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Expertise
Thushan is a multimedia journalist specializing in interactive graphics, documentary photography and video, design and writing.View PortfolioExperience
Thushan was a senior multimedia producer at The Boston Globe before exploring the world with LongJaunt. Recently he consulted for the social enterprise Digital Divide Data.View Resume -
Portfolio
A sampling of Thushan's work in interactive graphics, documentary photography and video, design and writing.
Foreclosures in Mass.See and explore how the foreclosure crisis exploded in Massachusetts in this interactive graphic Thushan developed in Flash while working at The Boston Globe.Digital Divide DataComplete design, photography and coding rebrand for social enterprise providing training and jobs for disadvantaged youth in Cambodia and Laos.Going up!Watch two inventors as their dreams take flight by building the world's first personal blimp in this video Thushan produced while at The Boston Globe.Losing their homesWatch how the foreclosure crisis is personally affecting a family at risk of losing their home in Lawrence, MA. Video for a multi-part story in The Boston Globe's business section.One hundred smiles per gallonThushan produced video for The Boston Globe Magazine on location in Maine with an inventor who built a 100-mpg car in his garage with the hope that he can get Detroit to rethink their ways.N.H. Primary TrackerTrack and examine who was on the back roads of New Hampshire before the nation's first primary for the 2008 Presidential Election in this interactive graphic Thushan developed in Flash while working at The Boston Globe.At Coors FieldWatch the video Thushan produced on deadline with sports writer Bob Ryan for The Boston Globe's sports section about the quirks of playing at Major League's highest field during the 2007 World Series.2007 World SeriesOn location video showing the scene on the ground in Colorado during the 2007 Red Sox vs. Rockies World Series.The Personal BlimpRead the story Thushan wrote for The Boston Globe's business section about two inventors hoping to bring their personal blimp to market.Golden TeethZooming along the back roads of Guatemala, Thushan encounters another 26-year-old with an entirely different set of life experiences. Read his reflective and informative LongJaunt post.Explore Eastern EuropeCatch some rays along the coast of Croatia's stunning cerulean blue waters or see Belgrade's bombed out buildings still standing a decade later in this wide ranging gallery from Thushan's LongJaunt galleries.LongJauntTake a trip around the world through more than 30 countries in eight months on an intimately documented trip that Thushan co-created. LongJaunt helped win Boston.com's Travel Section the award for "Best Travel Site of 2008" by the Society of American Travel Writers.BeruitFrom tanks in the street to dancing in the street, see Lebanon's capital city transform in mere days during LongJaunt's post civil war visit.Print Design portfolioSee Thushan's portfolio of multiple award winning print designs created during his time as Editor in Chief of NC State's college paper, The Technician. PDF - 29MBArticle PortfolioRead a collection of Thushan's articles written during his stint as Editor in Chief of his college paper, The Technician. PDF - 24MB -
Resume
Thushan received a B.S. in Computer Science from N.C. State University. He was a senior multimedia producer at The Boston Globe before he started LongJaunt and traveled around the world. Most recently he was a consultant for the technology related social enterprise, Digital Divide Data in Cambodia.
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Digital Divide DataProvided technical consulting for a social enterprise with 500 employees in Cambodia and Laos helping disadvantaged people break the cycle of poverty by creating technology related jobs and college scholarships. Created training courses to teach advanced XML topics to local management so they had the skills to meet the needs of digitization projects. Helped deploy corporate intranet to get DDD's four offices communicating more effectively. Re-branded DDD with new print and web designs, a refreshed identity and corporate photography. Developed new company website from design, photography and code: digitaldividedata.org
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LongJauntTraveled around the world through 30 countries while producing an intimately documented multimedia blog for The Boston Globe's online travel section. More than 200 daily stories photographed and written on the road. From code to photos: developed custom CMS from the ground up to maintain and write for the site while internet connections were bad or non-existent. Conceptualized, pitched and secured financing for project before launch. Managed day-to-day and logistics for content coverage and publication. The LongJaunt special section helped earn The Globe's online travel section the distinction as 2008's "Best travel website" as awarded by the Society of American Travel Writers. See site: boston.com/longjaunt/
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The Boston GlobeDeveloped and designed some of the Globe's first truly interactive graphics in Flash/ActionScript using databases and XML feeds as sources. Played a major role in developing the Globe's video unit, from content, visual and technical standpoints while producing pieces that complimented print versions of the story. Regularly produced pieces in multiple mediums for the same story such as writing a piece, shooting the video and taking the photos or developing a corresponding interactive graphic. Covered wide range of topics including the New Hampshire Presidential Primary, 2007 World Series and the start of the mortgage crisis.
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TechnicianLed a diverse staff of more than 100 writers, editors, photographers and designers as editor in chief of the daily student paper. Lived under the rigors of producing a daily publication, serving the 28,000 students at North Carolina State University. Set and managed an operating budget of nearly $400,000.
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B.S. Computer Science from North Carolina State UniversitySenior design project: Developed software video analysis program to "find" roads, vehicles and other objects to steer and control an autonomously driven vehicle as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored race. Car successfully completed 28 miles of the DARPA course without any human direction using the aid of the system. Core computer science coursework included Human Computer Interaction, Data Structures, Databases, Computer Graphics and Operating Systems Design. Additional coursework in advanced news writing, copy editing, Arabic and political science courses.
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AwardsThe Boston Globe
Multiple awards by Globe management in recognition for work on Business, Politics and Sports coverage and systems innovation.
Associated College Press Design Award
First place, illustration (2005), First place, infographic (2004)
College Media Advisors
Placed in three different categories in print design (2004)
Macworld Magazine
Software "Icon-It" published in David Pogue's "Macworld Performa/Power Macintosh Secrets" included with every consumer Macintosh produced by Apple Computer that year and two news stand magazine issues, 150,000 copies distributed (1993, 96)
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Age: 32Birthday: 1.18.1982Full Name: Thushan Suramyajith AmarasiriwardenaHair: Black, graying in some partsMusical talents: absolutely noneOnce ran: 72 miles in 24 hoursCountries visited: 42Birthplace: Sri LankaFlight: Has flown by plane, hot air balloon, helicopter, and blimp - life goal is to add rocket ship. He's not kidding.Drives: a Honda Civic (really wants a motorcycle again like in Cambodia)Wishes: he was a secret agent
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Endorsements: The things Thushan loves. Thushan received no monetary payments for these endorsements, except from the Prune Growers of America and Hebrew National Hotdogs.Thushan received no monetary payments for these endorsements, except in the cases of Prune Growers of America and Hebrew National Hotdogs where he is a spokesman.Berlin Pushing Daises Stroopwafel John Williams Digital Divide Data Sri Lanka Children of Men Hunter S. Thompson 3D Movies Arthur C. Clarke Three Kings Reichstag Building Hubble Deep Field Hebrew National Hotdogs Tool Monk Canon Gym Class Heroes Michael Lewis Monsters Inc. Infrastructure Antonio's pizza Seven James Bond Saucony Originals Acai Honda Civic Sriracha Chili Sauce UP Ace of Base Hans Zimmer Slumdog Millionaire MacBook Kurt Vonnegut Yosemite Phnom Penh The Big Dig Syriana Slaughterhouse Five NASA Coen Brothers Newfoundland 1984 Northface Terra 30 Apple Inglorious Basterds Rendezvous with Rama David Fincher Wheaties The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Dexter Boston Gorillaz Beruit Cambridge Grand Canyon Ocean's 11 135 f/2.8 Fight Club Michael D. Kurtz Shipping Containers Outkast Scott LaPierre Pixar Being John Malkovich Groundhog Day Botero Live Transformers Chrysler Building The Departed Christopher Nolan American History X Sam Rockwell Michael Clayton New England Willie Nelson MythBusters Mike Shinoda Alicia Conway Masman curry The Hurt Locker London A. R. Rahman Kenna Eminem Lyrics Born Russ Juskalian Brad Pitt The Monkey Temple Mika Going to Mars House Alice in Chains Parks and Recreation Ben Franklin Captain Crunch Mitch Hedberg Returning to the Moon Queens of the Stone Age The Daily Show LOST Trader Joes Steve Jablonsky Tim Lytvinenko Johnny Cash Big Fish Hancock Tower 50mm f/1.4 Vipassana Meditation Chicken Korma Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom White Sands Human Space Flight Deftones Curb Your Enthusiasm Tintin Roti canai Do The Right Thing The Goonies Spike Lee Belgrade O' Brother Where Art Thou? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Mochi Sleepy Hollow Seoul Buenos Aires Mangoes The Wire No Country for Old Men Lego Laos The Dark Knight The Lonely Island Bill Bryson Moon Mexico City iPhone Rene Magritte Crater Lake Wikipedia David O' Russell Liar's Poker Damascus Amherst Pan's Labyrinth Norman Rockwell Hulu Mt. Khatadin Tina Fey Ghostbusters II Rio De Janiero Prunes 30 Rock George Clooney Americone Dream
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Contact DetailsThushan AmarasiriwardenaEmailPhone413.230.4773Skype / GTalkthushan.aFind me hereCurrentlySan Francisco, ca, usa, earthWebPhotosSocial networks