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A seasoned designer and programmer with twelve years
experience in new media out of eighteen years programming.
Professionally trained in structured programming techniques
and systems analysis. Has brought professional software
practices to new media in the form of functional, technical
and UI specifications as well as testing plans and
thorough code design and documentation.
Over the last
few years has been designing and developing award winning
DVD-ROM content using Director, Flash and Interactual’s
technology. Notable achievements have been designing and programming
a series of DVD-ROMs including The Lord of the Rings discs.
Has worked as both Creative Director and Technical Director
and has developed initial concepts and produced functional and
technical specifications and estimates for all projects as well
as development sites for client communication. |
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| Education: |
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BA(hons) Philosophy and Psychology |
Lincoln College, Oxford University |
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Diploma in Art and Design |
City of London Polytechnic |
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BA(hons) Interactive Art |
Gwent College of Higher education |
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| Skills: |
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Director MX 2004 |
10 years experience in CD-ROM and web based production - object oriented
code, Xtras, Text to Speech, Speech recognition, audio manipulation,
imaging lingo and 3D lingo. |
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Flash MX 2004 |
3 years producing Flash movies mainly for Director. Have also produced
Flash animations and interactive pieces using ActionScript. |
| Dreamweaver
MX 2004, CSS, Javascript + PHP |
Have
reasonable experience of designing and building web pages and some
client side and server side scripting experience. |
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Photoshop CS |
Good experience with graphical production for Director and for the
web. Also have a good understanding of digital photography post production
techniques. |
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Media Cleaner 5, Sorenson + Quicktime Pro |
Good experience in video compression techniques for CD and the web.
This includes an understanding of embedding Flash movies for interactivity,
using text tracks for high quality text and HREF tracks to allow Quicktime
to control web pages via Javascript. |
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Final Cut Pro |
Final Cut Pro for home videos as well as commercial products. |
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Spark + Bias Peak |
A variety of audio production skills and a good understanding of sound
issues. Have produced sound effects for a variety of projects. Also
have a reasonable experience of voice-over recording techniques. |
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Project Management |
Have managed a number of projects in the roles of producer, technical
director and creative director. |
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Training |
Several years of experience of training in Director, Flash and Photoshop
at a variety of different skill levels. Preparation of training materials,
scheduling classes and coordinating projects |
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| Clients: |
Sony
Pictures, Newline Cinema, The British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC), Channel 4 Television, The Arts Council of England, Web TV,
Wolff Olins, Oven Digital, Stock Directory, The Prudential Insurance
Company, Times Mirror, Angry Monkey, The Idea Factory, CRT Multimedia,
Vivid Image Technologies, Zone Group, Studio Fish, TrustHouse Forte,
TripMedia, The Open University, Hoxton Bibliotech, City of Westminster
WAES. |
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| Career
History: |
2004
Freelance |
Was
invited to speak at Macromedia's MAX
2004 Conference on
"Creating enhanced DVD content using Director MX 2004".
Co-designed
and implemented the Hellboy Director's Cut DVD ROM for Sony
Pictures. This involved using Director's ability to access
the DVD video on the ROM side. Click here for
a representative screenshot.
Co-designed
and implemented the ROM content for the Lord of the
Rings, Return of the King DVD (theatrical edition). Click here for
a representative screenshot.
Co-designed
and implemented the Hellboy DVD ROM for Sony
Pictures.
Specified,
designed and did the graphic design for the ManyOne
Networks National Virtual Observatory project. This
is a realtime 3D rendition of all (100,000 stars) known
stars.
Here
is a graphic that illustrates much of the functionality.
The demo version of this system was displayed at the American
Astronomical Society conference early this year and
was well received. The work will continue when more funding
arrives.
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2003
Freelance |
Co-designed
and implemented the ROM content for the Lord of the Rings,
Two Towers DVD (extended edition). This won first prize
for ROM features at the 7th Annual DVD Awards. See portfolio
for more details.
Specified, designed and implemented further 3D worlds for
ManyOne
Networks.
Updated a CD-ROM (with Shockwave version) of a speech pathology
training product for Carousel
House that I had completed last year. The online demo
version may be viewed here.
Updated a version of the ROM side content of the Timecode
DVD for a new release.
Amended the data for the Lord of the Rings DVD ROM side experiences
to include information for the Two Towers release. I also
co-designed and created two more Director pieces for inclusion
with the Two Towers DVD extended edition (see
portfolio).
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2002
Freelance |
Co-designed
and implemented the ROM content for the Lord of the Rings,
Fellowship of the Ring DVD (extended edition). See portfolio
for more details.
Co-designed and implemented the ROM content for the Men in
Black II DVD. See portfolio for more
details.
Created
an online jukebox for Aquarius Records. It parses their web
site for real audio links and then organized these files into
categories and playlists with the accompanying reviews. The
work is no longer viewable since Aquarius has updated their
site.
Used Directors 3D capabilities to develop a real time 3D fly
though of the solar system for ManyOne
Networks. This existed within a framework that allowed
more sophisticated navigation that this demo version shows.
Click here
to view.
Developed
a real time 3D template for ManyOne
Networks to allow drag and drop 3D world creation to plug
into the ManyOne framework.
Designed
and developed a CD-ROM (with Shockwave version) of a speech pathology
training product for Carousel
House. The online demo version may be viewed here.
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2001
Freelance
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Redesigned
a web site for Name-Shop.
Please note that the client subsequently added banners that substantially
altered the original design.
Designed the framework of a CD-ROM for Exhibit Services of
the San Francisco Exploratorium as an Exploratorium volunteer.
This was to be a shell application to allow Exhibit Services
to make custom presentations by placing the assets to be presented
in a directory structure and then burning a CD-ROM. This involved
full screen video and was being created in Director. Unfortunately
this had to be abandoned due to the pressure of other work.
Produced
a version of the ROM side content of the Timecode DVD. This was
included on the accompanying ROM of the book "72
dpi - anime" - a collection of innovative mew media design
products.
Built a web site for the Civic Center Child Care Corporation
(now redesigned). This includes a PHP driven photo gallery
(I am also the photographer for the day care).
Designed and built a web site for The Idea Factory to deliver
a large report to the Singapore government. This included
a lot of video material and used a Quicktime guided tour which
I filmed, compressed and implemented. [sample
page 1, sample
page 2].
Worked freelance for OvenDigital
on a large Shockwave based educational product using Director/Shockwave,
Dynamo and XML.
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1999-2001
Angry
Monkey
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Worked full time as programmer, Producer and Director on a number
of projects for Angry
Monkey (a San Francisco new media and blue sky research company).
My jobs included designing a Web TV show, a prototype of an online
project management software product (the matrix), a multi-user talking
head avatar system (using text to speech and lip synching) and various
presentations. |
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1997-1999
Freelance
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Worked to design and implement an image library catalogue CD-ROM
for the Stock Directory Image Library (freelance in Macromedia Director).
Designed and implemented a system for multimedia prototyping for
Wolff-Olins (freelance in Macromedia Director).
Produced a screen saver for the Prudential Insurance Company (freelance
in Macromedia Director).
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1997-1999
Hoxton
Bibliotech
&
The City of Westminster
AES
part time
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Taught the Advanced Director module of two BTEC courses (BTEC is
part of the UK national curriculum roughly equivalent to the US
freshman level in a particular subject). These included an introduction
to lingo but also include some more advanced features of Director
(the emphasis was on building games). Also taught an introduction
to Flash, Photoshop, SoundEdit and Premier. Designed both courses
and wrote all the handouts and lesson plans.
Also
designed various custom weekend training courses.
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1996-1998
Studio
Fish
part time
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Designed the company portfolio CD-ROM (code and interface) and worked
on a number of (mainly) art based projects in Director.
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1995-1996
CRT
Multimedia
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Lead Director programmer. Designed a director shell application
and the system for populating it for an accountancy
CD ROM.
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1994-1995
Freelance
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Commissioned to produce "animated maps" for a CD-ROM on
ancient history (freelance in Director).
Designed and implemented a Macromedia Director multimedia guided
tour for a pilot Virtual Summer School for The Open University (UK).
This was an Internet based distance learning project.
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1987-1990
Freelance analyst/programmer
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Freelance analyst/programmer in COBOL and CICS on IBM mainframes
for Continental Bank of Illinois (Chicago), Eagle Star Insurance
(Farnborough), and Standard Chartered Bank (London and Singapore).
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1985-1987
CAP
Group - now Sema Group
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Trained in a variety of programming and system analysis methodologies
by CAP UK and worked as a programmer/analyst designing and producing
batch and online commercial systems in COBOL, CICS and DL1 on IBM
mainframes. Spent a year supporting a micro based system for General
Practitioners. This involved remote software installation and training.
Left CAP as a team leader, supervising a group of programmers.
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