RESUMÉ
Current as of 2/2011
EDUCATION:
-Bachelor of Arts in Theater and Speech Pathology, Fordham University
-Air personality at WFUV-FM;Vice-president of theater society
-Glasgow Memorial Award for Excellence in Theater Production
-Master of Arts in Broadcasting and Theater, City University of New York- Brooklyn College
Ozzie Alfonso Media—Producer,Writer, Director, and Media Consultant for selected projects. (present)
Adjunct Associate Professor at St. John’s University where I teach Television Production and Writing for TV and Film. (2005 – present)
Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Tisch School for the Arts. (2004-2005)
Terra Multimedia LLC – Owner; Director/Writer/Media Consultant (2008- 2010)
President/Executive Producer of Terra Associates, Inc. (1990-2008)
TERRA ASSOCIATES specialized in educational program development for broadcast, the web, and for classroom use. Our clients included: Scholastic, Prentice-Hall, McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, Harcourt,McDougal-Littel, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson/Longman.
TERRA co-produced with Harvard University a pilot for a broadcast science series tailored for 8 to 12 year old audience titled “Technical Difficulties.” (A.K.A. "Norvell and Trudy")
For corporate clients we developed and produced live-action and animated projects on dental hygiene - "Doctor Rabbit's Incredible Journey" and "The Adventures of Wiggly Tooth" for the Colgate/Palmolive Company; and a video for young teens on the challenges of engineering sponsored by IBM.
At TERRA I conceived and produced “SNOOPS”- an interactive direct satellite-to-classroom series for Hughes Communications’ Galaxy Classroom.
For Pearson/Longman, we developed, produced and directed “LEO” (Longman English Online)—a soap-opera styled WEB series aimed at teaching English as a foreign language to a world-wide audience. This series was produced in US as well as UK accentuated English with different casts.
We were also active in CD-ROM and DVD development. Among TERRA’s multimedia clients were Sunburst, Scholastic, and Simon & Schuster.
For Scholastic, we have been the sole developer and producer of the top selling "Read 180"—a DVD-based reading intervention series, and the phonics series, "System 44”.
Our recent broadcast productions include the “Annual Hispanic Heritage Awards”, aired on NBC from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
3-2-1 CONTACT—Senior Producer, Writer, and the Director of this award-winning science and technology series for eight seasons. My work took me to Malaysia, Japan, Greece, Borneo, Costa Rica, England, and France. For the last three seasons I was the series principal writer. My work as Director and Writer has been acknowledged by Emmy awards and nominations. "3-2-1 CONTACT" was nominated several times as "Outstanding Children's Series" and was selected as one of the top ten shows of the 80s by "People"magazine.
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