Resume of Andy Fitzsimon

Andy Fitzsimon Open Source Designer Specialising in visual & interactive open technologies.

Full Name: Andrew Michael Fitzsimon
Telephone: +852 66800187
Email: andrew@fitzsimon.com.au
Website: Linkedin Profile
Weblog: andy.brisgeek.com
Skype: brisgeek
IRC: andyfitz@irc.freenode.net

All About Andy

As a designer working in a technical team, Andy is a bridge not a border.
Pencil, paintbrush, toolkit and scripting framework; Andy does justice to an implementation with beautiful and functional results. Plus, being most familiar with an open source software workflow, Andy prototypes his designs in working technologies to get real results sooner.

Interests

Travel, Rollerblading, Design culture, Photography, Music, Friends, Freedom & Happiness (yours too)

Community Involvement

Inkscape Developer/artist 2004 - Present
Scribus User/tester2006 - Present
Open Clipart Web design & clipart contributor 2006 - Present
GNOME Desktop Art Contributor 2005 - Present
AIMIA QLD chapter executive committee member 2002 - 2003
Lansmash Admin Memeber 2000 - 2003
Red Cross Volunteer & blood/plasma donor 2000 - 2003

Employment History

Red Hat - Singapore

Senior Web Engineer Feb 2008 - Aug 2008

Interaction & Interface design
Information design
Graphic Internationalisation
Design thinking
Social Design patterns
Corporate communication design

Red Hat - Brisbane

Graphic Artist - Content Services 2005 - 2008

Technical illustration
Interaction design
Open source graphic design training for APAC Red Hat customers
Publishing software development
Desktop publishing
Design Thinking
Internationalisation tooling

Fitzsimon IT Consulting

Director / Open Source Graphic Designer 2003 - Present

Developing with web standards
Graphic design & Illustration
Desktop icons
Typographical font design
Production toolchaining
Training & consulting
Open source evangelism
Drupal & Plone CMS deployment
Occasional flash production

Clients include: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Canonical Thiess

Fiducial Technology / Fiducial Group

Graphic Designer 2002 - 2003

Worked in a software development team using web standards, flash and javacript to produce interfaces for content-focused web applications.

PHP, XHTML & CSS Templates
Flash animated websites
Corporate brand
Stationary design
Client consulting

Andrew Fitzsimon Consulting Services

Sole Trader 2001 - 2003

Multimedia development as a contractor.

Icons
Animations
Websites
Technical support & training

Colmar Brunton Research

Website Development Manager 2001 - 2002

Built and deployed national website using Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash etc.
Provided technical software and hardware support for staff members
Workstation purchase and assembly

Epro IT Solutions

Staff Training Macromedia Flash 2000

Flash, Dreamweaver & Photoshop tuition
Training staff to produce multimedia content for ozevents.com.au (now offline)

Technology Expertise

Software

Image

Illustration

DTP

Animation

Publishing

OS

Tools

Firebug
GIT
many more

Productivity

Public Speaking

Andy can be a bit of tart when he's passionate about something.
He has shared his knowledge on open source design at grass roots technical conferences and software user groups throughout the world.

GUADEC July 2008 Istanbul, Turkey: Artisitic fundamentals for developers
Libre Graphics Meeting May 2008 Wroclaw, Poland: Open source toolchain & Inkscape innovation
OSDC 2007 Brisbane, Australia: Designing with free software and the creative class
Libre Graphics Meeting May 2007 Montreal, Canada: Open Source Graphic Design workflow and toolchains
Linux.conf.au January 2007 Sydney, Australia: Recent open source design innovation & creative commons integration
Libre Graphics Meeting March 2006 Lyon, France: The open source designers workflow
Linux.conf.au January 2006 Dunedin, New Zealand: Open Source Graphic Design - voted 'best of' for an encore presentation

Presenter at user groups and universities across Australia, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, France and North America.

Libre Graphics Meeting 2009

The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual get-together for developers & users of open source creative software. For this years meeting, Andy designed a series of illustrations combining visual metaphors of each participating project.
SystemTap

SystemTap is a fantastic deep diving tool for administrators and software developers. Unfortunately, its painful to use. My design attempts to make analysis a more light hearted experience.
Linux.conf.au 2007

In 2007 Andy designed the linux.conf.au visual identity. His designs appeared embroided on countless bags, hats, shirts, posters and even in sub-conferences like gnome.conf.au
Open Document Format

The Open Document Format logo required a more finished look to compete for mindshare. Andy created the following campaign graphics during the Microsoft OOXML ISO debate
Publishing & Publican

While at Red Hat, Andy created thousands of technical drawings. Each carefully constructed in SVG format so that text translation may be automated without authors having to edit each file in a design tool.
Open Source Typography

Ubuntu-Title the typeface of Ubuntu and all derivative branding.

Freefinity was produced for the Fedora project during brand development.

Road Stencil was created for an Australian engineering firm and released for general public use
Open Query Brand Identity

Open Query is an Australian company offering Training & Support for the MySQL database and other open source software. Andy was comissioned to design their brand.