Seamus Burke Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Portland, Or, Us

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

Preventing vandalization on Wikipedia, making sure data is accurate across English and non-English speaking locales.

Creation/conception of original and print artwork for sale. Blogging about events I've attended/shown my work at.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Manually validate new products and additions to current software.• Create new testing efforts for new products that will be handled by the team with platform agnosticism in mind.• Report and diagnose bugs in the software/hardware as they appeared.• Work with developers to verify new features, find ways to create test plans for validation engineers to read through and test.• Work on two week “sprints” with daily stand ups for the team for accountability.• Engage in milestone testing for features and drivers that are ready to be pushed out to the customers to make sure there are no high priority issues.• Author test stories through JIRA with Acceptance Criteria for engineers to follow.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Ensured quality control on voice-to-text software for digital assistants.• Cataloged instances where software accurately performed, along with instances where itdid not, and provided language data so the client could improve functionality.• Parsed and amended data to improve accuracy.• Diagnosed bugs across several software platforms and devices, delegating to theappropriate engineers depending on the type of bug.• Provided lyric transcription for music streaming services, ensuring accuracy while sticking to established style-guides.

Tigard Or

• Wrote comprehensive reviews of new products from a consumer perspective when magazine was still Tone Report. • Pitched and wrote articles/editorials on gear and music, both highlighting classics and commenting on new releases.• Conducted interviews with musicians and manufacturers, talking about music and new products.

Portland Or

Writing cocktail reviews for The Portland Pour, creating recipes for traditional cocktails using only ingredients from Northwest brewers and distilleries.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Provided testing on game releases for Steam, UWP, and XBox One & 360.• Used Microsoft Visual Studio to catalog bugs and glitches in unreleased games fordevelopers’ easy reference.• Performed regression testing on already-released titles, making sure quality wasmaintained through various updates and patches.• Credited titles include State of Decay 2, Halo: Master Chief Collection, Pixar Rush,Disneyland Adventures, Crackdown 3 and Zoo Tycoon.

Tigard Or

Wrote comprehensive reviews for new products from a consumer perspective. Pitched and wrote articles/editorials on gear and music, both highlighting classics and commenting on new releases.

Beaverton Or

• Interviewing new clients about goals and requests for new websites (making sure their requests were within time and budget scope), and training new account managers to handle the same tasks as staff grew. • Designed and coded websites for clients using Drupal platform, using assets and copy the client had sent or using stock copy where applicable.• Supervised DNS transfers and advised clients with mail migration. Also ran technical support, assisting with log-in issues or updating clients’ sites with new content.• Handled manual transfers of data from old client portals and file-sharing systems, later implementing scripts to make process easier and amending interview process to determine clients’ file-sharing needs to avoid issues in the future.• Re-constructing poor quality and out-of-date logos for clients using Illustrator and Sketch.

Beaverton Or

• Acted as graphic designer for Thai restaurant in Portland suburb. Ran concurrently with CPA Gardens as they shared the same ownership.• Used existing logo assets and branding to create designs for new products including shirts, food cartons, menus, and print ads.

Portland, Oregon Area

Stocking/selling art supplies, helping customers find what they need, suggesting materials for certain projects and offering advice, processing special orders.

Chicago Il & Portland Or

• Worked as independent comic artist and writer, conceiving my own stories, illustrating them, publishing them online, and making profit off donations and compilation printings.• Coded sites for these comics by hand using Wordpress format.• Handled all pre-press and proofing for print volumes, as no additional staff for assistance was affordable. • Handled all aspects of products and merchandising through online store.• Displaying at prominent conventions like C2E2, MoCCA, APE, and Rose City.• Also handled promotion, including linking with prominent like-minded artists like Paul Taylor of “Wapsi Square” and Jeph Jacques of “Questionable Content”.

Portland, Oregon Area

Drawing portraits of staff and park patrons.

Beaverton, Or

Stocking/selling art supplies, helping customers find what they need, suggesting materials for certain projects and offering advice, processing special orders.

Assisted members and non-members in using the facilities, equipment, and programs. Also proposed, organized, and taught workshops related to self-publishing.

Helped customers find supplies they were looking for, suggested mediums or methods for their projects, special ordered items we did not carry in the store, and attended special events and conventions Blick was displaying at.

Pre-received, received, stocked, picked, and shipped textbook orders.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Sold original drawings to be used as greeting cards. Working from suggestions and ideas from head of the company as well as providing ideas of my own.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Assisted in the inking of comic pages by black spotting, providing guidelines on backgrounds and scanning pages to be sent to the publisher. Titles include "Local #18: The House That Megan Built", the entirety of "The Vinyl Undeground", and "Northlanders: The Cross & The Hammer".

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (Bfa), Comic Art

• Learned Comic Art, Fine Art, and Computer Skills during my time as an undergraduate. • Studied under professional comic artists such.

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