About Ice Cave Technology

Contact Information:

Craig Wall
Ice Cave Technology
5600 Lake Otis Pkwy, Ste E-103
Anchorage, AK 99507

(907) 771-0543

Profile:

About Craig Wall, sole proprietor:

OVERVIEW:

Mr. Wall has fifteen years of experience launching and operating two businesses. Wallʼs first company, Mentor Max, trained over 1,200 companies and individuals in graphic design, video and new media software. His second company, Access2 Interactive, won repeat business with some of the world's finest companies. That studio lives today under a new name: Ice Cave Technology.

Mr. Wall is 48 years old.

EDUCATION:

University of California at Los Angeles, 1984, Bachelor of Arts in History.

PROFILE:

Enjoys Pro Football, March Madness (Go Bruins!), hiking, fishing, biographies, and epic or sci-fi movies. Moved to Anchorage in the summer of 2008, following life-chapters in Dallas and Denver. Grew up in California.

First came to Alaska to construct a data engine on the North Slope. Craig recently became a permanent Alaska resident.

Craig pic

Links:

43 Folders: finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.

Apple Insider: Best of the Apple rumor sites.

A List Apart: For people who make websites.

John Nack on Adobe: Adobe from the inside.

The Russell Brown Show: Photoshop guru.

Flashkit: Rich Flash community.

Guy Kawasaki: Change the World: The first guy who really excited me about business and integrating creativity and business development.

CSS-Tricks Great tutes, stuff. On top of it all—Chris is a brother in baldness!

Digital ToolBox:

DIGITAL IMAGING:

Adobe Photoshop CS4
Adobe Illustrator CS4

PRINT DESIGN:

Adobe InDesign CS4

MOTION GRAPHICS:

Adobe After Effects CS4
3rd Party After Effects PlugIns:
Trapcode, Red Giant, Digital Anarchy, Zaxwerks, Boris FX, Cycore

PRESENTATIONS:

Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Apple Keynote

WEB DESIGN:

Macromedia Dreamweaver CS4
Macromedia Flash CS4
RapidWeaver
Transmit FTP

3D DESIGN AND 3D ANIMATION:

Lightwave

Cinema 4D
Vue Infinite

DATABASE (WAHOO!):

FileMaker Pro
SQL Lite

PRODUCTIVITY:

Microsoft Word
OmniFocus and OmniFocus Mobile

BLOGGING, PODCASTING

GarageBand
RapidWeaver
iWeb

VIDEO EDITING AND COMPRESSION

Apple Final Cut Pro Studio 6
Compressor
On2 Flix Pro

BLOGGING, PODCASTING

GarageBand
RapidWeaver
iWeb

INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA

Adobe Acrobat Pro
Adobe Director
Camtasia Studio
Snapz
Mouseposè
Compressor
On2 Flix Pro

FINANCE, ACCOUNTING, NUMBER CRUNCHING

Microsoft Excel 2007
Quicken
FileMaker Pro

CONCEPTUAL, OUTLINING, SCHEMATIC, DIAGRAMMING

Curio Pro
OmniGraffle
OmniOutliner

HARDWARE

Macintosh Pro (Eight-Thread)
Two 23 Cinema Displays
MacBook Pro Laptop
Mitsubishi HD Business Projector
iPhone (shh, it’s really a powerful computer)
Canon HV20 HD video camera, Bogen tripod, Lowel light kit and lav mic
M-Audio 410 Firewire Pro audio interface with ElectroVoice RE20 microphone

Wacom Graphire Tablet

OPERATING SYSTEM

Mac X.5 and Virtualization running both XP and Vista

Note: Ice Cave uses only properly licensed software.