Jamie Haggerty
5002 Ne Wistaria Dr.
Portland, Oregon 97213
503-282-5890
   
 
   
jamieh@strayvoltage.net

Overview

Since 1989 I've been involved in some capacity in the film and video business through my work starting at Will Vinton Studios. Short films and commercial work for top clients have developed my skills in sound design and composition as well as a high level of problem solving.

Work involved mechanical skills early on in the creation of armature and rigging utilized in the animation business. These skills were honed from my work as a jeweler and jewelry repair mechanic for 9 years.

Then starting in 1990 I began to utilized and hone my sound design and music composition talents in the short films and commercials being created at Will Vinton Studios.

In July of 2000 I started work for Flying Rhinoceros as their sound designer/composer for the educational website www.fraboom.com.

I would like to utilize my skills as a sound designer in a creative and fun work environment. I'm very good at solving problems and coming up with solutions.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Sound Design Filmography

SOUND DESIGN, MUSIC, MIX for over 50 Flash based educational web cartoons created by FLYING RHINO

All cartoons were full flash animation with a duration of 3 to 5 minutes each.


Filmography

"Dew Line " Sound Design, Music,

Final Cut Pro Edit, Mix-Short Film

Directed by Joanna Priestley 2004

Priestley Films


"Cargo" Music, Sound Design and Mix assist

Trailer for Game Preview

Directed by Mike Wellins 2003

Happy Hour Entertainment


 

"A Place to Grow" Sound Design and Music

Interactive Book Kiosk

Directed by Ray Nelson

Flying Rhino


"Day of the Dead" Sound Design, Mix-Short Film

Directed by Kirk Kelly 2001

Will Vinton Studios

"Stop Motion vs. Computer Animation" Sound Design, Music, Mix-Short Film

Directed by Kyle Bell 2001

Will Vinton Studios

"Terminator Tomatoes" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Short Film

Directed by Suzanne Twinning 2001

"Soundings" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Sandra Gibson

"What you wish for" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Heather Von Rohr 2000

Live Action

"Mutt" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Kirby Atkins, 1999

Will Vinton Studios

Gold Medal - Best animation/mixed media at Worldfest Flagstaff.

First Place - Best Animated Short Film at the

Hollywood Film Festival

"Edgeways" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Sandra Gibson

"Utopia Parkway" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Joanna Priestley 1998

Festival Awards

San Francisco International Film Festival- Golden Gate Award

Big Muddy Film Festival- Best of Festival

Fantoche International Festival for Animated Films- Best of the World Program (Baden, Switzerland)

Northwest Film and Video Festival- Judge’s Award

Black Maria Film Festival- Director’s Choice Award

U.S.A. Film Festival- Finalist

Annecy International Animation Festival (Annecy, France)

"Change" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Chris Tenzis 1998

Live Action

"When the Stars Came Dreaming" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Jean Poulot, 1998

Will Vinton Studios

Honorable Mention - Black Maria Film Festival

Audience Award - Arts in Motion

"Uncle Xander" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Tracy Prescott-MacGregor 1997

Live Action

"Bride of Resistor" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Mark Gustafson, 1996

Will Vinton Studios

Silver Award - Houston International Film & Video Festival

Gold Award - New York Festivals

Silver Award -Short Subject, Animation Worldfest Houston

"Zerox and Mylar-10 years Later" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Joel Brinkerhoff, 1997

Will Vinton Studios

"Zerox and Mylar" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Joel Brinkerhoff, 1995

Bronze Award - Worldfest Houston

"Mr. Resistor" Sound Design, Music

Directed by Mark Gustafson, 1993

Gold Award - New York Festivals

Silver Award - Houston International Film & Video Festival

Director's Choice - Black Maria Film Festival

Audience Favorite - Northwest Film and Video Festival

"Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase" Sound Design, Music

Directed by Joan Gratz

Academy Award Winner Best Short Animated Film 1992

"Gearhead" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Directed by Scott Nordland 1990

Best Film Will Vinton After Hour’s

Judges’ Favorite Award


Filmography for Aberle Films

"Wire we Here" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Awards

Gold Award (animation)- 1995 Houston International Film Festival

1st Place (animation)- 1995 Central Florida Film and Video Festival

Best Animation short- 1995 Santa Clarita International Film Festival

Director's Choice Award- 1995 Black Maria Festival (New Jersey)

Best Independent Animation- 1996, 24th International Film Festival of the Algarve (Portugal)

2nd place (animation)- 1996 Festival Mondial du Cinema de Courts Metrages (Belgium)

Third Place (animation)- 1995 South Beach Film Festival (Florida)

Finalist- 1995 USA Film Festival (Dallas)

Finalist- 1995 Montreal Film Festival

Finalist- The New York Festivals (1995)

"Wired for the Holidays" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Awards

Silver Award- 1997 Houston Worldfest

2nd place- 1997 Central Florida Film and Video Festival

Finalist- 1997 Santa Clarita International Film Festival

Finalist- 1997 Charleston Worldfest

"Haywire Heart" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Awards

Finalist 1998 World Animation Celebration (Los Angeles)

Finalist 1998 Santa Clarita International Film Festival (California)

"The Dirt on Mom" Sound Design, Music, Mix

Awards

Silver Award (animation) 1998 Flagstaff-Worldfest (Arizona)

Production Service Award 1998 Northwest Film and Video Festival (Oregon)

Honorable Mention 1999 Pacific Coast Film Festival (California)

Best Short Film 1999 Valleyfest Film Festival (Tennessee)

Finalist 1999 Santa Clarita Film Festival (California)

Best Color Film nomination 1999 Ohio Independent Film Festival

The "Sesame Street" Films Sound Design, Music, Mix

Created for the 30th season of Sesame Street

"Bear"

"New Neighbors"

Skill Sets Specialty
 
Sound Design, Music Composing, Mixing, Sound and Video editing (Final Cut Pro) Live Sound Recording, Studio Sound Recording and Producing.
Relevant Experience
 

2001-Present

Freelance sound designer operating under the name Stray Voltage Studio.

Available for creative sound for multimedia, film, video, internet, etc.

Office located at 1440 NW Overton, Portland, Ore. 97209 1st Floor


2000 to 2001

FLYING RHINOCEROS, INC., 1440 NW Overton

Sound Designer/Composer

Hired to create sound tracks for interactive web-based educational cartoons and teaching sites.

Skills sets included mastering Flash for audio as well as utilizing creativity in editing and animation.


1989 to 2000

WILL VINTON STUDIOS, Portland, Oregon

Armature Design Specialist/Sound Designer

Managed the armature department from Sept. 1989 til

approximate Sept. 1998. Moved into more sound design responsibilities until leaving Will Vinton Studios in June 2000


1979 to 1986

ARTICHOKE MUSIC, Portland, Oregon

Co-owner/operator

Artichoke Music was an eclectic music shop selling intruments and recordings from around the world. It was doing this period that I learn musical and technical skills through live sound engineering, live performance, studio recording and production.

Artichoke music is still a highly regarded music store

in the Portland area.


1969 to 1978 WERNER'S JEWELERY, McMurray, Pennsylvania

Jewelry Repair Mechanic/Designer

Entering into a jewelry repair/design apprenticeship program right out of high school let me build on my already well developed mechanical skills.

 
 
    
 
 
 
 
     
 
 

Relevant Software Skills

Pro Tools, Bias Peak, Spark, Logic Audio, Metasynth, Reason, Live 3, Sountrack, Sound Forge and most audio software.

Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash 5, Macromedia Flash MX, Artmatic Pro, Artmatic Voyager, Macromedia Freehand, Studio Artist 1.5, most image editing programs.Dreamweaver, AdobeGo Live, Bryce 5

PLATFORMS: Expert level is Macintosh OS 9 and OS X but also very comfortable with Windows with most of the above software.

 

Paul Diener, Executive Producer

Will Vinton Studios

Portland, Oregon 97210

503-225-1130


Ray Nelson, Chief Creative

Flying Rhinoceros

Portland, Oregon 97213

503-552-8700


Erik Vignau

Happy Hour Entertainment

Bid Brothers

1116 NW 17th Avenue

Portland, Oregon 97209

503-222-9243