Adam Prall

Current

• Branding/Marketing Director at Bliss, LLC
• Art Director at DMR Publishing
• Owner at Thinkingman.com New Media

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Past

• Art Director at SANS Institute
• Design Director at Vegan World Fusion Cuisine (Book)
• Art Director, SANS Institute at GIAC

• Senior Web Architect at HawaiiLink.net
• Senior Web Architect at 101 Things
• Website Production Manager at Chaminade University / Midway Limited Corp.
• Senior Web Architect at Kauai Internet (Hawaiian.net)
• Art & Branding Director at Ono Brothers Surf Co.

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Education

• Cuyamaca
• Benicia High School
• Davidson Middle School/San Rafael High School

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Recommended

3 people have recommended Adam

Connections

44 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Website

Adam Prall’s Summary

Proven expertise in the following areas:

• Art & Brand Direction / Design
(8 years) Graphic design, design direction, design team direction,
Brand management & quality control
• Database (incl. OO-Relational) Design / Programming
(9 years) LAMP (Unix/Apache/PHP/MySQL) / JavaScript / XML / SQL
Several other SOAs, incl. metaprogramming and custom language parsers
Also, experience w/Assembly, C, markup languages (i.e. XHTML Strict, XAML)
Web application framework design
• Visual Effects Programming / R&D
(11 years) Custom 3D renderers, Adobe photoshop plugins, Flash components
• Fine Art Production
(14 years) Discovery, conceptualization, mechanics and production
Esp. related to digital workflow convergence (i.e. next-gen HDR photography,
3D scanning)
3D modeling, animation and scripting
Hardbound/softbound/e-book production

Adam Prall’s Specialties:

Brand and/or corporate refactoring and direction, web asset management, complex data visualization, print and multimedia cross-publishing management and production, brand acquisition.

Adam Prall’s Experience

• Branding/Marketing Director

  Bliss, LLC

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Cosmetics industry)

  January 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Manage products and branding for Bliss, a product line and salon based in the Hawaiian Islands.

• Art Director

  DMR Publishing

  (Graphic Design industry)

  January 2003 — Present (6 years 1 month)

• Owner

  Thinkingman.com New Media

  (Graphic Design industry)

  Currently holds this position

• Art Director

  SANS Institute

  (Graphic Design industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

• Design Director

  Vegan World Fusion Cuisine (Book)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Food & Beverages industry)

  January 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  Responsible for design and production quality of this book by Mark Reinfeld and Bo Rinaldi.

• Art Director, SANS Institute

  GIAC

  (Graphic Design industry)

  2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

• Senior Web Architect

  HawaiiLink.net

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  August 2002 — May 2003 (10 months)

• Senior Web Architect

  101 Things

  (Graphic Design industry)

  1997 — 2002 (5 years)

  Responsible for creation, direction, maintenance and production of 101 Things web team which produced approx. 10 large-scale websites, including the in-house "101things.com" which was the largest online database of information about Hawaii. Responsible for graphic direction & design, programming direction, data acquisition, buying, until website/company products were sold to Gannett Publishing.

• Website Production Manager

  Chaminade University / Midway Limited Corp.

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  January 1998 — January 2000 (2 years 1 month)

  Responsible for creation of web application / university CMS suite from static internal documents, from creation to completion (temporary position).

• Senior Web Architect

  Kauai Internet (Hawaiian.net)

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — January 1999 (1 year 1 month)

• Art & Branding Director

  Ono Brothers Surf Co.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)

  1995 — 1998 (3 years)

  Responsible for entire branding image, from marketing to product design/redesign and feasibility studies.

Adam Prall’s Education

• Cuyamaca

  Design, Economics, Digital Photo, Art 1991 — 1993

  Received special recognition for digital play set and for production quality of school magazine.

  Activities and Societies:

  Cuyamaca Reader design, computer lab IT Team, taught advanced digital photography classes, digital (projected) set production for two school plays

• Benicia High School

• Davidson Middle School/San Rafael High School

Additional Information

Adam Prall’s Websites:

• My Website

Adam Prall’s Interests:

New digital scanning technology and visualization, surfing, hiking, photography, reading, mathematics, philanthropy, early education, digital accessibility for special needs

Adam Prall’s Groups:

Malama Pono HIV/AIDS Hospice, Boy's and Girl's Club of Kauai, YWCA of Kauai, MoveOn and TrueMajority (membership and content contributor)

Adam Prall’s Honors:

2005 Self-Publishing Award (Design & Content) Nautilus, Martha Stewart Omnimedia
Adobe Certification
Responsible for several Photoshop features from v2.5 to present
Outstanding Constributions - NeXTCube Digital photography, Cuyamaca College, 1992
Technology in Art Special Recognition - Grossmont College (for digitally-projected play production)

Adam Prall’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

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