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Curriculum Vitae
To download a copy of my written
CV, click here,
or contact me at
james@jamesflowerdew.com
EDUCATION
| Developing the
skills needed to produce and author quality software. These
skills include the knowledge of Macromedia products: Dreamweaver,
Authorware, Director, Flash, Fireworks, and Freehand as well
as a theoretical understanding of what makes good software.
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| 1998-2000 Becoming
trained as a professional Illustrator which extended the skills
Of Desk Top Publishing packages such as Adobe Photoshop 5.5,
Illustrator 7, QuarkXpress, as well as drawing, painting, photography,
design, and typography |
| Developing skills
in Painting, drawing, print making, collage, photomontage and
sculpture. |
| Investigating
the Art & Design areas of Fine art, graphics, 3D-Design,
fashion and textile 1992-1994 design. |
| A Level Art &
Design B Higher Art & Design A Higher Biology B Higher English
C Higher Chemistry C |
EMPLOYMENT
I am currently a co-director of IMIGEA.LTD
IMIGEA Ltd is an Edinburgh company run By Pete Roobol and Myself. We specialise in creating learning material, games, and 3D presentation for the web and CD Rom.
The resposibilities of project management, marketing, development and research are all shared roughly equally, and doled out on a job for job basis, depending on whose key strengths and interests are more strongly tied to each job. Thus far, this has meant that we have been able to produce multimedia and games experiences that usually excel our client's expectations, and are sometimes ground breaking.
We have produced:
| for National newspapers, milk companies, games based learning developers, and our own web gaming portal www.gamevial.com, which gets an astounding 100,000 unique visits per calendar month. |
| for the heritage industry, alternative health practitioners, Oil industry trainers, and our own archaeological site www.3Dancientwonders.com, which gives the users a chance to examine and walk around ancient sites and relics in web 3d. |
| For alternative medicine practitioners, alternative musicians and crane handlers. |
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Therefore, I'm not looking for work at present, but if you need the skills described in this site, they are all available from www.imigea.com.
I recently worked free-lance for Drummond Internet, producing a
racing game for a Client of theirs called John Clark.
My brief was to Create a 3D racing game featuring a Mini cooper
and two other cars, which I could choose.
I had to research, and build models of all of the cars, and build
a track based on the world famous Le Mans track. All images, code,
and resource materials had to be researched and created by myself.
I also created the in-game sound effects, and voice-overs.
I integrated the game’s group scoreboard, and mail-a friend
functionality with John Clark’s existing server technology
(ASP), and all the interface graphics.
This game can be viewed at www.john-clark.co.uk/game.htm
Some friends and I won the E-Falkirk new enterprises competition,
our prize consisting of free office space for a year and a £5000
start up loan. The company develops multimedia content for the web,
the idea being that a full multimedia experience, including video,
games, sound, graphics and 3D will add user satisfaction and stickiness
to web presence, as well as communicating to a wider audience.
I was responsible, as head of graphics for:
- 2D and 3D design, and animation.
- 3D modeling and formatting for games/ video presentations.
- Games Design and concepts.
- Building Web pages in HTML.
- Programming in lingo/action-script for Shockwave,
Flash, and stand-alone applets.
- Design navigation maps/trees.
- Video editing and manipulating.
- Proofing and editing Proposals, Legal documents,
etc.
- Meeting with clients/potential clients/users.
- Demonstrating Products
A Glasgow firm, specialising in 3D architectural realisations in
the forms of video, CDROM, and printed media. I was involved in:
- Designing logos and branding
for blue chip companies.
- Authoring and debugging CD ROM
applications, and brochures
- Retouching computer generated
buildings to add realism.
- Preparing documents/layouts for commercial printing.
I left to join REDOVADO.
A company that was involved in the production of educational multimedia
in Hertfordshire, Imigea was set up to complete a commission from
the Welwyn Garden City Council to produce an environmental package
for schools.
My responsibilities are detailed below:
- Help design the Navigation maps,
and general feel of the program.
- Design, and create images for The Program (painting,
photography, sound and video).
- Co-represent the program in numerous scientific
fairs and in-school demonstrations.
- Work as a programmer in the text based code GLPRO™.
I also worked as an assistant manager of a charity shop in St Albans,
which I regard as important business training.
Here, I had to deal with the general book keeping of the shop, as
well as work with a variety of volunteers, some of whom had learning
difficulties. I had to deal with the public on a daily basis, handling
the security, safety, morale, and customer relations of the shop,
which had a diverse clientele. This makes me more able to work with
a variety of different people.
I worked there for four months on a voluntary basis and for four
months on a basic wage, but eventually left because I decided that
I wanted to pursue a more challenging career.
KEY SKILLS
The benefits of having artistic and multimedia skills are that I
can supply all of the authoring skills needed from start to finish
of many forms of project. This gives the ability to work well independently,
as well as from within a group. Current projects include web games
and Multimedia info-tainment packages regarding subject matters
that vary from environmental issues to the knowledge of the ancient
Viking runes. All computer packages and games exhibit amazing interactivity
supported by high quality graphical content.
I am continuing to develop my painting and drawing skills. I am
an experienced draughtsman, and painter with an understanding of
many other traditional media types, such as print making, sculpture,
photography, collage, mixed media, ceramics, as well as a fairly
comprehensive suite of computer aided techniques related to 3D Modelling,
image manipulation, and animation/video editing.
IT SKILLS
My IT skills are listed below.
Capability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
A strong understanding of computers (Mac & PC).
Experience with many different software packages (listed later on)
The ability to pick up new IT skills, programming languages rapidly
A good understanding of H.C.I (Human Computer Interaction) psychology
An understanding of various business, and software authoring language
protocols, such as UML and IDEF0.
I am trained in the following software:
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Creating and editing
digital art work for software, print and texturing for 3D. |
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Creating 3D worlds,
animations, low and high polygon models for games and video. |
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Making Multimedia CDROMS
and web games (2D AND 3D). |
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Creating, and editing
HTML. Web pages. |
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Adding sound, motion,
and interactivity to the web. |
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Creating images, animations,
buttons and rollover images for the web. |
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Publishing Leaflets,
books, and 2 page spreads. |
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Creating and editing
video clips for multimedia. |
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Design, Typography work,
and Vector graphics |
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Authoring Educational
Multimedia packages. |
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Capturing and editing video clips for multimedia. |
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Authoring Multimedia
packages |
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Creating 3D worlds,
and animations. |
SELF MOTIVATION
I am currently working on many of my own software projects involving
large scale 3D projects for games and animations, small games for
the web.
My concentration span is very long, and I am able to work 16-hour-a-day
shifts for weeks if necessary. This allows me to be more ambitious,
and is therefore rewarding for me.
I don’t like not knowing how to do something, and this pushes
me more.
I am a good problem solver.
CONTACT ME
If my skill set (or any facet of it) seems to match your needs,
don't hesitate to contact me using either the phone, or the link
provided below.
Tel: 0(+44) 131 659 5239
Email: james@jamesflowerdew.com
REFEREES
Peter Roobol Managing Director redovado.com pete@petesland.co.uk Also co-director of IMIGEA.ltd
Grant Macdonald Gordon Audio/Technical
Leader redovado.com grant@redovado.com bongogenius@aol.com
For More referees please contact
me
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