Mark A. Coppock

Coppock, Mark

Manager of Digital Media
Senior Communications Specialist

Visual Media - Gilchrist, Room 217
Texas A&M Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 862-3737 Ext. 23737 · fax (979) 845-7575
m-coppock1@tamu.edu

Short Biography

Mr. Coppock is manager of visual media at TTI Communications. His professional interests include interactive, digital, and video specialties such as interactive multimedia authoring, web design and web standards, scripting, and interface design; digital video compression, video and computer graphics and special effects production; nonlinear video editing; and video photography.

Mr. Coppock has specific expertise in Flash/ActionScript application development and online video presentation; standards-based web design and development with modern CSS, XHTML, XML, and AJAX/DOM scripting techniques; Adobe Director fixed-media interactive multimedia production; and Adobe After Effects video and motion graphics compositing. Mr. Coppock joined TTI Communications in 1995 as part of the group's increased focus on interactive multimedia.

In over 24 years of experience, he has worked on all types of web and fixed-media interactive tools, websites, and video productions and has produced more than 6,000 television spots and promos. He has produced award-winning 30-minute television programs, has supervised a 21-person production department, was part of a start-up team for a satellite television network overseas, and has shot, developed, and produced many other types of non-broadcast material including training videos, informational videos, and event videos. He has received five Telly Awards and three International Association of Business Communicators Awards.

Education

  • B.A., Journalism, Texas A & M University, 1985.

Experience

  • Manager of Digital Media, Visual Media, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, February 2008 - Present.
  • Senior Communications Specialist, Visual Media, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, September 2007 - Present.
  • Senior Communication Specialist, Visual Media, Texas Transportation Institute., September 2007 - November 2007.
  • Communications Specialist, Visual Media, Texas Transportation Institute, June 1997 - August 2007.
  • Audiovisual Specialist, Graphic Design and Event Management, Texas Transportation Institute, April 1995 - May 1997.
  • Production Manager, KBTX-TV, October 1992 - April 1995.
  • Senior Editor, Satellite Television Asian Region, Ltd. (STAR-TV), August 1991 - October 1992.
  • Commercial Production Manager, KBTX-TV, July 1985 - August 1991.
  • Production Assistant, KAMU-TV, May 1984 - May 1985.

Selected Products

Laboratory and Field Test Procedures, Performance Support and Certification, online video performance support modules, Texas Department of Transportation, 2009.

National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse Website, The American Road & Transportation Builders Association Transportation Development Foundation, 2008..