Louis Atkinson, Designer and Programmer
Louis is a well-rounded multimedia artist, web design specialist, webmaster, and programmer. He is entirely familiar with design context, concept, and production, possessing strong design skills, including both image creation and HTML formatting. Louis has a Fine Arts degree, with concentrations in painting, video production, computer graphics, and sculpture that gives him a solid design foundation.
Louis has experience developing a variety of PHP/MySQL applications, including shopping carts, online searchable databases, e-postcards, art galleries, discussions forums, calendars, resume and membership databases, online journals, plus various tools to aid in and speed up PHP/MySQL development. In addition, he is a Photoshop expert, with over fourteen years of experience in a professional environment.
He is now a freelance contractor, having worked in big design houses in the past. He is fully able to take control of the design process from brief to delivery, and deliver on time.
For design or programming inquiries, email Louis
Moya K. Mason, Information Scientist and Researcher
Moya K. Mason is a professional freelance research consultant, Internet sweeper, Information Scientist, and online project manager. She has worked for individuals, companies, and governmental bodies all over the world, and has acted as researcher/editor for a number of authors, across disciplines.
Moya publishes in academic journals, and was researcher for the revised edition of Howard Rheingold's The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, available from MIT Press. Another of her projects was as principal researcher for Howard Rheingold's, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, a book that details how the rise of pervasive mobile communications combined with always-on Internet connections produces new kinds of ad-hoc social groups.
More recently, Moya was researcher, writer, and editor for Privacy Lost: How Technology is Endangering Your Privacy, which relates an insider's exposé of the world of technology and how it is putting our privacy at risk.
Moya also helps authors with their book proposals, and start-ups write and edit their business plans. She works frequently for an educational publisher, researching and writing for the K-12 world.
More information can be found on her resume, or email Moya at moya@highermind.org if you need research or related services.