Chase Lindsey, ATCM 2335.001

Web Careers and Semester Project

Three things I learned from the readings

  1. Web 3.0 is moving us towards decentralization and privatized data ownership (hurray!)
  2. The web can be viewed as an analogy of riding your bike (TCP/IP) down the street (internet connection) to order (HTTP) chinese (DNS).
  3. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language

Area of Interest: Technical Evangelist

Roles and Responsibilities

Average Pay: The estimated total pay for a Technical Evangelist is $169,477 per year in the United States area

Places that offer the job: California, Silicon Valley

Someone in the field: Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is a technical evangelist who popularized the word evangelist used in marketing when working to advertise Apple's Macintosh computers. Guy notes that "Evangelism isn't a job title, it's a way of life," which I think is pretty funny because it definitely encapsulates what Evangelism is all about. Guy has had his fingers in many different pies throughout his professional career, including Apple, Pandora, The Motley Fool, Google, and Canva. I think this is an interesting role because you really need to be passionate about whatever your preaching (selling) or at least make peopel think that you are.

Link to his website

What I would like to do for my semester project.

For my semester project my current idea is to make a centralized resource center for people looking for guides, tutorials, advice, critique, etc. when it comes to 3D modeling, UV, texturing, rigging, animation, VFX, composition, etc. Instead of a service it would be more of a resource to help guide people in the right direction when they start, or at any point, in their 3D artist journey. I think this could potentially help a lot of people (myself included) because there's so much information out there, it's just really scattered.