An entrepreneurial technical graphics professional with over thirty-years hands-on small business practice experience specializing in the design, intellectual property and manufacturing industries, functioning as an industrial designer, patent, technical graphics and documentation practitioner. A fast learner and owner of numerous patents in a variety of technologies; software, military, medical, CAD, technical documentation and multimedia presentations. A perfectionist providing specialized creative skills and services from manual techniques to advanced digital communications, web and software design. An accomplished airbrush, pencil and pen-and-ink specialist.
Provision of high quality, deadline-oriented technical graphics relating to the development of conceptual ideation, industrial design, engineering, manufacturing, patent illustrations, presentation graphics, technical illustration and documentation of complex industrial machinery, products and processes. Worked full-time for 11-years with South Africa's leading military R&D design team on wheeled prototype vehicles for the G6, Rooikat, Ingwe and Ratel while freelancing to advertising agencies, the DeHuizemark housing market and numerous magazine publishers.
Skills include multimedia presentations for animation and web, trade shows, conventions and courtroom exhibits. My years as a business owner have evolved my abilities knowledge of manufacturing and fabrication processes, materials and, skills in industrial design and technical graphics, management techniques, ergonomics and human factors, client liaisons, project management, delegating, training, marketing and that of implementing methods of streamlining production processes and quality control convection's and conventions.
· NBKJ, LLC., IP-Docs and IPVisual. 106 Beech Hollow Place, Apex NC 27502. Autodesk developer.
2001- present - (6-years)
CEO/Designer: Development of IP, architecture and formulation of new company and product design, architecture, management, business planning, infrastructure, alliances, financing, strategy and services related to IPVisual /IP-Docs software development. Currently providing a software application that merges concurrent engineering with concurrent documentation. Application is easily ported to other applications. Software engine has tools to automate 3D and 2D vector technical graphics for all engineering, patent and modern documentation disciplines. www.ipvisual.com
· NB Graphics & Associates, Inc. (Norman Bernadette Graphics) 9960 Lake Forest Way, Roswell, GA 30076
Services provided to individuals, corporations, governments and attorneys.
1989-2001 - (12-years)
President (co-owner): Developed an interactive-graphics service company and a portfolio of repeat clients by providing high quality and cost effective creative designs, graphics and illustration, covering concept to manufacture, documentation and training. Projects included product design using the latest 3D-2D solid modeling principles, engineering graphics, patent graphics, technical graphics, and web and presentation graphics. Personally supplied, managed and trained a team of 17 engineers, industrial designers, draftsmen, illustrators and graphic artists to produce complex illustrations on projects, to highly regulated specifications, including MIL, ISO, ANSI, BSI, DIN, and JIS standards.
Developed PowerPoint presentations for business plans, corporate presentations, marketing, courtroom exhibits, training and documentation. Author of exclusive rights on numerous patents for commercial, military, medical and industrial products and design to manufacture applications.
· NB Graphics, c.c. Benoni, South Africa.
1977-1989 - (12-years)
President (founder and owner): Developed and supplied industrial design and technical illustration to a leading research and development military vehicle plant on a full-time contract basis. Supplied (after-hours) utility and design patent illustrations to patent attorneys. Freelance work in design, finished art and mechanicals for advertising campaigns to the De-Huizemark Group, a large consortium of independent realtors. Also freelanced finished art for the Wilsenagh Group and Young & Rubicam advertising agencies.
· Sandock Austral, Ltd. (a division of GENCOR/ARMSCOR) Benoni, South Africa.
1981-1989 - (9-years)
Contract Departmental Manager and Industrial Designer/Illustrator: Trading as NB Graphics c.c. Security clearance to work with military research and development on classified and top-secret military vehicles. Owner of patents on military vehicles and blast deflective hulls. Worked alongside South Africa’s leading design engineers and advanced through the ranks to senior industrial designer within two years of service. Further promotion to departmental manager of the design and technical documentation faculty placed in charge of 17 personnel. Worked laterally with the SA Security Academy- Military Intelligence.
Overwhelmed with freelance work demand and advanced into full-time business practice having Sandock Austral remaining as one of my largest clients before immigrating to Atlanta in August 1989 and re-establishing NB Graphics and Associates, Inc., skills and services.
· South African Defense Force, 3rd South African Infantry Command. (3-SAI)
January 1979 to January 1981 - (2-years)
Served twenty-four months military service in the SADF – (US citizen) After completing 6 months of basic training, I specialized as an assault vehicle operator and then offered a position as a media center coordinator.
Remaining 18 months of service served in a training-aid development program, conceptualizing training aids and models, producing illustrations, propaganda collateral and instructional guides in all levels of infantry and weapons training.
Functioned laterally as a freelance illustrator/designer.
Education:
Johannesburg School of Art and Design - 1973-1976 - (4-years)
30 plus years hands-on experience as a small business owner and designer, providing illustration and graphics services to fortune 500 companies, lawyers, marketing and manufacturing sectors.
1997 to present - Distant Learning - Industrial Engineering/Design - Thesis: (ongoing curriculum) - (White Paper), - developed and produced a method and a software application (apparatus), Nextec3D/IP-Docs; to rapidly derive 2D vector projections from 3D source models for producing multiple automated, formatted and interactive technical graphics within a single file. Derived from 3D engineering source models be they patent, technical documentation or presentation graphics and combining the 2D-3D projection engine into one comprehensive package for concurrent engineering, manufacturing and concurrent documentation.
Specialties:
· Design graphics
· Engineering graphics
· Technical graphics
· Legal graphics
· Presentation graphics
Experienced in AutoDesk, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Lotus, Macromedia, CorelDraw and Adobe products.
While providing graphics to the manufacturing, marketing, the print publishing industry, the intellectual property industry and, the courtroom and multimedia markets, have worked with and managed hands on, all graphic file formats for both PC and MAC platforms.
Summary:
Norman has over 30 years - Intellectual property and industrial design experience working with patents, military and commercial R&D in the manufacturing of products, processes' and machinery.
30 years - Technical illustration experience- used in originating technical manuals and documentation.
30 years - Patent illustration experience- used in illustrating design and utility patent applications for US and foreign filings. Knowledge and experience working with highly regulated US and foreign patent office rules, regulations and specifications.
30 years - Presentation graphics experience applied to high-level marketing, advertising campaigns, documentation, training, exhibits, trade shows, conventions and PowerPoint presentations. Provided courtroom exhibits to trial attorneys on numerous cases.
The Following Intellectual Property is Registered Property of Norman C. Maarschalkerweerd.
Utility Patents;
86/3786 - Military vehicle design with variable centers of gravity fields and blast deflective hull design
86/3787 - Load ramp and blast deflective hull design
5,651,774 - Hypodermic syringe with safety shield design - co-inventor, William Taranto
Patents pending - Variable pitch ceiling fan - Courtesy Mr. Dorian Kennedy, Esq. BDBC&B/Hunter Fans
Design Patents;
D403,030 - Tracked vehicle design
D329-885 - Wheeled vehicle design
Trademarks and Servicemarks;
SN 78031197 Nextec3D (TM) , NBKJ, LLC (SM), IP-Docs (SM), IPVisual (SM) and IP-Pro (SM)
Copyrights;
Txu-996-745 - Nextec3D, design, formula, architecture, algorithms, pseudo-code and code
VA-465-291 - Wheeled carrier vehicle design
VA-474-967 - Tracked carrier vehicle design
VAu-362-475 - Juice strainer design
VA-517-596 - MushroomLand castle design
VAu-304-215 - Soweto Street Beat identity - NB Maarschalkerweerd
VAu-362-318 - GOGA oil-painting and identity - NB Maarschalkerweerd
