Greg Mcgee Email & Phone Number

United States

Developing and Marketing Non-Fungible Tokens from physical and digital artwork.

Austin, Texas Area

An online publication that uses satire, humor and thoughtful commentary to enlighten and amuse.Our badge is "Hypocrites, Liars and Fools Will Be Ridiculed."Use of WordPress and numerous plugins, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, GIT, React.js, Elementor

Florence, Oregon

Working with small businesses to achieve success through the creative application of the internet and other technologies.*Personal sales and customer service.*Rapid design prototyping.*User Experience and Interface design, using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Jquery, PHP, MySQL, WordPress, and numerous plugins.*Graphical content creation and copy-writing, using Adobe Creative Suite.*Digital video production, editing, and digital effects in HD, using Premiere, After Effects, 3d programs.*Creating and Implementing social media plans.*Webmaster, systems administrator.

San Angelo, Texas

I served the CBS and NBC network affiliates: KLST and KSAN, both consistent market leaders.*Graphic design and rapid prototyping.*Adobe Creative Suite, specializing in After Effects, Premiere, and Photoshop.*A/B testing.*Providing local businesses with the best TV commercials in the market.*Creating engaging interfaces and interesting, attention-grabbing storylines to compel people to watch a local TV spot.*Worked with small business owners (non-actors) to get them to relax, be themselves and represent their business with personality and professionalism.*Developing personas, using a wide range of every storytelling, editing, motion graphic, or animation technique to make TV spots that gave viewers a memorable experience and a good impression of the advertiser.*Web site production. Digital video, video digitizing.

Santa Cruz, Ca

TSC was a consultant staffing firm that specialized in enterprise software installations such as SAP, Peoplesoft, Baan, and Oracle. My specialty was creating computer-based and online training, tailor-made for each installation's unique requirements.*User Experience and Interface Design for computer-based training. Use of HTML, CSS, and javascript in Macromind Director.*Rapid design prototypes.*A/B Testing and surveys on proposed designs.*Training and mentoring.*Tool building. I'm particularly proud of “T-Bot” (short for “training robot.”) T-Bot automated much of the process of creating lessons. It set up shortcodes, much like WordPress does now, to insert graphics, sounds, audio clips, and tests into written scripts. With about 3 clicks, T-Bot parsed a script and made Macromind Director jump through hoops and crank out a finished multimedia lesson, complete with a multiple-choice test, ready to burn to disc.*Video Production. TSC had no video capabilities until I arrived. Leading by doing, I demonstrated the value of video in corporate training.*Created “The Company Guide, “ in a Lean Start-up environment. I formed a small unit with the company to develop a DVD/intranet hybrid that used video, interactive multimedia and monitored testing to standardize employee orientation. It was like "Human Resources in a box." We used videos throughout for the department heads to introduce themselves to employees. Our achievement was a training tool, a reference each employee could keep close at hand, a way to submit the required forms to start their jobs, and in the end, a way for companies to make sure that every new hire started out on the same page.

Emeryville, Ca

The Hypermedia Group was one of the trailblazers in the emerging "interactive multimedia" business at the time. The three partners, Jim Edlin, Tay Vaughn and Eric Alderman, were all respected authors in the field, and they recruited me while Tay was on assignment in Dallas doing an interactive CD about the entire history of nuclear power in America. This was back when phones were the size of building bricks and the Mac Plus was still a common household item. I was transitioning over from the film industry, so what I really wanted to do was figure out how to use this incredible new tool to make movies. It didn't take long to get bitten and shift entirely to the computer biz. We did projects for Apple, Simon Schuster and many others. My favorite was a promotion I did for WACOM tablets. The client insisted that it fit on a 512k floppy. I was hands-on technical lead on the project, and our team did hand-drawn animations and custom music that was randomly sequenced and sounded like a different composition every time it was played, thus giving it the illusion that it was an hour or so of programming, which seemed impossible at the time for that huge (and small) 3.5 in. floppy disk.

Dallas, Texas

Director of over 20 marketing films and videos. Design of high end digital effects and computer animation. Post production supervision. Computer based editing. Directed award-winning film for General Motors, “Cadillac Roadside Service.” Concept development and writer of video scripts for monthly video magazine for internal communications. I won numerous awards for my productions while at EDS.

Houston, Texas

I was Director and Editor of video travelogues in the Bahamas, Miami, Virgin Islands, Paris, and the Loire Valley of France. They were widely distributed via Blockbuster and other video chains, first under the name "Travelvision", then, when they lost a copyright infringement suit, "Travelviews."We traveled with a 3 man crew, plus a producer who did advance work. As director, I had total responsibility for selecting shots and camera angles for the various locations. We often used local talent for mini-dramas or product demos. I edited my own footage as well. My style was to weave a story line into the documentary-style footage and make it more entertaining than the run of the mill travelogues that were just a series of beauty shots one after the other. For my program about Paris, I produced a recording of "I Love Paris" by a local Sinatra sound alike. Sometimes I'd play the guitar for my sound tracks as well. We also did 30 and 60 second spots for local retailers to help pay for the trip. These were included at the end of the videos, and packaged as a "guide" to local restaurants, tour operators hotels,etc. All in all, probably my my favorite job ever!

San Francisco, Ca

This was a few years before the computer industry truly began to boom.I was the technical lead on learning games that utilized technology in a way that hadn't been tried before. We were syncing up CD-quality audio with animated graphics that were controlled by programming commands. Sounds trivial today, but at this time, hard drives of 200 MB (not GB) were considered large. Ethernet was very slow and difficult to configure. Processor speeds were usually less than 40 Mhz (as opposed to processor speeds running around 3 GHz these days.) Everything took a lot longer to do because of the technical limitations. I was the hands-on technical lead on "So You Wanna Be A Rock And Roll Star," an interactive CD that taught people how to play the guitar and the piano using animated hands playing the instruments synced to stereo tracks. Our second title, "RadioActive, The Music Trivia Game Show," was a music game that drew on the photographic memory of Steven Rappaport, the President of Interactive Records, and his ability to recall virtually everything that happened in the good old days of rock and roll. (A one-man Google!) My most challenging task was the set of algorithms I created to slice and dice and randomize about 5000 question/answer pairs so that the users could have many hours of enjoyment playing the game before it seemed repetitive. I also produced videos, created animations, and did a lot of work with video compression to get it to play smoothly from a CD. (The consumer DVD market was a few years in the future.) With the technology that was available at the time, this was no trivial undertaking and it was only through relentless trial and error that we finally found a way to do it. Most assumed it to be impossible. But, we did it anyway.

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

I was contracted to live in Saudi Arabia for 6 months to produce and direct TV spots to promote safe driving for the Saudis. It was quite dangerous to be on the highway at the time. The quick infusion of money due to the oil rush had made many overnight millionaires. It was not uncommon for them to buy a new $80,000 Mercedes, drive it till it ran out of gas, then get out of the car and walk away. It didn't occur to them that they would have to put more fuel in it. And, you were very likely to get run over if you were walking on the highway. So, it was a challenging assignment. On top of this, my secondary task was to teach Saudi employees how to produce their own films. This was a challenge as well The particular Saudis I trained were a privileged class unaccustomed to manual labor of any sort. This made for some interesting moments on a film set, when they were expected to move large lights and help move heavy dollies into position. I also did some aerial shooting from helicopters using gyro mounts.

Clear Lake City, Texas

Director and editor on two feature films. ("Witchfire" starring Shelly Winters, and "If They Die" with David Hayball and Perry Carter. Wrote motion picture adaptation based on a stage play written by Dr. Vincent Privitera, staff psychiatrist for NASA astronaut corps. Prepared administrative reports, studies and specialized research. Determined resources needed for implementing communication strategies and plans. Assisted in budgeting, scheduling, proposal writing and fund raising.

Houston, Texas

MFC Film Production was the largest film production company in Houston, and it was quite an honor for me to get hired on there as a cameraman and editor recently out of college. I was privileged to work with Frank Q. Dobbs, (now deceased) a true professional who had written and directed numerous episodes of "Gunsmoke" and other westerns. He walked and talked like John Wayne and had the reputation of being an absolute tyrant on the set. He was a brutal critic of editing as well, and my ears still burn from the cussing I would get when he'd look at how I had "butchered" his footage. But, as things progressed, I began to hear "Not Bad, McGee," more and more often, which was the closest thing to a compliment anybody ever got. Working with Frank was the best thing that ever happened to me, professionally. This is where I learned how to light a scene, how to tell a story with a camera, and get shots that would cut together. He taught me how to be a professional editor. I was cameraman and editor of over 50 commercials, educational films, industrial videos and and a couple of low budget features. We earned numerous awards including the Chris Plaque, Milan Film Festival Cup, Katie (Dallas Press Club), Cine Golden Eagle, Bronze Quill and others.

Houston, Texas

M.D. Anderson Cancer center was and is among the best cancer centers in the world. I was hired on as a film director/editor in a role that had been created to document surgeries and interviewing doctors. However I wanted to make dramatic films. Ken Weidower, my boss, was supportive of the idea, and he clued me in. "You know, Greg. You can do whatever you can get someone to pay for. Its up to you." Great advice, which is true even today. So I started talking to the various department heads to see if they would fund a promotional film where I could make real movies. The Blood Bank eagerly responded, and asked if I could come up with an idea to promote awareness of the importance of this new procedure, bone marrow transplants, for cancer patients. This was my forte. I wrote a script and got it approved and funded, then hired actors, directed, edited, wrote music, and produced recording sessions. It was Hollywood in Houston for a while there. I was having all kinds of fun. The resulting film "Gift of Quiet Heroes" was a very effective fund raising tool. I get teary eyed thinking about it even now. It won a few awards, including the Houston International Film Festival Award and Health Sciences Festival Award. There were a many other projects, both film and video, single and multiple camera. I also did some video editing and switching for internal video programs. I actually shot a bit of cancer surgery as well, an experience I wouldn't wish on anybody.....