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The Strategy, Research, and Development Team

The 3 individuals briefly described here are voluntarily committing their time to assist with the current daily administration needs of the IRAA, including those tasks associated with creating and implementing an overall business strategy for further development of the IRAA product and its related services.


Paul D. Jump

Jump is an Oxford University, England, graduate with a BPhil in Philosophy, specializing in Ethics, Political Philosophy, and Early Modern Philosophy. He also attended Edinburgh University, Scotland, obtaining an M.A. in Philosophy.

Jump worked at the university level as a cataloguer and description writer for a new database of Web sites relevant to teaching and research in the humanities. Before holding that position he worked as a freelance writer for a multi-national new technology forum Web site. Jump's foreign language skills include Spanish to a high intermediate level and French to an intermediate level.

Jump currently lives in Massachusetts where he tutors English. And he is a regular contributing writer for ArtsEditor®.


Jeremy A. Perkins

Perkins graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and Highest Honors. He majored in graphic design, with a minor in psychology and electives in various related interests: information technology, programming, and interactive design.

Perkins' full time position since 1998 has been with a Massachusetts-based new media company as Interactive Designer. The company designs Web sites, CD-ROMs, and touch-screen kiosks for a range of clients in retail, high-tech, architecture, and the arts. And he has also collaborated extensively on ArtsEditor® since its premiere in 1999.


S. Edward Burns

Burns, originally from Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He also has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York, and he received a Master of Science in Arts Administration from Boston University.

Burns' master's coursework included studies of nonprofits, art law and cultural policy, commercial galleries, museum operations, public affairs, fundraising initiatives, community arts, and organizational communications.

Burns is the founding editor and publisher of ArtsEditor® reaching an online readership with its Boston edition since 1999 through independent arts reporting, reviewing, and relevant discourse(sm). He also owns the International Registry of Artists and Artwork (IRAA).

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