Derek Hoffend

Experience

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  International Academy of Design and Technology

  Aug 2005 - Aug 2006

  Full Time Faculty in Visual Communication

  Directorship role including advising and scheduling students, curriculum maintenance and scheduling quarterly classes, faculty hiring, leadership and advising, oversight of technical facilities including computer-labs and software, purchasing equipment, and full departmental administrative duties.2-3 Classes taught per quarter, including: Digital Audio 1, Digital Audio Editing, Digital Photography, Special Effects and Compositing, 3D Computer Animation, Computer Graphics for Interior Design, Video and Animation Show less

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  School of Museum of Fine Arts

  Aug 2006 - May 2011

  Full-Time Visiting Artist in Sound

  Full-Time Faculty load of 3 courses per semester (10 sections/year).Design and implementation of my own course content and syllabi for the Sound-Area including the classes:Introduction to Sound in Art, Bits and Bleeps: Handmade Strategies for Noisemakers, Sound-Sculpture and Installation, Directed Study in Sound, and Graduate Critique

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  Massachusetts College of Art

  Jan 2010 - now

  Course taught: Sound Design for Animators Class taught: Projects in SoundHelped manage the SIM Pozen Center for performances and multi-media events

  • Adjunct Faculty in Animation

    Aug 2009 - now

  • Part-Time Faculty in Studio for Interrelated Media

    Jan 2010 - Aug 2010
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  School of the Museum of Fine Arts

  Jun 2011 - Jul 2011

  PreCollege Faculty in Sculpture+Installation

  Developed curriculum and taught sculpture and installation-art for international high-school PreCollege Summer art program. Implemented 3-week and 5-week curricula for 88 students.

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  Becker College

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2021

  Associate Professor of Interactive Media

  Full-Time teaching position in Interactive Media with specialties in audio production and sound design for games and digital media. • Developed audio curriculum and launched the ‘Game Audio’ concentration in Interactive Media • Departmental curriculum development for the MFA in Interactive Media• Departmental curriculum development for undergraduate ‘Game 2.0’ curriculum• Development and management of audio lab facilities, equipment, and software• “Advisor of the Year Award” received Spring 2015. Advisor duties for 90+ students• Service on faculty committees • Service as Treasurer of the Becker College Worcester Faculty Federation union• Courses taught: - History of Interactive Design and Analysis (MFA), Digital Audio Production, Digital Music Studio, Synthesis and Sampling, Foley & Field Recording, Game Audio 1, Game Audio 2, Game Studio, Game Studio Audio Lab, Advanced Topics in Game Audio, Machinima, Raster Imaging, Vector Imaging, History of Game Development, Introduction to Game Design• Faculty Advisor for Game Studio student team-based interactive media projects, including:- Mystria: VR immersive-audio exploration experience using HTC Vive - Zoombies: VR exergame using the VirZoom bicycle controller and HTC Vive- ResoRider: VR exergame using the VirZoom bicycle controller and Oculus Quest- Boston Children’s Museum: AR sandbox, interactable floor game research, online mini-games - Worcester Art Museum: collaborative project centered on the Higgins Armory collection - Neurofeedback: research on interactive therapeutic games, collaboration with EEGer - Greenlit Projects: student-run game design projects Show less

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  Worcester State University

  Aug 2018 - Jun 2021

  Adjunct Faculty in Visual & Performing Arts

  Courses taught: Computers & Music, Sound Synthesis

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  Lesley University

  Jul 2021 - now

  Director of Game Design and Immersive Technologies & Professor of Game Design at Lesley University