Enabling Technical Communication: From the last century - until recently - I have been setting up rich media events as a program manager for RealBroadcast Networks.   If you have the RealPlayer you can see the presentation that I wrote and delivered regarding CDNs.   Although I must say that I am now clean shaven, but I am happy to still help out - such as helping clients with Podcasting services.

Happier before I knew about AGW

Recently, I have been working at a challenging role of developer for a satellite industry product: Sundial Setup.  The future extent of the ventures are "undefined, but promising".   I have tremendous respect for successful entrepreneurs. Ideas are much easier to generate than the follow-through implementation.

For the last few years I have been blog publishing and currently maintain a few blogs on various aspects of the global warming issue.  

I am pleased to have life experiences with people and technologies all over the globe: raised in Arizona, California, Tennessee, New York, and New England; then produced media in one form or another in the American West, Central Asia, Canada and Peru, and now Seattle.  My experience set includes: television photojournalism, writing, computer programming, digital interface design, interactive animation, technical writing, product development and lately oil painting.   I am eager to learn new techniques for human expression using digital multimedia.

The photojournalism career started in Tucson, Arizona where I acquired a healthy respect for deadlines.  Covered stories such as the Mt. St. Helen's eruption, war and smuggling in Afghanistan, eco-cleaning the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu, and lots of local news.  I claim to be the first one-man-band broadcast TV photographer to enter the war zone of Afghanistan in 1984, sharing an Emmy Award for that broadcast show.  And no, I did not know about the story of Charlie Wilson's War - although I was there during that era - and it explains much that happened to me.

After realizing that analog broadcast television - with a limiting technology with shrinking markets and importance - will only work to redirect viewers to the Internet and digital media - I did all I could to work in interactive computer-delivered media at Microsoft. I was there before Bill discovered the Internet - very exciting times, and I learned much by testing multimedia apps, programming interactive animations, authoring help files, researching interactive television, authoring user education products and designing and producing samples for showcasing streaming media.

In 1996 I filed two independently developed patents for original hardware products; for directional antenna aiming and for an electronic paintbrush. I left Microsoft in order to pursue these inventions and do other contracting work. Then spent time in account management at RealBroadcast Networks - a division of RealNetworks. I worked with clients such as CSPAN, Associated Press, Air America Radio, Democracy Now and National Geographic and many others using IP delivered media.

My writing has appeared in such diverse print publications as Computer User, MaZagine, Microsoft white papers, and RealNetworks docs. I try to maintain a few Web site - the search bar above is for my content. For years Microsoft showcased my work - Volcano Expresso, as a prime example of Windows Media in the electronic document.