Gary Watts

Gary Watts

Mixed Media and Digital Artist

United States

Current
  • Car Artist at Seattle Art Car Blowout
Past
  • Student Animator at Bloop Studios
  • Website production at Volt
  • Website production at Lante Corp
  • Clerk at Blue Shield
  • Volunteer at Norwescon
Education
  • Bellevue Community College
  • Eastern Washington University
Connections
55 connections
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 2000Present (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 2006April 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 1998April 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 1997April 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 2006July 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 1997December 2001 (4 years 10 months)

    Contracted for positions at Microsoft.

  • Website production

    Lante Corp

    (Public Company; MSFT; Internet industry)

    March 1999December 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 1987December 1992 (6 years )

    Handled Union and Corporate accounts.

  • Volunteer

    Norwescon

    (Entertainment industry)

    March 1985March 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 , 20012003

  • Eastern Washington University

    BFA , Radio Television Production , 19801985


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
  • getting back in touch

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