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About Daniel Catts
Dan Catts has over fifteen years experience in print, web and interactive
media design. A graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia in 1991,
and a student of the fine arts program at The University of the Arts,
and Computer Science at Drexel University, Dan combined his prowess in
Design with his love of New Media to create a truly unique skill set
that has landed him some great positions working on cutting-edge
technology.
After three years of working in the pre-press & corporate presentations industry, Dan landed the position of Lead Developer/Art Director on the staff of Digital Culture Stream, a CD-ROM based pop culture magazine. This was one of the first magazines of its type back in the mid 90 's and served as an influence on later multimedia projects such as Blender and Launch. It was around this time that Dan recieved Shockwave site of the Day for his game Rock'em Shock'em Mutant Combat.
In 1997, Dan relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area to become Lead Multimedia Programmer at Imagine Media. At Imagine he developed monthly CD-ROMs that included PC GAMER, MacAddict, Next Generation, Maximum PC, PC Accelerator, Ultra Game Players, and more. Dan also worked on the development of the first internet radio products, Imagine Radio. This product was so successful, it was later sold to MTV and became their web based radio product.
In 1999, Dan jumped on board WiredPlanet as Creative Director.
WiredPlanet was the next logical step of the streaming radio product
that started at Imagine. While at WiredPlanet, Dan was in responsible
for the branding and user interface of the WiredPlanet website, desktop
radio and web based radio products. WiredPlanet was later
nominated for Best Music Site at the 2000 Webby Awards. In September 2000, WiredPlanet
was acquired by Listen.com and became Listen Radio who was later bought by Real Networks of
RealPlayer fame and eventually became the Rhapsody music subscription service.
Dan has since worked on various creative projects such as the feature length indie film "Quadrum" by writer/director Thomas Hale.
In 2002 he founded his own software company, CKMgroup, with business partner Randy Kincaid. CKMgroup is currently in developement phase of a products division offering consumer products based on tools CKMgroup developed for in house use. Keep your eyes open for Typester®, a hosted personal publishing platform in the near future.