Gary Watts

Current

• Car Artist at Seattle Art Car Blowout

Past

• Production Manager at Valente Solutions
• Website production at Various Businesses
• Website production at Microsoft

• Student Animator at Bloop Studios
• Website production at Volt
• Website production at Lante Corp
• Clerk at Blue Shield
• Volunteer at Norwescon

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Education

• Bellevue Community College
• Eastern Washington University

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Industry

Fine Art

Gary Watts’s Summary

Mixed media sculpture.
Art Car creation
Web site production
Web localization production
Light welding
Light construction

Gary Watts’s Specialties:

Internationalization of English content. Art production and display.

Gary Watts’s Experience

• Car Artist

  Seattle Art Car Blowout

  (Arts and Crafts industry)

  June 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

  Creating art cars, displaying vehicles at festivals and parades, Visiting schools to raise art awareness.

• Production Manager

  Valente Solutions

  (Translation and Localization industry)

  July 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 10 months)

  Produced 31 localized versions of MSDN and TechNet for the Microsoft Corporation

• Website production

  Various Businesses

  (Privately Held; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  March 1998 — April 2009 (11 years 2 months)

  Creating websites for informational and business purposes.
  Designing the graphics for such websites.

• Website production

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  March 1997 — April 2009 (12 years 2 months)

  Contracted at Microsoft on these projects.
  Encarta http://encarta.msn.com/
  MSN http://www.msn.com/
  GameZone http://zone.msn.com
  Windows CE (now Windows Mobile)
  Windows Personal Web Server (Now Windows Server)
  Technet
  Microsoft Developer Network

• Student Animator

  Bloop Studios

  (Animation industry)

  May 2006 — July 2006 (3 months)

  Short three month term working in an persons private animation studio.

• Website production

  Volt

  (Public Company; VOL; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  March 1997 — December 2001 (4 years 10 months)

  Contracted for positions at Microsoft.

• Website production

  Lante Corp

  (Public Company; MSFT; Internet industry)

  March 1999 — December 1999 (10 months)

  Created Business to Business Websites.
  Projects worked on include the Airborne home shipping website.
  
  Since I worked there, it has been acquired by many companies, currently Razorfish.

• Clerk

  Blue Shield

  (Non-Profit; Insurance industry)

  January 1987 — December 1992 (6 years )

  Handled Union and Corporate accounts.

• Volunteer

  Norwescon

  (Entertainment industry)

  March 1985 — March 1989 (4 years 1 month)

  Volunteer at the Norwescon Science Fiction conventions. Organized volunteers for the display tables, helped fun the hospitality and green room for the guests, managed the video feed for the in-house special events.

Gary Watts’s Education

• Bellevue Community College

  Certificate , Graphics and Animation , 2001 — 2003

• Eastern Washington University

  BFA , Radio Television Production , 1980 — 1985

Additional Information

Gary Watts’s Groups:

•    ACM SIGGRAPH
•    Art Professionals Worldwide
•    Art Cars

Gary Watts’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• expertise requests
• reference requests
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