Michael Fortunato Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

Sacramento, California Area

Graphic Design Intern. Working under the creative director, I design OOH, brochures, advertisements (digital and print), model, rig, and animate 3D characters used for television commercials.

Greater New York City Area

Lead texture artist responsible for creating many of the textures in our game using Maya, Adobe Photoshop and Corel's Painter. Also in charge of finalizing all textures from the other artists (by lighting them and "baking" in shadows/ambient occlusion) so that they are ready to be placed in the game engine.Continue to direct the voice overs for the game using actors cast from auditions held in New York City.

Some Career HighlightsCoordinated a 16 office BlackBerry device upgrade (2800+ devices). Through careful planning and thorough documentation as well as the training I provided to all IT staff, the roll out went smoothly with minimal user interruption, saving the Firm 1000's of dollars.Researched, developed, and implemented processes to upgrade 7 BlackBerry servers worldwide with no downtime to the users. Developed upgrade strategies for a Firm-wide deployment of Adobe Acrobat 8.13 as well as created packages to cleanly uninstall all previous versions of Acrobat and silently deploy version 8.13 to all desktops Firm-wide.

Created sound effects and composed original music for 90% of Genesis Rep's stage productions for their seasons from 1998 - 2003.

Founding member and performer for the theater company, Genesis Repertory Ensemble. Performed primarily classical repertory including Shakespeare.

Built Windows NT servers and workstations for Microsoft and Lotus certified classes.Supported all computers for both trainers and students including hardware repairs, replacements and software support.

Responsible for installing hardware and software (servers and workstations) for all of the MCSE and Lotus certified classes.Built the servers as well as set up and maintained the network in the server room and classrooms.Provided technical support to the attending students and instructors as well as provided desk-side support to all Mentortech employees.Taught classes in Windows, Macintosh, Word, Excel and Photoshop.On; train their workers worldwide via conference calls on their new web-based tracking database. The program allowed each facility to track leaks, computer and machine malfunctions from incident to correction.