Michael Fortunato

Current

• Lead Texture Artist and Voice Over Director at Phoenix Online Studios

Past

• Application Support Specialist - Senior Floor Support - Project Coordinator at Sidley Austin LLP
• Stage Designer at Genesis Repertory Ensemble
• Actor at Genesis Repertory Ensemble

• IT Support at MENTORTECH, NYC
• Systems Analyst/Consultant at at Pfizer from

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Michael Fortunato’s Summary

Currently working as the lead texture artist and voice over director for Phoenix Online Studio's upcoming PC game, "The Silver Lining". The game is based on the King's Quest series. It is an adventure game set in a full 3D environment.

Michael Fortunato’s Specialties:

Texturing and Lighting in Maya.
Sound Design and Composing - primarily use Cakewalk's Sonar and Adobe Audition.

Michael Fortunato’s Experience

• Lead Texture Artist and Voice Over Director

  Phoenix Online Studios

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  May 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  Lead texture artist responsible for creating many of the textures in an our upcoming PC game using Maya, Adobe Photoshop and Corel's Painter. Also in charge of finalizing all textures from the other artists (by lighting them and "baking" in shadows/ambient occlusion) so that they are ready to be placed in the game engine.
  Continue to direct the voice overs for the game using actors cast from an audition held in New York City.
  Recently completed the final design for the game interface and I am continuing to cleanup geometry and finalize all textures.

• Application Support Specialist - Senior Floor Support - Project Coordinator

  Sidley Austin LLP

  (Legal Services industry)

  September 1998 — January 2009 (10 years 5 months)

  Some Career Highlights
  Coordinated a 16 office BlackBerry device upgrade (2800+ devices). Through careful planning and thorough documentation as well as the training I provided to all IT staff, the roll out went smoothly with minimal user interruption, saving the Firm 1000's of dollars.
  Researched, developed, and implemented processes to upgrade 7 BlackBerry servers worldwide with no downtime to the users.
  Developed upgrade strategies for a Firm-wide deployment of Adobe Acrobat 8.13 as well as created packages to cleanly uninstall all previous versions of Acrobat and silently deploy version 8.13 to all desktops Firm-wide.

• Stage Designer

  Genesis Repertory Ensemble

  (Performing Arts industry)

  May 1997 — November 2003 (6 years 7 months)

  Created sound effects and composed original music for 90% of Genesis Rep's stage productions for their seasons from 1998 - 2003.

• Actor

  Genesis Repertory Ensemble

  (Performing Arts industry)

  November 1997 — March 2003 (5 years 5 months)

  Founding member and performer for the theater company, Genesis Repertory Ensemble. Performed primarily classical repertory including Shakespeare.

• IT Support

  MENTORTECH, NYC

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1996 — January 1998 (2 years 1 month)

  Built Windows NT servers and workstations for Microsoft and Lotus certified classes.
  Supported all computers for both trainers and students including hardware repairs, replacements and software support.

• Systems Analyst/Consultant

  at Pfizer from

  (Online Media industry)

  January 1996 — January 1997 (1 year 1 month)

  Responsible for installing hardware and software (servers and workstations) for all of the MCSE and Lotus certified classes.
  Built the servers as well as set up and maintained the network in the server room and classrooms.
  Provided technical support to the attending students and instructors as well as provided desk-side support to all Mentortech employees.
  Taught classes in Windows, Macintosh, Word, Excel and Photoshop.
  On; train their workers worldwide via conference calls on their new web-based tracking database. The program allowed each facility to track leaks, computer and machine malfunctions from incident to correction.

Additional Information

Michael Fortunato’s Interests:

Game design - texture mapping and lighting Performing arts - Musical Theatre, Classical and Modern theatre Film - everything ranging from summer blockbusters to the latest indie films playing at the Angelika to Japanese Anime. Music - currently enjoying the Stones, the Who, and Brian Eno

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