Biography
Wes Kashiwagi began his career in 1990 when Warner New Media hired him as a video production manager while he was in his senior year at the University of Southern California Film School. At Warner Bros., he went on to become one of the industry's first digital video editors and an interactive designer.

He later went on work for Sony Imagesoft PC as the unit's art director and interactive designer. In 1996, he launched his first website.

In 1997, he decided to improve his print and web design skills at CTB/McGraw-Hill.

Siebel Systems, Inc.
San Mateo, CA
Senior Manager, Web Marketing & Operations, October 2001
Managing Producer, Siebel.com, September 2000
Senior Web Designer, September 1999
September 20, 1999 - Present
Responsible for the Web marketing strategy, production, and design of Siebel System's external websites, including the siebel-microsoft.com and siebel-compaq.com alliance websites, the Siebel intranet, the Siebel MidMarket website, and the redesign of the Siebel corporate website. Recent accomplishments include the design of the Siebel eNewsletter.

Novell
San Jose, CA
Website Manager
October 5, 1998 - September 17, 1999
Responsible for electronic marketing for sales-related websites, including shopnovell, Novell corporate partnerships, and miscellaneous projects. Created site designs, graphics, animated banners, editorial content, and HTML scripting for public website and intranet. Personalized newsletter initiative resulted in a 20% return, an eight-fold increase in subscribers, and a 50% increase in monthly sales

CTB McGraw/Hill
Monterey, CA
Marketing Communications Design/Production Specialist & Website Manager
November, 1997 - October 2, 1998
Designer and manager of CTB's website. 1997-98 CTB Product and Services Catalog (216 page, 4-color catalog). Managing editor and writer of CTB's company newsletter. Designer of CTB's national advertising campaign for 1997. Designer of various product brochures, CD-ROMs, booth graphics, and other collateral.

Sony Imagesoft PC
Monterey, CA
Senior Interactive Designer
May, 1993 - October, 1995
Highlight's PUZZLEMANIA

  • The Haldeman Diaries
  • Wheel of Fortune
  • Jeopardy!
  • Sony Imagesoft PC Sampler
  • Beavis & Butthead, Playboy CD-ROM screensavers
  • ABC News Earthquake!
  • Wilson Learning Relate with Ease
  • Wilson Learning Decide for Sure
  • IMC First Aid Basics

Warner New Media
Interactive Designer/Digital Video Editor
October 1990 - February 1993

  • AMC Cancer Information Guide v1.1
  • HellCab
  • Funny
  • IBM Orchestra Laserdisc Demo
  • Sports Illustrated Sports Almanac
  • Sports Illustrated's Gold Rush
  • Brahm's German Requiem
  • Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Education
Bachelor of Arts, Film Production (incomplete)
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
January 1986 - January 1990

Software Used in Production

Digital Video:
Adobe Premiere
VideoFusion
Apple QuickTime utilities (Mac/Win)

Paint and Drawing Programs:
Adobe Photoshop (Mac/Win)
Equilibrium Debabelizer
Adobe Illustrator
Fractal Painter
Specular Infini-D
Macromedia Macromodel

Digital Audio:
Digidesign Sound Designer II
Macromedia Soundedit 16

Multimedia Authoring:
Macromedia Director (Mac/Win)
Macromedia Authorware (Mac/Win)

Desktop Publishing:
Quark XPress
Adobe PageMaker

HTML:
Macromedia DreamWeaver
Adobe Pagemill
Alliare Homesite
BBEdit

Internet:
All Internet browsers

PDF:
Adobe Acrobat Distiller

Clerical Software:
Claris Filemaker Pro
Microsoft Word (Mac/Win)
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Excel
Sony Hybrid CD-R Formatter
Microsoft Exchange
Novell Groupwise

Hardware Used in Production

Computer Hardware:
Macintosh & Windows-based computers, hard drive arrays, magneto-optical drives, CD-ROM drives, CD-R writers, Radius Videovision Studio, SuperMac Digital Film & Rasterops 24STV video digitizers; AudioMedia II sound digitizer; DAT recorders

Video Hardware:
Betacam SP, 3/4" SP, & Hi-8 videotape cameras and timecode-based off-line editors; flatbed scanners, Canon digital SLR still cameras, RGB to NTSC scan converters, Macintosh-based touchscreens.