Tavis Hord

Multimedia Consultant

(760) 944-3858 • www.sideburn.com

contact: Tavis@sideburn.com

 

SUMMARY OF SKILLS

 

CODE

C Software Development, HTML, JAVA

Macintosh, Windows, Sony Playstation ,Sega Saturn Platforms.

Think C/Symantec, CodeWarrior, MPW

Assembly on Macintosh for Device Drivers

 

GRAPHIC DESIGN

2D and 3D computer graphic design

logos, animation, video

Web Design, Desktop Publishing

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

ENCAD 1995 - 1998

Developed ENCAD’s line of Macintosh printing and image enhancement software products for large format color printers. Development included product design, artwork, documentation and code implementation. Products consist of Quickdraw drivers, Photoshop plug-ins and applications capable of supporting over 40 of the most popular image file formats. Features include color calibration, scaling, stochastic screening, and print spooling over serial and AppleTalk networks.

(Power Macintosh; C, CodeWarrior, Symantec)

VISUAL INTEGRATION 1995

Macintosh Multimedia Software Development. Wrote Sony Playstation code for the title, "The Journeyman Project Directors Cut" by Presto Studios. Developed a "Macromedia Director" like authoring tool for Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn platforms. Developed an MPEG data streaming format for playing digital video on the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn platforms. Wrote a sound library to load and play 16-bit stereo sounds on the PSX and Saturn. Developed Sony PSX conversion tools for Silicon Graphics Irix platform. Created an animated 3D company logo. Completed all modeling and animation projects in Alias PowerAnimator. Designed interactive interfaces for Sony Playstation. Modeling experience in Alias, FormZ, Strata, and Swivel 3d.

(Macintosh; IBM-PC; C, Think C/Symantec C, Quicktime)

VIVID IMAGE 1992 - 1995

Macintosh Software Development and Graphics Development. Developed a sprite animation application for the Macintosh platform. Wrote Adobe Photoshop plug-in modules. Developed Macintosh SCSI and AppleTalk drivers. Developed HP PCL 5e and HPGL emulation code for embedded Raster Image Processors. Wrote FAX compression and decompression software. Developed portions of a PostScript clone interpreter. Developed a UNIX native TIFF file viewer.

(Macintosh, UNIX, Windows; C, MPW, CodeWarrior)

NEWGEN SYSTEMS 1989 - 1992

PostScript Software Debugging and C Software Development on Apple Macintosh and UNIX Systems.

(Macintosh, Windows, UNIX; C, Think C)

WEB SITE DEVELOPMENT

this is a list of some recent website design projects I am involved in most of these website projects are still under development. Our company provides domain name registration, DNS and Hosting services in addition to our website development. Be sure and visite our portfolio

www.sideburn.com domain registration,website design, graphic design, programming and hosting

www.photojet.com domain registration,website design, graphic design and hosting

www.sideburn.com/hcol website design, graphic design and hosting

www.sideburn.com/ty website design, music and programming

www.fundraisingguidewest.com website design, graphic design and hosting

www.andyparkers.com domain registration, website design, graphic design and hosting

 

MULTIMEDIA CONSULTING 1992 - Present (Concurrent)

Graphics/Multimedia Development. Commercial art designs for QuikSilver, Public Image and other clothing companies. Made original soundtrack and video tape cover design for "Pilferer". Created several 15-minute digital movies with synchronized soundtrack for a San Diego art show. Created a camera fly through animation clip using Photoshop, Premiere, and KPT Bryce. Animated still images in Morph, Photoshop, Premiere using filters, motion, and compositing techniques. Composed and edited sound and music projects with SoundEdit Pro, Studio Vision, and other MIDI applications. Performed hierarchical animation in Alias PowerAnimator, FormZ, ElectricImage,Strata, Infini-D, graphical design in Photoshop, Painter, Illustrator, Poser, multimedia using Premiere, Debabalizer, and MovieShop.

 

HARDWARE

Apple Macintosh, IBM-PC, SUN, SGI

OS EXPERIENCE

MacOS (8.6, X), Windows(95,98,NT), UNIX, MS-DOS

SOFTWARE

C, C++, Java, html, HPGL, Postscript, Visual Basic

 

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