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B.Sc, M.Sc. (computer science)    
e-mail: colinmanning@excite.com    
phone: 353-87-679-8561    








Education
  • City & Guilds Photography, 1999, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland
  • Master of Science (M.Sc) in Computer Science, 1996, National University of Ireland, Block Matching Algorithms for Motion Compensated Video Compression (more info.)
  • University of California at Berkeley, 1992-1993, Multimedia, Film, German, Computer Science
  • Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Science, 1991, National University of Ireland (University College Cork)
  • National Institute of Higher Education, Dublin (now DCU), Communications Studies, 1987-1988, Photography, Print Graphics, Radio, Economics, Linguistics, Video, Culture

    more about my college career



Work Experience
  • Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland, Nov 2000 to date, Lecturer in Computing
  • Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, Dec 1999- August 2000, Professor of Computer Art
  • Macromedia, San Francisco, CA, Sep 1999- Nov 1999, Contract Director developer (interactive tutorial for Fireworks) and technical writer
  • Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland, 1996-1999, Lecturer in Multimedia
  • Centro da Informática, Universidade do Minho, Portugal, 1996, Director programmer, web author, and multimedia one man band. Trips into Portuguese Baroque. various web sites and multimedia demos.
  • PixelMagic, Dublin, 1996, Freelance Director programmer on Great Green Mouse Disaster
  • Multimedia Technologies Ireland (now IntoWhite), 1994-1995, Director programmer, Digital Video


Skill Set
  • Five years teaching experience at undergraduate and graduate level
  • In depth knoweldge of video compression techniques and multimedia production tools
  • Programming: Macromedia Director with lingo, Authorware, LISP, Pascal
  • Image: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Fireworks, 3D Studio Max
  • Sound: CoolEdit, SoundEdit 16
  • web: HTML, Shockwave, Dreamweaver
  • Languages: English is my native language, I speak French well, some Portuguese, some German
Hobbies & Interests
  • Film: I am very interested in Film and go to the cinema quite a bit. I'm a big fan of Howard Hawks.
  • Photography: I am a keen photographer. (see some of my photographs)
  • Music: I enjoy singing. I was a founding member of Ireland's first Tuna - a Spanish style male singing group. A college I was an active member of the Choral Society.
  • Going out: I'm a very social person and I enjoy going to the pub and clubbing.


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