[NYU animation studio]

Tarik Cherkaoui

Phone: (917) 751-9784
Email: chertar@yahoo.com



  EDUCATION

September 1996 ~ June 1999

NYU and the City University of New York (joint program)

CUNY BA magna cum laude, June 1999
Animation/Computer Information Systems
Irwin Fromme Scholarship, Smith Fellowship

Saadia: A Moroccan Woman in the Resistance, an animated film

Languages & technologies: C++, Javascript, Perl, HTML, Active Server Pages, Internet Information Server, MS Access, Windows NT Server.


  EXPERIENCE

May 2001 ~ present

J. P. Morgan Chase

Web developer

September 1999 ~ September 2000

ctny: creative technologies new york

Internet application developer

March 1997 ~ July 1999

Baruch College Honors Program (1998-99)

Webmaster

Planned site structure in consultation with the Baruch Honors Program Office; designed and implemented the web site; wrote web automation scripts in ASP for frequently updated pages.

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College

Associate Webmaster: www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas

Website Developer: http://wsas.baruch.cuny.edu/prof_info/

Redesigned WSAS home pages with related color and image themes. Took photographs for pages. Designed Javascript and ASP interface for MS Access database of faculty information on Weissman School server; professors may log in with a password and modify or update their records; others may search this secure database.

Jan 1998 ~ July 1999

Heritage Tours. 57 West 93rd Street #6G. New York, NY10025

Freelance web designer: www.heritagetoursonline.com

Designed and implemented the web site as a promotional tool for the company’s services.

Freelance:

June 23 ~ July 11, 1998

Darwin Sites Expedition to England

Chief Photographer:

Photographed places associated with Charles Darwin and his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, in Cambridge, Derby, Downe, Lichfield, London, and Shrewsbury.

The expedition was directed by Prof. John H. Wahlert as a part of a grant to Baruch College entitled, Darwin and Darwinism: Scientific Theory and Social Construction that was sponsored by the "Leadership Opportunity in Science and Humanities Education" program (NEH, FIPSE, & NSF).

May 1998

Baruch College. Office of the Provost

Web design instructor:

Taught HTML and Netscape Composer classes to faculty members to help them develop their own home pages on the college server.

April ~ August 1997

Data Motion Arts. 89 5th Avenue, New York, NY10003

3D animator:

Created 3D animation on SGI’s. Designed computer models and scripted animation on TDI. Wrote UNIX script for various jobs such as rendering, transferring to Acom and digital tape.