Design Software

Dane Rougeau

abplti@r.postjobfree.com

512-***-**** (cell)

QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY:

Highly creative and multi-talented designer with extensive experience in UI (User Interface) design, graphic design,

multimedia, 3D graphics and animation, as well as print design.

Adept at designing and producing a wide variety of audio-visual technological solutions for both educational and

entertainment purposes.

An enthusiastic and creative team-player, with well developed written and communication ability, and demonstrated

ability to achieve objectives within strict deadlines.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

DaneRougeau.com/Bright I Productions (8/24/2001 - Present)

Started free-lance production company back in 2001, offering Creative Direction, UI design and graphic design for print &

online design, web design, mobile design, Adobe Flash development; design and production of DVDs /CDROMs using DVD

Studio Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe After Effects; Audio/Video editing, compositing, motion graphics, 3D

modeling, and animation (3D Studio Max and Maya),

Currently Bright I Productions mainly creates unique and distinctive web design and publishes print and iPad comics apps.

DaneRougeau.com is a Flash-based video reel for my contracting portfolio.

Health Care Concepts (3/03/2003 Present)

Graphic design for video, the Web, CDROMs, DVDs and print media. Developing HTML5, jQuery, JSP, and Adobe Flash

based front-end user interfaces, for displaying rich media content such as video clips, animations,etc. Producing 2D & 3D

Animation (3D Max), compositing, motion graphics, editing digital video, and interfacing Flash with .JSP, .XML, and Action

Script programming, Editing HTML, .JSP, etc. using Dreamweaver, Eclipse/CVS, FireBug, and the full suite of Adobe Products.

IBM / Tivoli Systems (4/26/2000 - 8/24/2001)

Designed and animated Flash-based product demos with high-tech user interfaces, extensive voice-overs & 3D animated

Flash (Swift 3D), and using 3D Studio Max. Software used also includes: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.

University of Texas at Austin (5/14/99 - 4/16/2000)

Department of Curriculum & Instruction - Systemic Research Collaborative for Education in Math & Technology (SYRCE) -

Purchased Media100 editing system. Created website, put together various multimedia presentations, shot and edited video.

Software used included: Media 100, Final Cut, 3D Studio Max, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, etc.

Outdoor Life Network (OLN) / Cox Interactive Media (10/31/97 - 5/07/99)

Multimedia Producer for GreatOutdoors.com website. Designed and Produced Adobe Flash & Shockwave (including Director

lingo based games and Action Script), Real Audio & Video, and HTML, graphic design of web and print based advertising

graphics. Software used included: Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, etc.

Human Code (03/19/97 - 05/23/97)

Adobe Photoshop image processing, HTML (created custom interface using Internet Explorer in kiosk mode using frames &

tables), & some Java Scripting for touch-screen Kiosk at the San Antonio Museum.

Arts Electronica (03/96 - 11/97)

One of four partners in a small Internet web site design company. Graphic design of web and print based advertising graphics,

3D animated .gifs, HTML. Software used included: 3D Studio, Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator, etc.

Texas Learning Technology Group (03/95 - 12/96)

Co-webmaster of TLTG web site. Programming in Macromedia Authorware & Director on four CD-ROM titles. Worked on the

digital audio/video production, for educational CD-ROMs. Digitized, edited, & super-imposed backgrounds (behind actors shot

in front of a green screen). Compressed video for cross-platform playback on low-end Macintosh & Windows computers.

Software used included: Adobe Premiere, Photoshop/Illustrator, After Effects, 3D Studio Max, etc.

Crystal Semiconductors (02/94 - 04/95)

Worked as a Game Tester / Sound Technician debugging sound cards for PCs by testing them on the latest games.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Radio, Television, & Film Production

with a Minor in Computer Science and Electronic Music.

University of Texas in Austin.

I have taken Commercial Art courses at Austin Community College (ACC), both in traditional art design and in various

multimedia courses, as well as attending various seminars, workshops and training courses and attaining certification.

Certifications/Workshops:

Adobe Certified Expert Photoshop Creative Suite 3 (10/08)

Apple Certified Professional - Final Pro 5 / Special Effects Training (06/07)

W3 Certified HTML Developer w/ fundamental knowledge of HTML, XHTML & CSS (7/12/07)

CyberScholar Specialist Certification in Audio, Video, Computing & Communications (10/29/02)

CompTIA A+ Certified Computer Technician (8/02/02)

Advanced Flash Actionscript Animation Workshop - FlashForward Animation Conf. San Francisco (2/18/2001)

Database XML & Cold Fusion w/Flash5 & Generator Workshop - FlashForward Conf. Amsterdam (11/31/2001)

AutoDesk Certified 3D Studio Animation software (03/06/1996)

Related College Courses:

Design of Interactive Multimedia (Professor Sandy Stone) - Three consecutive semesters in the ACTLAB (Advanced Center

for Telecommunications LABorotry) Design and creation of Interactive Multimedia" (i.e. Digital Audio/Video Production;

Interactive Internet Media; Online Interactive Environments, Virtual Reality and various other types of interactive computer-

based media)

A Documentary Video Production class and four semesters of Video and Film Editing including-

Film III: Nonlinear-Editing (Professor Nick Cominos) - Worked on an Avid nonlinear editing system using Media Composer.

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:

Hardware:

Experienced with both Windows and Macintosh computers and working in networked production environments as well as

remote and online collaboration and production.

Software:

Adobe: Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Fireworks, Illustrator, Flash, Director, Authorware, Dreamweaver, Homesite, (and

most of the Adobe Suite), 3D Studio Max, Maya (getting familiar with current version), Combustion, Lighwave3D, Poser,

Bryce3D, etc. Final Cut Pro, BBedit, Eclipse IDE .JSP editor/APEX, CMS, FireBug, Wordpress. Etc.

Programming /Coding:

Flash (Action Script AS2, AS3), Authorware & Director (LINGO) programming.

Advanced HTML, XML Lev1, some CGI and Java Scripting.

Traditional programming languages (not actively kept up): C, C++, Pascal, COBOL, Visual BASIC, Assembly (Mac/PC/VAX).

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