Delucchi Plus/Hammer Communications, Washington, DC

Flash Developer
Current duties focus on building websites in Flash, using Actionscript. Some sites pull data as XML from a database back-end. HTML editing with some CSS, and occasionally video editing.

Web Developer
Have also built HTML websites (including DHTML layers and CSS), incorporating timeline Flash elements. Edited short promotional videos, including voiceover recording.

Network Administrator/Production Artist
Kept Windows and Mac computers updated and running, administered the Windows 2000-based file and mail servers and monitored the backup server. Upgraded the backup system to be more reliable with greater capacity, transitioned the Macs to Mac OS X, installed an Apple XServe (linking it to the company’s Active Directory domain). Inventoried all hardware and software owned by the company and oversaw switching Internet Service providers, including changing the server and firewall appliance settings when the hired contractor was unsure how to do it.

Occasionally acted as a production artist, resizing ads, creating PDFs to send to publications, editing documents, and troubleshooting file and printing problems.

Examples

Complete Flash Sites:
www.northbethesdamarket.com
www.toweroaks.com
www.1050kstreet.com
www.sixtenfranklin.com

Flash Components:
www.townsquareatmillbrook.com
www.edelenstation.com

Freelance

Web Developer
Designed and programmed sites in HTML and Flash/Actionscript. Cleaned up and revised existing design on some sites.

Examples

Complete Design:
www.dublinsl.com
www.chellefulk.com
www.elmobalderdash.com

Cleanup/Revision:
www.keltish.com
www.musicbyanthem.com

Apple Store, Tysons Corner, VA

Mac Genius
Answered technical questions, did troubleshooting on Mac OS X and Mac OS 9, fixed hardware problems, made repairs on a wide range of Apple computers. Taught a “Getting Started With The Mac” class on Saturday mornings.

Northern Virginia Community College
Loudoun Campus, VA

Adjunct Professor
Taught Design For The Web I, introducing basic concepts of interface design and usage of color, images and typography in web sites. Taught how to use Macromedia Dreamweaver, and pointers on using Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady to create graphics optimized for use on the web. The class met one three-hour period each week.

Utopia Communications Group, Washington, DC

New Media Director
Met with clients, estimated jobs, and managed web and CD-ROM projects, as well as built web sites and CD-ROM projects in HTML, Flash, and Adobe Acrobat.

Imaging Specialist/Network Adminstrator
Printed design files on a variety of output devices, from dye sublimation printers to high resolution Agfa imagesetters. Set up and maintained approximately 20 Macintosh computers, designed and maintained the company’s Telefinder BBS, and created the company’s first web site, hand-coding it in HTML.

Freelance

Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist
Have performed solo and with groups. Recorded my own CD, produced demo recordings for others.

www.stringtheoristsband.com
"meet the stevos" on itunes

Rutgers College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

BA in Visual Art, 1989
Concentration in electronic media, including video and computer art. Used Macintosh, Apple II and Amiga computers. Minor in Anthropology.

I was a DJ on the University’s radio station, and drew a comic strip for the weekly Rutgers College newspaper, the Rutgers Review.

Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria, VA

Part-time Illustration Curriculum.
Studied various illustration techniques, as well as photography and 3-D design.