I can be your Senior Business Analyst or a heavy duty multimedia producer.

I'm also quite happy as a video editor, copywriter, ideaman, photographer, or poet of extreme density.

I may recently have blogged up pointy pithy gnomic aphorism.

First, as a computer engineer, a short stint at the Department of Justice in DC taught me that the government sector is no place for people who want to work hard.  Nice buildings though.

Spent a year in the jungle on the Thai-Burma border in a mosquito net eating short bananas and pumpkin curry, occupying the post of village science teacher for indigenous hill tribe refugees and armed insurgents. Wrote a book about it. This gave me a taste for human rights work, ethnopoetics, and the romantic side of primitive conditions (warm rain bathing, flip-flop trekking, running guns).

This led me to create the very first human rights website (predating Amnesty Int'l) in 1994 incorporating stories, transcripts of human rights abuses, the songs I recorded them singing, and plenty of photos. Everything is arranged to educate the west about the plight of the indigenous communities, and larger Burmese community living under the military dictatorship in Rangoon. I was awarded several grants from the Open Society Institute, a (George) Soros Foundation, to continue this work.

Got my hands dirty creating Virtual Vegas, a Santa Monica based game company, with the nitty-gritty of forcing multimedia onto CD-ROMs in VB and Director.  By the time I became CTO we were transitioning into the first online and interactive TV entertainment company.  Although we were the first, and premier entertainment destination, it was tricky since there since there were (a) no back ends, asp, php, .NET, ColdFusion, (b) no revenue model, (c) no banner ads, clickthroughs, etc. We C-nonplussed our way from IIS to ODBC. Wrote it ourselves and became one of the first internet startups. Virtual Vegas, though quite a different animal than the one we set out to create (having all just read Snowcrash and sporting the only SGI lab outside of Hollywood) nevertheless survived and lives on today as the Flipside Network.

Returned to human rights, working on staff, full time for Soros. Traveled extensively in Europe, Southeast and South Asia monitoring grants, expanding the network of NGOs by arranging classroom sessions in the jungle, and private tutorials (The Prime Minister of Burma (while in exile), DEA agents) in encryption and internet messaging, encryption, steganography. I also proposed and created one of the first online community servers incorporating web portlets, NNTP threaded discussion, POP3, and clandestine SMTP servers to bypass junta monitored ISPs. This served to unite many of these disparate groups, all working on different facets of the same concern- ending the military dictatorship as soon as possible.

A few partners and I created CyberJava, the first cyber-café in southern California. Eventually Sun told us to both cease and desist, but we teamed up with a huge island in the Indonesian archipelago that supplied our coffee, and that must have deterred the lawyers, for they ceased insisting on our ceasing, and desisted.  I enjoy graphic design and created all the marketing materials, not only for CyberJava, but a few Mexican restaurants and dozens of fake magazines.  You can find CyberJava on the Avenue of the Stars (between Carlos Santana and John Lee Hooker, God rest his soul) in Hollywood.

I am extremely interested in digital social networking (having written my own invisiblenetwork.com in ColdFusion in 1999 – a project regretfully unpursued) for the creation and sharing of, not friends, business partners, or jobs, but creative work such as blogs, creative writing and poetry, music, and video.  The market for this interchange, considering the volume of creators and creations, is immense and rich and not as well served as could be without the homogenization of protocols that allow inter-syndication and critiquing.  My notes and ideas for this type of thing are many and well developed and I would love to work for any SN that’s serious about creating the richest, most creative environment the online world has yet seen.  Content from nowhere, sold for millions?  Blogger was just scratching the surface.

Video editing is a pleasure in aesthetic and logic problem solving.  Lately I’ve shot and or cut together pieces for IBM, Pepsi, Madison ave, fine art pieces and music videos both on Avid and FCP.  The trick is to find an interesting project.

Today my time is spent consulting for CJ Partners, a IT consultancy in LA, and as a partner in CallBox Inc, an IVR (interactive voice response) provider creating interfaces between phone users and remote databases such as websites, to allow the caller to store or retrieve information without a computer using voice commands, pushbutton commands, or voice recognition.  In recent projects I have managed technical teams in Malaysia and Pakistan, and have been fortunate enough to have had reason to visit Bangalore, Mumbai, and Manipur state.

My wife Yoko is a fashion art director who has spent the last ten years in advertising in London, LA, and NYC.  She’s good.

I like short poems and pithy translations of ethnopoetics  I write the sort that might be enjoyed by big-hearted existentialist programmers (wherever they are…).  I like found objects, text on canvas and walls, and things that are not true but could be more than things that are but shouldn’t.  On the guitar, I am down to three chords. I’d like to have more Brazil in my life.