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Tavit Geudelekian
For a lack of anything better to post, here is my CV!!
YAY, the real world is finally catching up with me! Soon I'll need a real job. So if whomever is reading this needs help and wants to offer me a job, I could really use some bread.
Tavit Geudelekian
(CONTACT INFO WITHHELD),
EDUCATION
2001-2004 Human Rights Program, Bard College, BA expected 2005
Cumulative GPA 3.53
1998-2001 Fieldston High School, Riverdale, New York
EXPERIENCE
February-December, 2002 Chairman, Entertainment Committee, Bard College
-Managed $12,000 budget for booking and promotion of concerts, events, art openings and lectures on and off campus
-Promotion and production of the shows themselves, resulting in 20+ hours of work each week, while balancing full class load
-Technical support and crisis control during those events
-Networking and relations with various agencies worldwide to book artists, bands, lecturers, and performers
June-August, 2002 Intern, Department of Public Information, United Nations
-On the search committee to select speakers for the 56th annual DPI/NGO International Conference, “Rebuilding Societies Emerging from Conflict: A Shared Responsibility”
-Itinerary planning for VIP guests of the DPI
-Research assistant in the DPI resource center and library
-Weekly progress reports and personal research assignments
June-August, 2002 Intern, Armenian Relief Society, NGO, United Nations
-Research/office assistant
-Managed the ARS guest list for the DPI/NGO International Conference
-Media liaison for ARS, finding, contacting and maintaining relationships with pertinent media groups and publications (mainly dealing with Armenian interest and Armenian Diaspora publications)
-Weekly progress reports
Sept. 1999 -June 2001 Coordinating Member, Community Service Advisory Board, Fieldston High School
-Established and maintained professional relationships with various community service, civil rights and advocacy groups to provide high school students with service learning opportunities in and around New York City
-On-site supervisor for aforementioned students during service projects
-Monthly progress reports (presented to the other coordinating partners) on the projects that I was responsible for planning and executing
June-Sept. 2001 Intern, Girlie Action Marketing and Promotion, NY
-Managed the internet promotion of various clients (primarily musical artists) by creating messageboards, websites and E-cards
-Basic market research to identify and reach an artist’s target audience (both over the internet and “in the field”)
June-August 2002 Intern/Personal Assistant, Play It Again Sam Records (PIAS America), NY
-Responsible for all Mailings, distribution, promotion, booking, contract proofing
-Learned to interact with the Belium-based parent company PIAS for all directives regarding our accounts
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
June 2003 - Writer, Teenspeak Magazine,
Today For the Leaders of Tomorrow, NY
-Published interview article with Daniel Henninger, Deputy Editor of the Wall Street Journal on current US/French relations in the wake of the recent US invasion of Iraq
-Published editorial on the quality of democracy that America is attempting to export to developing countries around the world.
-Upcoming interview with The Polyphonic Spree, a Dallas based 24-piece rock band
February 2003 Panelist, The Implications of the USA PATRIOT Act
-Presented (to a Bard College audience) my research on the USA PATRIOT ACT and its relationship to both American civil liberties and the dangerous precedent that it would set in the procedures of surveillance and investigation
September 2002 - Writer, The Bard Observer, Bard College
-Various articles and editorials
SKILLS/INTERESTS/PROJECTS
- Tri-lingual, (Armenian, English, French)
- Wrote, produced and directed a two-act play as a senior project in High School, exploring the relationships between identity, nationality and family. By incorporating various multimedia elements to the theatre piece gave a historical overview of both the Armenian Genocide and the Lebanese Civil War.
- Principal actor in two television commercials, Intel’s “Digital Day” series and American Express’, “Oranges” with Jennifer Capriati. Both commercials shot in August 2002 and aired in the fall of 2002.
- Writer, Actor, Video Director/Editor, Olde English Comedy, www.oldeenglish.org
And here are some good links you should check out,
Peace,
Tav
http://videos.antville.org/
http://www.googlism.com/
http://www.tavit.blogspot.com/
http://www.addictinggames.com/ <-(Try “HeliAttack”, great game!)
http://www.laborrights.org/
http://www.hrw.org/
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm
http://www.aclu.org
http://www.mediaeater.com/cameras/ <-(Very scary shit if you are in or from NYC)
http://www.iwpr.net/home_index_new.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/
http://www.armenianow.com
http://www.asksnoop.com
E-mail: tavit[at]oldeenglish.org
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