Adam Simms

Current

• Designer at Xsilva Systems Inc.

Past

• Beta Tester at Various Companies
• Creative Outreach Coordinator at Oxfam Canada, AIDS Committee of Western Newfoundland (ACWN)
• Freelance Designer (Self-employed)

• Language Monitor at Commission Scolaire de Montréal (Académie Dunton)
• Student Designer at Emerald Zone Corporation
• Youth Technology Facilitator at Greenbay Community Youth Network

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Education

• Concordia University

Connections

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Industry

Design

Adam Simms’s Summary

Design is my life, both professional and personal. I have a strong appreciation for minimalism and extreme use of monochrome. My philosophy for design is simplicity... "a designer knows that he has reached perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." –Antoniè de Saint-Exupéry.

I currently work for Xsilva Systems Inc. a Macintosh software development startup that focuses on the creation of LightSpeed, a retail Point of Sale solution. My role as designer involves branding, user interface (UI), print, and web design/development.

Adam Simms’s Specialties:

• Adobe – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash
• xHTML, CSS, PHP+MySQL, JavaScript+AJAX, ActionScript, CMS, SEO
• Microsoft – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook/Entourage
• Apple – Pages, Keynote, Numbers
• Photography – Digital, analog, studio lighting, photo editing/retouching.
• Industrial Design – product / object design, technical drafting.

• Currently Exploring – Final Cut Pro / AfterEffects, Motion, jQuery, Ruby on Rails.

Adam Simms’s Experience

• Designer

  Xsilva Systems Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  • Responsible for updating and refocusing the Xsilva Systems Inc. brand and its retail point of sale software, LightSpeed, in collaboration with marketing, sales, and development departments.
  
  • Design large scale promotional print projects such as brochures, banners, postcards, and business cards.
  
  • Design and installation of the LightSpeed Macworld 2008 exhibition booth.
  
  • Designing new LightSpeed GUI (Graphical User Interface) elements and icons.
  
  • Designer and developer for LightSpeed iStats iPhone web app.
  
  • Designer and developer for the redesign and development of the LightSpeed web site within a content management system (CMS).

• Beta Tester

  Various Companies

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — January 2008 (5 years 1 month)

  Tested various pre-released products for testing, troubleshooting, bug reporting and feedback.
  
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Symantec Corporation / PowerQuest Corporation
  • Roxio Inc.
  • There Inc.
  • MediaCode
  • CenterCode Inc.

• Creative Outreach Coordinator

  Oxfam Canada, AIDS Committee of Western Newfoundland (ACWN)

  (International Affairs industry)

  June 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  • Creation of promotional materials for local events in relation to the International 2007 Worlds AIDS Conference.
  
  • Assisted in the organization of the annual AIDS walk for life.
  
  • Responsible for updating the ACWN web site.
  
  • Creation of informational AIDS exhibition booth.
  
  • Updating and designing the ACWN's documentation guides, in addition to the development of a AIDS youth presentation kit.

• Freelance Designer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Design industry)

  2002 — 2007 (5 years)

  • Bijoux Tova – Developer.
  • This Side Up ↓ – Developer.
  • Town of Springdale – Designer / Developer.
  • Ride The Rock - Designer / Developer.
  • The Insectivore - Designer / Developer.
  • Nurses International Placement Services – Designer / Developer.

• Language Monitor

  Commission Scolaire de Montréal (Académie Dunton)

  (Education Management industry)

  September 2005 — March 2006 (7 months)

  • Responsible for exposing 5 classes of 135 secondary Francophone students to the English language and culture by means of creative expression through theatre, arts, and technology.
  
  • Developed skills of reporting, constructive criticism, patients, responsibility, and leadership.

• Student Designer

  Emerald Zone Corporation

  (Government Relations industry)

  June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)

  • Redesigned the Emerald Zone Corporation web site (2002).
  
  • Designer and developer for the tourism web site promoting 'The Great Whale Coast'.
  
  • Designed profiles and researched entrepreneurial opportunities for technological companies within the Emerald Zone.
  
  • Completed office duties such as scheduling, meeting preparation, and document design.

• Youth Technology Facilitator

  Greenbay Community Youth Network

  (E-Learning industry)

  October 2002 — August 2003 (11 months)

  • Project managed a team of 10 youth for the creation of a for youth by youth deal.org webzine in partnership with the RCMP of Canada.
  
  • Taught team values as well as computer, design, and collaboration skills
  
  • Updating the Green Bay Community Youth Network web site.
  
  • Managed and troubleshooted a small network of 20 computers.
  
  • Designed promotional events, organized workshops, and completed internal office duties.

Adam Simms’s Education

• Concordia University

  BFA, Design Art, Photography, 2004 — 2009 (expected)

  Design Major primarily within the disciplines of image, object-making and screen-based media in design practice with an emphasis on the study of material culture. Digital technologies are integrated into the creative process to serve as strategies and tools for enhanced communication, application, representation and dissemination.
  
  Explorations of graphics, print, interactive web media, 3D object creation, spatiality, typography, art/design theory and history, as well as immense exposure to analog and digital photography (color / black and white).

  Activities and Societies:

  Exhibitions:
  • 2008 – This Side Up ↓ – 01_COPY/PASTE.
  • 2007 – Exposed – 01_fuck you HIV/AIDS.
  • 2006 – DASA – 01_control me. 01_color conversion. 03_the false disposition.

Additional Information

Adam Simms’s Interests:

design, graphic, object, web, programming, typography, book making, photography, technology, reading, art, minimalism, movies, teleseries, music, poetry, organization, identity, sustainability, dreams, exploring, swimming, curling, gym, sleep, chocolate,

Adam Simms’s Groups:

COPY/PASTE

•    momomo (mobile monday montreal)
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Mac Developer Jobs

Adam Simms’s Contact Settings

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