Tate Madler

Qru
tate@qru.com
[ 708 ] 652 7581

Experience Background

Skills |

Design, Direction, Content and Concept Development, Navigation Architecture, Illustration, Conversion, Training, Software and Hardware selection, testing, usage, and configurations.

Languages |

HTML [ 1.0 - 3.2, Netscape, IE ], VRML [ 1.0-2.0 ], JavaScript, CGI-PERL, Visual Basic [ 3.0-5.0 ]

Software |

trueSpace [ 3.0 since Platform Beta], Photoshop [ 3.0 since 1.0], Premiere, Illustrator, Painter 3.0, Dabbler, AutoCAD 13, 3d Studio [ R3-MAX ] Animator, HumanCAD, Gif Construction Set, Morph [ 2.0-2.5 ] Macromind Director [ 2.0-3.0 ] QuarkXpress, TextPad, Netscape, Mosaic, Internet Explorer, Frontpage, Internet Creator [ 2.0-4.0 ] AmiPro, Organizer, Office [ 7.0-97 ], Access, Wave for Windows, Sound Edit, Wham, benchmark tools, DOS batch and utilities. Hardware | PC/Macintosh, Desktops/ Notebooks, Scanners, Video I/O, Sound Cards, CD ROMs, Modems, CD ROM Recorders, MOs/PDs, SIMMs, PCMCIA, hard drives, controllers, Backpacks, Network Cards, SCSI controllers and devices, Zip drives, laser, Fiery color laser, dye-sub, and inkjet printers.

Operating Systems |

| FreeBSD, Linux & Solaris UNIX, Novell 3.51-4.11, Windows NT, Windows [ 3.0 ('95 since Oct'94 beta) - '98 ], DOS [ 5.0 - 6.2 ] , Apple System [ 7.0 - OS8]

Networking |

  |Servers -| Netscape Commerce, Verisign Secure Server, WebSite, Microsoft IIS, Dial-up Networking, RealAudio, OmniHTTPd, FTP, WebTrends, WinGate, Proxy Servers
  |Clients -|Dial-Up Networking, Telnet, Whois, Ping, Tracert, Windows For Workgroups, TCP/IP, SLIP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, PC Anywhere, Phonenet, Timbuktu. Microsoft Networking, Macintosh Ethernet, Appletalk, FTP

Expositions |

Intranet Expo: Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1996 - PC Expo: Jacob Javitts Center NYC, NY 1992,3,4 - UNIX Expo: Jacob Javitts Center NYC, NY 1994 - Virtual Reality Expo: Manhattan Sheridan NYC, NY 1994 - VisCom: Jacob Javitts Center NYC, NY 1993 - SIGGRAPH Film Festival: Fashion Institute of Technology 1993 - Modern Art Expo: [Navy Pier, Chicago, IL 1987].

Seminars |

SCORE/SBA: Citibank Center Chicago, IL 1996 - SIGGRAPH 1994,95 Virtual Architecture Competition Video Archive: Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY - SIGRAPH Virtual Reality; Ergonomics of Emersive Environments: School of Visual Arts NYC, NY 1993 - Man and Mars, Architecture; Space: a Natural Resource: Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY 1992 - Virtual Reality; New Technology for a New Age: Pratt Institute Brooklyn, NY 1991.

Awards |

Silas A. Rhodes Scholarship [ $3000 ], many letters of recommendation in two industries, Starting Point Hot Site, Starting Point Featured Site, Living Poets Award, Best Artist, Wildest Hair- Senior Superlative, Vampire White Pages Site of the Week, Kingdom of Three Best Site Award, Slowest Pinewood Derby, 1st Living Poets award [ received 1989 ].

OTHER |

Received honors and recommendation in the culinary industry for work done in high volume establishments. Here response under pressure and efficiency in environment and production flow were tested and during a three year hiatus between high school and college.
Held full and part time positions in telemarketing, retail, and direct sales as well as canvassed for Greenpeace in Chicago and New York. And "Speak out America" human right organization for the 25th Anniversary of Stonewall.
| School of Visual Arts | NYC, NY
1993-1994 Silas A. Rhodes Scholarship [ $3000 ]
Directed house multimedia project.
|Focus -
  • Interactivity
  • Video
  • Futurism
  • Computer Assisted Design
  • | Pratt Institute | Brooklyn, NY
    1992 Computer Graphics Student Association CGSA Founder, Class Representative.
    Recruited 6 artists for the Knowmadz art movement [ later to become Qru Studios Incorporated ]
    Lab Monitor [ tutor, assistant technician ] ARC and Engineering Computer Lab
    |Focus -

  • Mass Media
  • Communications
  • Interactivity

  • 1991 Lab Monitor [ tutor, assistant technician ] Engineering Computer Lab, Student Gallery Assistant
    |Focus -
  • Color Theory
  • Drawing
  • Painting
  • | Lyons Township High School | La Grange, IL
    1984-87 Out of the Ordinary write-up 1987, 1st Living Poets award [ received retroactively 1989 ]

    Published work in:

  • "Do the Dead Know What Time It Is?"
  • "SBNH: Seen But Not Heard"
  • "7th Zine"
  • "The Lyon"
  • |Focus -
  • Rhetoric
  • Art
  • Repertory Theatre
  • INTERESTS |

    | Communications, Networking, Human Factors, 3d Modeling/Animation, Drawing, Cooking, Painting, Chess, Futurism, Globalism, Reading, Vampires.