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President | CEO

Attic Adventures, LLC

January 2003 – Present
  •  Founder, Administrator, Artist, and Webmaster for Attic-World web hosting service provider
  •  Founder, Administrator, Artist, and Webmaster for multiple subsidiary e-commerce sites
  •  Services Include but not limited to: custom and specialty business, e-commerce, and personal web solutions
  •  Provide consulting services and technical support to clients and staff
  •  Design modules and applications for Open Source Solution integration
  •  Design, administrate, and maintain custom PHP-based content management systems utilizing mySQL database engines
  •  Perform system maintenance tasks, including upgrades, updates, and enhancements
  •  Create and implement procedures for trend research, testing, pricing, accounting, and staffing
  •  Devise and carry out strategies to optimize engine ranking, site performance, and client acceptance
 

Graphic Designer

Independent Contractor

June 1992 – Present
  •  Design business graphics, including business cards, letterhead, logos, and corporate identity packages
  •  Develop promotional materials, including print ads, CD covers, booklets, event posters, and memorabilia
  •  Perform graphic design and layout tasks for books, periodicals, and other print publications
  •  Create custom artwork for advertisements, publications, and websites
  •  Offer animation services, including storyboarding, lighting, scene plotting and texturing, and character creation


Technical & Software Development

President | CEO

Alpha Integration, LTD

May 1992 – Present
  • Specialize in office automation using Microsoft Office Software Suite
  •  Design and develop:
    •  Networked and multi-user database applications
    •  Graphic workspaces and operator interfaces                 
    •  FactoryLink OS/2 based tracking, data acquisitions, and statistical process monitoring systems
  •  Accomplish system administration, troubleshooting, diagnostic, and maintenance tasks
  •  Implement software upgrades and application enhancements
  •  Integrate existing document and work flow through dynamic data exchange and Object Link Embedding

System Integrator | Analyst | Freelance | Webmaster

Various

March 1999 – Present
  •  Anticipate and respond confidently to trends in information management technologies
  •  Apply effective project management techniques to insure effective development of  projects, procedures, and technologies
  •  Configure and maintain NT Server and BackOffice
  •  Provided department heads, developers, and programmers with technical expertise and research
  •  Facilitated effective resource management by working consistently within proscribed budgets and schedules
  •  Install and maintain ComfortWorks Building Automation Systems
    •  Develop operator interface screens
    •  Ongoing training of maintenance staff and management
  •  Design and develop Facility Blueprint library and cataloging database
  •  Design and develop Facilities Department Purchase Order Tracking System
  •  Utilize existing legacy systems to create and implement robust Intranets
  •  Design, develop, and maintain Web applications, migration practices, content, testing plans and emergency recovery procedures
  •  Promote connectivity between Web applications and legacy systems such as AS/400, Oracle, and SQL-based servers
  •  GOLD - General Office & Logistics Database:
    •  Track customer Service Agreement
    •  Manage service commitments
    •  Support for branch-level operation
    •  Technician and repair call scheduling
    •  Contact manager - integrated with personal calendar software
    •  Telephone call and office-wide notes logger
    •  Automatically schedule scheduled maintenance per contracts
    •  Automatically prioritize new events based on complex criteria
    •  Smart scheduling compensates per equipment and installed option needs


     

 

System Engineering

System Engineer

B.A.S.F. Automotive Research Center January 1988 – January 1989
  • Technical support for research, analysis, and product-testing equipment
  •  Offered systems support for a variety of monitoring and control systems                       
  •  Project Leader for Research of Low Frequency Impedance Spectroscopy:
    •  Supervised a full complement of staff, both vendor and in-house
    •  Composed and presented technical and informational presentations
    •  Managed all project funding acquisitions and data analysis
  •  Developed Artificial Intelligence based control and monitoring system for Low Frequency Impedance Spectroscopy Process
  •  Awarded the Digital Corporation: A.I Fellowship
P.C. Design, Inc. January 1990 – December 1992
  • Evaluated existing Automated Storage and Retrieval System capabilities
  •  Recommended strategies for upgrades and enhancements
  •  Designed and developed industrial software to monitor, sequence, and collect data from operations:
  •  Various FactoryLink OS|2 and Unix-based monitoring, control, and SPC systems, including alpha- and beta-testing
  •  FX-15 Compressor Line Monitoring System                    
  •  Provided technical support and consultation during the implementation phases of all projects
  •  Established corporation-wide standards for application design and software enabler platforms
Various January 1985 – January 1988
  • Developed enhancements for production, assembly, and testing systems
  •  Worked with custom database software, process simulation, and statistical process control systems
  •  Designed, developed, and maintained Real-time manufacturing systems including HP1000, RTE-A, and RSX-11M+
  •  Applied Enhancements for production, assembly, and testing systems
  •  Developed Database interface software for GMT-400 Cell Control System
  •  Performed troubleshooting, diagnostic, software integration, and system interface tasks
  •  Implemented training programs for customers, software developers, and system maintenance personnel
  •  Designed and developed real-time data acquisition, databases, and quality monitoring systems
  •  Developed reporting and user interface software

 

Professional Development

  • Founder, Artist, Administrator, and Webmaster for multiple web | e-commerce sites:
    •  AtticWear.com
    •  Atttic-ARTifacts.com
    •  Attic-World.com
    •  Weird-Art.com
    •  Freaky-Fractals.com
    •  MysticalMandalas.com
  •  Founder of the first digital art section in the world world’s largest science-fiction and fantasy convention and celebration of the fantastic, Dragon*Con
  •  Director of Marketing and Sales, Dragon*Con Art Show
  •  Director of the Dragon*Con Digital | Print-On-Demand Department
  •  Art Director of Rites of Spring, the nation's second-largest progressive music festival
  •  Awarded the Digital Corporation A.I Program Fellowship
  •  Co-Author with award-winning author John Grant of Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity, a contender for the 35th annual Locus Awards
  •  Artist Guest of Honor SciFi Summer 2004
  •  Author of the upcoming book Digital Art Tools & Techniques: A Practical Course
  •  Author of the upcoming book Life is a Bowl of Fractals
  •  Author of the Stormchaser Photoshop Tutorial
  •  Course Reviewer for SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group for GRAPHics)
  •  Technical Administrator for CompuServe.com (hosting one of the world's first global online art community!)
  •  Founder and past Editor-In-Chief of Renderosity Magazine
  •  Administrator for Renderosity.com
  •  Technical Liaison for the Interactive Educational Program for the Arts (iEPA) currently under joint development of Matricism LLC and the Jeffersonian Institute
  •  Program Designer and Developer for iEPA online interfaces and curriculum
  •  Instructor for the iAE
  •  E.I.T. Certificate (test one of two of the Professional Engineer's Examination)

Reviews & Publications

Featured | Artist in:
  •  Computer Graphics World
  •  CuriousLabs Technical Papers
  •  CuriousLabs Website Image Showcase
  •  DAZ3d Website Image Showcase
  •  Poser 5 Software Manual Gallery
  •  Renderosity Magazine
  •  MOCA: Museum of Computer Art
  •  The Daily Dragon (Dragon*Con publication)
  •  Crescent Blues
  •  Artist Guest of Honor, Sci-Fi Summer 2004
  •  Transcending The Mundane
  •  Detroit Metro Times
  •  Best Multimedia Professional Award (Dragon*Con 2004)
Published | Articles in:
  •  Digital Art for the 21st Century: Renderosity, with award winning co-author, John Grant
  •  Renderosity Magazine - Digital Minutiae: What You Don't Know Will Eat Your Pixels!
  •  CuriousLabs: Realistic Renders, Sense in Renders
  •  Dragon*Con Report

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

                                          

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Skills
 Flash | ASP | Sign Design and Fabrication

1 year

CGI | JavaScript | PHP | ASP

2 years

MacroMedia Flash

2 years

C++ | SQL | ODBC | mySQL | Crystal Reports

4 years

Illustrator | Carrara | Distiller

4 years

Plesk | Ensim | cPanel | Apache | Linux | IIS

4 years

UltraFractal | XenoDream | DeepPaint

4 years

Bryce | Poser

5 years

HTML | DHTML | FTP | SSL

7 years

Pagemaker | InDesign | Photoshop | CorelDraw

8 years

VisualBasic for Applications | FrontPage

8 years

Windows | NT | ME | 2000 | XP | DOS | OS/2

10+ years

Pre-Press | Document Imaging | Color Correction

10+ years

MS Office Suite | Access | Project | Gantt

10+ years

Photography: Digital & Film | Painting | Art

20 years

Conversational Lithuanian

40 years

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