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The vision behind this company is simple – to skillfully blend the theoretical and empirical content of financial engineering with the storytelling, creativity and graphics technology that define today's best filmmaking.
Lineplot Productions specializes in creating multimedia content from highly quantitative financial material. Lineplot is, by intention, a boutique design firm - more like a hedge fund than a mutual fund.
As a highly motivated and focused firm, Lineplot is able to become involved in a select number of quality projects that allow the partners to bring hands-on involvement at each step of the design process.
The unique problem space for these projects involves both a thorough understanding of the financial engineering aspects of each problem, as well as a fine sense of design and presentation. The process is at once collaborative, precise, and creative.
The company name is an homage to the classical 2-dimensional line plot. The name is also a play in the direction of "plot line," the kernel of storytelling and creative visual presentation.
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 Pasha Roberts: President
Pasha founded Lineplot in 2003 to bring together his long-standing interests in finance, graphical design, software and mathematics. His thesis work at the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering explored and prototyped 3D graphical representations of "tick" data for future trading interfaces. In addition to his MIT degree, his background includes twenty years of software development and successful entrepreneurship experience.
Pasha co-founded his prior venture, WebLine Communications Corporation, to create enterprise software that integrated a corporate web presence with call center operations. He served as President/CEO, Vice President of Product Marketing, and then as Software Architect as the company grew and ultimately was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999. WebLine software continues as a key element of Cisco's Call Center Business Unit and is in daily use throughout the world.
Pasha holds a bachelors degree in Economics and Russian Studies from The College of William and Mary, and a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He was introduced to computers and the internet at its inception by his father, Larry Roberts, one of the original architects and creators of ARPANET.
Pasha's hobbies include collecting antique slide rules and stock certificates. His taste in slide rule is transitioning from the large scientific models like the Faber-Castell 2/83N Novo-Duplex to more classic K&E models, Darmstadt variants, and much older predecessors such as the Gunter's Line. |
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 Raedia Sikkema: Computer Graphics Artist
Raedia is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, department of Undergraduate Film and Television, where she studied traditional hand-drawn animation, 2D and 3D computer graphics, and art history. She worked for several years as an animator for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Science Media Group, creating 3D animations of everything from cell biology to the solar system. Raedia’s professional experience also includes work on WGBH’s children's series “Postcards From Buster,” and History Channel’s “Bible Battles.”
 Ben Pugh: Assistant Producer
Ben, a graduate of Emerson College's Visual Media Arts program, has practiced many aspects of video production over the years. Outside of his work at Lineplot Productions, he's written, produced, directed, and edited a number of independent films, commercials, and documentaries.
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146 MOUNT AUBURN STREET, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 | TELEPHONE: 617 864 8300 | @ 2007 Lineplot Productions LLC
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