Black Rock City, NV:  Since accidentally becoming an artist I’ve done a lot of installations, and this one isn’t terribly artistic but I am very proud of it… That’s because in 2008 Burning Man made its theme “American Dream” just as the American Dream of home ownership got so oversold it blew up the global...Read More

San Jose, CA: Had a blast 2011-2017 as lead male singer in 12-piece dance band led by Richard Armstrong, one of the area’s top pro trumpet players (Train, Boz Scaggs, Thomas Dolby, Michelle Shocked). Covered 60s to current pop tunes with unique arrangements and multi-part harmonies. We really rocked the casbahJRead More

San Jose, CA: Formed non-profit www.RvsWithoutBorders.org to match loaner and donor RVs with families who lost homes in California wildfires, and operated NPO in response to 2015 and 2017 disasters. Our 1stRVs arrived before FEMA both years. After hitting endless local & FEMA hurdles despite a proclamation from the CA Governor, we assisted local governments...Read More

Tel Aviv, Israel:  Working with an Israeli eyewear production equipment supplier and the world’s #2 eyewear manufacturer Hoya, we developed the world’s first 3D virtual try-on system for eyewear marketing and optics production rationalization.  We built a system that captured a user’s face from ear-to-ear as an accurate 3D model, and we modeled all of...Read More

San Jose, CA: We implemented and deployed the first biometric access control system integrating facial recognition with fingerprint, using a predictive Kahlman filter to achieve superior combined results to either biometric alone. Read More

San Jose, CA:  The day after the terror attacks of 9/11, we gathered for a company meeting where I shared that the only business that would matter for a while is homeland security. We brainstormed, and I finally asked R&D to overlay & compare 100 of the 3D faces we had captured for animation apps,...Read More

San Jose, CA: If you want to extract the 3D shape of a scene from a moving camera’s imagery, you need to determine the precise position of the camera in all 6 degrees of freedom, for each image frame. It all gets calculated together in one giant mathematical nightmare. In the late 90s, my company...Read More

San Jose, CA:  The CyberEye by my start-up General Reality Company was the 1st VR head-mounted display to retail under $2k. Lost: pictures of “head condoms” (cleanroom hair nets) with our logo that I distributed to virtual reality trades show attendees in case our competitors’ HMDs gave them head lice. Our logo on heads  all...Read More

San Jose, CA: President & Founder: Invented, patented, and commercialized the world’s first user-recordable talking auto alarm. Designs achieved first-year shipment rate above $2M at retail, and won an innovation award at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show. Sold out to the auto security industry leader, run by Darryl Issa.Read More

San Jose, CA In the 1987-90 timeframe, I pioneered “closing the loop” on quality control in automated visual inspection systems used for printed circuit board and semiconductor fabrication. This meant networking together all inspection and review steps in an entire factory using a database. And, just like feedback loops in op amps studied by electrical...Read More