Wasim Ahmad
www.wasimonline.com
wasim@wasimonline.com / 516-521-0488

Experience:


Stony Brook University / Stony Brook, N.Y.
Assistant Professor: Aug. 2009–present

• Teach classes in online journalism
• Help with planning for School of Journalism Web site

Syracuse University / Syracuse, N.Y.
Instructional Associate: Aug. 2008–Aug. 2009

• Teach graphics, photo and video classes
• Maintain class blog sites
• Track student attendance
• Assist in lab and studio as needed

Naples Daily News/naplesnews.com/Naples, Fla.
Web Editor: Feb. 2007–May 2008

• Planned multimedia coverage
• Updated family of Web sites
• Trained staff to shoot and edit video
• Trained staff in online system
• Shot and edited video and photos
• Hosted in-studio and on-location interviews

Press & Sun-Bulletin/pressconnects.com/Binghamton, N.Y.
Newsroom Online Content Producer: Aug. 2006–Feb. 2007

• Coordinated online coverage for pressconnects.com
• Trained staff to update Web site
• Trained staff to shoot and edit videos
• Assigned videos. Shot and edited videos and photos

Copy Editor: Aug. 2005–Aug. 2006

• Designed and proofread local, wire and life sections
• Updated Web site nightly

Chips Quinn Intern/Reporter/Copy Editor: Sept. 2002–May 2004

• Worked for metro and copy desks.

St. Cloud Times/sctimes.com/St. Cloud, Minn.
Copy Editor: Aug. 2004–Aug. 2005

• Designed and proofread 1A, wire, local, and life sections
• Designed graphics as backup to main designer
• Wrote monthly column
• Posted stories and photos from paper online


Skills:


• Multimedia: Final Cut, Avid Xpress Pro, Soundslides, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Audition
• Design: Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash
• Online: Adobe Dreamweaver, Saxotech Online, Ellington, Microsoft FrontPage
• Video Equipment: Panasonic DVX/HVX, Sony HVR A1U/V1U cameras, Canon 5D Mark II
• Photo/Audio Equipment: Canon and Nikon still cameras, Marantz audio recorders
• Miscellaneous: Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Sorenson Squeeze, SII, Atex
• Training: Gannett Video Convergence Training, API New Editor’s Survival Guide, Syracuse University Teaching Assistant training


Awards and affiliations:


1st place, Best Video Package, 2009 Center for Innovation in College Media Contest
• Digital Edge Awards finalist: Best overall news site under 75,000 circulation (staff)
• Eppy Awards finalist: Best news Web site, Best use of Video in a Web site (staff)
• 1st place, 2006 Best of Gannett Award: Breaking news coverage of flooding (staff)
• 2003 Chips Achievement Prize: Freedom Forum award for outstanding reporting
• Asian American Journalists Association: Member since 2007
• Chips Quinn Scholars: Summer 2003 alumni


Education:


Syracuse University, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
M.S., photography (2010)

Binghamton University, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

B.A., English (2000–2004)