Seán Michael Sloane Johnson
Geßler Straße 6
10829 Berlin Germany
T + 49 176 4201 9788 E-mail: sean@ten000.com
Date of Birth: 21 September 1964
Nationality: Spanish.
Hardware
Macintosh (Xserve Dual G5, G5, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook, iMac).
HP DesignJet 5000PS.Xerox DocuColor 12 & 40 with Splash RIP / DocuColor 240 with EFI RIP and Imation Matchprint RIP.
X-Rite spectrophotometer & colourimeter.
Operating Systems/Languages/Programmes:
Operating systems: Mac OS X.x, Mac OS X Server and UNIX (basics).
Languages: HTML, XHTML and SQL.
Programmes: Adobe CS3 Premium (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver); Avid Xpress 4.x; Colour Blind Pro; Cumulus 5.x (server and client); DeBabelizer 3; DiskWarrior 4.x; FileMaker Pro 5.x (server and client); Final Cut Pro 3; Font Reserve Server 1.x & Font Reserve Single User 3.x; FontExplorerX; Gluon (Cropster, Slugger, ProScaler); iView MediaPro 3; Markz Tools 3; NeoOffice 2.x; Open Office 3; Microsoft Office 2004; MYOB AccountEdge 3; OptiCal 3; Parallels; VMware Fusion 2.
Professional Experience
What's On (formerly Quin Team!), Barcelona, Spain
February/2007 – November/2007
IT Manager:
- Management of all technology services for a medium-sized independent ad agency in Barcelona.
- Server Management (G5 Xserve with Mac OS X Server 10.4.10 [afp, dns, smtp, wmb], HP DL140 with Windows 2003 Server Small Business Premium [ContaPlus, SQL Server 2005, FileMaker Server 5.5, Paprika]).
- Management of studio workflow (Freehand to Adobe CS2 migration), research automatization of digital file delivery (PDF/X and JDF) to providers, colour workflow, etc.
- Management of all desktop systems, 40 Macintosh and 20 PCs.
Sitel Ibérica, Barcelona, Spain
May/2006 – January/2007
Product Manager:
- Hewlett-Packard: Current Software and Connectivity Product Manager
- Responsible for coordinating and updating large format printer drivers on HP’s Web site.
ten thousand, Madrid, Spain
May/2001 – May/2006
Creative technologies consultant:
- Management of IT projects in creative environments.
- Analysis, definition and process implementation of software and hardware.
- Creation of proposals for software and hardware specifically for use in a creative environment.
McCANN Worldgroup (formerly McCann-Erickson), San Francisco, California
January/1995 – May/2001
Creative Technologies Manager:
- Co-creator of the Creative Technologies Group under the auspices of DDAP (an organisation that defines standards for the print advertising industry).
- Definition and development of the transition process of graphic design software, e.g., QuarkXPress to InDesign.
- Analysis and preparation of digital workflow for the creation of various file formats.
- Management of digital workflow systems.
- Responsible for the definition and implementation of colour workflow systems.
- Launched and management of Font Reserve Server.
- Analysis of design software and hardware products to be acquired by the company.
- Training creative users on software and hardware.
- Management of the Creative Technologies departmental budget.
- Management of a team of 3 technicians.
DRAFTFCB (formerly Foote, Cone & Belding), San Francisco, California
September/1989 – January/1995
Creative Technologies Administrator:
- Management of all technical support issues of creative applications (including three Avid systems).
- Installation and configuration of all new Macintosh systems.
- Implementation of colour workflow systems.
- Resolution of network issues (Ethernet, management of fixed IP addresses).
- Investigation and beta testing of all new technologies.
- Management of departmental budget.
- Training creative users on software and hardware.
TBWA (formerly Chiat/Day/Mojo, Inc. Advertising), San Francisco, California
August/1984 – September/1989
System Administrator:
- System maintenance and technical support as well as Chiat/Day/Mojo liaison with all administrators in the country.
- Daily maintenance and backup of Wang Office and the Wang network.
- Training of all users on Macintosh applications.
- QuickMail system administrator.
Certification
ACTC (Apple Certified Technical Coordinator) April/2002
Education
Apple Training, Santa Monica, California March/2002
- Mac OS X Administration Basics and Mac OS X Server Essentials.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York May/2000
- Orientation to the Graphic Arts.
Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), San Francisco, California July/1999
- Beginning Avid Media Composer.
Graphic Arts Institute, San Francisco, California January/1999
- Colour management workshop. Two-day training in the use of and the creation of device profiles.
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California June/1987
- Bachelor of Arts: History
Languages
English, Spanish, Catalan and German.