September 2011

Freelance Imagesmith

Injury ended 8 hours tech. on a computer, however I have decided no more inside call center work. Interested in new opportunities in new fields or freelance assignments.

• Any format still or motion capture HD
• Industrial Location
• Multi Image resource per storyboard
• Video Production from scratch
• Architectural photography

10/2010-04/2011

Stream International / Rogers technical support

Technical support, front line agent for Rogers wireless technical support

10/2010-10/2011

Stream International / Hewlett-Packard

Technical support, front line agent for Hewlett-Packard. �FLA� specialists must exhibit and employ considerable IT and hardware skills (A++), while dealing with random customer mind-sets, customer abilities and often-complex computer issues.

2000 - 2008

Cruising Canada

www.cruising.ca & www.trentsevern.ca

Editor - Designer:
One of Canada's largest boating web sites averaging approximately 850,000 hits per month. Creator - designer overseeing day to day operation and development of Commercial Web site Design and hosting. Ongoing since 1995.

Technical Services: www.waupoosboatworks.ca
Marine Services & Fabricator. Electrical installer, Engineering. Please contact us for reference's and links to specific projects requiring journeyman skills and extensive knowledge.

1998 - 2000

Canadianet Communications

www.canadianet.com

Technical Director
To market Internet hosting and design services through public destination or interest sites where viewer can circumnavigate the net with increased ease with significant emphasis on E commerce, and recreational access for the visitor.

1997

IMG Design

Freelance Internet Production: Montreal , Quebec
My work was freelance assignments from USA companies with the guiding directive is to ensure that the largest number of viewers can view then site with the most stable platform available, still preferring to use cgi or Perl over less stable technologies which limit the viewer.

1996-97

BeOnTheNet

Technical Sales and Production:
New York City

BOTN was a deliberate move to mainstream fifth avenue clients.

I worked with the Mercantec Soft Cart store, data base Internet applications, Selena Sols cgi-scripts, and Perl 5. Responsibilities included telephone and in person sales of Internet design and marketing.

Original creation of Global Business Research sites for BOTN since this time there has been 4 years of ongoing and modifications by BOTN and client.

• Telemedicine
• Telemedicine West
• Nutracon
• Reverse Mortgages
• Geonomic Companies
• Real Estate Portfolio Summit

1995-1997

Red Light Magazine

Marketing Director:
New York City
Developed market strategies and sales for Red Light Magazine. Other freelance projects such as List Service Direct Inc.

1995

Imagequest

Freelance production services. Charter Marine Professional

1990 - 1995

Charter

• Charter of 65' Centaur to smaller groups of 10 to 30 passengers.
• 1st mate aboard schooner Freedom in NYC "80 passenger charter trade ".
• Crew on 95' charter vessel Southern Trail " 150 passenger with uniform ".
• Commercial maintenance diving on tugs and barges in NY harbour.

Captain & Shipwright

I returned purchased Centaur a 65' John Hanna designed motor sailor with the plan of living aboard and restoration for charter. I made yacht deliveries east coast territorial waters and undertook various marine projects in marinas by word of mouth.

Details may be seen at: Centaur

1986 1989

Cruising

I sold the post production labs and turned the 42' ketch I had built south stopping for a year in Atlantic Highlands to complete the AVT project..

Departed Sandy Hook en-route to the Caribbean where I worked my way south following the weather forecasts and events on a leisure schedule . The voyages carried me south to the windwards and throughout the Caribbean. Years drifted by! Beautiful beaches soon gave way to more exploring. I met many interesting people, communities not in any guide

1986-1987

Technical Director AVT

Audio Visual Transfer
Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey

Design, engineering and manufacture of the 15 projector multiplexor. Design, interfaces, and environments for Broadcast post production facility specializing in multi-media distribution. Video hardware included Sony 1", 3/4", Betacam VCRs, Hitachi Z31c cameras, mass duplication systems, Arriflex cameras, and test/control procedures.

I Designed, and manufactured consumer transfer hardware for franchise operations from concept requirements to finished product. Joint development of franchise business for Video Producer equipment. Total design and construction of hardware and production line.

1981-1986

AMI Technical Standards Chairperson

Vice President and founding member AMI of Canada.

The "Association of Multi-Image International" " presented me their "LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" for significant contributions to the industry (1984). In my capacity as chairperson, I drafted, and produced the " AMI Recommended Production Practices volume I & II", taught multi image production and post production seminars to industry members. Within the international Multi Image industry I was active presenting technical papers, workshops, and overall organization. In the broadcasting industry I liaised with SMPTE, and ANSI in formalizing the practices.

My formal classroom teaching experience is limited to conducting 1 to three day learning seminars every couple of months over a period of approximately three years on behalf of the AMI and other industry sponsors. However for the five years of POS,STS & AVT a primary job function was the training and management of staff which was one to one, or one to three ongoing training function encompassing most phases of film and video post production.

1983

Producers Optical Services INC & Slide Transfer Services INC

Technical Director
Philadelphia & Toronto

I started the first slide to film or video Multi-Image Transfer post production service. Engineering and design of the first nine projector ST.

By 1983 the ST had optical paths 21' long on the worlds only 21 projector multiplexSTtimes maintaining 3 in five circles of resolution which meets NASA, ANSI, and SMPTE optical requirements for 70mm.

I identified the need, built the equipment, support software (animation), located and brought suitable associates together , then successfully took the services to market.

1977-1979

Director of Photography

The AV House Toronto, Canada
Overall responsibility for up to 200 audio visual or video shows per year.

1975-1977

Hart Associates

London England

• Illustrative-commercial photography # Dunhill catalogue
• Awarded membership in Royal Photographers Society

1970-1974

The Morrish Studio Ltd.

• Professional photography

1966-1970

Brooks Institute of Photography BPA

• Commercial Illustrative
• Motion Picture
• Underwater courses

1964-1965

Canadian National ski Team

• Canadian Silver Medal
• Chicago Vocational Gas & Diesel Mechanics