John Carter
Booz Allen Hamilton, USA
Biography
John Carter is a 3D artist and is currently employed by Booz Allen Hamilton a government contractor for the Department of Defense in San Antonio, Texas. He attended Northwest Vista College where he developed skills in 3D animation, video special effects, game concept art and game design, as well as, traditional art skills and graphic design utilizing current industry software. John was awarded “Best in Show” at the 2011 New Vistas in Media Festival a collaboration of student technical achievements in video and media arts. Since 2012, John has served as a member of the multimedia advisory board at Northwest Vista College game development and animation department. John previously worked as an assistant to the Director of Education at Geekdom for a Rackspace hosted mobile unit offering educational enhancement projects for a STEM program. He has also worked as an adjunct faculty instructor at Northwest Vista College teaching students game design and pipeline processes. John was given the opportunity to work through a grant from Microsoft instructing local school teachers on basic programming in Kodu for later implementation in the classroom. John also volunteers his time as an instructor and mentor for the Screaming Chickens Robotic team a non-profit organization offering after school education in software technology.