Intermedia Alums

It’s early days for the Intermedia production stream, but we already have some terrific success stories to share. The alums featured here came through the Department at a time when ‘Intermedia’ was just a twinkle in the eyes of a few faculty members. They took now-retired courses such as COMS256 Intro to Digital Communication Media, COMS399T Special Topics: Intermediate Digital Media Production, and COMS490 Communication Programming, and distinguished themselves with creativity, hard work, and uncommon insight.

Name: Kennetha Story
Job Title: 3D Animator
Year of Graduation: 2008
Work: Ubisoft Montreal
Demo Reel: 3D Animation

“MY INTEREST IN ANIMATION was first sparked in my second semester of Intermedia when I was still experimenting with Flash. During my final semester I moved away from my initial interests in rotoscoping and began experimenting with hand keyed animation in 3d applications. Upon completing my degree at Concordia I enrolled in a 1 year intensive animation course provided by the Ubisoft Campus. After much seclusion and working around 16-hour days on purely animation for the final months of my degree, I managed to stitch together enough material to finish my first demo reel. Being a long time lover of video games, working as an animator in the games industry is the best place I could ask to be.”

Name: Molly Kohli
Job Title: Web Content Manager, CBC Montreal
Year of Graduation: Spring 2007
Work: CBC News at Six Montreal
Home: Molly Kohli
Student Assignment (COMS374): Mesa 14

“I jumped into the Intermedia production stream in its ‘beta phase’ – and have not looked back since. Definitely the best decision for me, especially considering the increasing high impact and value of the web – not only as a medium in itself, but also significantly as a vehicle for integration between video, sound, image, and information. In my final semester at Concordia I applied for, and was lucky enough to get, an internship at CBC in the Department of Partnerships and Special Projects. Since August 2007, I have been working as CBC Montreal’s Web Content Manager – the first one ever hired in Montreal! I create and manage content for multiple CBC programs, but am focused mainly on CBC Montreal’s evening news, CBC News at Six. I also work with various teams to coordinate integration between CBC Television, CBC Radio and CBC.ca. Working towards on-air work… to be continued.”

Name: Jeremy Clarke
Job Title: Lead Tech and Design for Global Voices
Year of Graduation: 2006
Work: Global Voices
Home: Simian Uprising

“I manage, design and program the various sites that make up Global Voices, an international non-profit that reports on and supports blogs and other citizen media in the developing and non-western world. This involves XHTML, CSS, PHP and general knowledge about the many open source server and web applications involved in site development (WordPress, Linux, etc). I was hired by a designer I met at a party because I was wearing a Creative Commons shirt, he hired me a year later when I posted photos to my Flickr account. Born from the ashes of web 1.0 I’ve turned blogs and open source software into a profession. I’ve run my own blog for 5 years now (which is how I learned the whole deal in the first place).”

Name: Brooke van Mossel-Forrester
Job Title: Online Communications Officer, Icograda
Year of Graduation: 2006
Work: Icograda and ICSID
Home: Portfolio
Volunteering: Taking Root

“SINCE GRADUATION, a great deal of fortunate events have brought me to where I am today. In 2006 I did a summer internship under the recommendation of Matt Soar, with the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda), helping with their website and other communications tasks. I also worked that summer, under the recommendation of my TA, Miriam Verburg, for Studio XX, a feminist, artist-run, digital media center, helping with a digital archiving project, called Matricules. That fall, Icograda hired me part-time to transfer the content from their old website to their new one, which took me over a year. In that time, I was also hired on a part-time basis to work for Studio XX as their web manager for a year. During this year I also did a graduate diploma in Community Economic Development at Concordia, which luckily had classes only on weekends.

In the fall of 2007, I was offered a full-time position to work with both Icograda and it’s partner organisation, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid), as the Online Communications Officer. I now manage both of their websites simultaneously, as they are mirror content-management sites. In my volunteer time I am the Communications Manager and a board member for a Montreal-based, youth-run, non-profit organisation that I helped form, called Taking Root / EnRacine. We are an environmental and education organisation doing reforestation and ecological preservation through community-based projects in Nicaragua.”