CHRIS THOMAS SHORT
Chicago, Illinois 60647
spamgod@scrye.com

                                                                                                          
OBJECTIVE:To obtain a professional position in Unix system administration.

EXPERIENCE:
Principle Animator/Senior Hardware Technician, Lizard Light Productions, Las Cruces, NM,
January 1993 to August 1997.
  • In charge of 2D and 3D modeling and animation for the company, including design,
    rendering, and presentation.
  • LAN management and set up, including telnet, ftp, network file systems, and Internet
    gateway.
  • Maintained hardware operations, including upgrades of memory, hard drives,
    and processors.
  • Designed, edited, and produced television commercials, company logos, scientific
    illustration/visualization, and Web Page authoring for companies on a nationwide basis.

Multimedia Specialist, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, May 1995 to September
1996.
  • Designed and created graphics and animation for video, technical, and educational
    presentations, including both 2-D and 3-D rendering.
  • Sun SPARC system administration, including account creation, web page maintenance,
    and software installation.
  • Network administration, including software configuration and hardware installation.
  • Installed and upgraded software for PC, Macintosh, Amiga, and UNIX systems.
  • Hardware installation and maintenance, including drive controllers and drives, memory,
    display cards, network cards, and AV equipment.
  • Created software utilities using AREXX and other script-based languages.
  • Edited video, audio, and printed material for dissemination to public school systems and
    government agencies.
  • Tutored disabled students in HTML coding and Web Page authoring, as well as a variety of
    Amiga, PC, and UNIX software packages.
  • Operated AV equipment in studio and field situations, including cameras, monitors,
    microphones, and video editing suites.

Assistant Technical Director and Stage Manager, Las Cruces, New Mexico, December 1987
to August 1997.
  • Contracted AV work for Las Cruces Chamber Ballet and Michelle's Dance Academy.
  • Codesign of lighting plots.
  • Set, maintained, and utilized AV performance equipment.

Software Support Technician, Computing Research Laboratory, Las Cruces, NM, January 1991
to August 1993.
  • Software support for the molecular biology project, including retrieval and installation
    of UNIX software tools, coding of original tools, and modification of existing utilities.
  • Database management.
  • Illustration design and animation.

SKILLS:




Platforms:
Video related:

Software:

PC, Macintosh, Amiga, Unix
Video Toaster/Flyer, Sunrise AD-516, Canon L-2, DPS PAR,
DPS TBC-IV, DPS Vectorscope, Panasonic AD1970
Lightwave-3D, Image FX, Brilliance, Deluxe Paint, Adobe Photoshop,
Adobe Pagemaker, HTML, Emacs, Xwindows
REFERENCES:
Available upon request.