Beverly Garland Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, United States

Worldwide

I run a business creating realistic colored pencil portraits of people's beloved feline companions using photographs for reference. With every portrait, I produce a "making-of" video by filming the art process via timelapse app and writing and recording a voiceover telling the life history of the cat in the portrait. Other aspects of my business include doing all my own marketing, including social media management, website, graphic design for digital and print marketing materials, and meeting the public as a vendor at conventions and cat shows around the U.S.

Austin, Tx

After an injury ended my career as a 3D character animator, I turned to doing traditional and digital illustrations, 2D traditional animation, and painting murals for various clients. Past projects include creating backgrounds and animation for a children’s interactive installation done in collaboration with Mine-Control, Inc. at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center to encourage intervention in bullying scenarios.

Greater Chicago Area

In addition to helping manage an annual 4000+ mile road trip for guest passengers, I handle all things creative in a non-commercial joint venture with my husband that centers around our traveling full time aboard a converted school bus. I manage and create all of our social media on Facebook and Instagram, as well as shoot, edit, and produce videos in tandem with my partner for our YouTube channel. I design all of our graphics for t-shirts and events and conduct crowdfunding campaigns when we do service projects. I've also been known to turn a wrench when needed.

United States

As a self-employed team member, I collaborated with a worldwide network of licensed facilitators to deliver The Avatar Course. During 2-day and 9-day workshops, empowered students from all over the world to recognize and to consciously manage their mental processes, and to create better relationships, richer experiences, increased inner peace, and more rewarding goals for themselves.(Avatar® is a registered trademark of Star's Edge, Inc. All rights reserved.)

Houston, Texas Area

While serving as a home caregiver for an elderly disabled family member for three years, I worked part-time leading tours of the world-class Morian Hall of Paleontology and ensured that visitors experienced the maximum educational value at one of the largest science museums in the U.S. It was so fun that I continued to work seasonally for another 2 years.

· Consulted with job-seekers to upgrade their professional marketing and branding for employment in the game, mobile, web, multimedia, IT, TV, and film industries.· Interviewed clients and wrote both junior and executive-level resumes, cover letters, bios, and LinkedIn profiles that increased the clients' visibility and professionalism in the job marketplace.· Authored articles pertaining to resumes, job hunting, and the game industry for the organization's blog and newsletters.

Austin, Texas Area

In a strategic partnership with Mary-Margaret Network, advised entry-level and veteran artists in crafting or updating their portfolios to be more marketable to the games industry.

Austin, Texas Area

· Trained game development studios to improve team efficiency using Agile/Scrum methods.· Provided onsite Scrum Master support and facilitation for teams navigating the learning curve of adopting a radical new process until they were self-sufficient.· Presented workshops in Agile philosophy, Scrum practices, writing User Stories, and Agile Planning and Estimating.· Trained and mentored Producers and Associate Producers to take on Scrum Master and Product Owner roles so as to repurpose existing personnel and negate the need to hire or replace.Past clients: Webwars, LLC and Trion World Network.

Austin, Texas Area

Title: Tabula Rasa (2007) NCsoft· For first 2 years, scheduled production of art content on 75-person MMORPG team, including outsourcing of artwork to China, using Microsoft Project.· Assisted in transitioning the scaled-down 45-person team to a Scrum production process after the product went “live,” including the training of Product Owners and other Scrum Masters.· Served as Scrum Master on two out of five development scrums in an Agile enterprise team, increasing the ability to publish updates to subscribers more often and with fewer bugs. · Organized and facilitated Sprint planning meetings and Retrospectives, ran daily Stand-ups, and removed blocks for team members· Secondarily assisted the Art Production Director with personnel management, including career development coaching and performance evaluations for his reports.· Voluntarily took on tasks of upgrading and publishing written and graphic content to the project's website, developing a channel for our IP on YouTube.com, and researching other online promotional tactics.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

· Selected as one of eleven geography students from a nationwide pool of candidates· Assisted up to five different producers organizing, fact-checking, and entering data for website content at http://www.nationalgeographic.com, mostly assisting with photo image selection and purchasing. · Updated monthly content for "Travel Guide" and “Adventure Guide" pages; Produced annual update of “Earth Day Guide” page at www.nationalgeographic.com/earthday

Austin, Texas Area

· Headed a centralized department of fifteen artists that served multiple producers and made decisions regarding the allocation of artists and art directors.· Redefined job skill criteria for each position in my department, thereby creating a cleaner direction for the advancement and professional development of my group.· Compiled a database of the studio's skills to indicate hiring needs, identify discrepancies between salary and performance, and target areas for employee growth. · Selected and hired contract artists and animation houses when necessary to meet project ship dates, namely for “Ultima Online 2,” an unpublished MMORPG.

Title: Ultima IX: Ascension (1999) Electronic Arts· Stepped in to reorganize a demoralized eight-person art team on a real-time 3D title already several years into production. Improved morale and enabled the team to start meeting milestones by providing a detailed task schedule and transparent goals.· Selected, hired, and managed additional contract artists to meet project deadlines. Also managed contract with an external animation house for producing in-game cinematic sequences.

Austin, Texas Area

Title: NetStorm: Islands at War (1997) Activision· Co-founded an 8-person game development studio with three programmers. Hired and managed two full-time 3D artists and one contract concept artist.· Acted as lead artist and art director for this early MMO strategy game.· Presented the talk, "An Approach to Art Direction," at IGDA's first annual Austin Game Developers Conference.

Title: Crusader No Remorse (1995) Electronic Arts· Designed look and feel for a 2D action shooter, and art-directed an eight-person production team. · Modeled and animated main character. Story-boarded and animated in-game and intro cinematics. Created user interface art. · Developed employee performance evaluations that were adopted and used by the dev studio for the next five years.

Austin, Texas Area

Titles:· Ultima VIII: Pagan (1994) Modeled and animated a dozen NPCs, and created environment assets.· Wing Commander: Privateer (1993) Created environment assets and in-game animated sequences.· Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi - Special Operations 2 (1992) Created environment assets.· Wing Commander II: Vengeance of the Kilrathi - Special Operations 1 (1991) Created environment assets.

Masters, Geography And The Environment, Minoring In Public Affairs

Activities and Societies: Student member of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) in 2003-2008 Officer and listproctor for UT.

Bachelor Of Science, Interior Design

Residential and commercial design, handicapped accessibility, lighting and electrical systems, color theory, and drafting

Incomplete, Fine Art

Acrylic painting, life drawing, principles and elements of design