Noodle Dog

Lori Bowden

AiYiYi Multimedia
www.aiyiyi.com
lori@aiyiyi.com
(707) 578-0923 or (707) 578-4065

OBJECTIVE: To design, illustrate, animate and program internet and multimedia projects.

SUMMARY:

Over 15 years of experience designing and implementing Computer Graphics projects. My experience includes programming, graphic design, animation, game design, user interface design, documentation review and quality assurance.

Software: Fractal Painter, Director, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, Net Objects Fusion, Debabelizer, Photoshop, GIF Construction Set,  Streamline, Kai's Power Tools, Word

Programming Languages: C, C++, Lingo, HTML and JavaScript

Operating Systems: UNIX, Windows and Mac platforms

Sample URLS:

NorthPoint Communications, Media Mall, Get In-Line Skate Shop, Wily Eye Productions, AiYiYi MultimediaWater Whiners Bulletin Board.

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS:

  • Created/prepared hundreds of high-quality, low bandwidth images for the web from original artwork and scans.
  • Designed and implemented GIF and Shockwave animations.
  • Built web sites with hand-written HTML and web authoring tools.
  • Gained extensive knowledge of HTML programming including tables, frames, forms, single pixel GIF tricks and browser quirks and bugs.
  • Created an educational children's game (in Macromedia Director) which was chosen as a finalist in the 1997 Macromedia People's Choice Awards. My activities included project management, game design, creation of game characters and pieces, animation and Lingo programming.
  • Coordinated sounds and music with animation.
  • Managed and programmed computer graphics products for headlining, painting, layout and presentation graphics with output to video, film and print.
  • Implemented projects using Object Oriented design and programming.
  • Wrote software for creating vector animation, interpolating between key frames and animating game characters.
  • Designed and implemented user interfaces for graphics programs.
  • Performed Quality assurance testing for graphics applications and multimedia and internet projects.
  • Handled grading, tutoring and individual student interaction for a creative problem solving class of 250 students.

Inventor on US Patent #5588107: ``Method and Apparatus for Selectably Expandable Menus".

First Prize winner in 1/2 sheet category of the American Plywood Association/Popular Science One  Sheet Plywood Contest.

WORK HISTORY:

1994 - Present

Freelance Designer/Artist/Programmer - Santa Rosa, California

1986 - 1994:

Senior Software Engineer, Island Graphics Corporation - Larkspur, California

1982 - 1986:

Software Engineer, Computer Graphics Laboratories Inc. - Long Island, New York

1980 - 1982:

Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Illinois

1977 -1979

Freelance Graphic Designer, Research Assistant for the YACC, U.S. Forestry Service

EDUCATION:

1982

MS in Environmental Design, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Illinois
Masters Thesis: Computer Animation Film
Designed and implemented software for generating computer animation and produced a 2 1/2  minute film synchronized to a soundtrack. The project involved programming, storyboarding, graphic design, coordinating computer images with sound, and filming.

1978

BA in Comprehensive Planning and Design,  Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Illinois
Areas of concentration: Product Design and Development, Graphic Design, Systems Analysis and Products for Special Populations.

REFERENCES: Upon request

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