Sound Visions is a one-man powerhouse, available
on a Contract, Project, or Per-Hour basis.
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David A. Sheppard
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| Objective: |
One-time and continuing consulting contracts in web design, technical
illustration, and graphics. Clear, powerful, and effective communications. |
| Education: |
B.S. in Computer Science, M.I.T., 1982, with additional concentration
in Visual Arts & Design.
Built a solid foundation in information processing, mathematics and the
sciences.
Research and thesis at the M.I.T. Visible Language Workshop: "An Animation
Language in a Tree-Structured Process Environment". Years of
hands-on work at the cutting edge of computers & technology. |
| Freelance Consulting: |
| 1983--Present |
| SOUND VISIONS, New
York & Boston |
Freelance Designer, Web Integrator, Consultant
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Completed a wide variety of graphics, design, and media projects, for dozens
of different clients.
These projects have included:
- Web Development, design,
integration & team management
- Animation & Interactive: Macromedia
FLASH, Actionscript, Director & Lingo programing
- Technical Illustration
and expert Photoshop work
- Powerpoint & Director presentations, Print, and
CDROMs
- Logo and graphics creation for corporations, products,
and publications
- Video production, & audio recording, mixdown,
and digital editing.
Engineered >75 demo tapes and several albums and CDROM projects.
Sample clients: Pfizer,
LM&P/Nethod,
Planar Semiconductor, Arris
Contracting, Kinetics
Cosmetics, MORE SITES...
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Full Time Staff Positions:
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| 1990--1996 |
Co-designed, documented, and supervised installation of
a showpiece $5 million fiber-to-the-desktop
network. Primary contributor for NeCSys
Intranet Documentation Site (NEtwork Computing SYStems group); Performed
large-scale computer systems maintenance and research group support. |
| 1985--1989 |
| Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge,
MA |
Research Engineer
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Designed scientific visualization and computer animation
projects with researchers and visiting scientists. Wrote device-control
software for computer animation, used in award-winning animations by Karl
Sims. Co-inventor of the DataVault, a patented
fault-tolerant ultra-high-speed disk array. Performed final test, QA, and
field engineering for first three Connection Machine
model CM-1 supercomputers. |
| 1984--1985 |
| LaserData, Inc., Cambridge, MA |
Software Engineer
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Redesigned company Logo and image graphics. Engineered,
documented, prototyped and supervised fabrication of LaserDisc Multiplexor
Interface product. Wrote utility and driver-level code for LaserDisc systems.
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| 1982--1984 |
| Applicon, Inc., Burlington, MA |
Graphics System Software Engineer
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Refined and implemented the "Drawing Composer"
and "Views" portion of the Bravo! CAD system. Presented workshops
on system use to sales and applications |
| 1979--1980 |
| ALCATOR plasma-fusion lab, MIT, Burlington,
MA |
Instrumentation Technician
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Built prototype plasma-fusion reactor instrumentation for
Alcator-C. |
| 1978--1981 |
| Architecture Machine Group, MIT, Cambridge,
MA |
Student Researcher
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Wrote "TrEd" graphical editor for the Aspen Project;
systems support. |
