I do: design, illustration, animation; Graphics: logos, symbols, and icons; Type: lettering, and calligraphy; charts, diagrams, and maps; Media: websites and video; Ephemera: posters, postcards, flyers;Templates, boilerplate, and setting production standards; Crowdfunding campaigns and social media engagement.In-House projects include: Orc.One, a social media website, hobby engagement, and independent blogging platform: http://orc.one — this is a hobby site, built originally to give me an outlet for creating adventures for table-top roleplaying, but grew into something more. It is very much a work in progress (and much work remains yet to do—but my focus is on infrastructure concerns first—design will follow, starting with mobile UX), but starting to work fairly well, serving a small group of users both publicly and offering private spaces to conduct discussion relevant to our hobby.Features for Orc.One include:- In-site messaging between members, with notifications and simple badging- Forums (for site members with access)- Accommodations for lurkers with accounts (users who do not post, but who might like access to some of the private material)- Strict public and private separation of content types and assets, clearly marked for users- Consistent and specific experiences depending on user roles- Forums, microblogging, personal blogging, and Feature blogging implementations- Short URL service, but for admin use onlyCubelight GFX website: http://cubelight.graphics (Drupal site); Creation of an independent and significant platform for self-promotion, publishing, and professional news for the founders; CSS customizations; Layout and menus; New content creation and import from older sites; Blogging and social media sharing and engagement; Prototyping — working in an emulated environment (sandbox) before changes and features are deployed to the public http://cgfx.us (site alias/branded URL shortening service & e-mail)

Audio editing and quality control/assuranceUploading MP3 audio files into the content management system (CMS)Scripting and CMS manipulation to place audio assets alongside the text

Website designScreenshots, animation, and advertising for web

Work included setup and adjustment of CMSes for Print Works websites, writing HTML and CSS, designing for offset press and wide-format printing, designing for logos, business cards, brochures, banners, numbered raffle tickets, envelope design for USPS bulk mailings, and signs, designing layout for multipage documents for press.

prepared client files for output on color offset presses, wide-format, and digital press projects included perfect-bound books, magazines and other publications, flyers, posters, business cards, presentation materials &c., imposed by hand and with software for both perfect and saddle book types, used and performed trouble-shooting for Harlequin, Fiery, and TaskForce RIP software; color management and color calibration of digital press and monitor profile software to ensure color accuracy from proof to final offset printed product

Services include from-scratch visuals for memorials, institutional communications, and instructional videos, identifying clients’ needs, quality control/quality assurance, and ensuring deadlines are metCreated 3D CGI animation, claymation and still image illustrations and matte paintingsCreated 2D animations and backgrounds, titles, and musical scoresWorked on time-lapse videos for the exhibit assembly of the Dinosaurs of Darkness presented at the Alaska Museum of Natural HistoryCreated CD-ROMs and DVDs for clientsAdministered SGI UNIX and Apple Macintosh workstations and established an UNIX digital workflow for job tasksOffered technical and application support for NLEs, camera handling, and dubbingInstalled Fibre Channel and Firewire drives on systems and created multi-disk filesystems for IRIX and OS XDesigned graphics including print advertising and business cards

Maintained quality control over customer projects and customer serviceWrote UNIX shell scripts and AppleScripts to reduce labor time over various projectsRedesigned in-house materials including pricing handbooks and job jacketsOffered purchase recommendations to improve workflow and increase customer satisfactionIncreased efficiency of typical jobsIncreased the speed of the internal network and adjusted hardware preferences accordingly

Produced 3D renderings and animations for public presentations, NTSC video DVDs, and proposalsProduced art, layout & design for proposals, renderings, meetings, presentations, & mediaProduced 3D still images and animations for civil engineering projects, including the City of Yakima Railroad Grade Separation animations (featuring automobile-level views and camera fly over animations of the project), Port of Umm Qasr, Iraq waterfront terminal improvements, City of Texas City International Terminal (waterfront), Edgewick River Bridge composites, the Orlando medical campus monorail

Produced and designed ads for various phone book municipalitiesProvided technical support for graphic design staff

Graphics for FHWA Seismic Bridge Design

Drafted, edited, and proofread correspondence and newsletter articlesAssisted with various network and systems management

Produced the Second International Conference on Substorms Proceedings (ICS-2) ISBN: 0-915360-13-6 Gathered images and articles for layout Alaska Volcano Observatory Bimonthly Reports (AVO) Hand-edited and addressed issues with PostScript figures and files from (often custom) scientific software in preparation for printing