PHIL PEERY

49 Sand Hill Road, Georgia, VT 05468 ♦ phil@peery.com  ♦ 802-735-6316 ♦ philpeery.com

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SUMMARY

30-plus-year career in bringing characters and environments to life with art, animation, music, and sound
includes:

• Cross-platform skills: Photography, sound, music (playing/composing/mixing), video editing, and
  drawing


• Technical skills: LightWave, Photoshop, Peak, Flash, iMovie, Premiere, MOTU, and Director


• Breadth of experience: Marketing materials including logos, presentations, multidimensional images,
  sound effects, animation, and synchronizing characters’ mouth movements to speech


• Winning firm-wide accolades, including from the Council for Exceptional Children, Johns Hopkins
  National Search, and the Software Publishers Association


• Specialty: Character animations that include bright colors, integrated sounds, and the showcase of joyful  
  characters that cater to any segment that would enjoy clean, simple, and upbeat, whimsical characters


• Sound: Incorporating the sound dynamics and musical harmonies to modern-day 3D computer
  animations as seen here (:55 into video reel)


• Music: Producing three- to 10-second music that combines the best use of timing, sound, and placement
  to produce melodies that are vivid but brief as to complement the end-user experience

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EXPERIENCE                                                       

LAUREATE LEARNING SYSTEMS, Inc., Winooski, VT     February 1983 - August 2014
Educational software firm that produces learning tools for special-needs children and adults with a wide range of functioning levels.

Computer Artist / Character Animator / Music Composer

Enhanced quality of final animations produced by peers (“Phil’s sense of timing and motion is on the
     highest level,” says Linda Smith, Art Director at LLS, Inc.)

Collaborated with curriculum designer on creation of the Language Activities of Daily Living series; used
deep expertise in lighting to ensure program was inviting and upbeat to teach users about daily activities

Transitioned from contractor to fulltime in ’93; credited for composing musical pieces that were
   “integral component[s] of many of our software programs,” says Bernard Fox, Co-Owner of LLS, Inc.

Re-rendered Blob animations for firm’s first four iPad apps; led process for First Words and First
Words II; created title screens and icons for QuestionQuest I and QuestionQuest IIapps

Led end-to-end animation, visual development, music composition, and game design for Creature  
      Chorus, which allows users to learn via single-switch, mouse, or touchscreen-sensitive technologies

Developed 3D scenes for First Categories; explored layering scenarios to ensure seamless interactions
      between computer-generated (CGI) moving and whirling 3D wooden blocks and 2D images

Elevated internal expectations in animations for children with special needs by emphasizing how the quality of sound and visuals matter to learning concepts; results included various firm-wide awards>

Overcame and instead used otherwise major constraints such as little time and space with which to reinforce correct responses in First Words (e.g., “Blob” jumps and gets stuck at the top of the screen)

Animated longer-form pieces such as “Blob” character elevator ad for 2005 American Speech-
  Language-Hearing Association event; built balloon models with gradient transparency (see :32 of reel)

Created 3D model of “Blob mobile” for the introduction of First Words by self-learning the then
clunky yet emerging 3D-printer technology

Drew action-oriented figures such as in :12 in video reel that conformed to the physics behind body
  moves and weight distribution

Made animations captivating despite low budgets and barebones technology via sound and visuals;
     engaged autistic children who have a hard time focusing

Built rapport with programmers by infusing humor into unexpected places (see Following Directions)

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ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR                                                                       June 1979 - Present

Rhythm Guitarist / Music Composer / Producer
THE DOG CATCHERS (See: The Dog Catchers Band YouTube channel)
A blues rock band that has played throughout Vermont since 1989.

• Created marketing materials for the band including concert posters and CD covers using various artistic
  skills ranging from hand-drawing to Photoshop
• Wrote original music such as “Coyote” (seen in video playing Epiphone Casino)
• Recorded three pieces that were included in the Green Mountain Blues CD compilations
• Composed “Look Down the Road,” an instrumental and #1 requested song for weeks on 106.7 WIZN

Guitarist / Bassist / Keyboardist
PMP                                                                                                             
A reggae band that has performed gigs throughout Vermont since 2004.

• Co-wrote and produced PMP’s first CD which was a blend of genres (i.e., reggae, rap, R&B, and world)
• Appeared on Late Night Saturday with Tim Kavanagh, a local TV show, as the musical guest in 2004

Music Composer                                                                                                 

• Asked to create news theme for a local ABC affiliate; used four-track cassette to resourcefully create a
       high-quality professional tune in the early 1990s

Artist

• Published work includes the photography found in A Citizen’s Guide to Wetland Reclassification Under
   the Vermont Wetland Rules, from the Vermont Wetland Board
• Illustrated and co-wrote the e-comic science-fiction adventure gowithgilli.com
• Designed marketing materials for local small businesses
• Composited photos that resulted in finished pictures that told stories (see philpeery.com)
• Developed a new technique to make charcoal drawings from photographs (see philpeery.com)

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EDUCATION                                                                                                               

SHAKER MOUNTAIN SCHOOL – Focus on Music, Art, and Skiing Burlington, VT                 1979

Middle to high school level school with an arts emphasis; student self-governance was the centerpiece of
     all decision-making including budgetary and curriculum priorities

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ADDITIONAL DATA         

• Software Skills: Peak Pro Version 6.1.1, LightWave 10.1, Flash CS6 12, Adobe Photoshop CS5 12.1 and 5, Director MX Version 9, Adobe Premiere Elements 11
• Interests: Enjoyment of the outdoors including biking and ice skating with my daughter, boating on Lake Champlain, and hiking and backcountry skiing with my dog. Working on our horse farm in Vermont. Songwriting, recording and playing the guitar, keyboards, ukulele, bouzouki, veena, drums, bass, and homemade gourd dobro. Sketching ideas. Traveling.