Benjamin John

I am a multimedia artist and software engineer in Cleveland, Ohio. I am employed as an interactive developer for the integrated marketing agency thunder::tech, specializing in front-end web development.

Projects

I am the originator, programmer, curator and lead consultant of Aspirium, which I started in 2008 as a network of creatives and their independently-owned projects and brands.

On Aspirium, my sister and I run a web comic entitled Cuddles the Friendly Spore.

Another Aspirium project of mine is Chromanesce, a simple color tool.

General Proficiencies

• Game design and development
• Desktop application design and development
• Intuitive user interface design
• Efficient, maintainable API and object-oriented library construction
• Information structure design
• 3D modeling, rendering and animation
• Digital audio and video editing and postprocessing
• Photo editing
• Vector illustration and animation
• Document design
• Technical copywriting

Software Proficiencies

• Design

  • Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop
  • Serif PhotoPlus
  • The GIMP

• Video

  • Adobe After Effects, Premiere
  • Apple FinalCut Pro 5
  • VT Proxy Editor Plus
  • VirtualDub

• Audio

  • Audacity
  • Dalet
  • NoteWorthy Composer

• 3D

  • Anim8or
  • Autodesk Maya

• Content Management

  • WordPress
  • Drupal
  • PaperThin CommonSpot
  • Microsoft SharePoint

• Software Development

  • Visual Studio .NET
  • Adobe Flash

• Others

  • Microsoft Office
  • Corel WordPerfect
  • PuTTY

Language Proficiencies

• Front-End

  • Semantic, W3C-valid HTML and CSS
  • JavaScript
  • ActionScript 3

• Preprocessing

  • PHP

• Desktop Applications

  • Microsoft .NET Framework