Steve Furness Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Using digital technology to facilitating the support of Australian workers in the entertainment, media and performing arts industries.

Working with Digital Agencies to assist them in the deployment of new resourcing and fulfilment models designed to aid them in next levelling their organisational growth in a sustainable and repeatable manner.

Since August 2022 I have focussed on in-depth research into Generative Artificial Intelligence and the applications of these technologies with a specific focus on the commercial uses for Trained Image Generation and Large Language Models. I have been consulting to several organisations, assisting them in the investigation of the deployment of these.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Agency Stack is a white-label provider of performance digital, content, design and development services to the advertising and marketing industry. They have a multinational staff of approximately 120 people across 5 countries. I first came to know them in my capacity as Agency Lead for UBT where I had engaged them as a service delivery partner. I.

Sydney, Australia

Dedicated to the digital transformation of hundreds of SMEs globally.Providing digital design/development and performance digital services for over 100 clients.

Sydney, Australia

Agencies serviced:Digilante: Digital Producer / Business AnalystDivide by Zero: Digital Designer/Producer Ikon Multimedia: Digital Designer/Producer Apptitude Pty Ltd: Mobile 3d App Design lead

Responsible for stakeholder management, project scoping and delivery of major projects. Engaged and managed external partners such as M&C Saatchi, Atlassian and Customware. Coordinated and delivered in-house training and user acceptance testing.

Contracted to Ansearch Australia to create concepts and visuals for a range of over 40 web portal sites as well as redesigning the functionality of the company’s leading web properties, the Ansearch and Anzwers portals.

Agencies serviced:Wunderman Advertising: Flash Design/dev Cranky Fish Interactive: 3d ArtistBack Creative: Flash DesignTriad Communications: Flash Design and DevUniversal Media Agency Dublin: Web design and DevZinc Designs Dublin: 3d character designIdea Advertising Dublin: 3d illustration

Co-founded Point 10 Productions in Dublin, Ireland to service a growing European interactive marketplace. Partnered with software suppliers and publishers such as Wild Tangent Incorporated, Criterion Software, Empire Games, Havok. Microsoft XBOX incubator program. Point 10 Productions Projects of note included:Gillette UKGuinness and the Gaelic Athletic.

Creative Direction of the prototyping team of a market leading international supplier of online gaming systems.Responsible for game concept visualisation and story boarding including logic design and implementationDesigned and created the company’s first pre rendered 3d Casino Game Suite and interface design for a number of National and International.

Co-founder of one of the very first interactive agencies in Australia, creating all aspects of commercial web site production for a range of corporate clients.Assembled and managed a team of designers, html coders, java programmers.Official Beta Testers of pre releases of both Macromedia Flash and DreamweaverGuided a great number of Australian based.