Goal

Professional Experience

• Co-designed and coded NewsTrust, a citizen news rating service bringing together experienced journalists and volunteer reviewers to rate news stories and their sources according to rigorous editorial standards. NewsTrust uses Web Crossing as its development platform.

• Co-designed, implemented, and manage updates and changes to their Web site.

• Co-designed, implemented, and manage updates and changes to their Web site.

• Produced and implemented the Alaska Federation of Natives Web site.
• Produced and implemented the event site for the Alaska Federation of Natives' Leadership Forum.

• Created a Web site for Pulitzer Prize-winning S&S author David McCullough featuring his complete backlist of books.
• Created a blog (web log) for the book by former Democratic Candidate Howard Dean, "Winning Back America". Visit the archived blog at www.WinningBackAmerica.com.

• Managed Phase 2 of the Switch2Dean project as part of the grassroots campaign to elect Howard Dean. Edited the 6 new videos, and helped integrate them into the web site. Worked with the project's director, graphics designer, and PR team. Two of the videos I edited were selected by Dean For America (the official campaign) and shown on Wisconsin TV during the week leading up to its February 17, 2004 primary.
• Co-produced a radio ad (in English and Spanish) that was aired across the Super Tuesday primary states.

• Co-designed a prototype for an educational reading adventure game for a large software company.
• Produced and co-designed a prototype of an innovative, early learning math game under a grant from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

• Updating the primary Web site with new content.

• Managed production on an immersive form of interactive entertainment for both the home (online) and out of home (location-based entertainment).

• Helped UClick (the new media division of Universal Press Syndicate) define future directions.

July-October 2000

• Worked with various in-house teams on the launch of a new project.

July-September 2000

• Helped define and contribute design elements on a new Web project.

June 1996-June 2000

As employee #6, I helped expand the company from startup through IPO and beyond. I scoured the Web and brought new technologies to Talk City, including:

• HearMe's voice chat
• pogo.com games
• StorySprawl (multi-threaded story writing.

Director of Kids and Entertainment Programming

• Produced several "bot" chat games
• Co-produced Talk City's home pages offering
• Executive produced The InSite, an award-winning teen site focusing on empowerment)
• Executive produced Tech Showcase (exhibiting new Web technologies for people to try out)
• Executive produced the Talk City Palace.

January 1996

• Consulted with Hitchhiker Guide author, Douglas Adams, on interactive projects.

March-October 1995

• Worked with Snow Crash author, Neal Stephenson, on a CD-ROM full motion video thriller.

September 1993- March 1995

• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs: The Second Cataclysm - Story and interactive design. CD-ROM full motion video action game with an ecological theme.
   
• Obsidian - Co-designer on early phase. Graphic adventure.

November 1992- January 1993

• Researching appropriate exhibits and attractions for their future Science and Technology "Edutainment" Centers.

October 1992- January 1993

• Advising on experience design for their interactive public space project, Virtual Adventures: The Loch Ness Expedition.

January 1993

• Created two concept documents for public-space interactive entertainment experiences.

September-December 1992

• Preproduction and co-design on Big Anthony's Mixed-up Magic, an award-winning children's CD-ROM title.

September 1982-August 1992

Lucasfilm Ltd./LucasArts Entertainment Company
San Rafael, CA

1990-1992

• Responsible for designing "experiences" for the next generation of Location Based Entertainment.
   
• Designed 2 games for the Commander (2-person, high-end motion platform system for arcades) from Rediffusion, and 3 games for Mirage, a multi-player, networked entertainment system intended for theme parks. This was the primary project of the division.
   
• Managed the development of the sound system, and coordinated development and implementation of the prototype with Hughes Training, our partner company.
   
• Prototype system was completed in April, 1992. Announced in November, 1992.

1989-1990

1982-1989

Game credits:

• Pipe Dream - Producer, Macintosh version. 1989
   
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure - Producer, Macintosh version. 1989
  
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure - Designer/Co-Project leader, SCUMM scriptor. Was Lucasfilm's best selling graphics adventure game at the time. 1989
   
• Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders - Designer/Project leader, SCUMM scriptor. Award winning game, translated to German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. 1988. For a great fan site all about Zak, click here.
   
• Maniac Mansion - primary SCUMM scriptor. Contributed to the design of this innovative graphic adventure game which is still popular. Game spawned a television sitcom currently on the air. 1987
   
• Labyrinth - Designer/Project leader, programmer. Game based on the film of the same name, breakthroughs in user interface, scalable character animation. 1986
   
• Rescue on Fractalus! - Designer/Project leader, programmer. First computer game to use fractal technology. Check out the Jaggi Monster. 1984

1982

• Gave seminar on microcomputer animation.

1982

• Training on animation capabilities of the Atari computer.

1980-1982

• See list of books below
   
• Wrote numerous reviews of educational computer software for Creative Computing and Personal Computing magazines.

1977-1982

• Co-President of Board of Directors.
   
• Taught programming in BASIC to kids and adults.
   
• Hired and trained instructors.
   
• Obtained funding from the San Francisco Foundation's Buck Fund for a multi-player, multi-computer game, the Starship Simulation Project.
   
• Adapted computer games to various computers and published them through Creative Computing.
   
• Developed Mix and Match Muppets under contract with Children's Television Workshop for their Sesame Place theme park.

Education

1971-1973

1968-1971

Computer Languages

Operating Systems

Computer Applications

Published
Books

Community Service

March 2004-Present- helped redesign and implement a new web site. Continue as webmaster. www.MarinDemocrats.org

July 2003-March 2004- volunteered on various projects to help elect Howard Dean to be our next president. I produced phase II of the www.Switch2Dean.com site and edited 6 of the videos.

2000-Present - A group of 55 people, aged 16-80, we practice once a week, and give concerts throughout the year at retirement homes, shopping centers, parades. I play trombone in the band and am currently serving on its board of directors.

1997 - Playing trombone in the pit band for production of Pajama Game.

1996 - Playing trombone in the pit band for production of Brigadoon.

1993 - Served on the Board for one year and contributed video production work for the drama program.

Other
Activities

Assembly
Helsinki, Finland

1991 - Member of Virtual Reality Jury

1985 - Course speaker: Advanced Computer Animation, "Small Systems Strategies"

1984 - Panel: Microcomputer Graphics. Presented the game, Rescue on Fractalus!

1993 - Speaker, "Survey and Review of Computer Games User Interfaces"

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