Employment History
- Engineering Communications Office, Purdue University
Senior Web and Graphic Designer
2002 - the present
- Working on the College of Engineering web sites has introduced me to the Python scripting
language, and the Zope content-management framework. Learning both has been a real pleasure. The
system allows me to write script and page code in a web browser, save the web form, and test the
page on the site. It's a much more fluid and interactive style of development than I've ever
worked with in the past.
- Independent Contractor; Web/Database Design & Programming
2000 - 2002
- During our years in Berkeley, I had the pleasure of working with Kenneth Tyler
of 8th Fold on a number of projects.
In the course of our collaborations I was introduced to code-generating programs, unit testing,
and the Extreme Programming lightweight project planning methodology, to name just a few of the
more interesting things we played with.
- BizDat, Inc. (a.k.a. Woodland Communications, Inc.)
1988 - 2002 (independent contractor after the second half of 2000)
644-C W. Washington Ave., Madison, WI 53703, (608) 258-8868
- BizDat/Woodland is a small company and I wore many hats there. I did everything from 3D
illustration and photo retouching to network management and SQL programming, all of it self-taught.
- Freelance Illustration & Graphic Design
1983 - 2002
- I began doing traditional illustration in the mid-1980s, and later branched out to computer
illustration, page layout and design, interactive media, and web sites.
- Film & Video
1984 - 1987
- Various minor technical positions in student films, no-budget productions, and a few commercials.
- Restaurants
1977 - 1988
- Everything Else
1975 - 1982
Education
- Design and Implementation of Bioinformatics Infrastructures
University of California Extension Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, CA
2001
- Received an A.
- This course covered topics that you need to consider when designing bioinformatics
infrastructures: sequence-analysis tools, input and output formats, datasources, hardware and networking,
maintenance, programming languages, and application frameworks.
- Beginning Programming in C
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1992
- A one-semester course in basic programming. Received an A.
- Graduate Work in Studio Art
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1982 - 1983
- Three semesters of Drawing, Painting and Printmaking.
- After two semesters of work, I was accepted into the Printmaking department's graduate program.
At the end of that third semester I was invited to leave again, since I'd fallen in love with monotypes,
even though I'd been warned that the head of the department didn't consider them to be real prints.
- In other words, I went there to study art, but got a lesson in politics instead.
- Bachelor of Arts
Luther College, Decorah, IA
1978 - 1982
- Graduated Cum Laude with a major in Studio Art.
- Other courses included Logic, Calculus, French and Norwegian. My Junior year (1980-81) was spent
studying in Nottingham, England.
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