqualino, who hopes to use the site Arkin is building for her to market herself once she graduates in May. “This is a really good opportunity for a drama student who, of course, doesn’t have the type of money to be getting new headshots, a photo shoot, and a web site made for them all at once. Headshots alone can cost up to $500 just for a sitting, not including the prints.”

Arkin is creating web sites for each of the actors using a Wordpress content management system. In the process, she is learning PHP, HTML, and CSS so she can build more custom-ized web sites for the actors. She plans to host videos, slideshows, bios, and headshots in one place for the actors and also hopes to build these web sites into a marketable business for herself as a talent agent.

“Jamie embodies the entrepreneurial spirit that lives within so many iSchool students,” said iSchool Professor of Practice Anthony Rotolo, who is teaching IST 400 Social Media for the Music Business, a course Arkin enrolled in. “She is incredibly passionate about her goals and I have no doubt her commitment and dedication will pay off for the artists and performers she works with. It is inspiring to see Jamie applying her infor-mation management and technology skills in such creative ways to realize her dream career.”

Though her back-up plan is to move to Los Angeles with her child-hood friend, Arkin has applied for the Fifth Year Engagement Fellowship in order to continue creating the business as well as to work toward a graduate degree. But she doesn’t just see her business as a way to make money or to catapult her best friend to Hollywood stardom.

“I always wanted to change the world in some way,” she said. “I want to figure out a way to change the entertainment industry, even if it’s just the portfolios and the way that management works.”!

JAMIE ARKIN ’11

An Entrepreneurial ‘i’ for TalentKATE HOLLOWAY, CONTRIBUTING WRITER

S T U D E N T P R O F I L E

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Jamie Arkin ’11

The Project Management Institute (PMI),

the global organization responsible for

certifying official project management

professionals, has officially named the School

of Information Studies a Registered Education

Provider.

“Having the designation of Registered

Education Provider further establishes the valid-

ity of our Project Management curriculum, and

it makes our courses even more valuable to

students seeking eventual PMI certification,”

said iSchool Assistant Professor of Practice Art

Thomas.

In order to become a Registered Education

Provider, a local committee of certified Project

Management Professionals critiqued iSchool

course materials in detail over the last several

months. Their criteria for acceptance were based

upon whether the course properly educates

students in the Project Management Institute’s

“Project Management Body of Knowledge”

(PMBOK), an international standard of best prac-

tice in the field of project management.

PMI is the world’s leading not-for-profit mem-

bership association for the project management

profession, with more than half a million mem-

bers and credential holders in 185 countries. The

organization’s advocacy for project management

is supported by globally-recognized standards and

credentials, extensive research program, and pro-

fessional development opportunities. !

iSchool named PMI Education Provider

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JAMIE ARKIN, a Syracuse University senior, pitches her company calledCineaste to a panel of judges during the Emerging Talk competitionApril 1 at The Tech Garden in Syracuse.

Editor's note

The huge number of college students who enrich our

entrepreneurial ecosystem is Brad Feld’s first reason for

being optimistic about Upstate New York. Jamie Arkin, a

senior at Syracuse University, is among that influx of

Syracuse University student entrepreneur: ‘I realized I could make ithappen’Published: Friday, April 08, 2011, 6:18 PM Updated: Monday, April 11, 2011, 7:22 PM

By

The Post-Standard

By Jamie Arkin / Special to The Post-

Standard

It was a Sunday night last August, and my favorite

summer-night tradition was taking place. My

friends were at my house watching “Entourage,”

the HBO series that young dreamers like us

watched in anticipation of the fame and stardom

that we hoped adulthood would bring.

About 15 minutes into the show, I glanced at my

best friend Morgan, an aspiring actress, and was

struck by inspiration. As her eyes met mine, I

blurted, “Wow, Morgan, I’m going to make you

famous.”

As Morgan giggled, I realized this was not a

random idea; I had envisioned this for quite some time. I could see it. I could map it. I realized I could make it

happen.

But first, let’s rewind. It’s 1999, the year I attended the VH1 Fashion awards. I was 10. It was my first encounter

with the world of entertainment. I walked down the red carpet with lights flashing, surrounded by paparazzi.

Celebrities filled every corner. I worked through the crowds, bumping into the rich and famous. I thought, “This is

me. This is the life I want to live.”

I have no desire to be a celebrity. My dream is to

discover untapped talent, to transform hidden

potential. It seems like I was born to do this, but

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students. The Post-Standard invited her to write about her

entrepreneurial spirit.

Arkin, 21, of Bedford, is majoring in information technology.

She is building her business, Cineaste, an e-portfolio platform

for the entertainment industry. She recently pitched Cineaste

at SU’s Emerging Talk conference. She has been accepted

into SU’s Student Sandbox at the downtown Tech Garden and

has been named an SU Entrepreneur Engagement Fellow.

This essay is a companion to venture capitalist Brad Feld's

"Five Reasons to be Optimistic about Upstate,'' also

appearing in today's Opinion section.

my aspiration burst into reality on that night in

August, when a vision of Morgan’s future ran

through my brain like an electric current.

When I got back to Syracuse University, my focus

went to schoolwork, the foundation preparing me

to be an entrepreneur. In my Digital iCreation

class I was assigned to market a product with an

electronic portfolio on the Internet.

I called Morgan, who is a student at George

Washington University, and asked her to be my

“product.” She flew to Syracuse, and we

developed content for a functional and marketable

e-portfolio.

In another class, Digital Documentation, my final project transformed my passion into a real-life experience. The

project was to develop an individual e-portfolio. I reached out to Syracuse’s drama department, announcing my

project as an opportunity for open auditions. Out of 25 eager participants, I selected four drama students. I

recruited a photojournalism student to take photographs.

After two months, my e-portfolio had a home, www.jlaexpression.com/home. Best of all, it was emerging as an

entertainment management website.

Syracuse taught me that there is an entire world of opportunity at our fingertips. It gives us the ability to follow our

passions and the confidence to take action.

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