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Resume Information:

Proficient with PC/NT & Mac platforms. Experienced with the following software:
•3-D CAD for Industrial Design / Product Development:
Form Z RenderZone Solid / Surface Modeler by Autodessys
Also in training for 3D Studio Max by Discreet (AutoDesk)

•2-D Graphics creation for both web and print media:
Vector based: CorelDraw 9 software suite
Macromedia Freehand 9
Bitmap based: Adobe Photoshop 6

•Web-enabled animation and interactive website development:
animation & interactivity: Macromedia Flash 5
object oriented development: Macromedia Dreamweaver 4
text oriented development: Allaire Homesite 4.5
web specific image creation: Macromedia Fireworks 4
Adobe ImageReady 3

Also experienced with:
•3-D Computer Aided Machining: GibbsCAM v5
•StereoLithography Apparatus (SLA): Maestro - 3D Systems, Inc.
•other CAD packages: SolidView, Imagineer

PROCESSES:

Very skilled and capable with the following prototype production methods:
•model making and model master finishing
•RTV silicone mold making
•urethane casting and prototype injection molding

Educated and experienced with manufacturing techniques:
•surface finishing: metals and plastics
•sheet metal fabrication methods: lasercut, braking/shearing
•conventional machining: mill and lathe

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Web, Graphic, and Industrial Designer - Contract, 11/2000 - Present
Used Photoshop, CorelDraw and Freehand to create company logos, slogans, and stationery for internet company and interior design company (11/2000 – 1/2001). Used Photoshop and Dreamweaver to redesign website for organization with multilingual web presence (2/2001 – 6/2001). Used Flash, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver to develop personal site – www.pureform.com (6/2001 – 7/2001). Used Photoshop, Dreamweaver, CorelDraw and PowerPoint to design website, stationery, newsletters and presentations for Dallas church/outreach (8/2001 – 11/2001). Used Form-Z to design 3D models and manufacturing plans for a portable graphics display fixture for tradeshow exhibit company (12/2001 – 2/2002).

Senior Web Designer, Comercis, 4/2000 - 11/2000
Used Photoshop, CorelDraw, Dreamweaver, ImageReady, and Fireworks to create and maintain appearance and layout structure for an internet portal that provides useful local content for 31,000 cities nationwide. Used Flash to create web-enabled animations to market and promote portal functions and features. Also used Photoshop and CorelDraw to create full color ad slicks and stationery for marketing and sales divisions. Used Powerpoint to prepare presentations for investor meetings.

Industrial Designer - Contract, 1/2000 - 4/2000
Used Form-Z to computer model complex surface 3D files of large sculpture from 2D drawings. Used Maestro to create stereolithography masters from 3D CAD files. Polished SLA masters to mirror finish, then cast large RTV silicone molds from SLA masters. Successfully cast final reproductions from mold in technically difficult two-part water clear aliphatic urethane.

Stereolithographer, Master Model & Mold Maker, Cyberform Intl, 4/1999 - 12/1999
Used Maestro to prepare and translate customers' virtual files into solidified resin parts using a 3D Systems StereoLithography Apparatus (SLA model 500-40). Prepared masters, produced molds, and cast final urethane parts from molds. Trained on Virtual Gibbs 3D CAM for Leadwell V-40 3-axis mill.

Graphics Systems Manager, Moyes and Co., Inc, 4/1997- 3/1999
Used CorelDraw, Powerpoint, Excel, and Corel Photo-Paint to produce company brochure and graphics for nationally attended presentations and trade shows. Managed production of full size wall maps and all company graphics for oil and gas industry purposes. Standardized mapping methods for company records, and designed interactive HTML mapping system for company web site.

Industrial Designer for Dallas based lighting company, 4/1993 - 4/1997
Used Form-Z to design progressive lighting system concepts for application in restaurants and retail stores. Engineered concept models into short-run cost effective production lines. Contracted 3rd party manufacturers. Constructed product line prototypes.

Project Examples: industrial design

12 volt halogen lighting: continuous pipeline systems
The conceptual challenge: to design a low voltage lighting system for high-end retail stores, restaurants, and progressive home interior spaces where a ‘pipeline’ of lighting fixtures travel around the interior perimeter of a room or space. The result: the 4 fixtures shown here are just a few of the options for this lighting system I designed while with a dallas based lighting company. The primary fixture shown below right is a spotlight fixture with full 2-axis mobility: the entire fixture pivots within the pipes at the cones, while the mid section pivots within the power conducting rails. The blue colored “accent ring” that surrounds the bulb can be made any color (or UV resistant for art gallery applications). Also, a colored, UV resistant, or magnifying lens can be mounted in front of the accent ring to affect the color or size of the spot light. The 2 fixtures at the top right are both omnidirectional light sources. The top fixture uses a clear or frosted glass globe, while the 2nd fixture uses clear or frosted borosilicate glass fo shield its bulbs. The third fixture on the right is a floodlight source. This fixture also pivots within the pipeline for 1 axis of adjustability What is unique about most of the fixtures I designed is that there are no expensive custom dies and molds needed in the manufacturing process! This means that although the per-fixture cost was higher, the company did not have to invest large amounts of money in initial tooling - enabling them to profit off of even small orders.

12 volt halogen lighting: centralized ceiling fixtures
I designed these fixtures to function like chandeliers in the middle of a room - except that most of these fixtures are adjustable in one or more ways. The bottom left fixture has 7 light sources can all be mounted with UV filtering lenses. Also, the overall spread of light can be made to be more or less focused by adjusting the clear acrylic star that is mounted above the fixture. The arms are made of polished stainless steel. The fixture on the top right uses 4 independent light sources. Each light source (standard M R -16’s) is independently aimable via the adjustable mirror mounted in front of it. Also, each light can be mounted with a colored or UV resistant accent ring. The middle right fixture is a nonadjustable centralized lighting source. This one requires a hydroforming process to form its large metal reflector.

12 volt lighting: large desk lamp
I wanted this desk lamp to be able to shine light exactly where you want it to. Therefore, I incorporated 5-1/2 axes of adjustability into it to achieve this degree of functionality. Furthermore, all parts of this fixture are counterbalanced. The entire arm rotates around, and slides up and down along the pole, balanced by a counterweight inside the pole. Both arm sections pivot around their centers of gravity.

12 volt halogen lighting systems: wall sconces
Wall sconces are typically pretty static - so my sconce designs became primarily focussed around shape and form. Unlike the majority of my other lighting fixtures, these sconces do not have any adjustable features or moving parts that require explanation. However, the top 2 fixtures on the right have qualities that are not rendered entirely accurate by my CAD program. The 2 half - oval areas on the top right sconce are made of textured red glass - so this area looks kind of like a red stop light does in reality. Similarly , the triangular sconce below it uses clear textured glass on its sides - so these areas are much more luminescent than displayed here. The bottom right design made of a section of translucent white acrylic that has been lasercut and then “slumped” (- a process that uses heat to cause the plastic to soften and conform to a mold pattern).

12 volt halogen lighting: Floor Lamp #1
This was the first prototype fixture that I actually fabricated in the shop. The concept design was handed to me. I then tweaked the design the old fashioned way: by building an initial model out of foam. (This was before I was designing the fixtures in CAD). We then preceded to build this prototype using 2 beams of architectural grade aluminum. I then polished the finished parts to a mirror finish. That was a hard learning process! The company had to purchase a 7-1/2 hp, 200 lb buffing motor to polish parts this big. We did not know this would be necessary in the beginning. I machined and hand ground the clear acrylic window in front. (The color versions of the photos are chromatically inaccurate here: the purplish area is actually lit with a royal blue light, whereas the pinkish line running up the middle of the bezel is actually a primary red color.) A few years ago I got the idea of submitting it to the Dallas Museum of Art. The Assistant Curator I spoke to indicated to me that he was interested in exhibiting the lamp, but did not currently have a place for it because the DMA did not have an area set up for exhibiting modernist furnishings of this kind. Perhaps in the future they will.

12 volt halogen lighting: hand blown glass fixtures
These fixtures are the result of some unanticipated inspiration: one day when I was at a retail store I saw a nice, thick, deep blue glass bowl and thought, “this vessel has a shape that could be turned into a nice lamp!” Voila - the second and third photos on the right show the finished result. After this success, I kept my eyes out for other hand blown glass vessels that could be turned into lamps. The three cornered fixture finshed out nicely, because of the orange, pink, and green colors that are swirled into the glass. Two of these fixtures use bare steel cables to as their hanging supports and as their power cables. This is permissible with 12 volt lighting - as long as the fixture has a circuit breaker properly installed in it. The third uses a single insulated cord as shown.

Modernized sculpture of archeologically recovered Judeo-Christian artifact
This project begins with the client emailing me scanned-in photos of the artifacts. I then designed a 3D model of this artifact in CAD. After three major revisions, the design was finally complete – stage 1 complete. Using the stereolithography process knowledge I gained while working for a rapid prototyping company, I separated the CAD design into its component parts, and physically “grew” the parts in a stereolithography apparatus - this completes stage 2. An SLA machine builds its parts in very thin layers that are about two hairs thick. So the parts I just grew had ridges on them – kind of like a mountain does on a topological map. But since this sculpture was to be cast in a clear material, these parts had to be hand polished to a mirror finish. So after much labor, stage 3 was complete. Now it was time to make the mold. I constructed a specially shaped mold box , and then cast the rubber mold in four stages because of its large size: the mold itself required 8 gallons of RTV silicone. Stage 4 complete. Stage 5 is the actual casting of the finished clear reproductions of the sculpture from the mold. To give you an idea of the materials involved – this sculpture is 4 foot 7 inch high, and requires about a gallon of liquid ‘plastic’ to cast one part. This project took about 600 actual work hours to complete.

business card holders in polished aluminum and stainless steel
The idea for this project came to mind when I was the lighting systems designer for a comapny in the dallas area. The company had some really nice business cards printed up for a trade show we were attending in San Francisco. These cards were cut to a custom length and width, so they did not fit in a regular card holder. So I went out to the shop area and built some card holders that would hold our specially sized card. While I was at this trade show, I traded business cards with a rep from another company. He noticed and really liked the holder – even though I had made no effort to get him to notice it. Hmmm…. A few years later, I’m working on a project, and am getting ready to send some CAD files to a local lasercutter, so that they can cut some prototype parts out of a sheet of aluminum for me. While laying out the CAD file, I realize that I am going to have a lot of leftover space on my sheet of aluminum, so I’m wondering what else I can include on the sheet so that I can get the most out of this lasercut job. You guessed it – the cardholder parts. I was pleased with the way they turned out, so as an experiment I put up a web page, and ended up selling out my first run of cardholders to customers over the internet.

project xamples: internet design

Israel in Prophecy (www.israelinprophecy.org)
This is the organization that had given me the the menorah scuplture project over a year earlier. They also had a web site that had grown to several hundred pages. When the computer design stage of the menorah project was complete, I provided them with some computer renderings of the sculpture for their web site, but was not actually involved in the development of their web site. Upon contact with them a year later I find out that their web site has grown to about 1,500 pages – much of the increase being due to the fact that they were translating their site into 3 other languages: spanish, german, and french. And although they had been very productive in building their site, they are not trained web designers, so their site lacked standardizations for format and content - and therefore was getting tougher to manage than necessary. At this point, I become involved to help streamline and freshen up their site. We create graphics and navigation structure, convert all pages to CSS formatting, add javascript that builds a few dynamically framed pages, add a site-wide search engine, and add a survey form. We also added the entire front end section that now precedes the “In Depth” section that used to be at the front end.

NetCities
Comercis hired me to be the Senior Web Designer for their new internet portal, netcities.com. What made this portal different from the plethora of other portals was this: truly local information. NetCities was tied in to a growing net of allied independent local yellow page company databases across the US. The result was that if a person or business gets a new phone number today, their listing would be available on NetCities literally tomorrow. With the other portals, this new info would not be available for about six months. I was responsible for providing design concepts, coordinating with the marketing and sales departments, and then working with the programmers to produce finalized web layouts and graphics for the portal. I also built presentations for Netcities in Flash and Powerpoint for investor meetings. I also worked with the marketing department to produce full color ad slicks and business cards for NetCities. At one point I also produced web layouts for the HealthCare division of Comercis. L ke many dot - coms, Comercis encountered financial difficulties. In the months that followed Netcities was eventually taken offline. In accordance with the company policy, I did not keep outside records of my work projects - so I am not able to show you screenshots of the next release of Netcities that the programmers and I were working on – which is unfortunate, because I really liked the look and concept that the portal was developing into.

project xamples: logo and print graphics design

NexGen
This company was using a photo similar to the image on the right - but the problem was that although the photo looked good, the characteristics of the photo did not print well - especially when they needed to print this image for the small one inch logo squares that go on the front of the computers they build. I also used a font that more effectively conveyed the high tech look they were after.

mediacom
This San Antonio based telephone directory book company needed an identity for a daughter company it was forming through a partnership with another corporation. The marketing directive was to develop a logo that demonstrated a union of this company’s tradional roots in printed media (in this case yellow page advertisement) with its new technological push to deliver this content over the internet. Beyond this, they did not give me any other info to work with, so after a trash can full of attempts, I finally had something that they were very pleased with.

ONE youth ministries
I will soon be working on a logo for a youth outreach that is focused on helping teenagers and young adults in the downtown Dallas area. I will post it as soon as it is completely finished.

Moyes & Co, Inc.
This company hired me to start a new section of their company: petroleum mapmaking . They wanted to be able to provide custom drawn maps for their clients to complement the custom research and number crunching that they already provided. This is where I learned and became very good with Corel’s drawing software. I soon also began doing all the graphics work for the presentations that this company gave at annual lectures that were internationally attended. Business was increasing and the maps were successful, so the company purchased a full size color map printer / plotter for me to use for producing large scale maps. As the map collection grew, the company began purchasing booth space at some of the major oil and gas trade shows. There they mounted these wall maps and related petroleum data to the walls of the booth to grab the attention of attendees. I was also responsible for producing their first full color glossy multi-paged company brochure. I also converted many of the maps and used a digital slide camera to produce their maps and graphics in slide format for their international lectures.

contact information
If you feel that you or your company has a one-time task or full-time position that calls for my skillsets, then please feel encouraged to contact me. I have been doing freelance work for the past several months and have enjoyed it. Nonetheless, I am also completely open to considering full time and on site contract positions.