Date: September 21, 2024
Sept 2021 - Aug 2024: University Assistant Professor in Informatics: 3D Graphics and Media Production
Högskolan Väst (University West), Trollhättan, Sweden
Courses taught in programs:
- Webmaster
- 3D Visualization & Animation
- Digital Media Production & VFX
Duties included:
- Developing content for campus-based and online lectures
- Advising and supporting students in collaborative project courses and portfolio
- Maintaining regular communication with administration and performing daily department duties, including faculty collaboration, team teaching, course/program evaluations and revisions
April 2011 - Current: Principal / Managing Director
Westman Design Group, LLC
Duties include:
May 2018 - August 2019: Academic Department Chair
Simulation Technology & Game Design, Wheeling University, Wheeling, WV
Duties include:
- Developing and implementing program curriculum
- Acting as liaison between the institution, industry and community (project) involvement
- Advising and supporting both students and faculty in program and department matters
- Developing marketing, PR and recruitment strategies for the growth and positioning of the program
- Maintaining regular communication with administration and performing daily department duties, including scheduling and making classroom reviews
- Teaching three classes a quarter
- Ensuring overall quality outcomes of STGD students and the success of the program
Jan 2001 - June 2016: Academic Department Chair
Media Arts & Animation Department | Game Art & Design,The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Duties include:
- Renewing and implementing program curriculum
- Acting as liaison between the institution, industry and community (project) involvement
- Advising and supporting both students and faculty in program and department matters
- Developing marketing, PR and recruitment strategies for the growth and positioning of the program
- Maintaining regular communication with administration and performing daily department duties, including scheduling and making classroom reviews
- Teaching one class a quarter
- Ensuring overall quality outcomes of MAA/GAD students and the success of the programs
Sweden
1982-1988: full-time art teacher in the Swedish school system
1988-1993: freelance 2D/3D artist and animator.
1993-1995: full-time position as a digital artist and interface designer at AVM Dialog, AB, Gothenburg (part of a team developing cd-i titles for retailers) |
Main client: The Volvo Car Corporation
Duties included:
- pre-viz., design, and art asset production
Projects included (93-95):
- Interactive kiosk product presentations for dealerships around the globe
- Interactive ergonomics training course for employees at all levels within the Volvo corporation.
United States
Freelance and permanent positions:
Walt Disney Pictures and Television Information Services (FIS)
- Original (digital) art work for the PR CD-ROM for animated feature film "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
- FIS Intranet web directory "Studio 411" (interface design work, May 96 - June 97)
- Story boarding for the pilot of "Teen Angel"(ABC)
7th Level
- 3D animation and 3D environment modeling, R&D stages for game titles in development.
Creative Capers
- 2D compositing of sprite files for the Disney Interactive video game, "101 Dalmatians - Escape From DeVil Manor"
Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Art Education, University of Umea, Sweden
(US equivalent).
MFA, Computer Arts,Florida Atlantic Universty, Fort Lauderdale,
FL.
More than eleven years combined of full-time teaching and in academic
administration in the areas of art and computer graphics/digital animation
at junior high, high school, community college and college levels in
both Sweden and the United States.
Hobbies:
Investigative walks in the foothills, woods and along beaches - likwise
biking.
Music project: Conceptual band,
The Happy Cowboys
Fluent
in both English and Swedish