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William
M. Fantini
- Biography and Resume
Biography
William
Fantini created Imagica Productions in 1992, after working in
the film industry as everything from Grip to Assistant Director.
What started as a freelance photography and graphic design studio
became a cutting edge digital video production and multimedia
development studio.
In
1994, Fantini built his first Web site for an art supply and digital
prepress service bureau and served it off his desktop Mac. The
first time he saw the hard drive spin, meaning someone was downloading
a page, he realized that the future of communications had changed
forever.
Immediately,
Fantini immersed himself in a variety of programming and technology
development seminars and began building holistic media solutions
for corporate clients like Intermedia Cable, private sector organizations
like the Tennessee Bankers Association and dozens of their member
community banks, and independent businesses like CedarHouse Productions.
Imagica
Productions has been the creative production force that has built
a collection of Fantini's intellectual properties and entrepreneurial
ventures. Fantini is also the President of Kinetic Engine Media
Corp. which now owns and manages a series of previous business
ventures. For more information, see KineticEngine.net.
In 1996, Fantini was recruited at a trade show by Learning Tree
International , a globally located and publicly traded (LTRE)
technology training company. Fantini achieved certification
as a freelance instructor for Learning Tree very quickly and has
since trained over 1000 technology professionals in the US and
abroad.
Learning
Tree's most valuable benefit to instructors is free classes and
certification. During his time with "The Tree," Fantini
attended over twenty weeks of training and achieved four professional
certifications. Of course, he will be the first to tell you that,
"knowing so much only makes you realize just how much more
there is to learn... "
Fantini's relationship with Learning Tree, and the production
of various corporate marketing projects through Imagica Productions, allowed
him to build Kinetic Engine's intellectual properties without
outside investment.
Fantini
continues to be a much sought after technology consultant and
producer and is currently focusing his attention on Bridge Media
Solutions in Nashville, TN while also producing TV commercials,
music and marketing videos and web sites and writing a new screenplay.
No.
The guy never sleeps.
 Prologue:
One must never forget their roots, or their passions. Fantini
embraces both, with strong ties to family and community and a
personal mission to "Photograph the planet one mile at a
time," he expresses his creative soul daily, whether through
painting acrylic or writing poetry or song lyrics and even making
music on guitar, keyboards, percussions and flute. But that is
another Web site!
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Traveling
Technology Instructor
Learning Tree International
Certified Freelance Instructor - USA 11/96 - Now
Responsibilities include travel to venues across US and abroad,
teaching classes of 15 to 30 adults, setup of student workstations
and classroom network, troubleshooting relevant software, addition
of personal experience to each course topic, on-the-fly editing
of course notes, communication with IR department, and proctoring
of exams.
Learning Tree International
Technical Editor for Course 548, Dreamweaver UltraDev - 03/00 - Now
Has included participation in the Course Planning Meeting,
Alpha, and Beta processes, copy-editing of and contribution to course
notes and exercise manual. Also includes interviewing of
potential instructors for this class and teaching it regularly.
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Kinetic
Engine Media is a "Venture Development" company created
by William Fantini to provide infrastructure and new media marketing
services to new and existing media and software companies, with
or without the ".com" in their business model. In some
cases, a contract was developed to bring Fantini under the roof
of his client. In most cases, an equity stake was offered as part
of the contract, thereby increasing everyone's focus and reward.
Upon
successful completion of Fantin's contracted goals (whether it
be the implementation of an in-house web development shop for
an ad agency or the development of an e-learning application for
a software company), he maintains an open line of communication
with each client as he moves to the next project.
E2 Interactive (Member of the Veritas Group) - New York,
NY 4/00-1/01
Implemented an in-house web consulting and development arm of
the Veritas Group Advertising and Marketing Agency. E2 clients
include Toshiba America Consumer Products (http://www.toshiba.com/tacp),
Toshiba Presentation Products (http://www.toshiba.com/presentations)
and Hunter Douglas Window Fashions. Fantini contributed to the
business and marketing plan for E2, implemented an intranet and
project management application for the Veritas Group, and hired
personnel for sales, production and customer service. Fantini
was also responsible for generating revenue for E2 from existing
agency clients and creating new business relationships to sustain
E2.
Optasia Interactive Learning - http://www.optasia.com -
Bensalem, PA 1/99-4/00
Lead the development of a web-based learning curriculum and e-learning
application; including a workbook and learning object development
tool, an electronic registrar, test development and delivery systems.
Responsibilities included information architecture, interface
design and illustration and database design. Also lead the development
of Optasia's fundamental learning strategies, marketing plan and
all marketing materials.
Blue Forest
Studio - This is now part of Kinetic Engine Media
Sole Proprieter
Executive Producer, Creative Director, Chief Bottle Washer Nashville,
TN 6/92-1/99
http://blueforest.net - Sole Proprietor of Nashville's premier
Web Site Consulting and Development studio. Clients included Intermedia
Cable, The Tennessee Banker's Association and 35 of it's member
community banks, MCA Records, The Mavericks, The Bank Of Nashville,
The Nashville Entertainment Association, and many others.
Includes producing and directing video, multimedia and Web Sites.
Also, script, flowchart, and copy writing, still and motion photography,
digital post production, animation, html, cgi, sql, and object
oriented programming.
Click
Here For a List Of Projects.
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William
Fantini produced several Music Videos, Marketing Videos, Web Broadcasts
and short films which you can see on the project page. Following
is a list of places where he learned to produce all of that!
Lunker
Lake Productions / Speer Communications, Nashville, TN 10/96
Second Second Assistant Director for Major Motion Picture “Lunker
Lake”.
Ice Entertainment, Nashville, TN 1/93
Sound engineer and boom operator for PBS special, In the Mix/Nashville.
Nearly Normal Productions, Los Angeles, CA 11/92
Grip and Louma Crane operator for P.S.A. for World AIDS Day/MTV.
Chameleon/Contrary Warrior Productions, Miami, FL 1/92
- 6/92
Associate Producer, Assistant Director, Second Camera Operator,
Unit Production Manager, Art Department, Grip/Electrician and
Still Photographer for the independent feature film Electric Hummingbird
and music videos for Dre' Dawg, D.J. Laz, The Bass That Ate Miami
and Danny B.
Masters by Johnson Recording Studio, Narberth, PA 10/85
- 7/86
Production Assistant.
ABC Radio News - Live Aid, Philadelphia, PA 6/85- 7/85
Production Assistant.
William
Fantini has produced, designed and photographed literally hundreds
of brochures, marketing pieces, point of purchase displays, promotional
folders, press kits and CD package art. Please visit the Projects
Page and Portfolio for more information. Following is a list of
places where he learned to produce all of THAT.
The
Omni Art Supply Corp.., Nashville, TN 1/95-3/96
Applications Manager. Installed Digital Printing Division. Responsibilities
included project management, client relations, development of
marketing strategies, maintenance of all hardware and software,
troubleshooting, quality control, design of various printed materials,
web page and multimedia development.
Covert Design Studio, Nashville, TN 1/93-1/94
Production Artist and Designer's Apprentice for Kathleen Lico,
CD Packages for MCA/Nashville, et al.
Colossal Grafix/Biz Wiz, Nashville, TN 1/93-1/94
Chief Designer/Technician for this high-volume large format digital
print service bureau. Responsibilities included scanning and manipulation,
formatting and outputting of jobs, client relations, maintenance
of all hardware and software, troubleshooting, quality control,
design of various posters, banners, advertisements, model agency
cards, etc..... and very little sleep.
Boston University Publications, Boston, MA 1/90 - 1/92
Assistant Editor - Copy editing, proofreading, photography, departmental
communication, design and layout for University catalogues, brochures
and program bulletins.
The Daily Free Press, Boston, MA 9/87 - 1/92
Column writing, feature photography, and proofreading for Boston
University's daily newspaper.
 Boston
University/College of Communications -
Bachelor of Science Degree - Cum Laude
Broadcasting & Film 12/91
Minor: English. Relevant Courses in Computer Science, Journalism,
Photography, Art, and Philosophy, Physics and Aerospace Engineering.
 Learning
Tree International - 1/97 - Present
Professional Certification Programs Completed
- Web
Development Certification
- JavaScript
Development Certification
- XML
Development Certification
- E-Commerce
Consulting and Development
Learning
Tree International - Instructor Certification 1/97
See the above list of courses taught.
All classes taught have been completed successfully as
a student. Learning Tree Transcript available upon request.
Internet Seminars: Internet Commerce Expo '99
(Boston), Adobe Internet Conference 96 (NY), IBM Network Consultant
Seminar 96 (NY), NetExpo 96 (Nashville), NetCom 96 (Nashville)
Interests/Hobbies: Aside from all this
work, I've managed to explore a great deal of this Earth, paint
some canvas, mold some clay, carve some stone, develop some theories
of quantum dynamic spatial philosophy, listen and dance to a lot
of great live music, make some live music (guitar, flute, hand-drums),
experience the finer cultural events our species has to offer,
jump out of a couple airplanes, win a few crew regattas, read
a lot of great books, write a few (ER, plethora of) poems, stories,
and screenplays, and meet a LOT of amazing people.
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Internet Tools:
Internet Concepts:
XML,
XSL, XSLT, JavaScript, VBScript, VB.net, Active Server Pages,
SQL Server 2000, mySQL, PHP, HTML, VRML, CGI (PERL), Shockwave,
Flash, LiveChat, RealAudio, QuickTime, Apple Internet Server
Solution, Internet Information Server (IIS), Bandwidth Efficiency...
Internet Marketing.
Software Proficiencies:
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Macromedia:
Director Studio, DreamWeaver MX Studio, FireWorks MX, Flash
MX, Flash Remoting, ColdFusion MX,;
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Microsoft:
Office, Access, SQLServer 2000, VisualBasic.Net, Project,
2000 Networking;
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Adobe
Everything: Photoshop, Premier, Illustrator, GoLive, LiveMotion;
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All
kinds of others like QuarkXpress, PageMaker, mySQL, PHP, JavaScript,
ASP, etc.
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Random
Past Employment Experience
I
also had a variety of manual labor type construction jobs, house
painting, carpentry, table waiting and retail jewelry and apparel
sales experience.
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