Gregory Batha

P.O. Box 3771

RSF, CA 92067

Email: gbatha@ucla.edu

Website: http://users.design.ucla.edu/~gbatha/


EDUCATION

University of California, Los Angeles, CA

B.A. in Design | Media Arts, expected June 2011

Cumulative GPA: 3.75

Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA

"3-Dimensional Modeling and Animation" Winter 2006

Torrey Pines High School, Encinitas, CA

Diploma received 2007, Cumulative GPA: 3.96

WORK EXPERIENCE

UCLA Design | Media Arts web and tech support

Programming for the UCLA Design | Media Arts department website and servers as well as general tech support within the department.

Freelance

Web design, graphic design, computer technical consultant, computer repair, video editing

Torrey Pines High School IT Club

Refurbish and donate old computers, volunteer school-wide tech support and computer repair. Vice President, 2005-2007

Critter Camp

Camp counselor, summer 2005

Study Buddies

Tutoring and counseling grade school students. 2004-2006

GRAPHIC DESIGN SKILLS

Adobe Photoshop

Seven years of experience: photo manipulation, digital illustration, graphic design, image touch-up, album-cover design, logo design

Adobe Illustrator

Six months of experience: colors, vectors, text manipulation, graphic design

Adobe InDesign

Ten weeks experience: typography, book cover design, page layout

Graphic Design

Two years experience: book cover design, album cover design, typography, color interaction, color theory, page layout design

Illustration

Years of pencil drawing and ink work: cartoons, still life, comics, portraits, figure drawing, character design

Autodesk Maya

Over a year of experience: character modeling, vehicle modeling, object modeling, texturing, character rigging, lighting, animation, dynamics, bump mapping, rendering

Autodesk 3D Studio Max

Four weeks of experience: modeling, materials, and animation

Tablet

Comfortable with using a pen-tablet in digital graphics software

Web Design

Currently studying web design, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, and Adobe Dreamweaver

COMPUTER TECH SKILLS

Facile user of both PC and Macintosh

Experienced user of both operating systems

Programming

One year of practice with analyzing and programming Java

Two quarters experience with processing

Strong enthusiasm towards programming

Technical support and repair

Experience with building and repairing PCs (hardware), repair of Windows and Macintosh machines (software), technical support and consulting for both PC and Mac machines, familiar with BIOS and MS-DOS, experience with general computer maintenance

OTHER SKILLS

Japanese

Studied Japanese for four years in high school

HONORS

Illustration published in the school literature magazine

Placed in Soo Bahk Do Duk Kwan National Championship

REFERENCES

Available upon request