Areas of Effectiveness:

Paul Ackerman
vm: e-mail: vjpabloproductions@yahoo.com

•Technical Skills:
o Project Management: MS Word(6 years), MS Excel(5 years), MS Project(2 years), Win3.1(4 years), Win95(3 years), Window2000 Server (7 mo), DOS(3 years), Raid(3 years) and MacOS(8 years.) Mixed Media installations utilizing video, slide projections and theatrical stage lighting.

• Graphic Design/Art Direction: 15yrs experience - Adobe(6 years), Fractal Painter(5 years), QuarkXPress(4 years) and MacroMedia(5 years) tool sets for mac and pc

• Illustration/GUI/Icons: 20yrs experience - Adobe PhotoShop(8 years), Adobe Illustrator(9 years), Studio8(2 years), C+ (Graphics Editor), Win3.1(3 years), MM Director(5 years), MM Extreme3d(4 years), MM Freehand(5 years), Strata Studio Pro(2 years)

• Multimedia: 15yrs experience. With a BFA degree in photography, I'm a media designer who works with film, slide shows, video production/editing and produced events. Director(7 years), Adobe After Effects(4 years), MS PowerPoint(3 years), MS Windows(6 years), Apple OS(12 years) Media webcast(3 months.)

• Web Site Design & Development: 3 years - HTML(3 years), Adobe GoLive(6 years), Director(7 years), Flash(2 years), Dreamweaver(6 months), MS PowerPoint(3 years), Adobe ImageReady(1 year), Media Cleaner Pro(3 years), Adobe PhotoShop(6 years), Debabilizer(5 years), Anarchie Pro(4 years), MS Excel(6 years), MS Word(7 years), Explorer/Netscape(7 years)

• Video Producer/Event Production & Post Production Editor: 6 years experience;
Nonlinear editing with turn key workstation. Media100xs(6 years), Adobe After Effects(8 years), MS Excel(8 years), MS Word(7 years), Media Cleaner Pro(6 years), Windows Media SDK, RealNetworks & QuickTime, Adobe PhotoShop(8 years.) JVC GYDV500 12lb digital miniDV camcorder is state of the art with Canon18:1 IF zoom lens and a Sennheiser MKH60 shotgun microphone. Proven ability to work well with a team or independently.

Experience
Pablo Design: 3/96 - present: Owner, Consulting Company: See web site for samples

Videos:
Training Videos: PhysioControl and Voices of Survivors,
Music Videos: Numantra, MerKaBa, Joe Skyward & Super Sonic Soul Pimps
Documentary Videos: Cirque de Flambé, Black Dog Forge, Pablo’s Kaleidoscope performance at Seattle Centers ArtsEdge97 and The Land Conservancy proposal for King County.

Web:
Microsoft: GUI designer for Windows 2001 Streaming Administration Media Server,
July ‘00 – jan ’01 – Designed new media icons for international server interface controls. Created GUI incorporating real-time spec readouts for “at a glance” administration monitoring. Created graphics for Wizard media set Extensive database documentation to facilitate UI designer and developers daily builds. Worked on campus in the Digital Media Division on Windows Server2000 os.

Fremont Chamber of Commerce Web Site Design/Illustration 2001 current
Offical web site for the Fremont Chamber of Commerce. Interfaced with staff art director to carry over an existing design concept from a brochure to an informative resource site for the Fremont business community. Extensive listings of all local businesses with links to include appropriate reference business sources.

Bucky.com: Manufacture of buckwheat hull pillows. Developed site to accommodate retail and wholesale support, recipe ideas, newsletter, feedback for favorite Bucky stories, questions about buckwheat hulls, on-line sales catalog with retail store and web sales locations. (refer to my web site for samples)
GoLive, Flash, PhotoShop, MS Excel

Daily Rocket: Web zine for investment monitoring, includes animated gifs, charts for tracking 6 month or daily stock reports, Windows95 screen saver and a Windows95 Wizard for setting up personal stock portfolios. GoLive, Flash, PhotoShop, ImageReady, MS Excel (refer to my web site for samples)

Northwest Network: Designed sites main GUI for optimal speed and functionality. Provided GUI, Learned HTML PhotoShop, Win95, AppleOS (refer to my web site for samples)

Urban Earth.com: Consulted on sites development, GUI, graphic look and feel

Microsoft; Secure Electronic Technology (SET), Advanced Technology, GUI Designer, Sept.'95-March '96 contract
Designed, directed and produced a photo Illustrated sequence with a Wizard format for purchasing on the worldwide Web via Secure Electronic Technology. Interface steps people through on-line credit card transactions and on-line credit card registration process. The challenge for me was to present a complicated process in common visual gestures.
MS Excel, PhotoShop, Win95, AppleOS (refer to my web site for samples)

Microsoft; CD-ROM Catalog Exposition, Lead Designer, GUI, Illustrator, Production Manager, Aug.'94 - Aug.'95 contract
Supervised 5 people locally to build 3 languages, trained 1 person to go to Microsoft’s Ireland campus as a Design lead supervising 2 people for producing 4 languages. Responsible for Programmer interactions, GUI, 2D/3D Illustration, content design and production Management. Catalog shipped with Windows 95 CD. Catalog insert with Ziff-Davis magazines, MacMillian Publishing Magazines, given away at Trade Shows and serves as a standalone Kiosk in retail stores with a take home version. Shipped 10.5 Million in US and Canadian markets, 50 million overall. Design/graphics for Microsoft's products web catalog. (refer to my web site for samples)
MS Excel, PhotoShop, Win95, Apple OS, Adobe PageMaker, RAID 3.4, Apstudio, C+ Graphic Editor, Extreme3D

Edmark; Virtual Tales, Graphic Designer, '94
Responsible for character development of graphic elements that would animate, stationary, rotate, and resize against 7 backgrounds. Advised and directed staff on steps to creating a multimedia video studio for images captures of people and objects for integration. Photoshop

Microsoft; Sendak, A Children’s Encyclopedia, Cell Animation, '94
Cell illustration of various animals and objects that would be activated when selected in the interface. Used Photoshop to Illustrate and MacroMind Director for compiling 8-50 frame animation sprites.

Microsoft; Bookshelf 94, Illustration/GUI, '94
Provided production and illustration for CD-ROM Macintosh version. Created icons, image manipulation for 7 interface splash screens conversion of animations to be embedded Quick Time movies and created artwork for the product demo. Win95, AppleOS, Photoshop

Traveling Software; Lap-link V, Graphic Designer/GUI, '93
Created 24 interface application icons for an upgraded version of Lap-link V.
Win95, Apple OS, PhotoShop

Asymetrix; Compel, Design/Illustration/GUI, '93
Provided 3D illustration of musical notes integrated into the package design for Compel. Created screen saver images composed of computer art overlaid with video captured images of whales in upgraded version of MediaBlitz 3.0. Provided sequenced images for the animated screen saver. GUI design and illustration for the upgraded version of Toolbook 3.0.
Win95, Apple OS, PhotoShop, Extreme3D, Media Blitz,

Microsoft; Word Help User Education Group, Graphic Designer/GUI, '93
On-line design and illustration for PC version of Word 6.0 for Windows. Responsible for design and creative use of art used in the application for on-line help. Learned DOS
Win95, Apple OS, PhotoShop,

Microsoft; Systems Production Group, Illustrator/GUI, '92
On-line illustrations of all related application screens and new icons. Application Windows 3.1 interface simulations and art for animated sequences for updated version of Windows Hyperguide 3.1 showing all aspects of various applications function.
Win95, Apple OS, Studio8,

Tetra Tech, Inc.; Environmental Engineering Firm, Graphic Design/Illustration, '91-92
Provided 2D and 3D technical illustration, graphic design and photo manipulation.
Win95, Apple OS, Studio8, Freehand, PageMaker

Allstock Inc.; Stock Photography Agency, Graphic Designer, '90
Art Directed and Designed catalogs, National and Regional Ads. Established 15 page formats for catalog composition. Coordinated computer image enhancement of stock images as manipulated by the color house. Established a distinctive style for portfolio series showcasing world-renowned photographers. Learned Adobe Illustrator and PageMaker

Sportsmind Inc.; Motivational Training, Graphic Designer, '85-88
Graphic Designer for an innovative motivational training firm. Integrated experiential learning into all facets. Human technological concepts used in all training and corporate support materials. Produced manuals, brochures, banners, charts and multi-image shows.

Microsoft; MS Press, Design/Illustration, '84-85
Part of a small initial staff who produced the "MAC", book written by Carry Lu. Contribution involved design, illustration and production. Was first exposed to the Apple Macintosh computer before public release.

Writers Publishing Co.; Book Publisher, Graphic Designer, '81-83
Responsible for all prepress production of books from initial manuscripts to include design, illustration, mechanicals, process camera work & stripping. Produced an estimated 50 books.

E d u c a t i o n:
University of California at Berkeley, CA, 1976
Advanced courses in technical and scientific illustration.

California College of Arts and Crafts, B.F.A., 1975
Major in Illustration and minor in Photography, graduated with honors.