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". |
| Employment: |
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| 1983--Present |
| SOUND VISIONS, NY
& 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:
- Website development,
design & integration, specializing in information
imaging
- Technical Illustration
and expert Photoshop work
- Animation & Interactive: FLASH,
Director & Lingo programing
- Powerpoint & Director presentations, Print &
Interactive 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: Lipitor.com,
LM&P/Nethod,
NewCoLabs, New
York Racing Association, MORE... |
| 1990--1997 |
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 Mux Interface product. Wrote utility and driver-level code for
LaserDisc systems. |
| 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 |
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. |
