Sean Ward is a photographer, writer, artist, and award winning web designer who was on That’s Incredible during the great Rubik’s cube-a-thon. He has several college degrees, and one of his web sites, Metaplanets, has been featured on the BBC’s top technology show.
He has worked on many web projects for a variety of organizations from mom and pop businesses to Fortune 100 companies, and was asked by Joseph Lowery to assist in the writing of the Dreamweaver Ultradev Bible. Current interests in the web field focus on Usability and Content Management, and 3D virtualization.
Besides web design and development, his professional experience includes network and systems administration, team and project management, teaching writing skills at the university level, editing papers for scholarly journals, including papers for the Economic Minister of Peru, and research for the Department of Justice. He takes pride in the fact that he first ate Oysters Rockefeller with a man who first ate Oysters Rockefeller with Nelson Rockefeller.
Mentors
People he considers mentors include Richard Gambitta, Former Director Institute for Law and Public Affairs, Dept Chair, Political Science, etc. at University of Texas at San Antonio; Ray Leal, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio TX; Brigadier General Leslie J. Campbell Jr., USAF.
Adventures
Sean has walked the Ginza in Tokyo, sunk the eight ball off the break three consecutive times in a pool hall in British Columbia, climbed a pyramid in the Yucatan, camped by a buffalo wallow (and learned about it the hard way) in the Dakota Badlands, watched the ice calve in Glacier Bay, hunted for buried treasure, cooked a hot dog with nothing but a few pie plates and the sun, has seen Manchuria, and cruised through the Bering Strait and all the way to the Laptev Sea where he saw humongous icebergs and ate a shrimp the size of a full-grown squirrel. And there was also that time he sailed aboard a ship that went through a typhoon in the Sea of Japan.
More recently he’s become enamored with Italy, particularly the Venice Bieannale and the private courtyard of the Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, as well as Giogalto in Tuscany, and the beaches and parasol pines of Grosseto.
Longest Job Titles (ordered by length)
- Director of Information Technology, Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce (TAMACC)
- Ecommerce Design Project Manager, United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
- Manager of Design Technology, Rare Medium Java Competency Center
Hobbies
Sean is an avid metal detectorist and is always looking for new permissions. He loves the sense of discovery that comes from unearthing something lost or discarded, and the exercise and sun that comes along with it.
He’s happy to help people retrieve lost items. And while he does find fun things at times, his average gross take for a day of searching is under $1, and he invariably has a bag full of pull tabs, bottle caps, and nails of various sizes.