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.