last update: October 2006

MobileGates, Chief Information Officer, La Palma, CA, September 2006-present

• Responsible for all aspects of the Company's information and content research and product user interface design efforts.

Independent Media and Technology Consultant, Los Angeles, CA September 2001-present

• Clients include Nokia, Jamdat, Vivendi-Universal, Sennari, Clear Channel
  • Ignite Venture Partners, February 2005-present: board advisor
• May-June 2005: Published a dozen widgets for Mac OSX Dashboard environment:
  • Accolades for flores: "clever", "outside the box amazing!" "so elegant it's almost magic"
  • High profile exposé of security flaws in OSX Tiger “Zaptastic: Blueprint for a Widget of Mass Destruction”

Nokia Research Center, Visual Communications Laboratory, February 1999-July 2002
"Content Guru"/Senior Research Scientist, Santa Monica, CA September 2000-July 2002

• Co-created 3000 ft² business research lab, the "Media Garden"
• Spoke on panels and participated in consortia & workshops
• Managed development of a series of demos of new media and entertainment technology

Senior Research Engineer, Tampere, Finland, February 1999-September 2000

• Inventor
  • Patent #7,062,469, "System and method for public wireless network access subsidized by dynamic display advertising"
  • Patent #7,031,931, "Portable device attached to a media player for rating audio/video contents"
    
  • Patent #7,006,984, "Electronically augmented multiplayer sporting game with virtual ball passed by infrared apparatus"
    
  • Patent #7,006,116, "Tangibly encoded media identification in a book cover"
  • Patent #6,993,131, "Method and system for managing rights in digital information over a network"
  • Patent #6,907,568, "Tangible icon representing network objects"
  • Patent #6,882,853, "Method and arrangement for arranging, selecting and displaying location data in a cellular telephone system, and a terminal of a cellular network"
  • Patent #6,839,080, "Remote server switching of video streams"
  • Patent #6,502,100, "Method and apparatus for acquiring and storing data in association with a mode annotation"
  • Patent #6,674,995, "Electronically augmented multiplayer sporting game with virtual ball passed by infrared apparatus"
  • further patents pending, current status via USPTO, via Euro patent office
• Concepting of new applications and terminal prototypes for Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Gaming and Toys; Applications, UI, Human Factors & Social research
• Attended and reported on events including "Scope '99" - Vienna, Austria, "Computer & Video Games Come of Age", MIT, and NYC and London toy fairs
• Nokia liaison to MIT Media Lab - Things That Think

Associate Director, , Chicago, IL , USA 1986-1999(art)ⁿ Laboratory

• Created over 200 unique works. See portfolio for a few selections.
• Developed and programmed software applications for computer graphics and image processing.
• Directed modelers and animators
• Modeled and rendered images in Alias
  • Smithsonian Institution, Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals 1997; This permanent installation provides a 10'x5'x5' display portraying an immersive three-dimensional view of the salt crystal for the new Hope Diamond exhibit. This project included modeling and rendering of scientific data, post-production planning, team management and on-site installation in Washington D.C.
• Co-Inventor: Patents: #5,519,794 (1996); #5,330,799 & #5,554,432 (1994); #5,113,213 (1992), reissued 1995 as Re. 35,029: Developed new processes and improvements for digital hardcopy imaging techniques. Wrote and edited patents, communicated with patent attorneys and directly with USPTO examiners.
• Documented exhibitions and research with video, Internet, and printed publications.
  • WWW Site Virtual Photography started June 1994. Received award Cool Site of the Day on March 22, 1995.

Laser System Programmer, Aura Technology, Chicago, IL 1987-1989

• Designed vector display commands extending existing high-level language in Z80 assembler.

Computer Assistant, Hines VA Hospital, Medical R&D, Hines, IL 1987-1989

• Ported programming language to support image-processing hardware.

Research Assistant, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989-1998

• Contributed to The Interactive Image touring exhibition and RT/1 programming language
• researched and produced graphics for The Chicago Board of Trade
• created scientific data visualizations for publication.

Game Programmer, DataBioTics, Mountain View, CA, 1986-1987

• Prepared video game Junkman, Jr. for commercial ROM release

education

Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Electronic Visualization, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1988-1991

• MFA show, "Welcome to My Living Room", sponsored by DataDisplay corporation: performance & video event for attendees of the National Association of Broadcasters conference.
• Created animations The Politics of Pleasure, Tie The Knot, and The Politics of Pleasure: Extended Remix, shown at the SIGGRAPH Animation Screening Room and Art Show in 1990 and 1991 (SVR #61), the Museum of Science and Industry, and other venues.
• Animations created using the AT&T Pixel Machine parallel-processing computer, programmed for algorithmic modeling and animation in C with the PicLib and RayLib libraries.

Bachelor of Sciences (BS), Mathematics/Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1984-1988

• Lectured by invitation at UIC and other area universities on computer graphics; took graduate level classes in linguistics.

Associate of Arts (AA), Dance, Santa Monica College, 2002-2004

Computer languages: C (10+ years), C++ (10+ years), Java(5+ years, esp. J2ME), Assembly, Forth, Perl, others
OS'es: Windows ME/NT/98/95, Mac(OSX & Classic), Unix (several flavors: Irix, AIX, A/UX, Linux, HP-UX, etc.)
Applications: Alias (7+ years), Maya, Photoshop, Painter, Detailer, Illustrator, Quark, PageMill, Office
Code: HTML, CSS, Javascript

Attended and exhibited at SIGGRAPH every year since 1986; 2 years as student volunteer, 2 years presenting at Stereoscopic Displays and Applications class

interests & language