Monthly Archives: June 2007

open innovation dinner gig was interesting

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The most innovative part of the evening was the clever little gizmo of a light and camera contraption that plugged into the projector thus offering the functionality of those grand relics of the old world – overhead projectors. Have’nt seen one of those before (okay I know I don’t get out enough) but makes a lot of sense and thought it very kewl.

The actual presentation left me a bit cold except for a clever exercise with parallel lines to illustrate our tendency for erroneous assumptions about the validity of our knowledge. Otherwise I don’t think I spotted a single novel idea or argument in the presentation, the official presentation that is. Both Eddie Obeng and Jon Foster-Pedley are wonderfully charismatic speakers. Sandwiched between two relatively irreverent mini sessions of John Vlismas the whole affair was pretty entertaining. Vlismas is good, was a treat seeing him in action again.

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CV of André Clements

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As of June 2007

Education & Learning:

Highest: Bachelor of Arts (1995)

  • 2005 Diploma in Assessment from Damelin
  • 2004 Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Human Capacity Development (HCD), achieved distinction in a 3rd year level course at UNISA’s School of Management Sciences.
  • 2004 Advanced Symbolic Modeling: “Making Sense with Metaphor”, Modules 1, 2 and 3 from Discovery Works, UK. Clean-language and Clean-space facilitation and interventions is an exciting development and arguably improvement on NLP.
  • Currently busy with a Nat. Cert. in Data metrics at UNISA including the subjects Formal Logic, Computer-Human Interaction (read user-centricity) and Computer Science as well as Industrial Organizational Psychology (IOP [NDP]) etc.
  • 1995 BA from University of Pretoria , field of study Information Design

Also continuously pursue various avenues of self directed personal and professional development.

Employment Experience:

2006/11 – CURRENT: FORGEBUSINESS

  • Currently Tracking Integration Lead responsible for implementing and overseeing multi network technical integrations and client-side tracking integration
  • Maintain and develop various websites and blogs for ForgeBusiness and ForgeCorporation
  • Various creative, branding and promotional projects(Transferred from the Trafficonomy business unit after a management buy-out)

2006/10 – 2007/11: TRAFFICONOMY

  • Integrated Ad server with Game Portal Platform
  • Customized and Integrated flash-based chat system with gamming portal
  • Developed a tiny bandwidth & processing-footprint profanity filter for chat system

1997- PRESENT: VARIOUS MEDIA CONSULTING

Clients:

  • David Krut Publishing and Arts Resource (Developed online product catalogue integrated with company blog and RSS service, built online shopping functionality, website traffic improved by 10x within three months of taking over the site)
  • Damelin (School of Media Design and Technology)
  • Ph.D Group
  • 7i Management Consultants
  • eCommunications
  • P Squared Holdings
  • Sifikile Marketing & Events and others.

Activities:

  • Responsible for all areas of business, supplying clients with custom developed graphic design and production requirements including:
  • Web site development
  • 3D Visualisations and animations
  • Corporate identity design & implementation
  • Interactive CD Rom development and reproduction including video,
  • Printed media involving pre-production, production outsourcing and process management
  • Concept Research and Development

2006: DAMELIN BOKSBURG AND DAMELIN BRAMLEY
Lecturer and Course Facilitator for final year students in the course Media Design Technology, specializing in:

  • 3D Modeling, Texturing and Lighting, Animation and Rendering
  • Web Animation

2001- 2005: ALLENBY CAMPUS & DAMELIN CENTURION
Lecturer & Course Facilitator

  • Facilitate all subjects in the courses Media Design Technology and Live Design Bauhaus including:
  • Creativity & Aesthetics,
  • Industry Practice,
  • Visual studies: Drawing Techniques, Illustration, Typography, Lay-out etc.
  • Production Techniques & Post-production & SFX: Adobe- Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Steinberg Wavelab.
  • Digital Design: Macromedia- Freehand, Fireworks, Flash & ActionScript, Director, Dreamweaver
  • 3D Design and animation: Discreet 3D StudioMax, NewTek Lightwave

1999-2001: CS TRAINING, IT-IQ/IT-HQ, WORKGROUP INSTITUTE, DATATEC, SIEMENS, ABI etc.
(Sub-contracting)
Learning Facilitator: End-user-applications:

  • Corel Draw, Photopaint,
  • Microsoft Frontpage, Access, Excel, Power Point
  • 1998-1999 TRAVELSA.CO.ZA
  • Web Designer & Team leader:
  • Developed website information architecture and front-end from concept into implementation of at-the-time the largest (possibly first) tourism accommodation portal
  • Managed data capturing and data administration teams

1996-1998 COMPUTER AIDED PRESENTATION SERVICES (C.A.P.S.)

  • Senior Designer
  • Responsible for studio workflow processes and quality management of various technologies – reduced studio turn-around time by 50%!
  • Corel Draw, Photopaint, MS Frontpage, Shockwave Studio

TECHNICAL & SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE SYNOPSIS

Design Software (Use and training):

  • Discreet 3D Studio Max
  • Corel Suite since v4
  • Adobe: Illustrator, Photoshop, Image ready, Premiere)
  • Adobe/Macromedia Flash, Studio, Fireworks & Director Etc.
  • ScreenWeaver (Extension to Macromedia ActionScript giving access to OS API in order to develop Screen savers, Windows Applications and CD Roms
  • NewTek Lightwave
  • Microsoft Office (Including Advanced Excel, Power Point, Access & FrontPage)
  • HTML, CSS etc.

Programming

  • Macromedia ActionScript + extended (Advanced)
  • PHP, MySQL (Intermediate)
  • HTML (Advanced, CSS)
  • Macromedia Director Lingo [Shockwave based] (Advanced)
  • C++ (Novice to Intermediate)
  • Delphi (Intermediate)
  • Java (Novice)

Internet

  • Affiliate Marketing Commission Tracking Integration (Offerforge, DirectTrack, Commission Junction, ShareASale, LinkShare)
  • Content Management Systems: WorPress (Advanced + Plugin Development) & Joomla
  • Search Engine Optemisation

INTERESTS

  • Design (Graphic, Industrial, Interior and Process)
  • Online Social Media (Semantic Web, Web 2.0, Blogging etc.)
  • Product innovation (e.g. ask me about my interactive screen savers, revolutionary keyboard design and guitar tuners for cell phones)
  • Advertising and Affiliate Marketing
  • Contemporary and Contemporary-Digital Fine Art
  • Photography
  • Human Capacity Development (HCD) Psychology (Androgogy, Salutogenisis, Learning styles etc.)
  • Programming
  • Transpersonal Psychology (e.g. Enneagram personality topography, Spiral Dynamics, Integral Studies etc.)
  • Theory, Discourse and Critique
  • Poetry
  • Science
  • Science Fiction
  • Classic Motorcycle Touring
    … and more :-)

CONTACT DETAILS

  • Email: andre@pixelplexus.co.za
  • Mobile: +27 (0)83 368 1219
  • Fax: +27 (0)86 671 9198
  • 2 Gascoyne Street
    Observatory
    Johannesburg
    South Africa
  • www.pixelplexus.co.za

MISCELLANEOUS

  • Married with 1x 2 year old little boy
  • Drivers license & vehicles (1x classic ’81 touring motorcycle 1x car)
  • Male, aged 32, 6’3″ tall.
  • ID no.: 730613 5070 088
  • Languages: Afrikaans, English, Computer and Graphic, (with a bit of Mathematics :)

REFERENCES:

  • Pierre Hatting, CEO, Ph.D Group:
    +27 (0)82 490 7308
  • David Krut, David Krut Publishing and Arts Resource (Johannesburg, New York, London)
    dkarts@icon.co.za
  • Val Bartram, Ex Director of Campus & Studies – Allenby Campus/Damelin Centurion
    +27 (0)82 462 8351
  • Dr. Pam Roux (PhD from Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, USA)
    +27 (0)11 460 1789
  • John Moore, Professional Artist
    +27 (0)11 465 2388

My Digital Life – doing something that has never been done before – uhm, NOT

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My Digital Life is doing something that has never been done before, rewarding you for blogging

So congrats to IT-Web on launching MDL.

Sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud though, but just for the record, paying bloggers to blog isn’t all that new. It intrigues me that ITWeb makes this claim, surely the editorial powers-that-be know better?

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Whats wrong with news media?

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One imagines that ‘News’ is the stuff worth knowing, but instead the news feeds us the stuff that sticks out, the sore thumbs of life. I love the observation Max Kaizen makes in reversing the brain.drain… “… especially after the numbing effect of news. The news presented by mainstream media, (TV & papers particularly) is largely reactive, and leaves us feeling impotent to change the outcome of almost everything we’re offered.”

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