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Anything involving your eyes, graphical design, still or moving images, photos, videos, cover art, and color correction. The what, how and why of pixels and dots on platforms of any shape and size, be they analog or digital.
Anything involving your ears, sound, music composition, beats, tones, chords, melody, harmony, arrangement, narration and voiceovers, as well as pops, beeps, boops, hums and whistles, and things that go ping.
Anything you might like to read, from blog posts to essays, including an ever-expanding library of prompt engineering for conversations with ChatGPT, laden with heuristics as these things are.
Anything that involves touch, interactivity, engagement, interfaces, experiences, transactions, systems, input, output, research and development, from web applications to the burgeoning metaverse.
• Successfully delivered over 500 projects since 1990, as an interactive designer/developer for clients in the US and Europe. Led product lifecycles from strategic workshops through final deployment, in software development and product design environments.
• These encompassed the complete range of corporate communications and marketing efforts one typically sees in education, publishing, arts and entertainment, advertising, and retail sectors. First generation hybrid web/mobile projects led to $40 million in new business.
• Projects were recognized for outstanding media achievements, including an Emmy nomination, a BAFTA Award, two New Media INVISION Awards, an Apple Design Award and two Webby nominations.
• Guest lecturer at Harvard and Boston University. Panelist at conferences in New York and Boston. Provided commentary on multiple commercially released DVDs.
Expert in Photoshop, Final Cut, Logic, Motion, Sketch, InVision, InDesign, QLab, and related. Proficient scripting and debugging HTML/XML. Comfortable with Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, Figma, Confluence, Slack, Jira, Zoom, MS Office, many others. Many years of hands-on experience with creating, capturing, editing, and mastering video and audio for any outlet, including streaming services, social media marketing, digital signage, and virtual reality. Designed cover art and layout for six published paperbacks in the last year.
Implicit in all this: Leadership, teamwork, independent initiative, negotiating, QA, problem solving, fact finding, full-cycle project management, client and vendor communications, scheduling, flexibility, time management, analytical and creative thinking, pattern recognition, improvisation, and diplomacy.
I also play a mean set of drums.
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Composition
Live performance
Recording (on location, or in studio)
Drums / Percussion
Piano / Keyboards
Orchestration and arrangements
Song doctoring
Software instrument customization
Sound design
Producing
Editing
Mixing
Mastering for all platforms, incl. streaming
Sync to video
Writing / original material
Script Doctoring
Storyboarding
Set Design
Lighting
Shooting
Continuity
Location audio
Capture and conversion
Multi-camera synchronization and editing
Green screen / keying
Titles / Lower thirds
Music videos
360 videos (shooting, stitching, editing)
Subtitles / Closed captioning
Color correction
Final mastering for broadcast and social media
On-screen presenter / actor / voiceover artist
Show-running live performance (QLab)
Design
Retouching
Editing
Titles
Banners
Posters
CDs, Vinyl, Cassettes
Book covers
Layout for print / desktop publishing
Social media campaigns
Digital collage
Formatting for all platforms
Color correction for print (CMYK) and broadcast (NTSC/PAL)
Exporting for use in other programs
Usability research
Accessibility
Responsive design
Copy writing and editing
UX writing
Wireframes
Interfaces
Clickable prototypes
Modeling interactivity
Final Cut
Logic
Motion
Photoshop
QLab
WordPress
InDesign
Sketch
Invision
AI Tools
Mobile
Web
Video
Audio
Print
DVD
Broadcast
360 degree video
Virtual reality / Metaverse (VR/AR/XR)
Digital signage
Live entertainment / Events
Spinetix
Intuiface
Brightsign
Samsung MagicInfo
XML
HTML
Lingo
ActionScript
Javascript
Deployment (FTP, Webmastering, etc.)
Troubleshooting hardware and software
Quality assurance
Bug hunting
Training
Hardware installation and wiring (e.g., video walls)
Mac OSX
MS Windows
iOS
Agile (JIRA, Slack, Confluence)
Google apps
MS Office
Arts and entertainment
Education
Non-Profit
Publishing
Software
Retail
Art history and appreciation
Dada / Surrealism
Video and interactive art
Music history and appreciation
Opera and Classical music
Jazz
Rock, Punk and New Wave
Electronic music
Experimental / Avant-Garde
Cinema studies
The Silents
Film Noir
Horror
Science Fiction
Krimi
Eurospy
Emmy nomination
BAFTA Award
New Media INVISION Awards (2)
Apple Design Award
Webby nominations (2)