Bowie van Ling

Current

• Owner at Activative

Past

• DJ at Discerning Dancefloors
• Director of New Media at Scully Group
• Interactive Developer at TopFloorStudio

• Stage Hand at Pro Art
• Operations Crew at AC Entertainment

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Education

• Lorentz Academie
• Hogeschool Rotterdam

Recommended

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Connections

102 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• My Website

Bowie van Ling’s Summary

I have taken part in many aspects of creative service production, including planning, design, implementation, and management. I specialize in multimedia, interaction design, and development. I have worked as an interactive developer in various team arrangements. The following is a small list of some end client's projects I have worked for and projects details:

Rage Against the Haze: http://rageagainstthehaze.com/: Interaction direction, Flash development, Awarded as one of the top 10 sites of July 2007 by How Design magazine

Dish Networks: Actionscript development and interaction design of successful prototype application

Don Pablos: http://www.www.donpablos.com: Interaction direction, Flash development

http://bowievanling.com/gaston/ Development of reusable custom streaming video and multimedia module driven from external data.

http://strausparkcommunity.com/lotplan/ Map application with custom tailored inventory management modes. Web based and stand alone kiosk versions.

Helios Carpet: http://www.helioscarpet.com/: Website development

Case New Holland: Geography based educational game engine development

Bowie van Ling’s Specialties:

Noteworthy experience with the following Languages: Actionscript AS2, AS3, PHP, mySQL, Javascript, HTML, CSS, XML

Codebase familiarities and APIs:
Papervision 3D 2.0, FuseKit, Joomla, Flashblocks, swfAddress, JQuery

Learning:
Design patterns

Noteworthy development tools experience:
Flash,
Photoshop,
Illustrator,
After Effects,
Dreamweaver,
Final Cut Pro,
Premiere,
Swfit3D,
Cubase,
Reason,
Sound Forge

Bowie van Ling’s Experience

• Owner

  Activative

  (Privately Held; Design industry)

  April 2008 — Present (4 months)

  Business developing.
  
  Message me an RFP.

• DJ

  Discerning Dancefloors

  (Music industry)

  May 2000 — 2008 (8 years)

  Perfomed at events such as One World International, Bonnaroo, The Echo Project, and many other musical venues, benefits and parties. I have helped host a wide variety of musical events, Shared the stage and opened for acts for the likes of King Britt, Sierra Leone Refugee Allstars, Telepath, The Afromotive, and Eryka Badu.

• Director of New Media

  Scully Group

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

  October 2006 — October 2007 (1 year 1 month)

  Facilited client's vision to end product within a small versitile development team while participating as an active developer. My focus was rich media applications encompassing, programmatic animation, interaction design, video production, audio production and web programming actively involving Actionscript xhtml standards, CSS, javascript/AJAX, PHP, and database design.. Noteworthy experience of Fuse engine, and development on open source frameworks such as Joomla.

• Interactive Developer

  TopFloorStudio

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

  April 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 6 months)

  Flash programming, Web technologies development, Kiosks, Game production, Video Editing, Audio Production. Currently collaborating with Top Floor Studio on a number of projects.

• Stage Hand

  Pro Art

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

  June 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 1 month)

  Light Board Operator/Programmer
  Assistant Audio Light Rigging and Set Production
  Followspot Operator.

• Operations Crew

  AC Entertainment

  (Music industry)

  May 2004 — July 2004 (3 months)

  Operations crew for Bonnaroo a 70,000 person festival in TN

Bowie van Ling’s Education

• Lorentz Academie

  International Baccalaureate, Biology, Art, Math, Theory of Knowledge, English, Dutch, Geography, 1999 — 2001

  International european university level preparation high school located in Arnhem, The Netherlands.

• Hogeschool Rotterdam

  Interactive Multimedia

  Attended for one semester before independently submersing myself in the subject matter.

Additional Information

Bowie van Ling’s Websites:

• My Website

Bowie van Ling’s Interests:

Actionscripting and Web Programming, Design, DJing, Audio Manipulation, Percussion, Serato Scratch Live, Asheville, Sustainability, Clean Energy, Outdoors, Massage and Bodywork, Mercedes+Biodiesel, Biking, Kombucha, Sushi, Smoothies, Fresh Juice.

Bowie van Ling’s Groups:

Media Arts Project, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Afromotive, Big Bridge Inc., Seven Star Events, Catalyst Productions, Ironwood Media Group

•    Renewable Energy Network member
•    Flash Game Developers member

Bowie van Ling’s Honors:

Acted as Interactive Director for RageAgainsttheHaze.com (a site designed and managed by Brains on Fire) awarded as one of the top ten sites of July 2007 by How Design Magazine.

Awarded a multimedia grant for Skyscraper Graffiti by the Media Arts Project and Advantage West in May of 2007

Voted Best DJ/Turntablist in Western North Carolina by Mountain Xpress readers

CNH Trade Game awarded 'Standard of Excellence' from the International Web Marketing Association.

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