Patrick McIntire
has a diverse background in development, e-commerce, creative media and even filmmaking and major motion pictures.
These experiences have coalesced to allow him to not only offer technical, but also creative & business savvy solutions to all of his employers and clients. When working with Patrick, problems dissipate while ROI soars.
About Patrick
Patrick McIntire was introduced to creative media as a teen. When his parents needed fresh display ads created for their home improvement and realty company, Patrick perused periodicals and design books at Barnes and Noble and realized: hey, this Aldus PageMaker (now Adobe InDesign) program shouldn't be too hard to figure out.
After several years of learning desktop publishing, digital printing, and process color by working through high school for a local screenprinting company, Patrick foresaw the eventuality that many DTP processes would be transposed into the online realm of the world wide web.
Encouraged by further success with applications like Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Flash and Adobe After Effects, he decided that engaging a new substrate wouldn't be impossible. He challenged himself to learn the new systems present in web-specific applications like Macromedia Fireworks and Dreamweaver.
Eventually requiring better resources for interactivity on the web, HTML led him into working with programming languages like Javascript, Perl, ASP.net and PHP, with which he became proficient. E-commerce came later, as did his introduction to logistics, payment systems, and PCI-DSS, PII and PHI & HIPPA compliance.
Becoming comfortable with his technical skills at a low-level, Patrick began to realize that he had a knack for greenfield marketing, as well. After creating websites for friends and family, he chose to simultaneously embark into developing WWWs for local business while entering college with a focus in marketing, psychology and business. He hoped to bridge the gap between the technical and creative to potentially open the door for a future working in either realm.
Patrick landed a role with regional online apparel e-tailer Working Person's Store and quickly progressed, simultaneously serving as Creative Director, Lead Developer and Project Manager for Working Person's sister company, e-commerce incubator AVID Commerce. It was here, working with countless e-commerce clients, that he learned the ins and outs of online business development and management, how to effectively lead a team, and skills on how to guide a company to focus on their true objective: revenue.
AVID Commerce rode the rapids of the 2009 economic crash, but operationally existed for very little time after. Patrick went out on his own under his e-commerce development firm Exhibit A Digital and maintained the majority of remnant AVID clients that were still prospering. During this time, he also began building new relationships armed with an evolving toolkit including early adoption of web for mobile.
Patrick eventually exited the freelance world and began consulting and joining corporate ranks to work with such companies as Sears, Tractor Supply Company, Rural King and PetSmart.
About Myst... (He gets asked this a lot.)
Before developing his roots in desktop publishing and web, Patrick pursued a number of creative pursuits since childhood, including creative writing, photography and film.
Patrick received his first motion picture camera in 1988 in the form of a Fisher Price PXL-2000. From that time onward, Patrick's goal grew to be how to find some way to merge his writing, film interests and aptitude in marketing and design. Narrative film production seemed the best of all worlds.
Since 1994, Patrick's been involved in both the independent and studio filmmaking scene across the nation. He has also embarked on writing and producing his own work: Scenarios, Easier to Ignore, For Travis Preston, Scorpio and the forthcoming streaming series Bifurcate. However, it was his dream to someday develop the popular video game franchise Myst into feature films that eventually led him to officially working with the studios.
A combination of hard work, dedication and most of all - luck - led Patrick and his longtime creative partner, Adrian Vanderbosch, into a development agreement with Myst creator Cyan Worlds to extend, ratify and sell a motion picture adaptation of the Myst properties to the bright lights and big studios of Hollywood.
During this process, Patrick had the chance to work with legendary producers Hunt Lowry and Mark Johnson of Donnie Darko, The Last of the Mohicans, Rain Man, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Breaking Bad fame, while doing his best to learn how to navigate the temperamental environment that is Los Angeles.
Patrick was a founding spearhead of the Myst Motion Picture Project and oversaw all aspects of the production’s development while serving as Co-President of Mysteria Film Group from 2003-2010, and as a board member until late 2012. During that time, Patrick also designed and developed, marketed and contributed to the Myst Motion Picture Production Journal website, exposing the true emotional journey of what it's like to go from a garage in Granger, Indiana to production offices at Warner Bros. in Burbank, California. While it pained Patrick to leave the project, he was required due to family matters and the fact that as Myst grew larger, it had also grown far too dramatic.
Patrick continues to be invested in independent film, intends to get behind the camera again sometime soon, and considers Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise / Before Sunset / Before Midnight trilogy as one of his favorite modern sequences of storytelling.
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