Tim Capper had 7 years experience marketing large hardware and software products and applications throughout Europe before moving to Hollywood, CA to pursue a career in film. After spending two years in Hollywood, he moved to Dallas to accept an art director’s position. In 1994 he founded Vision Wise, a company providing digital video based interactive solutions for entertainment, educational, corporate and government clients. He blends art direction skills with technical expertise to produce applications that are complex, functional, and elegant.

Bill is the co-founder of Vision Wise. Bill’s responsibilities are managing the day-to-day technical and financial operation of the company.

His experience comes from a large corporate background in establishing and managing Information Centers, an Application Development Center, a Training Center, and the Advanced Technology Group. He holds a BS in Computer Science and a M.Ed in Counseling

Alex Webb has more than 15 years experience in executive sales and business relations management. From 1992 to 1998 he managed major accounts for Avatech Solutions, Inc., the largest Autodesk reseller in the United States. In this capacity he acted as a consultant working with clients to review their critical needs and implementing innovative, customized software solutions. His clients included Texas Instruments, Alcatel Networks, Johnson & Johnson and Siemens. In 1998 he was recruited as Chief Operating Officer of DBO Holdings, a software development company, where he managed the day-to-day needs of the company, helped in fund raising, managed development teams of programmers and artists and built vital business relationships. He was awarded a U.S. patent for software from which three distinctive products were developed. Today, he is excited to bring his experience and unique skill set to Vision Wise.

Laura Yonker is a graduate of The University of North Texas with a BA in Radio, Television and Film. At UNT her studies focused on film theory and documentary production. From 2002 to 2003 she interned at the Video Association of Dallas, a non-profit media arts organization. Her internship responsibilities included coordinating entries and artist communications for the Dallas Video Festival, hosting monthly screenings, and festival programming solicitation and coordination. From 2003 until the present Laura has been employed by the Video Association as a contracted programming coordinator. Since June of 2003, Laura has been employed by Vision Wise Inc. as an Associate producer. Her responsibilities at Vision Wise include coordinating phases of in-house production, scheduling, planning, client communications, video compression, and quality control engineering. In her tenure at Vision Wise, Laura has had the pleasure of working with some of the most talented designers, programmers and animators, producing imaginative and innovative DVD content and design.

Ryan Hartsell graduated, Cum Laude, with a Computer Animation degree from the Art Institute of Dallas in 2000 and was awarded “Best Compositing Demo Reel“. After which he co-developed an online RPG called Crimson Legacy with Tim Harris. The game was active for a year and presented Ryan with guest speaking appearances, one of which was at DragonCON 2001. Ryan then received a BFA in film from the University of Texas in Arlington, graduating Magna Cum Laude. At UTA, he was the main illustrator for the newspaper, The Shorthorn, and was recognized by Columbia University for excellence. Ryan worked on the Miramax film, THE GREAT RAID, in Shanghai China as a production assistant. After graduation, Ryan joined the staff at Vision Wise, working as an animator/designer on projects such as the Star Wars Trivial Pursuit DVD, which won several Telly awards, DragonBall Z, and Fraggle Rock. Meanwhile Ryan has been making films with long time collaborator, Justin Hilliard through their production company Striped Socks Productions. They have made award-winning shorts and have recently completed their first feature film entitled, “Wednesday“, that is highly reviewed. Ryan also continues to work on his own personal art. Currently he is working on a series of digital art called Consumption which has gained global recognition. One of his pieces in this series, “Original Sin“, won 6th place in the 2004 Adobe International Digital Imaging Awards and received a Merit Award at the International Digital Awards Exhibition 2006 (sponsored by SONY). His piece “Covet“ from the same series has now received 2nd place in the Art of Digital Show in San Diego.

• Ryan Hartsell
• Striped Socks Productions

Royce studied Computer Science and Japanese at Virginia Tech for four years. He then went on to study Art at Chowan University and Game Development at the Guildhall at SMU, specializing in Level Design. His interestes are interactive simulations, storytelling, and environment design. Royce's responsibilities at Visionwise include CD and Web programming, as well as general programming and scripting support for the production team. He tends to be both left and right brained, and enjoys facilitating communication and function between different kinds of thinkers. On the side he trains in Lions Den style Mixed Martial Arts.