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Spencer Striker is the founder of the four-time Webby Award winning game media studio, GameZombie TV; co-founder of the Media Arts & Game Development program at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater; and a PhD in Digital Media from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Spencer is a proven, award-winning creative director and executive producer of cutting-edge multimedia that synthesizes new media production, social media optimization, and the new web.

DIGITAL MEDIA FOCUS

New Media Production, Social Media Optimization, Entrepreneurship, Team Building, Project Development; Leadership; the future of Multimedia—including Mobile, Interactive, TV, and Web Video

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Bio

I grew up primarily in New England--between Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts--and spent some of my youth in Southern California and Europe. I completed high school in Chicago, and received highest honors degrees in History and Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin. Upon graduation, I lived in Costa Rica, Honduras, and Brazil, a journey that resulted in the novels, Fury & Redemption and Bad Blood Born. In the fall of 2006, I entered the Telecommunications Program at Indiana University at Bloomington. My thesis project was the four-time Webby Award winning original series, GameZombie TV. 

In the Fall of 2009, I expanded GZ to the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and co-founded the Media Arts & Game Development Program. Simultaneously, I completed a PhD in Digital Media from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, defending my dissertation on October 24, 2012. My professional objective is to create the future of multimedia--synthesizing new media production, social media optimization, and the new web.

Work

Founder & Executive Producer
GameZombie TV



Co-Founder & Faculty
 Media Arts & Game Development
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater

Education

PhD, Digital Media, 2012
University of Wisconsin at Madison


M.S., Telecommunications, 2008
Indiana University at Bloomington

B.S., Radio-TV-Film, 2001
B.A., History, 2001
University of Texas at Austin
Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa



Selected Web Awards & Distinctions  

2010 Webby Award
2010 People’s Voice Webby Award
4th Annual Digital Media & Learning Competition - Finalist
2010 Mashable Award, Finalist - Best Web Video
2010 Davey Silver Award
2009 Webby Honoree Award
2008 Webby Honoree Award

Selected Grants

Awarded Fellowship for being a Finalist in the 4th Annual Digital Media and Learning Competition in San Francisco, March 2012, $5,000.

Awarded Grant to Attend the Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, April 2010, $5,000.

Awarded Grant to Take 4 UW-Whitewater Students to the Webby Awards in New York City, June 12-14, 2010, $4,000.

Skills

Project Leadership: built and lead a smart, flexible, and highly productive media organization of over 80 people at UW & IU

Nonlinear Digital Editing & Motion Graphics Design
Including Final Cut Pro Editing Suite

Scripting Languages, Graphics Design, & Web Development
Including the XHTML, CSS, & Adobe Creative Suite

TV Studio Production, (multi-camera direction & advanced lighting):
Including producing award-winning original content in a $2.5m HDTV studio

Writing & Producing for Books, Games, Film, TV, & the Web