Grayson Fant

Howdy! I'm Grayson Fant, and I like to tell stories and create things that make people happy. I am a skilled project coordinator with proven experience building communities, managing teams, developing content, and teaching people.

This portfolio is a labor of love that displays my past work, including volunteer efforts, work experience, and creative endeavors that set me apart! If you're interested in my work, you can contact me here: [email protected]

The images below can be clicked to navigate the site to view all of my endeavors, past and present. Enjoy!

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I am a coordinator for an annual week-long event known as the Tournment of Ages, in World of Warcraft (created in 2014 and still ongoing) which consists of several in-game events, such as PvP (Player vs Player), Racing, external gaming competitions attached to the Warcraft franchise, and old fashioned table top roleplaying hosted by skilled dungeon masters!

Each year we work to donate all proceeds, be they from our community art auctions or generous donations from players all around the world, to a new organization to help spread the joy we create to many organizations which have included:
• Wounded Warrior Project
• Red Nose Day
• Direct Relief
• Wildlife Warriors
• Blessings in a Backpack
• Make-A-Wish

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Coordinating the Charity Art Auction.
• Appointing staff to manage various events as referees.
• Operating the events Twitter and assists with social media campaigns and giveaways.
• Arranging planning meetings with staff for specific events and help them complete event-specific tasks to meet intense goals.
• Organizing the Community Discord server.
• Actively arbitrates competitions and events.
• Assisting with the posting and advertisement of Fundraiser Merchandise.

Other Important Links:
• 2020 GoFundMe Fundraiser
• 2019 GoFundMe Fundraiser
• Tournament of Ages Website
• Tournament of Ages Twitter
• 2021 Art Auction Pamphlet
• 2020 Art Auction Pamphlet

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I am the primary teacher for the CUNY College of Staten Island's Technology Training team (2015 - Present).

The College's Technology Training team develops materials, lesson plans, and orientation materials for students and faculty in order to introduce diverse demographics to campus technologies and online learning.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Teaching classes for incoming Students, Faculty, Tenured Professors, Foreign Exchange Students and disadvantaged children in a lively and upbeat setting to acclimate them to campus technologies and technological literacy.
• Creating lesson plans and runs events to encourage the campus population to improve their technological literacy.
• Individually assisting Professors in the use of campus Smart Classrooms and Hyflex learning systems.
• Was a major contributor in the Campus' COVID-19 work from home transition, and hosted online lessons for professors learning how to better engage audiences and utilize digital tools to better enrich their classes.

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I am the leader of an online writing project titled The Citrine Eagle, established in 2015 and running through the present day. This group focuses on telling interactive stories through a game medium, and promotes community interaction, group story-building, character development, and improved writing skills.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Managing the Community Discord
• Developing interactive storylines based on an ongoing narrative to engage group participants.
• Producing written and graphical outlines to detail progression goals, as well as 'in-world' materials that supplement characters and enhance the organizational concept.
• Performing project management operations, delegating tasks within a diverse team to help produce storylines and roleplaying game (RPG) events, offering unique experiences to participants.
• Dictating the overarching narrative and worldbuilding of community world and story content, ensuring quality and consistency.
• Preparing and planning a monthly calendar, balancing regular events and community activities for project members to engage with.
• Directing development and game design for the RPG system used by participant characters.

Other Important Links:
• The Citrine Eagle Website
• The Citrine Eagle Discord
• The Citrine Eagle In-Universe Starter Guide

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I'm one of the newest coordinators for an annual online event known as the World's Faire Carnival who fundraises for a new cause each year for a full week.

I am apart of a diverse team of individuals who arrange activities and head fundraising for the event.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Coordinating the Charity Art Auction; which helped triple fundraiser earnings from the projects first year.
• Managing a d20 RPG based social mini-game called the "Wheels of Fate" to promote group interactions during the week.
• Helping make staff appointments to other interactive events that took place during the week.
• Administrating the Discord and prepared it for the event.
• Preparing and managing the fundraiser's Tiltify Fundraising Page and made frequent updates about donors, and milestones.

Other Important Links:
• World's Faire Carnival Website
• Tiltify Fundraising Page 2021
• World's Faire Carnival Discord
• Wheels of Fate Guidelines

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Warcraft Conquest is a massively multiplayer interactive roleplaying experience that creates large-scale story campaigns in the canon universe of World of Warcraft. I have been an event coordinator since it's inception (est. 2017) and continue to help with brand new large-scale story-arcs.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Administrating a community of several hundred people by delegating responsibilities across a diverse team of players.
• Helping create storyboards and outlines for events and establishing outlines for story campaigns that will host hundreds of participants.
• Worldbuilding to establish a setting in storylines; creation of relevant materials to establish canon and advertise events.
• Hosting individual RPG story events during campaigns that have been interacted with up to eighty individuals a night.
• Teaching a Dungeon Master's Workshop - a series of lessons to help prospective writers host and design large-scale d20 events and RPG adventures.

• I have supervised two full-scale campaigns as narrative lead that have each hosted 500 participants minimum; with one concluding with a record high 500 participant RPG d20 based finale event.
» In Death's Shadow: An epic journey involving many battles against undead legions as the heroes of Azeroth rally to stop them.
» Shadow in the Sands: Scouring the dunes of Uldum to defeat the forces of the Old Gods to save Azeroth in the fight against the arising shadows.

Samples:
In Death's Shadow Campaign Website
In Death's Shadow Event Featurettes

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About Me
I'm sporadic. I have a habit of taking on new challenges and trying to learn new skills. These little adventures have given me experience in many varied fields. Because of that, I like to call myself "versatile".

I am a freshly minted graduate of the College of Staten Island with a lot of different interests.

I've led fundraisers for numerous charity organizations, like Red Nose Day, Wounded Warriors, Wildlife Warriors, Blessings in a Backpack, Doctors Without Borders - and more. I host a massive community of creatives online who help build worlds and stories; and everything I have done has given me the know-how to work with diverse teams of people and adapt to new tools and environments quickly.

I do everything to make others happy, and help give people purpose; and I would love to find a group with the same goals in mind.

Other Experience Not Previously Mentioned

Research Foundation of CUNY - Research Assistant
Assisted a professor in the research and development of their published academic journal article. For them I:
• Gathered relevant information.
• Organized data for infographics and tables.
• Aided in the development of datasets for specific articles.
• Offered input on article content direction.
• Set project goals and target dates.

Automotive Shop Service Desk
Managed the day-to-day tasks of an automotive shop which included:
• Scheduling customer appointments.
• Ordering parts and conducting inventory.
• Organizing receipts and important documentation.
• When needed, assisted with shop tasks such as Brake and Oil Changes.

Skills
• Teaching
• Mentoring
• Problem Solving
• Volunteer Management
• Critical Thinking
• Client Relations
• Communication
• Decision-Making
• Storytelling
• Negotiation
• Lecturing
• Constructive Feedback
• Interpersonal Communication
• Conflict Resolution
• Management
• Information Technology
• Project Management
• Research
• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Word
• Adobe Photoshop
• Microsoft Excel
• WordPress
• HTML
• Leadership
• Public Speaking
• Teamwork
• Adaptable
• Strategically Minded
• Creative
• Attention to Detail
• Responsibility
...and more!