Sean Taras

• Supported community engagement in the 2D animation department by organizing student social events, leading informative drawing sessions, and spearheading animation challenges.
• Responsible for student outreach, troubleshooting, departmental communications, digital file organization, managing teams of artists to produce collaborative projects, and editing showcase videos to promote student work.
• Supported students in their coursework by providing feedback, answering questions, and assisting with software and hardware issues.

Professional freelance artist specializing in hand-drawn 2D animation.

Have completed projects for clients in online music streaming, social media content creation, and independent TV show development.

Responsible for all aspects of project pipeline, including concept art, storyboards, character design, animation, and final editing.

Organizing, managing, and executing animation projects using industry standard software.

• Editing, proofreading, and quality assurance for business-development-oriented transcription service.
• Responsible for compiling and delivering accurate, professional transcripts with close attention to detail on tight deadlines.
• Served as final eye on transcripts before delivery to clients, ensuring all documents were delivered on schedule and up to organizational standards.
• Ensured compliance with industry standards and regulations through diligent adherence to established QA procedures and guidelines.

• Professional closed-caption writer for live broadcast TV programming as well as webcast events, city council meetings, sports, culture, syndicated programming, and more.
• Worked both independently and in communication with team members and clients.
• Achieved highest industry standard of 99% accuracy for real-time captioning through rigorous personal development and strict attention to detail.
• Served as training specialist for new hires, providing feedback from live observation sessions and accuracy reviews.
• Managed vocabulary and terminology databases for one of the company's largest clients to drive department-wide improvements in caption quality.