Daniel Pecoraro

425 East 25th St, Box 323 NYC 10010     ~     cell: (347) 749-2291     ~     e-mail: pecoraropost@yahoo.com

 

Education

2010-Present: Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College, CUNY:                        GPA: 4.00

Major: History/Special Honors Curriculum            Expected Graduation Date: Spring 2014

 

Honors and Awards

Full merit scholarship to Macaulay Honors College (4 years)

Peter Vallone Academic Achievement Award, 2010-2011

American Federation of Teachers Latino Caucus Scholarship

Thomas Hunter Honors Program

Hertog Scholars Program, 2012-

Contestant on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire – Airdate 3/1/2011

 

Computer Skills: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PastPerfect, iMovie, Windows Movie Maker v1.1, Windows Live Movie Maker, Audacity, iPhoto, GarageBand, Keynote, Pagemaker, InDesign, Acrobat.

 

Experience:

Intern, Museum of American Finance, June 2011-August 2011

  • Wrote posts for the Museum’s Twitter feed, cataloged and scanned items from the Museum’s archive in PastPerfect, conducted tours, and wrote clues for the “Race Around Wall Street” scavenger hunt event.

 

Intern, “Behind the Scenes of Nixon in China,” December 2010-April 2011

  • Attended rehearsals and other events surrounding the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Nixon in China.
  • Interviewed composer and conductor John Adams, director Peter Sellars, and principal actors of the production, along with Met Opera GM Peter Gelb and former New York Times editor Max Frankel, for a segment of SundayArts on Thirteen (WNET-TV), which aired July 2011.

 

Volunteer Tour Guide, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Corona, NY, 2006-2010  

  • Conducted tours, performed house upkeep and filed invoices and payment requests at Corona location.
  • Organized, cataloged and cleaned of archival materials at Queens College location.
  • Cataloged of the LP section of the Jack Bradley Collection of the Louis Armstrong Archives.
  • Entered the catalog of the Louis Armstrong House Collection of the Archives into PastPerfect for its eventual Internet dissemination in December 2010.
  • Earned Volunteer of the Year Award at annual staff holiday party in December 2009.

 

Contributor, Various Blogs and Podcasts, March 2008-present

  • Wrote and recorded video and audio posts on a variety of topics such as football, pop culture, trivia, and college activities for several blogs and websites, including a personal blog, Random Musings and Trivia, publishing nearly 400 posts on pop culture, the arts, literature, food, and sports, developing a fan-base, with over 20,000 views of the blog since its inception in January 2010.
  • Writes questions for, hosts, and edits the biweekly Thursday Trivia Podcast (thurstriv.tumblr.com); serve a similar capacity as Guest Quizmaster on PodQuiz.
  • Writes scripts for, records, and edit the Here Is New York daily web video project (heavenorgwb.tumblr.com).