cv, now out of date.

ok, this is an old cv, still up in case it's linked from anywhere, but out of date and probably badly written.

Vasco de Sousa

narrative designer

(out of date address deleted)

Curriculum Vitae

1996-Present

Freelance: Narrative Designer

Pre-production, business plans, treatments

Wise Yogurt Directories (Short Film). (design, filming, direction, voice and editing, narrative, photoshop)

Artificial Stupidity (Feature film) pre-production, business plan, screenplay

Screenplays: Jack and Molly's Houseguest, The Sorrows of Deirdre

Non fiction articles on narrative design

Vote Attila website (design, research, Flash, HTML, CSS, Photoshop, writing)

New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival of 2006 (design, promotion, html, css, Photoshop)

Dead Germans Website (Flash, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, design, research, writing)

2007 - 2008

Ebay seller

Web presentation and promotion of items to be sold. Researching and acquiring stock. Planning and delivering.

2004 - 2005

British Telecom: Customer Advisor (employed through Manpower)

• Entering information into and maintaining correct information in database

• Worked to and met sales targets

• Dealing with live enquiries while searching database

• Three times regional nominee for employee of the month, once awarded for contribution of phone script

1997-1999

Udigrudi (dba): Owner

Designed greeting cards, websites and books related to films produced by Udigrudi and the film society.

Published and edited magazine. Ran the Udigrudi shop and oversaw film productions.

summer 1997

Administrative work placement: European Union Directorate of Research

1996-1997

Verasumo Productions

Writer and producer of films, co-founder of company

Education

2006- 2008

University of Wales: continuing education

Photoshop Levels 1 through 4

2006

Sagasnet Workshop: Developing Narrative Games/Online Worlds

In small groups of three, designed three online worlds for games

2003 - 2003

UWA: Trainee Teacher

PGCE course in teaching French at secondary school level - withdrawn

1998 -2003

University of Wales, Aberystwyth: BA in Film and Television Studies with French Language and literature (Joint Honours, 2:2)

President Film and TV Society

Courses include: Studio Production (graphic design, writing, direction and production), Montaigne and the Renaissance (Designed Flash animation in place of one of the essays), Introduction to Java

2001- 2002

Université de Caen, Haute Normandie: Erasmus exchange program

Courses in theatre, film and history

2000-2001

Coleg Ceredigion: Office Skills and Technology

OST level 3: Word Processing, OST level 2: Spreadsheets

Pittmans level 1: Bookkeeping and Accounts

1996-1997

Pima Community College: Courses leading to AS in Communications

• Screenwriting, Cinematography

• Voice and Movement of the Actor, Introduction to Acting

• History of the Tohono Odham