White hair now in 2021

Here is more: 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 work started in Tucson, Arizona, then on to Seattle.  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, using SONY broadcast beta cameras, I entered 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 of my extraordinary good treatment there.

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.

A little deeper: In 1996 I filed two independently developed patents for original hardware products; for a calibrated adjustable gnomon and for an electronic paintbrush.   I left Microsoft in order to pursue these inventions and do other contracting work.  No, actually I was black-balled from Microsoft forever, for asserting my rights to an independent invention I patented while working as a permatemp - independent contractor, not technically employed by them.   It is a grey area, still untested in the courts, but widely abused by Microsoft.   So Microsoft got to henceforth miss my brilliance and creativity by their stubborn short-sightedness. Then worked as a program manager at RealNetworks. I served clients such as CSPAN, Associated Press, Air America Radio, Democracy Now, National Geographic and even helped his High Holiness Dalai Lama in the international delivery of rich media IP content.

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 sites - the search bar above is for my content. For years Microsoft showcased my work - Volcano Espresso, as a prime example of Windows Media in the electronic document.