drew messinger-michaels

* Writer covering video games, gallery art, movies, and music * Producer and host of a longform interview podcast, in charge of research and audio production as well as on-air interviewing

Writing and editing reviews of new music by independent artists

Contributing works of short form fiction in a variety of styles and genres

Writing and editing articles on exhibitions of visual art in Chicago

* Covering fine arts, cinema, campus events, and grant opportunities in web-based articles * Recording and producing original audio/podcast content, including interviews

* Writing and editing articles on the art and business of independent video games * Managing user-generated content, administrating communities of video game developers, players, and writers * Producing podcasts and other audio content

* Creating ecommerce website, social media presence, blog, advertising, and print catalog * Designing and executing sales plans—marketing, development, Google AdWords/Analytics * Administrating legally binding contracts, sales documentation, and Statements of Work * Hiring and managing artists, content writers, jury panelists, and web developers/designers

* Handling, installing, shipping, storing, and preserving antique ethnographic art-objects * Researching the gallery’s collection and acquisitions, authoring condition reports * Developing web pages, including Java scripts, and maintaining company website * Managing social media outreach and online marketing, designing print advertising

Managing ticketing, client databases, live events, customer relations, and sales

* Writing and editing sample passages, questions, and tutorials for practice tests * Promoted to editorial duties, including administrative review of testing materials

* Writing and copy-editing features on visual art, dining, music, and special events * Conducting interviews and photographing live events

* Designing hybris Professional Services packages, and leading the functional arm of hybris Consulting * Communicating best practices for project management, implementation, and deployment * Analyzing requirements on enterprise B2C and B2B projects across retail, fashion, manufacturing, aerospace, consumer electronics, luxury goods, and digital goods verticals * Providing support to developers, business stakeholders, and end users throughout hybris projects * Producing elearning materials on hybris software * Developing new courses and course materials directed at both technical and business audiences, and intended for internal, B2C, B2B, and scalable B2B2C use

* Teaching classes on the theory and practice of multichannel ecommerce * Training customers and partners in the use of hybris software * Conducting project-specific hybris workshops for customers and implementation partners * Training implementation partners to deliver their own end user hybris training * Developing new courses and course materials directed at both technical and business audiences, and intended for internal, B2C, B2B, and scalable B2B2C use

* Providing strategic business expertise for commerce projects across all channels, both traditional and emerging * Developing new Expert Services offerings, aimed at ensuring successful SAP Hybris projects * Building the SAP Hybris Functional Consulting team in North America and around the world * Conducting project-specific workshops and reviews throughout SAP Hybris engagements * Communicating best practices for project management, implementation, and deployment * Analyzing requirements on enterprise B2C, B2B, and B2B2C projects across retail, fashion, manufacturing, aerospace, consumer electronics, luxury goods, and digital goods verticals * Providing support to developers, business stakeholders, and end users throughout projects

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa

Thesis focusing on aesthetics and racial politics in the colonial Americas"]

Thesis focusing on violence, ethics, and subjectivity in virtual worlds * Work with Lauren Berlant (Thesis Advisor), Miriam Hansen, William J.T. Mitchell, Laura Mulvey Activities and Societies: Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH)