Ian Watts, Web Designer


Rua dos Navegantes, 34-8
2750 Cascais
PORTUGAL

email: iwatts@webpub.brown.edu


CURRENT ACTIVITY:       Internet Media Developer and Consultant

FOCUS
With an expertise in developing World Wide Web sites, Ian Watts has worked closely with many individuals and organizations to coordinate and develop an electronic presence on the Internet. He has worked with clients to develop an electronic image and an overall tactic to utilize new media.

TECHNIQUES
  • Complete site development skills, from conception, direction and navigation development to the presentation of a complete hypertext document.
  • Providing World Wide Web server space to meet the needs of a client.
  • Coordinating electronic media to compliment more traditional forms of publicity and communication.
  • Exemplifying and coordinating the use of the media rich capabilities of the Internet.
  • Demonstrating the "live" or "on-line" capabilities of the Internet as a media tool.
  • Assembling teams of professionals to execute a project.

    • EXPERIENCE
    Ian Watts has designed and created an Internet presence for a variety of organizations and individuals including: In United States, the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Gavea-Brown Press at Brown University, as well as the Southeast Asia Center and English as a Second Language Program at the University of Virginia.In Macau, Internet provider MacauNet and graphic designer Man San. In Portugal, Tradisom, a Portuguese voice in the Orient; Artist Susan Vong; Composer Walter Ross and others.

    Ian Watts currently consults the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at Brown University and The Exquisite Group, experimental poetry group in Boston, soon to be online.
    He has just completed a on-line bibliographic project and sucessfully ran an experimental web and ftp server for the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies in close cooperation with Brown University Library System and Academic Computing Center. Also, he is the Internet Coordinator for the evolving site, Through a Lens Darkly/Macau Pages, which is available here.


    PAST ACTIVITIES

    1996-1997:   Departmental Computer Consultant, maintained and upgraded Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies' hardware and software. Provided answers and support for technical and general questions, also trained and instructed users in specific areas. Maintained Departmental intranet and authored web-pages.

    1996:   Internet Consultant and Programmer, for MacauNet, Ltd. in Macau.

    1995-1996: Hypertext Programmer for the Souteast Asia Center, University of Virginia.

    1994-1996:   Computer Techncal Assistant for the Office of the Director of English as a Second Language, University of Virginia.

    1993:   Database Programmer for the Muse Project, launching the journal, Callaloo, on-line.

    EDUCATION

    Brown University, Ph.D (candidate) Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.
    University of Virginia, B.A. in Anthropology and Government.
    Salem High School, Virginia.

    RELATED INTERESTS

    Ian Watts is a water-colorist and a writer.

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