Artist - Web Graphics Designer - New Media Specialist - Art Director

Summary

Mr. Williams has 20 years experience as an artist in a spectrum of projects which include roles as an art director, editor, writer, songwriter/musician, assistant advertising director, teacher, Web site designer, project manager, bookstore owner, daily cartoonist, pics designer, illustrator, and magazine publisher.

Objective

Interactive creative artist/director with a massive long term background and extreme passion for artistic endeavors and projects, web/new media (and online training), looking for a career with an Artistic or Internet/New Media company that wants to focus ahead and forge into advanced design beyond most companies.

Seeking a position consisting of art directing and web graphics/interface designing, offering 20 years experience as an artist in a spectrum of projects which include roles as an art director, project manager, sign maker, editor, writer, songwriter/musician, assistant advertising director, teacher, Web site designer, project manager, bookstore owner, daily cartoonist, graphics designer, illustrator, and magazine publisher.

WORK EXPERIENCE

I still do a few comic strips and illustrations for a variety of newspapers. From 1995 until 2006, I was a daily cartoonist working for a San Francisco Syndicate (I-Syndicate). Winner of the Xeric award for Excellence in Comic books. (like the Sundance Film Festival of comic books)

Web Designer for jamesrivercountry.com – June 2008

Web Designer for the Scottsville Community Chamber of Commerce – May 2008

Web Designer for peeweespitbbq.com – January 2008

Web Designer for Takebackthebirth.com – October 2007 (Stacy Sheer)

Web Designer for the Foundation Education Center – March 2007

Webmaster/designer for a Montessori School located in Kearneysville, West Virginia.

Webmaster at Gamebit & Lightburn Farms – 2006 April – August

Webmaster for a multitude of websites – Most of them are Game, Toy, and Comics stores, also a Scrapbooks store (Scrapdoodles), a farm, a fence company, and lots of real estate. Job also consists of graphics creations of all types, including signs, advertisements, media buying, architectural design, anything graphical.

Freelance Fine Artist – 1988 – NOW 2007

While creating websites and DVDs on contract or for a company over the years, I’ve managed to supplement my income selling my own artwork that I create.  Some of this has been for nightclubs or restaurants (mostly in Washington  DC) creating custom designed wall tiles around a theme. My samples are easy to see at http://www.artcomic.com/artworks - For a art gallery resume, please request one if needed.
I also supplement my income when I’m not fully active making works for clients by selling collectables on Ebay. My username on that site is artcomic. You will see that I have 100% positive feedback and close to 4,000 feedbacks (no negatives).  (USE THAT FOR REFERENCES)

Macromedia Flash Specialist (freelancing) – 2001 January – to NOW

DVD creation using Flash for the Hyatt Hotels in Northern Virginia. http://www.artcomic.com/hyatt  – January 2004 – April 2004 – tons of HTML coding
Online Presentations/Web Entertainment Freelancing for various companies - For "a private company in Hollywood CA", designing and developing a Flash presentation for television and the web for an upcoming TV series with a producer from the famous tv show utilizing licensed characters – This is still an ongoing project that I work on a need basis. March 2004 - I can show you a live sample if needed.

Relaxintonow.com - 2004

Solo design and development of the website.

Rudymanuel.com - 2003

Solo design and development of this famous artist website.

YOH-IT (contract worker) - 2001

• For "Concert", designed and developed Flash modules for their training CD and website consisting of 135 screens. The screens were transposed from PowerPoint slides and a multitude of new animations, ActionScripting programming, and custom artwork were created. Work was done in a timely manner on schedule. One Sample (without a preloader)

New Media Specialist 1998-2001
EEI Communications, Alexandria, VA

As a lead New Media specialist for EEI, Mr. Williams develops and produces custom designed Web sites and CDs within budget and on time while maintaining the quality standards of the industry. Projects required designing user interfaces and interactivity. Combines a professional art and music background with strong electronic skills. Multimedia and Web projects have required conceptual development, linking the verbal with the visual, and include:

• For Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. designed and developed an interactive quiz portrait game using Macromedia Flash for placement on the web and on CDs. http://www.npg.si.edu/edu/brush/mystery/index.html
  
  
• For EEI Communications designed and developed four online training courses currently used as part of EEI's online school. Courses are Introduction to Copyediting, Grammar for Professionals, QuarkXPress, Writing Newsletters, and Comprehensive Proofreading. Mr. Williams also played the lead in designing EEI's Online Campus Center. http://www.eeicommunications.com/training/online/
  
  
• Infintium Technologies. original artwork custom designed for use on their web site, brochures, maps, etc. Used Photoshop and PaintshopPro to draw them (who says you always need to use a vector drawing tool anyway?) :)
  
  
• For InforMax Inc. designed and developed most of their current website in collaboration with an outside pics Design Company. Consists of Macromedia Flash and pages made using Dreamweaver. INTRO sample only with blank ending: http://www.informaxinc.com/
  
  
• For the Fairfax County Water Authority designed and developed the templates for their website using Frontpage and Photoshop. Not up and running yet
  
  
• For American Society of Plant Physiologists converted hundreds of existing Illustrator illustrations to Flash components for zooming and scrolling effects, imported into Director and used on a CD Rom. (see one example here)
  
  
• For Bostwick Laboratories designed and developed their pathology reference Web site laboratory for their physicians, patients, and managed care organizations. http://www.bostwicklaboratories.com



• For Healthy Steps designed and developed Flash movies as partial page intros for each major section of their CD Roms. These were plugin units for Director.\For Booz-Allen & Hamilton designed the programming and interface of a CD-ROM Product Information Guide for company employees used in collaboration with their Web browsers and Microsoft PowerPoint.



• For DATEX Inc, designed and developed investment Web site that caters to investors interested in other countries. Also acted as the project manager for this client. http://www.datexinc.com



• For Morris-Beecher & Associates designed and programmed the Web site for Host Marriott using Flash, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver. http://www.hmscorp.com/



• For UNICOR, U.S. Department of Justice designed and developed various segments of their Web site including catalog database, designing lawn equipment catalog, Annual reports online, brochure transposing to Web. Also acted as the project manager for this client.



• For the Education Statistics Research Institute designed and developed online training and help files for several software programs. Online support contact for Microsoft NetMeeting. http://www.erc-assoc.org
  
  
• For the Council on Foundations in Washington D.C., designed and developed their Web site in two versions (graphical and entirely textual). Created online conference program, templates, and their online monthly magazine "Foundation News & Commentary." http://www.cof.org



• For the Engineering Research Centers designed and collaborated on a Web site based upon the Best Practices Manual. Funding for this site is provided by the National Science Foundation.



• For the National Geographic Society hand coded thousands of HTML pages used in a CD ROM United States travel guide.



• For CSAP created numerous levels of their Web site including brochures, custom pics and animation.



• For the National Private Truck Council created custom pics and animation for their online preconvention and convention Web pages.



• For the Whereohwhere website, project managed and created custom logos, pics, template designs, and animation for their online travel search guide.

Freelancer January 1995-present

Senior pics Designer
Cyberage Technologies (1997-1998)

• Produced from concept to finish Trex Easy Care Decking Web site. Project included an online catalog design, storyboarding, animation, custom pics and interface, and complete organization. http://www.trex.com/
  
  
• CIEBA (Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets). Designed custom web pics.
  
  
• Cyberagetechnologies. Project included storyboarding, sketches, HTML programming, and Gif/Flash animation for their Web site.

Client Management/Art Director/Freelancer

• www.koanart.com (1995 to present) - ArtWOW for KOAN Magazine - Mr. Williams produced this Web site, which caters to artists and art lovers of KOAN art newsletter, from concept to finish. Project includes an ongoing catalog of artists on the premises of the site, a full Web guide of art in the Washington, D.C. area, a bulletin board, complete custom management, and custom maintenance/upgrading of the site.
  
  Corcoran Gallery of Art - organization and placement of entire art exhibitions including the prestigious ArtSites exhibitions. Other art organizations custom designed into the site include: Rockville Arts Place, International Sculpture Center, Arlington Arts Center, McLean Project for the Arts, Maryland Art Place, School 33 in Baltimore, Greater Reston Art Center and Ellipse Arts Center.
  
  
• Art Comics Syndicate (1995 to present) - http://www.artcomic.com - Owner of this site and in collaboration with Isyndicate Inc, Mr. Williams presents and rents daily features to a variety of online Web sites and print publishers the world over. The site also features a variety of Flash/Shockwave entertainment and receives a ½ million visitors each month. Awards for this site include Xeric Foundation Award for excellence in comic books and Best Comix on the Web. Creator and Publisher of the photo comic book series, "Bobby Ruckers," winner of the Xeric Award (the Sundance Film Festival of comic books).
  
  Art Comics Daily. Mr. Williams is the creator of the longest running daily Web comic on the internet. (since March 1995)



• Latin American Youth Center (1997) Project/Production Web site Coordinator for their Web site and an online Performance Art Exhibition in collaboration with their staff. Site is sponsored by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, New York Council for the Arts, and New York performance artists. Built an interactive online Temple of Confessions in which art viewers could confess their sins onto a Web site bulletin board as part of a performance art piece at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Instructed staff on building a Web site and built templates.



• Chef Roberto Donna (1996) - Built his Web site from concept to finish. Restaurants include Galileo, I-Matti,
  Arlicola, Pesce, Cesco, Dolcetto, Barolo, and il Radicchio.



• National Institutes of Health (1996) Created original Web site pics, storyboards, animations for the Women's Health Center division. Troubleshooted SGML coding for CSAP.



• Intensity Skateboards (1996-1997) Built three online catalogs of skateboard products featuring thousands of items. Also designed some of their pics for their products.



• www.Nicotine.com (1996-1997) Built two online catalogs of skateboard products.

Teacher Specialist in Creativity Workshops 1998-Present
Arlington, Virginia; State of Virginia; and the Smithsonian Institution

Award winning teacher for the State of Virginia

The only two time award winner and grant recipient of the Virginia Museum's Artist Workshop Program for the State of Virginia. As a representative of over 25 museums and arts organizations, Mr. Williams lectured and taught specialized workshops to high school students throughout the state.

"Photographic Cartooning." Small groups of students learned collaboration, feedback brainstorming, script writing, acting, photography, graphic design, and publishing in a six hour intensive workshop.

"Photographic Tiles." Students learned to create photo images on wall tiles then paint them with multiple art materials.

Artist in Schools award winner for Arlington County

Artist in schools and institutions including the Smithsonian Institution's Experimental Gallery in Washington, D.C.

AWARDS

DC City Pages Top Ten (twice), Legendary Links (top 100), Top 5% Web site Point, Site of the Day, BBC's Top Pick for Comics, Suite 101 Top 5 Web sites, Netguide Gold

ART EXHIBITIONS 1986-Present

I've made this section very short. The most recent exhibition was in the RGB Gallery on Wired Magazine's Web site (reviewed in Time Magazine).

Mr. Williams has shown in over 160 exhibitions (solo and group), including the prestigious Brody's Gallery in Washington, DC (Sue Coe, Raw Magazine), WPA, the Arlington Arts Center, Rockville Arts Place, the Center of Exploratory and Perceptual Art in Buffalo, NY, Montage in Rochester, NY (sponsored by Kodak and Xerox Corporations), and OTIS (now SITO on the internet).

Installations include the Insect Club and the Crowbar in Washington, DC
Hand-Painted wall tile murals (featured in People Magazine).

The following publications have used Mr. Williams' artwork for illustration purposes:

Newsweek, New York Times, Playboy, The Washington Post, Tampa Tribune, LCD (a New York Radio Station), Strange Magazine, Mole Magazine, Poet Lore, Whack, The National Examiner, and The Excluded Middle.

SOFTWARE KNOWLEDGE (PC Platforms)