TM Adams

IBM: Pan-Media Visual Professional: GUI, Visual, Branding, Marketing, Web, Fine Art, Illust, TV Anim, Project Mgmt

San Francisco Bay Area

Current
  • Software Engineer: IBM FileNet, GUI/Visual Design Team Lead at IBM: FileNet
  • Software Engineer: IBM DB2 CM, GUI/Visual Design Team Lead at IBM
  • Design Consultant at Genzyme Diagnostics
  • Owner at ZexMedia (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past
  • Board Member at Billy DeFrank Center
  • GUI Consultant at Twistermedia
  • Editorial Design Consultant at Jones & Bartlett Publishing

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Education
  • SUNY New Paltz
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TM Adams’s Summary

Pan-Media Design Specialist whose strengths reside in creating, communicating, and executing a coherent visual language across all media. I am always looking for the better, faster, less expensive solution to any problem, design, process, or administrative function.

-2+ Decades of industry experience ranging from television to print to new media
-Expertise in process re-engineering/auditing and cost/redundancy cutting
-Collaborate seamlessly with diverse multicultural teams
-Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving, and out-of-the-box thinking

**PATENTS:
5 IBM patent disclosures submitted 2006
-1 GUI-related patent disclosures (under review)
-3 database functional patent disclosures (under review)
4 IBM patent disclosures being written currently
-1 hardware patent disclosure (scheduled for publishing)
-1 software patent disclosure
-1 GUI patent disclosure
-1 web application patent disclosure

Published Abstract: "Overt & Oblique Data Relationship GUI"
The present invention shows a visual base solution on the issues of detecting data relationships by visually representing data and their interconnected relationships, either overt or oblique, that would be difficult to do in any standard tabled data model to date.
https://priorart.ip.com/viewPub.jsp?stype=dtFreeTextSearch&scache=25080454&snum=0&kwHighlight=true&squery=kwhl%2509true%09dtb%2509%09dta%2509%09kw%25090%09sby%2509origPubDate%09lng%2509%09my%2509%09ftq%2509overt%252Boblique%09cty%2509%09ss%2509%09

**Awards:
-Bravo Award: Significant contribution in packaging usability
-GM Award: Simplicity: packaging redesign significantly addressing internal cost savings, and an 80% increase in usability

TM Adams’s Specialties:

Leadership, Team Lead, GUI-Graphic User Interface Design, Visual Design, Packaging, Process Re-engineering, Project Management, Workflow, Illustration, Photography, Web Design, Web Architecture, Database Design/Architecture, Communication, Preentation, Negotiation, Asset Management, Team Building/Coherence, Finance/Budget, Arbitration, Branding and Identity, Marketing/Print Collateral, Print, Web, Prototype, User Testing, TV Animation

TM Adams’s Experience

  • Software Engineer: IBM FileNet, GUI/Visual Design Team Lead

    IBM: FileNet

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    January 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

    I currently manage the workload/scheduling for a team for all visual design components from packaging to GUI for a portfolio of entitled enterprise-level software offerings as well as maintain adherence to all corporate guidelines. Run user test sessions on prototypes from my team and aggregate the data to roll up visual and functional recommendations and requirements to Development and strategy teams.

    I project manage a suite of 36 enterprise-level database software applications from documentation through GUI to packaging and release.

  • Software Engineer: IBM DB2 CM, GUI/Visual Design Team Lead

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    April 2003 — Present (6 years 4 months)

    I currently manage the workload/scheduling for a team of designers and plan strategy/scheduling for all visual design components from packaging to GUI for a portfolio of entitled enterprise-level software offerings as well as maintain adherence to all corporate guidelines. Run user test sessions on prototypes from my team and aggregate the data to roll up visual and functional recommendations and requirements to Development and strategy teams.

    I project manage a suite of 9 enterprise-level database software applications from documentation through GUI to packaging and release.

    Notable contributions:
    *Co-Led the initial push to standardize and redesign the software packaging deliverables acros all IBM products resulting in a 5+ million dollar savings over the next 3 years while satisfying user requirements and delivery & fulfillment requirements.
    *Co-Led the installation initiative to decrease Out-of-Box-Experience starting time (OOBE) by 700%.

  • Design Consultant

    Genzyme Diagnostics

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Biotechnology industry)

    March 1993 — Present (16 years 5 months)

    Notable Accomplishments:
    Created a calculating device that was later patented as an industry tool that aggregated a series of test data into easily understandable risk categories using visual queues.

  • Owner

    ZexMedia (Sole Proprietorship)

    (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    September 1983 — Present (25 years 11 months)

    Freelance Design Consortium producing the following deliverables: Print/Marketing, Corporate ID, Web, Graphic User Interface (GUI), MultiMedia, Illustration, Fine Art, Music.

  • Board Member

    Billy DeFrank Center

    (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

    March 2005 — August 2005 (6 months)

  • GUI Consultant

    Twistermedia

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

    April 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  • Editorial Design Consultant

    Jones & Bartlett Publishing

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

    February 2001 — January 2003 (2 years)

  • Graphic Designer

    Lotus Development (IBM)

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ibm; Computer Software industry)

    April 1997 — September 2002 (5 years 6 months)

    Part of a Design Team that supported the Lotus software product line. Responsibilities included print/marketing collateral, graphic user interface, multimedia, project quoting/management, and prototype.

  • GUI Consultant

    Creative Office Interiors (COI)

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)

    March 1997 — June 1997 (4 months)

  • Sr. Designer/Electronic Tech Art Consultant

    Prentice Hall Publishing

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)

    January 1996 — April 1997 (1 year 4 months)

    Hired as Designer for both Math and World History book prototyping. Created technical diagrams for both programs,

  • Visual Designer/Electronic Tech Art Consultant

    Houghton-Mifflin Publishing

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)

    November 1994 — January 1996 (1 year 3 months)

    Hired as a Visual Design Lead for specific grade-level book prototyping. Drafted a proposal to keep the technical illustration in-house to use the available Designer resources to illustrate the books. Became the in-house Project Manager for illustration management and scheduling of available Design resources.

    Notable accomplishments:
    Saved Houghton-Mifflin $90,000 (300 illustrations, avg of $300 ea market price) by proposing, organizing, and managing in-house talent for illustration creation.

  • Design Consultant

    Blackstone National Golf

    (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Recreational Facilities and Services industry)

    November 1993 — January 1996 (2 years 3 months)

  • Design/Production Consultant

    Fidelity Investments

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    August 1994 — October 1994 (3 months)

  • Production Consultant

    Putnam Investments

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

    March 1994 — June 1994 (4 months)

  • Creative Director

    PagrWorks Corp.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    March 1992 — February 1994 (2 years)

  • Systems/PrePress/Design Consultant

    WearGuard

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

    January 1993 — June 1993 (6 months)

  • Creative Director

    WordTech Corp.

    (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    June 1991 — October 1992 (1 year 5 months)

  • Designer/Systems Manager

    American Kennel Club (AKC)

    (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

    March 1989 — November 1990 (1 year 9 months)

  • Sr. Chartist

    The Conference Board

    (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Capital Markets industry)

    August 1988 — March 1989 (8 months)

  • Jr. Designer

    Rowntree Advertising

    (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Graphic Design industry)

    July 1987 — November 1987 (5 months)

  • Jr Designer

    WTZA, Chanel 62 (NBC affiliate)

    (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

    December 1986 — July 1987 (8 months)

TM Adams’s Education

  • SUNY New Paltz

    BFA , Graphic Design , September 1982 — June 1987

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TM Adams’s Interests:

Applications: Adobe Photoshop (expert) Adobe Illustrator (expert) Adobe Acrobat (advanced) Macromedia (Adobe) Director (advanced) Macromedia (Adobe) InDesign (advanced) Macromedia (Adobe) Drewmweaver (advanced) Macromedia (Adobe) Flash (intermediate) Macromedia (Adobe) Fireworks (intermediate) Macromedia (Adobe) Pagemill/Sitemill (advanced) Macromedia ColdFusion (beginner) DAZ Bryce (advanced) Quark Xpress (expert) Quark Publishing System (QPS) (expert) Lotus Notes (expert) Lotus Domino Designer (advanced) Lotus Desktop Apps (expert) Hash Animation Master (beginner) 3D Studio Max (beginner)

TM Adams’s Groups:

BayCHI - ACM SIGCHI
NAPP - National Association of Photoshop Professionals
GAG - Graphic Arts Guild
AIGA - American Institute of Graphic Arts
IBM Leadership Excellence Alumni
Silicon Valley Capital Club (member)
Billy DeFrank Center (Board of Directors), IBM

  •    Silicon Valley Capital Club
  •    Norton Paratela - Jobs & Businesses

TM Adams’s Honors:

IBM Leadership Excellence
IBM Bravo Award
IBM General Manager's Award for Simplicity

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