Mark Jeschke

Interactive Rich Media Specialist
San Francisco

oogamedia.com

Professional Experience

Fancy, San Francisco, CA

Freelance Flash Developer - June 9, 2009 to July 31, 2009 & September 10 to September 14, 2009

  • Implemented ActionScript 3 coding, SCORM/Google Analytics tracking integration, art direction, 3D modeling/texturing, XHTML/CSS coding, and image production for a SanDisk training module for Sprint employees.

PlayFirst, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Freelance After Effects Animator - August 3, 2009 to August 7, 2009

  • Animated and encoded an iPhone trailer for PlayFirst's game, "Cooking Dash" in FLV and QuickTime format. Watch it on YouTube.

afstudio design, San Rafael, CA
Freelance Flash Developer - March 3, 2009 to May 14, 2009

  • Implemented ActionScript for a Flash product demo for Intuit’s Payroll for Accounting Professionals.  Optimized and resized stock photos and graphics from Illustrator files.

The Orphanage, San Francisco, CA
Matchmover and Roto/Paint Artist - August 22, 2008 to November 22, 2008

Christiansen Creative (Mark Christiansen), San Francisco, CA
Digital Production Artist - June 10, 2008 to June 20, 2008

  • Keyed and rotoscoped greenscreen talent and props, using After Effects for a Sony PlayStation Personal (PSP) advertisement. Executed matchmoving with SynthEyes.

Yahoo! Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
Design Engineer - December 5, 2005 to February 12, 2008

  • Designed and coded Flash prototypes from the Interaction Designers' wire frames for usability testing. Animated and coded Flash promotional architecture that dynamically displays different promotions, depending on the users' cookies via PHP. Implemented Flash inline product demos for the pre-sales pages, along with Omniture tracking. Provided visual and interface design for landing and partner pages.

Business Objects, San Jose, CA
Freelance Flash Developer and After Effects Animator - September 15, 2005 to December 30, 2005

  • Scripted the Data Integrator product auto-run installer in Flash interface, which was distributed on CD-ROM. Also animated the Business Objects logo with motion-title graphics for their conference monitors

Walmart.com, Brisbane, CA
Freelance Flash Developer - October 19, 2005 to December 20, 2005

  • Animated Flash banners with clickTags and implemented countdown timers for their timely holiday ads.

VERITAS (now Symantec) Software Corporation, Mountain View, CA
Senior Interactive Developer - July 19, 2004 to September 2, 2005

  • Created video event openers, home page promotions, software demos, product tours, and DVD motion menus, using Flash MX 2004, After Effects, LightWave 3D, Swift 3D, Live, Reason, Breeze, Captivate, Final Cut and DVD Studio Pro. Compressed and edited video and composed original music when needed.

Eleven Inc., San Francisco, CA
Freelance Flash Developer - May 26, 2004 to July 9, 2004

  • Animated and scripted an interactive Flash kiosk for Google from the art director's storyboard. Also implemented Flash ad banners in various sizes for their Kodak client.

Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA
User Interface Engineer - December 12, 2001 to October 13, 2003

  • Created online demos, internet posters, DVDs and various prototypes for the Broadband Marketing department, using Flash MX, After Effects, LightWave 3D, Swift 3D and DVD Studio Pro. Composed original music for multimedia projects.

Beatnik, Inc., San Mateo, CA
Senior Multimedia Designer - May 15, 2000 to June 15, 2000

  • Consulted and executed Flash interfaces and prototypes for Beatnik, MUBU.com and Mixman Technologies. Integrated Beatnik audio into Flash movies with JavaScript.

Excite@Home, Redwood City, CA
Senior Designer - December 1997 to May 2000

  • Designed Flash web sites and composed music for Excite's marketing department.

Proficient Software

  • Ableton Live 6
  • Adobe After Effects CS4 Professional (Trapcode, Red Giant, ReVisionFX)
  • Adobe CS4 Master Collection (Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver)
  • Andersson Technologies SynthEyes 2008 (matchmoving software)
  • Apple Dashcode
  • Apple DVD Studio Pro 4
  • Apple Final Cut 6
  • Autodesk Maya 2008
  • BBEdit 8
  • Newtek LightWave 3D 9.6
  • The Pixel Farm PFTrack 5 (matchmoving software)
  • Propellerheads Reason 4
  • SFX Silhouette 3.0 (rotoscoping software)

Education

Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
Bachelor's Degree in Professional Music
Guitar performance, film scoring and song writing.

Additional Skills

  • Currently a Silhouette rotoscoping mentor at the Pixel Corps visual effects group.
  • Learning how to design and develop applications for the iPhone.
  • Fluent on PC and Mac.

References available upon request

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