EXPERIENCE

2003-present Director

dan-e-art (Paris & Boston)

· Multimedia projects (animation, video, photo & music)

· Flash, Final Cut Pro, Actionscript, HTML, javascript, storyboards, DVD & CD production, online and offline games

· www.xpersonality.com

1997-2002 Application Development

Promco SA (Geneva, Switzerland)

UI (user interfaces) for financial applications
Visual Basic, SQL databases

1988-1997 Research Engineer

NASA-Ames Research Center, (California)

· Research and flight testing of helicopters

· Experiments in virtual reality simulation

EDUCATION

2002 - 2003 Master Fine Arts (multimedia)

National School of Industrial Design - ENSCI (Paris, France)

1989-1993 Masters Degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics
Stanford University

1984-1988 Bachelor of Science – Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Princeton University

Project management skills:

ability to craft the best solution for a project

good client relations

experience with a variety of digital media

Project development experience:

2007

This year I have been on two contracts, as well as various smaller freelance projects.

• Walden Media (March - May 07)

Walden Media is a film company that has produced such hits as "The Chronicles of Narnia - Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe", "The Bridge to Terabithia", and "Charlotte's Web". I worked in the Boston office which is responsible for Education, Outreach, and Interactive Development in connection with the Walden movies.

My job duties included the development of a complete Flash game - "Skipping Stone on Walden Pond", overhaul of a Flash movie player, and reskinning existing Flash games to integrate into the Walden Media website.

• Digitas (June 07 - present)

Digitas is an international advertising company specializing in interactive media solutions. Clients include GM, American Express, Home Depot, and Sara Lee.

My job duties include producing interactive Flash animations from Photoshop comps. The resulting animations are used for online advertising on the highest traffic websites.

2006

I produced two major video projects for schools this year. One was the creation of a DVD hilighting a day in the life of a preschool student for a Montessori school (running time 28 minutes). I shot, edited and produced the DVD singlehandedly. The second was a CDROM distributed to prospective students of Quincy College. I combined existing footage with new footage into a 5 minute video. I created a Flash projector that contained admissions information and the video that I produced. For this project I coordinated with the school director and the marketing department.

I worked on several animation projects using Flash and Actionscript this year. The most significant was 2 months of onsite work for a company developing a Flash-based interactive game for kids (target preK-1st grade). This Actionscript intensive work consisted of coding the interactivity for a Leapfrog product linked to a Disney/Pixar movie release in 2007.

2004-2005

In 2004-2005 I worked on two major Flash development projects. The first was an Immune System game that relied heavily on Actionscript. The client supplied me with a preliminary storyboard and sketches of the characters. I developed the graphics, layout, and implemented the code. The objects are placed on the scene dynamically and their movement and interaction are calculated in the Actionscript code. I have an example of this code; this project is featured on my website.

The second project, also on my website, is an animation synchronized with a musical score. I worked with a graphic artist to do the storyboard, and I was supplied with some of the photographs. After that I was the sole Flash developer. The trick of this project was how to match the animation to the music since the speed of the animation is affected by the internet bandwidth. I developed a method in Actionscript so that the animation was tied to cue points in the music. I used graphical loops in the embedded in the movieclips so that the animation would always be moving, thus creating a fluid movie for a variety of download bandwidths.

I also shot and produced a DVD for IRCAM at the Pompidou Center for the Arts. The resulting film described the creation of a musical composition game. I interviewed the scientists involved and shot footage of the children interacting with the installation at the art center.

Flash & Actionscript skills:

project organization

graphical layout and the use of text

navigation & interaction

advanced programming skills - functions, loops, variables, naming conventions

dynamic placement of objects

Additional skills:

extensive digital video experience (shooting, editing, preparing for delivery, importing)

extensive audio experience(creating, editing, compression, use of, etc)

Director/lingo - proficient

HTML & Dreamweaver - proficient

XML - knowledge of

SQL & relational databases - working knowledge

VB-Basic - proficient

Photoshop & Illustrator - proficient