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Photo of Tom PurcellThomas Baxter Purcell

e-mail: slowbox@gmail.com

Not So Brief Bio

Grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland (home of the DC sniper) plus a few years in Germany on an army base. Elementary school was Montgomery County’s Cresthaven. During these years became best friends with a couple people and Radio Shack’s Tandy 2000 computer.

Attended Francis Scott Key Middle school. Picked up drawing from a few great kids there. Hosted my first BBS using WWIV. Ended up discovering MUDs, early online text-based adventure games, reading old issues of Phrack, and working on ANSI art.

Packed it up with mom and headed south to Atlanta and spent high school years at Chattahoochee HS in Alpharetta. Kept at drawing and painting with aid from art teachers plus inspiring friends. I received a drawing tablet hand-me-down and played in Photoshop 0.0 and Autodesk painter and 3D STUDIO Animator for DOS. Created BBS ads in art groups, loaders (short animated advertisements of the BBS supplying the file) and modded many versions of BBS software. Got interested in modding games begining with DOOM and continuing up to Half-Life 1 and then the Battlefield 2 series. Texturing realistic surfaces for 3D models is my favorite aspect of the modding process and I’ve hopped in and out of this role many times for various mods over the past 10 years. Still an avid gamer, XBOX tag ‘chop em down’.

Graphic and web design both lend themselves well to my creative 2D skillset, and currently that is my primary role in Marketing at Chateau Elan Winery & Resort.

In the marketing role I’ve also mastered much of the Pay Per Click style advertising systems of Google and Yahoo. In addition my routine entails both design and implementation of web and email marketing campaigns, as well as newspaper and print advertising. Don’t even get me started on SEO... well, ok, one free tip even many SEO agents overlook: the filenames of your website graphics and photos drive traffic.

List of friends I’m trying to get back in touch with over the years… (In case any old mates have Googled themselves!)

Joseph Kirkbride —- Need your e-mail dude!
Phong Bahn —- Found!
Forrest Agee
Bobby Moore
Sam Strachman —- Found!
Julian Inasi —- Found!
Peter Bracci —- Found! Grats on the new baby!
Steve Scarbeck —- Found! His MySpace
Tom Pritchard —- Heyo! Got you on Facebook
Sam Reamer —- Found! We need to have a beer.

Tom

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