• May 1, 2005: released Dashboard Widget flores
  • "clever", "The most original widget I've seen so far!", "fun little app", "This widget is fantastic! I think, so far this is the best widget released for the Dashboard!" "a very imaginative and beautifully designed little widget" "outside the box amazing!" "so elegant it's almost magic"
• Clients include Jamdat Mobile, Nokia, Clear Channel (more)

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 (see supplement)
• Managed development of a series of demos of new media and entertainment technology

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

• Inventor
  • 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, (art)ⁿ Laboratory, Chicago, IL , USA 1986-1999

• Created over 200 unique works. See portfolio for a few selections.
• Developed and programmed software applications for computer graphics and image processing. (details)
• Directed modelers and animators (details)
• Modeled and rendered images in Alias (details)
  • 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.(details)

Additional work pre-1990, primarily programming(click for expanded view)

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