David Botta Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Build and manage a website and social media for the Gitsegukla Huwilp (some house groups in the Gitxsan nation), and advertise the higher education project called Geoscience Gitsegukla. The project is in partnership with UBC Mining.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

UX, UI, writing, data visualization

Contribute to Experience Design and Interaction Design, and implement web pages in the Angularjs framework.

SFU Surrey

At the School of Interactive Arts and Technology, I promote the research of grad students, and apply results from my PhD research toward "topical zoom" on history logs.

Instructor for the Fine Arts Department, courses on digital design, 3D computer graphics, and traditional drawing.

Ethnographic research about information technology security management, with the project HOT Admin: Human, Organization, and Technology Centred Improvement of the IT Security Administration (https://lersse.ece.ubc.ca/tiki-index.php?page=Project_HOT-Admin) at LERSSE: Laboratory for Education and Research in Secure Systems Engineering.

CrowdTrust is a social bookmarking and tagging company that enables people to own their web-presence. I participated in the conversations on interaction design and business model. With the help of the MITACS (http://www.mitacs.math.ca) Accelerate program, my PhD research slots into the behind-the-scenes interpretation of captured design-oriented discourse.

Participated in the team-based design of the business model, information architecture, and the look and feel of the graphical user interface.

Workshop courses on new media.

Assisted in teaching a "breadth" course about Design Thinking, that I had previously helped develop.

Participated in the design of a first year "breadth" course about Design Thinking.

When Recombo supported standards for distance education, I participated in conversations about product design and user interface design. I implemented a JSP interface to a Java back-end for middle-ware between publishers of e-learning materials and managers of course management systems.

Designed and implemented dynamic behaviors for CDROM Edutainment products, using Director, Flash, HTML, XML and XSLT. Researched the qualitative description of an art gallery's business processes in UML for the purpose of managing its on-line presence.

Co-founder, also art director and animator while Xing Xing was under the auspices of the University of British Columbia's Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre and Imager Lab, working on visualizations of the famous destroyed former Chinese summer palace and imperial garden "Yuan Ming Yuan" (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~botta/.

As a member of the then Centre for Image and Sound Research, I worked as an artist from the community in the then GraFic laboratory under UBC's Imager laboratory (Alain Fournier) through the auspices of the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre (MAGIC -- Kellogg Booth). One of the notable artworks was to assist the scholar Dr. Ron Lane-Smith.

Long before DigiPen moved to Redmond, I was DigiPen's first teacher when it transformed from doing architectural visualization to teaching 3D animation to Vancouver Film School students. (It made this transformation because of the recession.) I taught how to use WaveFront animation software.

Phd, Interactive Arts

Completed PhD in Jan 2010.

Mfa, Painting, Interactive Sculpture

Style: British Constructivism seen through a lens of Post-Structuralist philosophy.

Bfa, Fine Arts: Painting

Because of my interest in form generated by mathematical principles, Geoff Smedley encouraged me to investigate the British Systems.

Fine Arts Painting And Printmaking

Fine arts studio courses only, no degree.