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CHRISTOPHER CUCCI
607.341.3803 -- ccucci@gmail.com


EXPERIENCE
Intern - The Ellen DeGeneres Show - Los Angeles, CA - Fall 2007
Worked as an intern for a nationally syndicated talk show. Rotated through Human Interest, Production, Audience, Research and Website departments. Responsible for a wide-range of duties that changed on an almost daily basis, while gaining invaluable experience working on an Emmy Award winning studio production.

Development Intern - Triple Threat Television - New York, NY - Summer 2006
Worked as a development intern for a non-fiction production company. Responsibilities included: leading a development team for a new show, researching and participating in weekly development meetings, shooting demo reels for in-house viewing of shows in development, logging and transcribing field tapes.

Videographer / Video Counselor - CampTV Media, Inc. / Camp Takajo - Naples, Maine - Summer 2007
Hired as videographer for a summer camp in Maine. Responsible for shooting many hours of footage to be used in summer video yearbook as well as numerous promotional videos for the camp. Served as the counselor for the video hobby classes, working with children ages eight to fifteen years old to produce various video shorts.

Director of Programming and Operations - Ithaca College Television - Ithaca, NY - December 2006 to June 2007
Responsible for the on-air day-to-day operation of television station and its programming. Work with show producers to develop a local, flowing, and effective weekly schedule for ICTV. Directly responsible for any content that airs on Time Warner Cable in Tompkins County from the ICTV Master Control facility. Responsible for managing the Master Control staff, insuring their proper training and job performance.

Park Portable Equipment Center and Servicing (PPECS) - Ithaca College - January 2006 to May 2007
Facilitate distribution and collection of portable audio, motion picture, still photography and video production equipment. Trained to inspect, and conduct minor repairs, on every piece of equipment before distributed and when returned to the center.

Student Engineer - Ithaca College - September 2005 to May 2008
Trained to assist Ithaca College Television productions at the technical level. Work alongside faculty engineers to troubleshoot varying types of technical problems that studio-produced shows face during their production.

SKILLS
Computer
Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash & Director, Microsoft Office, Windows & Mac Operating Systems, Web Design (HTML, JavaScript).

EDUCATION
Ithaca College - Ithaca, NY
Bachelor of Science Degree, May 2008
Major: Television & Radio - Video Production concentration
Graduated Cum Laude, GPA: 3.6 / 4.0

ACTIVITIES
Ithaca College Television
Executive Producer, Director - ICTV's Over the Hill Marathon - 24 hours of live programming

Producer - Quabble - Studio-produced improvisational comedy show

Producer, Director, Director of Photography - If It Floats - Field-produced mockumentary

Audio Director - The Solarium with Professor Smedley Drake - Field-produced sketch comedy show
Awards: 2005 Collegiate Broadcasters, Inc. Student Production Award for Best TV Comedy
2005 Time Warner PEGASYS Award for Best Educational Access program

Director, Photographer - Newswatch 16 - Traditional newscast
Awards: 2006 National Finalist at BEA Media Arts Festival -"Ithaca is Drugged?"- Feature News Story
2006 College Media Advisers Apple Award for Television News Broadcasting

References available upon request


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