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Shane Sevo has lived in the metro Detroit area since ‘87. Shane graduated from Belleville High in ‘96 and pursued a bachelors in mechanical engineering at Cedarville University of Cedarville Ohio. During his summer vacations Shane worked in the information technologies department of Wade Trim, a civil engineering firm based in Michigan. Shane soon found that his career aspirations were more in line with his IT internship and personal exploration of the convergence between the creative arts and technology through 3D rendering and animation. Shane returned to the Detroit area in 2000 to work in Wade Trim’s Detroit office where he would launch their multimedia services group. Shane has experienced a prosperous career with Wade Trim and has been recognized as a unique contributor to engineering through his integration of the graphic arts. In 2006 Shane was featured in USA today as one of the “New Faces of Engineering” by National Engineers Week.

• Eweek Article Online

Notable projects include a 2006 conceptual animation featuring the proposed designs for the Detroit Riverfront Promenade and Rivard Park.

Shane has been an active member of the Detroit area visual arts and independent film communities since returning from college in 2000. In 2003 Shane founded SuperHouse pictures with several independent film enthusiasts. SuperHouse pictures has completed several award winning short films over the past few years and competed successfully in a yearly competition known as The National Film Challenge. Shane worked with the community of film makers that rallied around SuperHouse on yearly projects to form an incubator for short film projects known as Project LightStand.

While seeking to find better ways to collaborate with the independent film community of Metro Detroit Shane began working with open source content management software. Shane began focusing web development with Joomla! (an award winning open source CMS) and began building collaborative websites for other Detroit area creative arts groups. Shane currently develops and maintains several websites including…

• The Creative Energy Alliance
• The Michigan Production Alliance
• The Detroit Film Society
• SuperHouse.org

After discovering how powerful the Joomla! project and its software was, Shane enterprised SuperHouse media, a web design firm focusing on the creation of Joomla! based CMS websites. Shane also hosts a monthly Detroit area user group for Joomla! that is free to attend. Shane is currently working towards the convergence of web and film technologies and looking for opportunities to leverage the technical overlap between the respective communities. Current projects towards these ends include…

• The Detroit Windsor International Film Festival
• Thought Collide Productions
• SemaFX

Shane is looking forward to many years of serving the Detroit area creative arts communities and enjoying the community of committed professionals and residents who eagerly desire to be a part of Detroit reinventing itself through an appreciation of the arts and an investment in the film and media industries.