Your Instructors

JD KIGGINS

jd.kiggins@mhcc.edu
503.491.7632
OFFICE: AC1371
Advisor: Broadcasting option
Co-director, Integrated Media Program

JD manages the Broadcasting program and teaches many of the core classes. He brings extensive experience in sound recording, digital audio production, producing and editing having worked in many capacities in the film and broadcasting industries. A graduate of Montana State University, his degree is in film and theatre arts. Most recently he was a partner at Blue Dog Recording in Portland where he edited film and video, designed sound for picture and provided sound engineering for both music and radio clients. JD has worked for a broad range of clients ranging from Nike and InFocus to musicians such as Leroy Vinnegar and Jerry Hahn. In addition to instructing the digital audio production classes that feature Digidesigns ProTools software, JD serves as Club Advisor for the student radio station, The Quarry: X-58. JD Teaches IM178, IM179, IM180, IM191, IM260, RB150, RB151, RB250, RB251, RB252, IM291 and ART279.

DAVID MAIER

david.maier@mhcc.edu
503.491.6992
OFFICE: AC1384
Advisor: Graphic Design and Digital Photography options
Co-director, Integrated Media Program

For 2009-10 David will teach full time in the Integrated Media Program. Over the past 20 years, he's taught a wide range of Graphic Design classes including Publication Design, 3D Modeling and Animation, Digital Imaging, Flash Animation, HTML Programming, Web Design, and Interactive Media Design. Since 1996, David has been the owner/principle of Third Door, Inc., an interactive web development company whose major clients include Dreamworks Records, Warner Brothers Records, Capital Records, Nike, Nemo HQ and Reprise Records. David earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Arizona. Before starting his own company, he served as Associate Creative Director for Portland's Graphic Media and Eagle River Interactive and was Creative Director for the New Media Group of Waggoner Edstrom. For first year graphic design students, he'll teach the GD150, GD151 and GD152 core sequence as well as a section of IM179: Digital Tools and Workflow. In the second year program he'll teach IM260: Professional Practice in Integrated Media as well as all three terms of IM291: IM Practicum. In spring 2010, David will teach two sections of IM191: Web Design.

JACK SCHOMMER

jack.schommer@mhcc.edu
503.491.7611
OFFICE AC1386
Advisor: Video option
Co-director, Integrated Media Program

Jack grew up in northwest Montana,and received a BS in motion picture production from Montana State University. He worked the next 12 years in that states television industry. He produced daily news casts for the Eagle Communication network and also managed a production department for the Montana Television Networks affiliate, KPAX-TV in Missoula. In 1987 as a member of the Missoula City Council he helped negotiate that citys first cable franchise which also established its first community TV center. He moved to Gresham in 1988 to oversee the Community Television Grant, teach in and coordinate the Community TV program at Mt. Hood Community College. He has been the lead instructor and coordinator for the Television Production Technology Program since 1997. His production work has been honored with state, regional and national awards. Jack is a certified Apple Pro trainer for FCP and teaches ART279, IM178, TV152, TV250, TV251, IM290, IM291 and IM260.

CHRISTINA MAIER

chris.maier@mhcc.edu
503.491.7624
OFFICE: AC1375
Associate Dean of Humanities: Integrated Media, Performing and Visual Art (interim)

For 2009-10, Chris will be moving into an administrative role as an Associate Dean of Humanities. She'll continue to take an active role in managing the Integrated Media program during this transitional year. She'll teach at least one class this year (TBA). Chris earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Arizona State University. Her graduate studies were at the University of Kansas and Kent State University in Ohio. Previous teaching experience comes from appointments at the University of Kansas and the University of Arizona before coming to MHCC in 1988. Her professional design experience was as an editorial designer for magazines in Kansas and Arizona. At the University of Kansas, she served as a publication designer and in Tucson, Arizona, she operated White Space Studio, a design company that specialized in annual reports, magazine design and periodical re-designs. She contributing award-winning editorial layouts to Plazm Magazine. For the past five years, she served as Integrated Media Department Chair, taking care of curriculum development, staffing, scheduling and facilities for the IM program.

Adjunct Faculty

Christian Barnett

Chris is a motivated young digital photographer and web developer with a keen interest in web and graphic design. Last year, he assisted IM students as our digital tutor. This Fall, he'll teach a section of IM179: Digital Tools and Workflow; two sections of IM190: Web Basics classes for DP and GD students Winter term and in Spring, two sections of IM191: Web Design courses for the Broadcasting and Video students.
christian.barnett@mhcc.edu

Jennifer Brinkman

Jennifer Brinkman has operated Brinkman Photography since 1990. After graduating from Illinois State University Jennifer moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for various commercial photographers. In the last eight years, her love of people has been the focus of her work, with an emphasis on children and animals as subjects. She also teaches at PNCA (Pacific Northwest College of Art) and her diverse portfolio has inspired beginners to create the world in fresh ways through the photographers lens. Jennifer is actively involved in American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). She has participated in several events the group has coordinated. In 2001, Jennifer was responsible for organizing, curating, and promoting an ASMP event that showcased members works. Currently, she is serving as treasurer for the Oregon Chapter of ASMP. For 2009-10, she will collaborate with JD Kiggins to teach the IM180: Digital Editing and Acquistin classes.
jennifer.brinkman@mhcc.edu

Jay Cornelius

Jay is a producer, writer, editor, and director of photography for commercials, short films, feature length films, music videos, and documentaries on various channels such as National Geographic, PBS, History Channel, A&E, Discovery-Times Channel, and many others. Jay will teach TV150, TV151 and TV252 to the Video students this year. For 2009-10, he'll also teach our first classes in Adobe After Effects as well as a section of IM179: Digital Tools and Workflow. He specializes in commercial and television productions with conservative budgets and recently relocated to Oregon. He's got a Bachelor's degree from Carlton College in Minnesota. He's owner of both Honeybear Films and Green Street Pictures.
jay.cornelius@mhcc.edu

Toni Greaves

Toni is a documentary, editorial and portrait photographer with a passion for storytelling. She's just been named as one of the "30 Emerging Photographers to Watch" by PDN magazine. Born and raised in Australia, Toni has lived in the United Kingdom and USA, and is widely traveled. She has an extensive background in design, having worked for over a decade as an Art Director and Creative Director in both the USA and Europe. Her creative career now spans five continents. Her photographic clients include The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The FADER, Sports Illustrated and The New Jersey Star Ledger. Her design clients include Adidas, Apple, British Airways, Microsoft, Nike and T-Mobile. Toni holds a Masters degree from Kent State in Visual Communication Design, and is a graduate of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography, in New York City. She also earned AAS degrees in both Graphic Design and Journalism from MHCCin 1993. Last spring, she taught DP252: Digital Media Studio, which focused on documentary photography.

Brad Dolbeer

Most recently, Brad served as Assistant Program Director/Mid-Days at CBS Radio/K-Hits 1067. Before that, he was Music Director/DJ at KMTT and worked in a variety of roles for Entercomm for 15 years. He also served as Director of Rock Programming at The Research Group. Last year, Brad taught the RB152: Broadcast Programming class to the first year Broadcasting students.

Rosemary Reynolds Glutsch

Rosemary has worked in the broadcast industry for 32 years. She is a nationally recognized award-winning journalist. A Portland native, Rosemary grew up in the Ladds Addition area on the Southeast side of the city. She attended high school at St. Marys Academy majoring in Music and English. The next phase of life brought her to Portland Community College where she excelled in the Radio and Television Broadcasting Program. During her career she has worked for many of Portlands radio stations. After three decades she continues to do voice-over work and is the Executive Producer of Simply Gardening Radio and TV. Rosemary oversees the internships of many IM students. For 2009-10, she's slated to teach IM260, IM185 and IM290 for Broadcasting students.
rosemary.glutsch@mhcc.edu

Tom Hassler

A professional photographer since the mid 1970s, and owner of Hassler Studio, Tom has over 32 years of industry experience. His career began in Phoenix, Arizona and progressed through several years in Los Angeles, most of the 1980s in New York City and finally moved to Portland, Oregon where he lives and works today. Tom has studied independently with a number of well-known photographers, including Jay Maisel and Sam Abell. He has received numerous awards, had several one-man shows and had images published internationally. In addition to commercial clients, he also exhibits his fine art work in galleries and conducts photography workshops in Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. Tom teaches the Digital Photography section of IM260: Professional Practice in Integrated Media and the second year core DP classes, DP250: Integrated Media Photography and DP251: Digital Retouching and Output.

Jon Larson

Jon moved his design and photography business, LarsonImages to Portland from Santa Barbara, California four years ago. He's been a lecturer at Brooks Institute of Photography. Jon's expertise at LarsonImages includes over a decade of experience in graphics, advertising, photography, multimedia and web design. He holds a BS in Applied Art and Design from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. This year, Jon will collaborate with David Maier to teach the IM291: Integrated Media Practicum classes each term to both the Digital Photography and Graphic Design students. David and Jon will serve as Art Directors for creative teams as they work on a wide variety of real projects for real clients.
jon.larson@mhcc.edu

Paul Mazzucca

Paul comes to MHCC after five years in Canada as an Assistant Professor in the Foundation, Communication Design and Masters of Applied Art programs of Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He's also taught design at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Oregon State University and The University of Kansas. He earned an MFA in Graphic Design at RISD (Rhode Island School of Design). He is an active freelance designer whose client list includes the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Vancouver Society of Storytelling, Corning Inc. / Steuben Glass, APRI-Minga; Coneflower Films, Hall Center for the Humanities at KU, Lawrence Public Library, Hilton Glass, and the Storm King Art Center. This year, he'll teach GD250: Corporate Identity Systems to the second-year design students.
paul.mazzucca@mhcc.edu

Justin Myers

Freelance photographer Justin Myers has an extensive client list that includes Adidas | Salomon, Portland Monthly, Portland Spaces and Fretboard Journal. Justin started his professional career as an animator for Will Vinton Studios where he did set lighting and construction, animation, prop and character prep. Each summer, he teaches animation in OMSI's summer program. Most recently, he studied at the Brooks Institute of Photography. Take a look at his work at Justin Myers Photography, an advertising and editorial photography studio where he produces print campaigns, private stock libraries and web-based media. Justin will get the first year Digital Photography students started in their core photography courses, IM150: Digital Imaging and IM151: Digital Media Applications..
justin.myers@mhcc.edu

Steve Pringle

Steve has taught a variety of Broadcasting classes at MHCC over the years. For Fall 2009, he'll team with JD Kiggins as they kick off RB150: Broadcasting I in the first term. Currently at KINK, Steve started at KUFO, moved to KGON and KNRK, skipped over to KUPL and did mornings and overnights for six years at KKJZ. He hosts a Blues show (since 1994) at KMHD (89.1 f.m.) called The Friday Freeway Blues.
steve.pringle@mhcc.edu

Jennifer Thomas

Jen is a graduate of the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA. In 2000, she helped form the International Friendly, a collective of designers from CCA. Jen relocated to North Carolina in 2003 where her clients included the McCall Center for Visual Art, Outdoor Lighting Perspectives, Tearose Skincare and others. A recent transplant to Portland, she also teaches at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She specializes in publication design and selected projects that emphasize craft, concept and fine typography. Jennifer will teach GD251: Digital Publication Design to the second year graphic design students in Winter term 2010. We hope she'll be back for ART27: Integrated Media Survey and IM29: IM Portfolio next Spring. She operates Jen Thomas Design in Portland.
jennifer.thomas@mhcc.edu

Janine Wolf

Janine is the News Director and Morning Show Co-host for KOOL 105.9. She spent 24 years in Los Angeles, but Portland has always been her home. After graduating from Portland State with degrees in Speech Communications, Secondary Education and Journalism in the late '70s, Janine started her radio career in Portland. She worked at Portland stations including KWJJ and the legendary 62KGW, where she was the first female disc jockey. In 1980 she moved to Los Angeles and had a successful 20 year radio and television career where she was nominated for a couple of Emmy's for hosting an environmental TV show. Along the way she also had a career as a landscape designer and won HGTV's "Landscaper's Challenge" in 2001. She returned to Portland in 2005. In 2008-09 she taught IM291 for the Broadcasting students and as well as the IM185: Writing for Media.
janine.wolf@mhcc.edu

Doug Zanger

Doug didn't expect a career in radio and advertising when he graduated from the University of Denver with an International Studies degree. But the New Jersey boy, by way of Minneapolis, found himself manning weekends from midnight to 6am in Portland, Oregon. From that point on, his path was set. Doug went from on-air to morning show producer, to production director for Rose City Radio (where he was a 2003 Radio Mercury Award Winner) before heading to Entercom Portland in 2004, where he served as Creative Director. In 2000, Doug started his own radio/audio advertising and marketing/branding agency, Xhang Creative. In 2007 Doug decided to pursue his dream of running the agency full-time, and Xhang Creative has since taken off, supporting clients from the Pacific Northwest, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Miami and Richmond, Virginia. He spreads the gospel of good creative, content and strategy, including penning a blog for Advertising Age's Small Agency Diary. Recently named radio jury president for the London International Advertising Awards, he is passionate about the auditory medium to create change. Doug teaches about the importance of radio, audio branding and advertising in ART279: Integrated Media Survey in the spring term. Check out his blog: RadioCreativeLand.