Lila Thabit Lee

Professional Experience

Thabit Lee Media, LLC – Airmont, New York
2007 – Present

Co-Owner 2007 – Present

  • Corporate logo and site design
  • Photography

Prentice Hall Publishing, Pearson Education – Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 1999 – 2002

MEDIA PROJECT MANAGER & PRODUCER 1999 – 2002

  • Mediated technical, scheduling and budgetary issues between CD-ROM developer and editorial staff.
  • Maintained schedules and budgets for Art History media products.
  • Managed team of production freelancers.
  • Reviewed editorial Web content submitted by authors for accuracy and organization.
  • Designed and formatted Web sites using HTML, Photoshop and JavaScript.
  • Attended Adobe Seminar on electronic publishing.
  • Produced Shockwave files for Web site use.

Brilliant Printing – New York, New York
1996 – 1999

PRINT GRAPHICS ARTIST
1996 – 1999

  • Designed layout and logos for print including newsletters, catalogues and posters.
  • Retouched and color corrected photographs and line art.
  • Digitized images using color flatbed scanner.

WSIA-FM, College of Staten Island – New York, New
York
1994 – 1996

ASSISTANT TO THE GENERAL MANAGER/OPERATIONS INTERN
1994 – 1996

  • Assisted management of on-air staff of fifty, including training, scheduling and evaluation of each D.J.
  • Responsible for the maintenance of format, produced segments and on-air announcing.
  • Coordinated live broadcasts, including charity events and community drives.
  • Chaired News Department meetings, overseeing daily news broadcasts and special interviews.
  • Designed and developed new program clock and new FCC logs, and all graphics.
  • Initiated system of educating disc jockeys including board training and music knowledge.
  • Learned basics of Digital Radio Production.

EDUCATION:

Pratt Institute, 2001.

M.F.A. Interactive Media and Computer Graphics

  • Master’s Thesis: CD-ROM eBook of radio history.

City University of New York, College of Staten Island, 1992.

B.S. Art, minor Cinema Studies.

  • WSIA-FM, Program Director.
  • Internship class: WXRK-FM, New York. Grade: A

SPECIAL SKILLS/INTERESTS

COMPUTERS:

  • Quark XPress
  • HTML
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Macromedia Director
  • Microsoft Word
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Dreamweaver

STUDIO ART: Figure and still life drawing, 3D design and Light and Color study.

TELEVISION PRODUCTION:

Staten Island Community Television/Public Access

Certified in basic production skills including: titling graphics, camera operator, sound engineer, technical director, VTR operator, floor manager, set and light design, and video editor.

AWARDS: Winner of 1992 College of Staten Island Cinemathèque Award for Best Animation and Best Editing.