DIRECTOR | MARKETING | DESIGN | ART | WEB | APPLIED
 
AUDRE VYSNIAUSKAS | South Lyon, MI 48178 | Ph: 248.486.9500 | email: audre@audre.org

Curriculum Vitae: http://about.audre.org

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Graphic | Art | Design | Web | Marketing

Highlights June 1992 – Present
• Director of Marketing and Sales, Dragon*Con Art Show, the world's largest celebration of the fantastic!
• Founder and past Editor-In-Chief of Renderosity Magazine (computer graphics oriented)
• Founder of the first digital art section in the world’s largest science-fiction and fantasy convention, Dragon*Con
• Art Director of Rites of Spring, the nation's second-largest progressive music festival
• Expert with graphic and technical softwares including Photoshop, InDesign, Poser, and Bryce
• Technical Liaison for the Matricism / Jeffersonian Institute Internet-based Art Education program (iAE)
• Program designer, developer, and Instructor for iAE online interfaces and curriculum
• Design business graphics including business cards, letterhead, logos, and corporate identity packages
• Develop promotional materials including print ads, event posters, and web banners
• Perform design and layout tasks for books, periodicals, and other print publications
• Perform technical and grammatical editing for books, periodicals, and other publications
• Create custom artwork for electronic advertisements, publications, and websites
• Animation services including storyboarding, lighting, texturing, scene plotting, and character creation
• Preparation of art for various printing processes including commercial printing and silk screening
• Interior design including custom art and painting for commercial and residential clients
• Design of marketing displays and creative product presentation including design for booth and convention spaces

President
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 are not limited to: custom and specialty business, e-commerce, community forums, and personal web solutions
• Provide consulting services and technical support to clients and staff
• Design modules and applications for Open Source Solution integration
• Design, administer, and maintain custom PHP-based photo galleries and mySQL databases
• 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

TECHNICAL & SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

President
Alpha Integration, LTD May 1992 – Present
• E-Commerce and specialty web design using PHP and mySQL
• Specialize in office automation using the Microsoft Office Software Suite
• Design and develop:
  o Networked and multi-user database applications
  o Graphic workspaces and operator interfaces
  o FactoryLink based process tracking, data acquisitions, and statistical process monitoring systems
• Execute 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

Senior Programmer | Analyst
St. Mary Mercy Hospital March 2000 – April 2001
• Anticipated and responded effectively to trends in information management technologies
• Applied project management techniques to the implementation of new projects, procedures, and technologies
• Configured and maintained 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

Webmaster | Developer
St. Mary Mercy Hospital March 2000 – Present
• Utilized existing network structure and legacy systems to create and implement a robust Intranet
• Designed, developed, and maintained Web applications, migration practices, and content
• Promoted connectivity between web applications and legacy systems (AS/400, Oracle, and SQL-based servers)

SYSTEM ENGINEERING
System Engineer
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

B.A.S.F. Automotive Research Center January 1988 – January 1989
• Provided 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:
o Supervised a full complement of staff, both vendor and in-house
o Composed and presented technical and informational presentations
o Managed all project funding acquisitions and data analysis
• Conducted research for Low Frequency Impedance Spectroscopy process automation and control system design
• Awarded the Digital Corporation A.I. Program Fellowship

Project Manager | System Engineer
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, Attic-ARTifacts.com, Attic-World.com, Weird-Art.com, Freaky-Fractals.com, MysticalMandalas.com.
• Founder of the first digital art section in the world’s largest science-fiction and fantasy convention, 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 / Speaker at various events & conventions
• Author of the upcoming Digital Art Tools & Techniques: A Practical Course
• Author of the upcoming Life is a Bowl of Fractals
• Author of the Stormchaser Photoshop Tutorial (Stormchaser appeared in the CuriousLabs’ Poser 5 software manual showcase gallery)
• Past course reviewer for SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group for GRAPHics)
• Technical Administrator for CompuServe.com, hosting the world's first online art community
• Founder and past Editor-In-Chief of Renderosity Magazine
• Past administrator for Renderosity.com
• Technical Liaison for the Matricism / Jeffersonian Institute Internet-based Art Education program (iAE)
• Program designer, developer, and instructor for iAE online interfaces and curriculum

REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
Computer Graphics World, CuriousLabs (e-frontier.com) web site, e-frontier Poser 5 Software Manual, Renderosity Magazine, MOCA: Museum of Computer Art, The Daily Dragon (Dragon*Con publication), Crescent Blues, Various Conventions / Events
 
Recipient numerous Professional and Artistic Achievement Awards

Skills
Art | Marketing | Hardware | Software | Firmware | Writing | System Integration | Pre-Press | Document Imaging | Color Correction | Photography: Digital & Film | Painting | Database Design | MS Office Suite | Access | Project | Gantt | Windows | NT | ME | 2000 | XP | DOS | Visual Basic for Applications | FrontPage | PageMaker | InDesign | Photoshop | CorelDraw | SQL | ODBC | mySQL | HTML | DHTML | FTP | SSL | Bryce | Poser | C++ | Crystal Reports | Illustrator | Carrara | Distiller | UltraFractal | XenoDream | Deep Paint | Cakewalk/SonicFoundry | Plesk | Ensim | cPanel | Apache | Linux | IIS | O/S2 | CGI | JavaScript | PHP | ASP | Flash | Sign Design & Fabrication | Open Source Solutions | Premier | Conversational Lithuanian

References: Available on Request