• EDUCATION
  • University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, Major: Journalism, 2001-2004
  • University of California at Berkeley, 2000-2001

• EMPLOYMENT
  • 2006-present - Web developer, entrepreneur, and founder/developer of Curbly.com. Worked on large scale Ruby on Rails sites like Yfly.com. Extensive experience with RoR deployment, Amazon Web Services (EC2 and S3), and all aspects of web application development.
    
  • 2005-2006 - Communications Specialist, Thomson West
    Managed several intranet migrations, collaborated internationally to deliver training and support to sister companies in Spain, Brazil and Argentina.
  • 2004-2005 - Communications Coordinator, Thomson West
    Responsible for designing and promoting a blogging strategy, with emphasis on collaboration, reputation management and customer relationships. Wrote for internal and external audiences; experience with crisis communications and radio/television pitching.
    Worked with major consumer brands such as FindLaw.com and Westlaw.
  • 2002-2004 – Graphic Designer, Twin Cities Student Unions
    Designed flyers, posters, and brochures.
    Wrote copy for publicity campaigns.
  • 2001 – Director of Publicity, University Film Society
    Migrated static HTML Web site to a customer-developed database-driven application to power movie listings and showtimes.
    Created press releases, monthly newsletters, and high quality printed festival brochures.
  • 2001 – Founder and Director, Berkeley Film Festival
    Established a successful student film festival that received over forty entries and drew 450 attendees. Raised $1,800 in funding,
    designed website and blog used to communicate with filmmakers and students. Supervised four staff members and coordinated judges.
• WEBSITES
  • www.curbly.com – DIY design community
  • www.snapballot.com – dead simple surveys
  • www.feedmarker.com – bookmarker and newsreader
  • www.teacherly.com – easy online grading for teachers
  • www.acu.mn – local news aggregator
  • www.heychatter.com – link sharing fun for friends
• INTERESTS & ACTIVITIES
  • Writing – Personal weblog at www.brunobornsztein.com/wp. Published in the Star Tribune & MN Daily (2003-2004)
  • Music, language and travel
• LANGUAGES
  • Spanish (fluent, spoken in home)
  • French, Portuguese, Italian
• COMPUTER SKILLS
  • Web development experience: Test Driven Development, Ruby On Rails, PHP, MySQL, Javascript, XHTML, CSS, Capistrano, OpenLaszlo
  • Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator, Quark, Flash, Final Cut, SoundEdit