Michael Kelly Sutton

Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Dr. MS B-6056
Los Angeles, CA 90045

Mobile Phone: (425)-359-2945
Email: michael.k.sutton@gmail.com
URL: http://michaelkellysutton.com

Professional Objective

I have many objectives. For a complete list, please see http://michaelkellysutton.com/list/. For the short-term, I'm looking for a challenging job.

Employment History

Founder
HackCollege, LLC
September 2006 - Present

Founded the profitable HackCollege blog and podcast, established a voice (and drinking outlet) for smart students around the world.

Intern
blip.tv
June 2009 - Present

Did plenty of stuff and continue to work on small project remotely while at school. I will fill this out in great detail soon.

Professor
Loyola Marymount University
January 2010 - May 2010

On paper, I am not the professor of this class because LMU's computer system does not allow a current student to also be the professor on record for a class. That being said, I co-taught LMU's first Web video class in the film school.

Intern
Revision3
May 2008 - August 2008

Snagged some on-camera time, worked on the now defunct Internet TV show popSiren, developed rough cut generating software saving 2 hours per episode per show

Intern
Automatic Duck, Inc.
May 2006 - August 2006

Designed and implemented product SDK, fixed bugs in production software, deployed new automated build system (SCons)

Consultant
Various Companies
May 2009 - Present

Consulting is a dirty word, but it best describes what I've done for Participant Media (Syriana, An Inconvenient Truth and Good Night, and Good Luck), Capture Your Flag and a few other projects just getting off the ground.

Education

CS Chops

Java: 4 years experience (academic/professional), C/C++: 4 years experience (academic/professional), Ruby/Rails Stack: 1 year experience (professional), Django Framework: 6 months experience (professional), jQuery Library: 3 months experience (professional), JavaScript: 6 months experience (academic), Perl: 4 months experience (professional), ActionScript: 4 months experience (professional), PHP and Wordpress: Casual experience, XML/XSLT parsing, validation and such: 5 years experience (professional), *nix ninja skills: 3 years experience (academic/professional), Project lead experience (academic/professional).

Film/TV Talents

Adobe After Effects: 4 years experience (personal/professional), Apple Final Cut Pro: 3 years experience (professional/academic), Working knowledge of prompter software, Can read a prompter in a manner that would make a local news anchor proud.

Writing "Skills"

Has not used the Microsoft Word spellchecker since 2005, Knows the difference between an en and em dash.

Publications