Charles-A. Rovira

56 Glenwood Ave. #31

Jersey City, NJ, 07306

(718)813-6111



 

Objective:



To obtain a position as Chief Community Officer or other community facing position.



Education:

• Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ
• Bachelor of Arts, Communication, <ongoing>,
• Overall: GPA 4.0
• MCNY (Metropolitan College of New York) NYC, NY.
• Associate Degree in Business, 2006.
• University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Canada
• Small Business Administration, 1985.
•  Other courses pursued and seminars attended as time and interest permitted.

Technical Media Expertise:

• Podcasting: applications in program selection, music selection, program production and recording, guest prep, interviewing, program editing.
• Integration/miration of audio format for the Web, for podasting and for streaming.
• Maintenance of documentation on a wiki (self organizing database which works best when handled with preparation and finesse.)

Equipment & Application Experience:

   

Hardware:

• M-Audio 2 port XLR<>Firewire interface,
• Beringher FX 1204FX mixer,
• various USB and FireWire A/D converters,
• Marantz PMD 670 portable recorder,
• Edirol R-09,
• Samson UC01 microphone,
• AKG 1000cs microphones.

Sofware:

• Macintosh: GarageBand, iMovie, Skype, FireFox, and various writing/scripting tools, Audacity and various text to speech software. Smalltalk IDE.
• PC: Audacity and various text to speech software, Dolphin Smalltalk (Other experience is related to developing banking software.)
• Linux/Unix: Audacity Apache, MySQL, PostGreSQL, PHP (3.x .. 5.x) , MediaWiki, PHPWiki

Professional Experience:    



Production/music selection/scripting/recording of:

• “MSB's Podcasts”, since February 2006, on going, series of of 3 weekly 30 minute long podcasts related to living with Multiple Sclerosis.
• Includes maintenance of the wiki and other data bases,
• of twitter posts and other social media,
• of related MS blogs,
• maintaining community relations.

Saint Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ: September 2008, on going:



    Production/selection/scripting/recording of:

• "The Disability Show", a weekly program (WSPC Streaming radio, Monday, 17:00 (5PM) to 18:00 (6PM) (Also a podcast)
• "ThymeWarp", on Monday, Wednesday, Friday 17:00 (5PM) to 18:00 (6PM) 60 minute long Classical music show. (Now just a Wednesday 17:00 (5PM) to 18:00 (6PM) show.) (Also a podcast).
• "P34kO1l (Peak Oil)" on Fridays 17:00 (5 PM) to 18:00 (6 PM) a weekly show about the coming crisis as mankind learns to adjust to the coming decline in oil supplies. (Also a podcast)

Podcast production of:

• “Culture Wars”. A weekly review (WSPC streaming radio, Thursday 12:00 to 13:00) (Also a podcast) of the latest news and world events, with insightful commentary by guests from the media, higher education, entertainment, and politics with former “Good Day New York” reporter Ernabel Demillo, and Barna Donovan, Chair of the Communication Department.

Community Desk and wiki master for:

• “The Media Squat”. A weekly program (Monday 19:00 to 20:00 also a podcast by http://www.wfmu.org/) hosted by Douglas Rushkoff,  looking at how life has been literally "incorporated" by business and economics, as well as looking at possibilities for how to incorporate LIFE back into our lives: local commerce, community, social currency, and all that good stuff.

Helping Mr. Rushkoff out his latest book into a wiki format,

monitoring feedback that the latest book will get and incorporate these into print revisions.



Participating in and overseeing the Saint Peter's College:

• "WSPC Media Club",
• WSPC's wiki,
• Twitter accounts and
•  helping to organize and ensure the smooth operation of the WSPC internet webcast station.

Publications:    

• Computer Language Magazine (1989, 1990, 1991,)
• AI Expert (1987, 1989, 1990,)
• Dr. Dobb’s (1991,)
• Hot-line on Object-Oriented Technologies (1991, 1992,)

Prior Employment:



1976 - 2007 work on both sides of the Atlantic all related to computers (programming & analysis, software development, software tool development, data adminstration, team leader, project leader, project manager, testing manager) mostly in the finance and banking domains.