The Arts

  • 2008 – present: collaborator, Organograph, San Jose, CA
    Jury-selected winning entry in the San Jose Climate Clock design competition.
  • 2007 – present: chief engineer for Peter Hudson, San Francisco, CA
  • 1993 – 2007: co-artistic director, designer, composer, Large Hot Pipe Organ, Berlin, Germany
    Pyroacoustic instrumentation design, electromechanical systems, pyrotechnics, combustion analysis, heavy steelwork, real-time control and performance software, musical composition, arrangement, and performance.
  • 1991 – present: software choreographer, chief technical consultant, Amorphic Robot Works, San Francisco, CA
    Mechanical concepts design and specification, technical consultant, computer designer, software choreographer, artistic assistant, sculptural assistant, fabricator.  Experience with pneumatics, hydraulics, machine tools, welding, electronics design, real-time control and performance software.
  • 1990 – present: control and automation specialist, technical wrangler, Survival Research Laboratories, San Francisco, CA
    Machine conceptualization, pneumatics, hydraulics, computer hardware, machine control and user interface software, pyrotechnics, heavy power, rigging.
  • 1992 – 1994: artistic director, designer, Slackertronics Systems, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
    Artistic director, designer, builder. Pyrotechnics, computer control, computer modeling, rendering, animation, performance software development, computer hardware design and interfacing.