Scott Parks Email & Phone Number

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

After a very disappointing past decade, when I was hoping to establish a post-career reinvention as a CAD/Revit Technician, I decided to retire and refrain from wearing myself out working at menial jobs. I'm still adjusting to retired life. Perhaps I'll try to get certified at DMACC as a CAD/Revit Technician and continue trying to find some post-retirement work in that field. My attempt to get certified at ITT Tech back in 2016 turned out to be the biggest mistake of my life. I look back on my career as a self-taught graphic designer, marketing director, founder of a digital map business, interim instructor at ISU, and chairman of the Des Moines Urban Renewal Board as jobs well done. I had a lot of great moments, won some awards, and learned a helluva lot in the process. 40 years is a good number but I still have many years of productivity left so I intend to keep myself alive by doing something I love to stay alive for a long time to come. Thanks to all those great people I worked with and for! I'm living in downtown Des Moines at the Ligutti Tower.

Clive, Ia 50325

I was employed as a Work Study Student Associate at ITT Tech #117 in Clive, Iowa, for up to 20 hours per week. This on-campus employment program provided necessary income while I attended classes. It also made me visible and available in Lab 1 or in the LRC if fellow DDT students needed tutoring or ITT Tech staff needed facility services.

Urbandale, Iowa

I was responsible for designing and producing digital graphic design, production artwork and laser-engraved text / graphic attribution for corporate and academic recognition (awards) programs and associated products (trophies) and specialty performance commendations (plaques, certifications, professional and academic designations), ADA-compliant architectural signage and emergency exit floor plans for lodging properties, institutional and commercial facilities. Assisted in creative speculatory product development for new and existing clients.

I founded MAPworks, Inc. on January 1, 1993 in the living room of my home near Drake University. My reputation as a Graphic Designer, Cartographer and Computer Services professional was already well established in and around Metropolitan Des Moines at that time. MAPworks was a dream I realized by pioneering a process to construct, publish and license digitally-created street / location maps of municipalities in metropolitan regions. I constructed digital base maps of urban & suburban regions in Iowa and licensed value-added modifications to real estate firms, land developers, city parks & planning depts., convention & visitors bureaus, community school districts, colleges, universities, publishing, advertising & marketing firms.By early 1994, I was responsible for constructing the world's FIRST full-color indexed digital street maps for a publisher in Fort Wayne, IN. Referral business allowed me to digitally-construct additional all-street base maps for Livonia, MI, Akron / Canton / Youngstown, OH and smaller towns and cities throughout the U.S. By 1996, I constructed and licensed a digital base map of the Des Moines Metro Area to Iowa Realty for their new Realtor® Service software. MAPworks saw revenue in the six-figures when I was responsible for publishing a Des Moines Metro Street map that was sold through retail outlets. That same year, Iowa State University's College of Design hired me as an Adjunct Instructor to teach my methods for turning CAD-constructed IDOT and USGS wireframe base maps into full-color presentation maps and graphics for urban planning students from around the world. Like other small U.S. map firms at the time, MAPworks suffered precipitously when Google and Microsoft began digitizing the planet to offer FREE resolute full-color interactive mapping now displayed throughout the Internet. MAPworks served its final client in 2005. I became a Graphic Designer for a local awards firm, resigning in 2013 to attend college.

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Drafting And Design Technology -- Revit/Cad Processes, 3.1 Gpa

My 30 months of course study in the School of Drafting and Design Technology at ITT Technical Institute provided me with a firm foundation.

Fine And Studio Arts, 3.4 Gpa

I attended the first semester at GV and the January Term: Printmaking (at the Des Moines Art Center). Advice from my 2 art instructors.

Fine And Studio Arts