Design and Technical Direction
Dr. George has extensive experience in Design and Technical Direction. He is a firm believer in the concept of CADD as Computer Aided Drafting and Design as opposed to simply CAD as a drafting tool. His software expertise includes:
- AutoCAD or ProgeCAD for drafting and three dimensional modeling.
- Lightwright
- Photoshop and the GIMP for digital image manipulation
- Microsoft Office including Word, Publisher, Excel, and Powerpoint
- Microsoft Project for project management although currently this has been replaced in his arsenal with:
- RedMine (on a self hosted Linux-based server) for project management
- Oracle Financial Apps and other applications
- Hardware and Software troubleshooting
His renderings make use of a hybrid technique based upon generating perspective views in the software, transferring guide elements to another medium, and then creating the rendering from those guides. This allows the computer to “do the math” and the designer to, well, design. Dr. George also prefers to use CADD based techniques for model building and to create projection materials for realization of imagery that might otherwise require a (time-consuming) transfer grid process to complete. His preference is just that though: a preference; he makes use of traditional and / or hybrid methods as dictated by production and teaching requirements at a given time.
Dr. George’s core shop competencies include the use and maintenance of traditional and contemporary hand, bench, and free-standing power tools as well as theatre systems. He makes use of traditional and contemporary construction and painting techniques and has taught many of these, including shop safety in many different circumstances. He is experienced with CAM (computer aided manufacturing) software and hardware such as Shopbot routers and similarly controlled laser units. He is familiar with both stick and MIG welding as well.