Mrs. Lesizza, 29, is a senior manager in the interactive marketing department at AOL-Time WarNew Yorkew York.
On Monday, in its latest round of cuts, AOL laid off 120 people, or 20percentt of its work force, in its interactive marketing department.
He assumes duties from Danny Meiseles, who previously supervised marketing and continues as executive vice president and executive producer for production, programming and broadcasting as well as adding oversight of the interactive services department.
In July, Agency.com and Online Magic created an interactive television department to produce digital TV ads, aiming squarely at the heart of agency business.
"We're living in a post-'X-Files' world, so what's weird after that?" asked Mark Pesce, the chairman of the interactive-media department at the University of Southern California film school, whose presentation was a mock-indoctrination and initiation for his church.
It asked WNET's interactive and broadband department, which has developed a number of arts-related sites, to animate the images and build the Web site.
And when I returned with their stories, and we saw how their various perspectives of the same avalanche wove together, we invited the smart people in our interactive and graphics departments to help with the telling.
In the past, routine advertising sales were handled by one department, called interactive marketing.
Rob Cooper, a senior producer in the interactive drama and entertainment department, said the project was its most ambitious to date.
