Andy Fitzsimon

Current

• Designer at Market Design Inc
• Director at Fitzsimon IT Consulting

Past

• Senior Web Engineer at Red Hat
• Open Source Graphic Developer at Red Hat
• Web engineer at Fiducial Technology

• Web Developer at Colmar Brunton

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Connections

210 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Blog
• Twitter

Andy Fitzsimon’s Summary

I've spent the past 7 years balancing three worlds:
Open Software, Open Standards and Open Licensing.
I'm a pretty open guy, So say G'day

Andy Fitzsimon’s Specialties:

design, free software, open standards, evangelical, automation, illustration, translation, interaction, experience, localization, globalization, web, graphic design, interaction design, user interface, icon design

Andy Fitzsimon’s Experience

• Designer

  Market Design Inc

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Director

  Fitzsimon IT Consulting

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)

  Always interesting, complete freedom & a continual learning experience.
  The most fun clients with the most challenging work.

• Senior Web Engineer

  Red Hat

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry)

  February 2008 — August 2008 (7 months)

  - Interaction & Interface design
  - Information design
  - Internationalization of images
  - Brand development
  - Design thinking

• Open Source Graphic Developer

  Red Hat

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RHT; Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — August 2008 (3 years 10 months)

  - Designing artwork in open formats,
  - Building a publishing toolchain for the translation of images.
  - Concept illustration,
  - Interaction Design
  - Providing training to customers and colleagues.

• Web engineer

  Fiducial Technology

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Accounting industry)

  December 2002 — August 2003 (9 months)

  Developing a financial content management system.

• Web Developer

  Colmar Brunton

  (Market Research industry)

  December 2001 — July 2002 (8 months)

  Developed global corporate website.
  Built technical infrastructure.
  
  Great people and a brilliant experience.

Additional Information

Andy Fitzsimon’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Blog
• Twitter

Andy Fitzsimon’s Groups:

Inkscape developer, Open Clipart Library developer, Open font library developer, GNOME Foundation, Linux Australia,

•    UX Professionals
•    Open Source Developers
•    Open Source Universe
•    The Linux Foundation
•    Friends of Australia
•    Linux Expert
•    Fedora
•    GNOME
•    Hong Kong Connection
•    linux.conf.au
•    WSG
•    Generation Red Hat
•    Fedora Project
•    Web Wednesday - Hong Kong
•    Ubuntu Group
•    User Experience
•    FOSS Professionals
•    Designers Talk
•    DreamDesigners
•    jQuery
•    Web Developer & Graphic Designer
•    CREATIVE DESIGN PROS
•    Graphic Design Professional Group
•    UIDG - User Interface Designers Group
•    Design+
•    Friends of Scribus
•    Friends of Inkscape
•    Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure
•    Code Poets - Web & UI Developers
•    Brisbane Open-Source Alliance
•    Graphic Design Professionals

Andy Fitzsimon’s Honors:

Recent Speaker at:
GUADEC 2008 - Istanbul, Turkey
Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 - Wroclaw, Poland
OSDC 2007 - Brisbane Australia
Libre Graphics Meeting - Montreal Canada 2007
Linux.conf.au - Sydney Australia 2007
BeijingLug - Beijing China
Libre Graphics Meeting - Lyon France2006
Linux.conf.au 2006 - Dunedin New Zealand (bestof)

Andy Fitzsimon’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch