Consulting clients
have included:

 

Lonely Planet
Sydney Olympic Park
Smart Services CRC
LEGO Systems USA
Apple Computer
Wells Fargo
Starbright Foundation
Lolapalloza
ZeTools
Interval Research
Superscape
January 2006 - Present

Managing Director, FutureSt, Sydney

FutureSt is a Sydney-based media, technology and strategy consultancy. I work closely with clients who are looking to open their processes to the emerging participation culture enabled by ubiquitous connectivity. Sharing information - creating wikis, photo, film and music sharing sites, and the creation of communities are all the sorts of things I discuss with my clients. As the Web enters the 2.0 era, the ideas of sharing and participation become paramount. FutureSt is there to help businesses make a successful and profitable transition into this new world.

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September 2001 - May 2003 CTO, FiredUp Software, Los Angeles

FiredUp Software designs and licenses breakthrough digital video applications for FireWire-equipped computers and consumer electronics. Patent application made in March 2002 for a general backup device using standard digital video camcorder and home computer system.
February 1997 - July 1998 CTO, blitcom, Llc., Santa Monica, CA

blitcom was a Web-based entertainment startup, working to bring narrative, storytelling and cinema-quality production values to the Internet, using a variety of brand-new technologies, combined with tried-and-true production techniques for digital media. My partner in this venture was Jan Mallis - formerly of Protozoa, Inc., and winner of the 1997 VRML Excellence Award - pioneer producer of character-based entertainment on the Web. Our goal was to create a full-blown Web-based network, with 24-hour a day programming in entertainment and the arts, all created using the latest innovations in 3D computing.
July 1993 - December 1996 Founder & Chair, VRML Architecture Group

The VRML Architecture Group (VAG) was created under my leadership to provide a coherent environment for future generations of the Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), which I invented in early 1994. Working with researchers from Microsoft, Silicon Graphics, Netscape, Sun Microsystems and Autodesk, the VAG brought VRML forward from static presentation into full-blown interactivity, and did it through a standards-based process. The result - VRML 2.0 - is now an ISO Draft Specification, well on its way to becoming a world-wide standard. After the formation of the VRML Consortium in December 1996, the VAG was dissolved.
April 1993 - September 1993 Consultant, Apple Computer, Berkeley, CA.

Worked as consulting engineer to develop intuitive interfaces between Apple and IBM networking products.
July 1991 - February 1993 CTO, Ono-Sendai Corporation, San Francisco

Ono-Sendai was a first-generation Virtual Reality startup, chartered to create inexpensive, home-based networked VR systems - a concept still a few years ahead of its time. Company grew from my research in network visualization and data replication which later evolved into VRML. Company also conducted research into low-cost solutions for the VR industry, resulting in my being awarded US Patent 5,526,022 for a "Sourceless Orientation Sensor", solving a key problem for the emerging industry. This sensor is used to track body motion of individuals immersed in virtual environments, and has broader applications, in such fields as performance animation and motion capture. Consulted with Sega Corporation of America on the design of the Sega Virtua VR product, a consumer head-mounted display (HMD) device for use with video gaming systems. Company closed in 1993 after failure to secure sufficient funding to continue development of products.
October 1988 - January 1992 Principal Engineer, Shiva Corporation, Cambridge, MA

As one of the early engineers on the Shiva staff, worked to grow the company from $1.5 million in sales in 1988 to $40 million when I departed in early 1993 to found Ono-Sendai. Shiva invented dial-up networking; while the concept of dialing into a remote network seems a commonplace reality today, ten years ago our work in the field legitimized the market. Responsibilities included development of all user-interfaces to Shiva product line; these products quickly garnered a reputation for their ease-of-use. My research on user interfaces led to my involvement in the then-nascent virtual reality field.
June 1984 - September 1988 Staff Engineer, Dynatech Communications, East Greenwich, RI

Dynatech pioneered the development of LAN interfaces to then-new new T-1 and DS0 services being offered by the deregulated telephone industry. Responsibilities included the development of firmware and user interfaces to the entire product line.
June 1982 - June 1984 Engineer, Security Dynamics, Boston

While at Security Dynamics, I developed prototype firmware and software for the SecuirID card, a smart card used for access control to facilities, and later, to ensure security on public access computer networks.