Senior Illustrator with five years of recent experience in motion graphics and illustration using Macromedia Flash, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop. Previous engineering background makes me well suited for large volume, "work smart" production and for interpretation and presentation of technical subjects.
Previous experience includes project management, software coding, and project and maintenance engineering in the energy industries. I have intermediate skills in Flash Actionscripting, HTML coding with CSS, and Microsoft Office. Finally I have written thousands of pages that clearly communicated technical issues, and assure future employers that I deplore inappropriate homophones and the possessive plural case.
Maintained an illustration library consisting of 6500 distinct bitmapped and vector graphics used in instructor-led training. In one year I created or revised 1500 of these illustrations for a major project.
Initiated a steady overhaul of the entire library for increased realism and readability, prioritizing with curriculum developers to get the most 'bang for the buck'.
For major new projects, instituted the creation of comprehensive photorealistic drawings made to a common scale in advance of the moment of need. This gave us the ultimate in consistent, efficiently produced, on time and realistic illustrations. For the first two projects, 167 drawings of individual equipment items or equipment assemblies were created, each drawing with its own substructure of parts such as circuit cards and common components.
Led a group creating a new breed of animated Flash lessons replacing PowerPoint for instructor led training. In the first year, the group efficiently produced 78 lessons containing 2087 slides. I designed and implemented the underlying architecture where slide lists, slides, front matter, illustrations and text were loaded at run time. This anticipated eventual migration to a database driven curriculum.
Developed a template for rapid production of performance based training in Flash. With this, average designers created interactive lessons complete with 'Acquire' and 'Validate' modes that allowed students to learn and demonstrate their knowledge.
2000-Present: Senior Illustrator, General Dynamics
1990-1999: Senior Development Engineer, Schlumberger
1986-1989 University Research Assistant
Prior to 1986 Mechanical Engineer
I am a degreed Mechanical Engineer. I am a U.S. citizen and have had a security clearance.
