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FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple, had a proprietary source-control system of their own called FilemakerCMS. In this development environment I modified existing pages and created new ones. I was required to do both table and tableless design, as well as image optimization using Photoshop. more. I am often asked in interviews why I have always been a contractor. Actually, I worked for Lockheed fulltime for 13 years as a technical illustrator before I was layed off or "downsized" as they called it then&...
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In 1994, I was hired at SEGA by a man who had been an art director at Disney Studios. In my interview, he bragged to me that he was in a position to hire his childhood heroes. I thought he was only kidding until he started to do it. He hired legendary comicbook. Artists like Tony DeZuniga and Alex Nino. He was looking for people who could draw well in the Disney cartoon fantasy style, that is to say, a style grounded in realistic rendering of people, animals, and everything else. One of my webdesign cont...
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NASA - specifically the SETI Institute, contracted me to build a website for a scientific conference investigating the origins of life in the universe. They weren't looking for little green men. They were looking for the conditions that would allow life to exist in any form, even microscopic. They were looking for the chemical building blocks of life. more. FileMaker, a subsidiary of Apple, had a proprietary source-control system of their own called FilemakerCMS. In this development environment I mod...
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Three times I was in the interview pipeline at Cisco. Each time they took so long to hire me that I accepted another contract. To complete the application process, I created several pages of both gif and flash animations. more. After Lockheed layed off 20,000 workers, jobs in Silicon Valley were scarce. I decided to apply in the videogame industry, because I knew that they hired artists. I was hired at SEGA by a man who had been an art director at Disney Studios. more. S and P Communications. One of my f...
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McAfee used a development environment called Accurev. Page structures were primarily tableless, but older pages were still being converted to the new template according to XHTML and CSS standards. I also created several holiday banners in Photoshop. more. I returned to McAfee in March of 2010 to do more front-end design and development work for their intranet portals. Unfortunately, they have asked me to remove the beautiful examples that I had posted here. After Lockheed layed off 20,000 workers, jobs i...
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Since October of 2007, I have been working for Symantec, the giant security software company headquartered in Cupertino, CA. I have been doing frontend engineering on a portion of MySymantec, the web portal that provides for the customization of select client/user services. Using HTML, CSS and javascript, I have been building GUIs, or Graphical User Interfaces, for online applications, with a small team of server-side (jsp) developers. NASA - specifically the SETI Institute, contracted me to build a webs...
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In 1997, I created over 200 Adobe Illustrator drawings for the release of Oracle8. By 1999, when every programmer on the planet was working on the Y2K problem, I was doing HTML for a small marketing group at Oracle. At Intuit in 2005, I reformatted dynamic content from the Intuit homepages for the retail sites that carried Intuit products, including BestBuy, CompUSA, Staples, OfficeMax, etc. I was required to use both table and tableless page structure, extensive CSS, current XHTML standards, and som...
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http://www.design48.com/stanford_new.html
In 2006, Stanford University contracted me to build new HTML pages for the Stanford Challenge part of the website. In a Teamsite development environment, I formatted 100 Word doc pages into XHTML and CSS. more. Three times I was in the interview pipeline at Cisco. Each time they took so long to hire me that I accepted another contract. To complete the application process, I created several pages of both gif and flash animations. more. Since October of 2007, I have been working for Symantec, the giant sec...
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http://www.design48.com/intuit_new.html
At Intuit in 2005, I reformatted dynamic content from the Intuit homepages for the retail sites that carried Intuit products, including BestBuy, CompUSA, Staples, OfficeMax, etc. I was required to use both table and tableless page structure, extensive CSS, current XHTML standards, and some DHTML. I also did quite a bit of Photoshop image optimization, as well as modified Flash files to be "retailer friendly.". Screenshot of most recent work. At Apple I was contracted to work on the Support section of the...
