Logan Austeja Daniel
email: loganinsky@gmail.com
phone: (510) 684-4751
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About
Resume
Projects
Experience
VIZ Media
Associate Producer
2011-Present
Production management of popular anime titles for U.S. DVD distribution.
Working with several departments and talents, bringing together the editorial, graphics, audio, and video elements into a timely and effective product,
while satisfying the marketing, budgeting and international licensing requirements.
Current titles include: Kekkaishi, Naruto Shippuden, Bleach.
Science Tarot
Lead Producer
2009-2010
Created content with and directed several artists to produce accurate science-based content, web/print publish and promote the deck,
culminating with a launch party event at
CA Academy of Sciences NightLife and successful international independent
sales distribution. Responsible for QC of all content on web and in print, and primary
liaison between printers, promoters and artists.
Review of project and event in
NewScientist online.
Recommendations: “Logan’s creativity, intelligence, integrity, people skills and wide range of interests make her an excellent
candidate for any position calling for creative innovation and/or technical organization ... Not only is Logan
extremely detail oriented and thorough, but she also knows how to efficiently manage multiple tasks/people while
maintaining an upbeat and fun creative environment.”
SWA Group Landscape Architects
Landscape Architect and Private Contractor
Between 2006-2008
Interactivity design and visual communications of technical subjects
primarily for print and 3D rendering. Developed user interface improvements with botanical knowledge for internal SWA Plant Database.
Project support with this international firm includes:
sheet set creation for the
California Academy of Sciences Museum East and West Gardens,
a 500+ sustainable plant list
by planting community with Rana Creek Restoration
for the CSUEB master plan,
and layout and graphics for additions to Olmsted's
Mountain View Cemetery in Piedmont, CA.
Recommendations: “Logan is an inquisitive designer; one who solves creative, abstract and everyday 'problems'
conscientiously and uniquely. She is generous with lending a hand or ear, mature in setting expectations and reaching
deadlines and all while pushing her own limits in pursuit of fantastical explorations.”
Golden Associates Landscape Architects
Junior Designer
2005-2006
Project manager, interactivity design, and visual communications of technical subjects primarily for print.
Projects with this local firm include:
presentation boards for
Lake Merritt Park Master Plan (East 18th and 12th Streets) in Oakland CA,
schematic design for Landmarks Committee of
Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland CA.
Recommendations: "While only a junior landscape designer in our office, at the time, she
showed great creative promise and conducted herself in a very
professional manner. I would recommend her services based upon the
quality of her work and the enthusiasm she brings to the project."
LeapFrog Enterprises
Interactivity Engineer and Archivist
2000-2004
Joined LeapFrog as a programmer, implementing and documenting their proprietary scripting language for online and toy formats.
Invented a vocabulary which Producers and Programmers used to communicate effectively about the scripting's abilities and restrictions for game design.
As the company grew from a start-up into a large establishment, identified the need for and established an Archival Library system to capture game
design for innovations and to secure intellectual property.
Recommendations: “Her innate ability to grok technology brought her to the forefront of designing and implementing new game patterns
used throughout all of our leading products. All the while, Logan was able to heartily maintain a great sense of humor and approached tough
problems with both grace and professionalism.”
Great Wave Software
Audio Director and Lead Sound Designer
1998-2000
Responsible for audio from conception to product completion, creating an educational and entertaining game environment.
Nature field recording, voice over, music and sound effects.
Notable titles include 'Prairie Explorer: Biomes of North America' (Eddie Award Winner)
and 'Redwoods Explorer: Biomes of North America'.
Recommendations: “Logan was resourceful, exacting, and inventive--working within limitations of budget,
compression, and delivery. If it can be imagined, Logan can make it happen.”
Imagesmith Internet Publishers
Administrative Director
1996-1997
Established administrative processes for start-up company, and contributed in creation of provocative marketing and seductive user interfaces for client website design.
Associations
Headlands Center for the Arts
Open to the Elements: A week-long residency intensive with Observatorium
Group residency to envision designs for the rehabilitation and re-purposing of Fort Barry's historic
army gymnasium, through a collaborative creative process and culminating in a public symposium.
June 2011
San Francisco Botanical Garden
Volunteer with GIS garden mapping project as part of
The Alliance for Public Gardens GIS
Summer 2010
Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Volunteer web-database assistant for museum's audio assets, XML scripting, asset organization.
Created online story
of a traditional Pomo tale while walking through the PAHMA collection.
Spring 2009
Rana Creek Restoration and the California Academy of Sciences
Internship creating online documentation of plant progress for museum’s new green roof.
2004
Education
University of California Extension, Berkeley
Design Certificate Program in Landscape Architecture, 4.0 GPA
Attended 2004-2008
Recommendations: “Logan has an exquisite mind and wonderful work ethics. She is a professional in the best sense of the word ... [our class team project] requires great cooperation, intensive communication, both in an electronic form and also in person. Logan excelled in this venue.”
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. in Music, with a background in Physics
With creation in 1996 of audio assets for two CD-Rom titles for educational distribution