Hi. My name is James Brynildsen. I'm 44 years old and I'm currently employed at LSI (Logistic Services International) and working on a Bachelors of Fine Art in painting and drawing at the University of North Florida.

I recently earned my AA degree that is the first two years of a Bachelors of Music Education I was working on, and an AS in Web Design/Development. My major instrument was the cello but I also play piano, and any other stringed instrument I can get my hands on.

I've been employed as a "graphics specialist", otherwise known as a technical illustrator for the last 16 years. For 15 of those 16 years was for LSI. I mainly develop graphics for interactive courseware contracted by the Department of Defense. I'm also involved in designing, developing, and maintaining some of LSI's intranet and Internet sites as well as training others to do the same (http://www.lsijax.com/ ).

 I've also been maintaining the web site for the North Florida Macintosh Users Group for many years now ( http://www.nfmug.org/ ). By being involved and eager to learn on the job I've gained a lot of experience coding HTML and some JavaScript. I've also done some Java and VB.NET programming in college.

I hard coded html for my first web sites in 1996. I've built many varying sites since then. My web skill-set has grown with the industry and the tools designed for it. I remember painfully slicing up my images in Photoshop 2.5 and uploading with a 14.4K modem. Now we have Fireworks and ImageReady, as well as a slew of other choices. And we have access to amazing transfer rates. And we're the lucky ones. I know guys that had to punch cards to run their applications.

In spite of my extra curricular web design, most of my computer experience is primarily in the area of the multimedia. I'm comfortable in nearly every major graphics development tool; 3D Studio Max, Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator, Painter, Fireworks... then of course there's Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and not to forget Flash. For audio I like to use Finale, Peak, Deck, SoundEdit and QuickTime Pro. One day I hope to learn ProTools. For video I use Final Cut Pro and iMovie for quick simple edits.

I use an Apple Macintosh and a Dell at home and a Dell at work that's running Windows XP Pro.

On top of all that I do still take my classes for my BFA, shoot photos, shoot video for the local high school football team, and pretty much anything I have time for creatively.

That's a good start on my work life.

Take care,
James