Rob Fitzsimmons
01.18.60
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia - Kitsilano

Career History


April.05 - Present .07
Sony MGM - Stargate Atlantis and Stargate SG1
VFX Artist - playback and compositing

• Creating motion graphics for onset playback
• Visual Effects compositing

March.04 - April.05
Adnet Communications Inc.
Creative Director


July.01 - Feb.04
Freelance Contracting
Web Design and Development - various clients


Sept.99 - June.01
Milinx Business Services Inc.
Art Director . Senior Designer . Software Strategist

• Developed new corporate identity for the ramp up to IPO including redesign of corporate logo and web presence.
• Software development - Strategized, with a team, the logic and flow of a series of small business oriented, web accessed software applications. Designed GUIs for all software offerings.

Nov.95 - Sept.99
Excite Lab, Simon Fraser University
(now 7th Floor Media in Simon Fraser University's TIME Centre)
Senior Designer

• Brought in as a junior designer, advanced quickly. Redesigned Excite website with art director my first year there and self directed and designed it a second time before I left.
• Developed primarily educational websites in conjunction with Rogers Cable, the Charles Bronfman Heritage Foundation, CTV News, and the City of Vancouver.

Primary software and skills:

• Photoshop
• After Affects
• Illustrator
• Premiere
• HTML, JavaScript, CSS

Education

Vancouver Film School: 1995 New Media Program - Class 3
Received Certificate of Recommendation. Approached by Simon Fraser Universitys' Excite Lab immediately after graduation where I spent the next 4 years.