Resume
Profile
- sjforde@gmail.com
- Living
- Worcester, MA - USA
Education
BFA Visual Design - Electronic Imaging
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 2006
Summa Cum Laude
- Commonwealth Scholar
- Honors Program
- Dean's List
- Fall 2002, Spring 2003
- Chancellor's List
- Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring 2006
Employment
ImaginEngine / Foundation9 Entertainment
Artist
Feb 2008 - Present
Video game artist working in both 2D and 3D.
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Internet Systems Developer and Designer
July 2006 - February 2008
Working as web designer and developer for various clients both on and off campus. Designed the new layout for the University's website to provide a consistant visual between the University's many departments and organizations. Acted as the server administrator for the schools streaming video server.
Dragonfly Game Design, LLC
Lead Artist
October 2003 - December 2007
Working with a small group in developing video games for various platforms. Responsible for art and graphics of the game interface as well as website development and printed media.
Freelance
Mattnabo.com
Web Developer
October 2007 - January 2008
Developing a portfolio website based off the client's design.
Third Screen Media
Designer
May 2006 - October 2007
Flash promotional material. Mockups and creative assets for mobile phone advertising campaigns.
Demiurge Studios
Artist
February 2006 - March 2006
Short term contract work for image editing for their website.
Skills
- Software
- Photoshop
Illustrator
Indesign
Flash
Blender
Lightwave
Unreal Editor
BBEdit / TextWrangler
Dreamweaver
Final Cut Pro / QuickTime
Mac OS/Linux/Windows
- Other
- HTML and CSS
Coldfusion
PHP
MySQL
drawing
digital printing
Honors
- 2005
- The Big C Independant Game Competition
Dragonfly Game Design game named finalist for Q'Bicles - Interviewed for Dartmouth Community TV
3D character animation - Standard Times News Article
featuring 3D character animation - 2002
- Boy Scouts of America
Eagle Scout
