• 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:
  • Nokia, Los Angeles, CA February 2003
  • Jamdat Mobile, Los Angeles, CA August-November 2002
  • The-phone-book.com, Manchester, UK April 2002-November 2003
  • Vivendi-Universal Games, Los Angeles, CA January 2002
  • Sennari Games, Marina del Rey, CA March 2002-February 2003
  • MagicEyes, Seoul, Korea, October 2001-March 2003
  • Clear Channel: Exhibitions (formerly BBH, Inc.), San Antonio, TX September 2001
• Co-Founder of Twitcherati, L.A. based computer and video game group, January 2002

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.
  • Wrote custom rendering and algorithmic modeling software in C/C++ used for animation.
  • Programmed flexible integrated image editing program with GUI and other tools for in-house use on SGI and Windows in C++.
  • Managed programmer in implementation of C++ MacOS application.
  • Managed product development of Epi-View^tm medical imaging tool. Oversaw engineers at Picker International through implementation and optimization in C and ISO9000 certification.
  • Directed research projects with programmers and engineers at the University of Iowa, University of Illinois at Chicago and the GMD to create a user interface to a virtual reality environment.
  • Wrote drivers and converters to work with a wide variety of input and output devices, ranging from 3D input scanners to pre-press and film recorder output devices.
  • Wrote custom software and scripts to solve unusual compositing problems.
• Directed modelers and animators working in Alias, SoftImage, Wavefront, Strata Studio, AVS and other packages for clients including Nintendo, Silicon Graphics, Nortel, IBM, Sega, Eli Lilly, Monsanto, Phillips, and Timex. Museum installations include Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City and Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. See exhibitions.
• Modeled and rendered images in Alias for Leo Burnett, Kodak, Nortel, Konami, Encyclopedia Britannica, Expo '92 Spanish Pavilion, Smithsonian Institution, and others.
  • 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. Maintained Apache server on SGI.
  • Published papers and images in Computers & Graphics, Leonardo, and Proceedings of SPIE. See publications.
  • Co-directed and edited video documentation in Beta suite with computer controlled editing.
  • Presented papers and lectures and gave interviews to CNN, Beyond 2000, and The Chicago Tribune.
• Mixed Unix/Mac/NT system administration and networking, including user support.

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

• Designed vector display commands extending existing Lgrass language in X86 assembler.

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

• Ported RT/1 programming language to support real-time image-processing hardware.

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

• Contributed to The Interactive Image educational multimedia touring exhibition.
• Wrote new graphics primitives for RT/1 programming language.
• Researched and produced graphics of insurance futures for The Chicago Board of Trade .
• Visualized scientific data of fertility study for presentation and publication.

Programmer, DataBioTics, Mountain View, CA, 1983-1984

• Prepared videogame Junkman, Jr. for commercial ROM release, recoded >5,000 line 9900 assembly language program to implement bank switching, redesigned graphics, wrote manual and added 'cheat mode'.

Actor, Production Assistant, Assistant Director, 1972-1988

• See Acting Resume

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