Your Design Background

Greets, feel free to share your design background / experience / expertise with links to your portfolio work.

-Various concert and multimedia event staging crews

-BFA From Virginia Commonwealth School of the Arts (Focus on faux aged / worn artifacts and objects)

-Special events coordination assistance @ museum of fine arts

-Volunteer set construction and lighting for community theater

-Writing and production of original children's Christmas audio CDs

-Itinerant music (Writing, recording, performing)

-Youth convention set building, lighting, multimedia design

-Web design for newspaper and radio

-Interactive Flash web advertising

-Professional fine art photography

Hello, AKA Bill, mechanical design engineer, 32 years experience. BSME Drexel U., MEIE Penn State.

- First visited WDW in 1980 at age of 26 (one of my few regrets-that I couldn't go sooner).

- Best WDW Experience(s): being 'blown away' with awe 1st time I saw Spaceship Earth in '82, and completing the 2009 Goofy Chalenge.

- Worked in many varied industries building machinery that sold as the company's product.

- Helped out for 8 years in all backstage and technical areas in a community theatre group.

- Served 10 years as lead designer, engineer, technician, etc. for annual Haunted House project with area Jaycees chapter.

- Hobbyist involved with audio, video, electronics, computers, home improvement, anything technical.

- Received call from WDI while training for 2006 WDW Marathon. went thru 3 phone in 4 weeks interviews before they stopped. You can imagine what was going thru my head while training, anticipating the next call ! Still hoping some day to join the team !

Wow Goofy, I wish you the best and hope that magic call does come.

Found out yesterday the agency I work for is laying everyone off in two weeks so I wouldn't mind a magic call myself!

Hey All!
Darren here..
-WDW Cast Member (many many years ago)
-Degree in Communications with an emphasis on Multimedia and Film
-Certification as a Special Effects and Makeup Engineer
-2 Years on makeup and prop studio at Universal
-10 years as a Contractor: Designer/Builder for film and Television (various shows)
-3 Years working as Special Weapons and Props for Weta Workshop (Prince Caspian, Avatar, District 9, etc)
-Recently Employed by Weta Digital and Freelance as a Makeup/Props and Special Weapons Engineer

Currently building a "Disney Villains" working miniature ride... just because.