This site has not been updated in years. Too busy. It still uses the
<font> tag!
Until October I will be enconsed at Fidelity, doing responsive HTML5,
CSS, JavaScript, even the conversion of Flash and Java apps to HTML5.
Note: I will be 66 in November.
This note added: 2014.08.06.
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AS3 / CS3;
Adobe Director MX;
Javascript; XML; ~ PHP;
14 years interactive development;
Object oriented Actionscript and Lingo;
3D, graphics, sound, streaming, AppleScript, ...
Education
PhD Physics
MS Mathematics
Recent New Media Experience:
04.2005 - 10.2014
Fidelity: Developer of actionscript applications
for Fidelity's eBusiness division (USA, UK, D, F, HK).
More recently doing HTML5/responsive front end dev.
No one uses Flash much anymore.
08.2004 - 02.2005
Thomson/Wadsworth: Flash MX and Director MX developer.
Developed an educational CD using Flash MX, Director MX,
Applescript, and a Windows .bat file.
Saves and retrieves user data (XML); loads external
text, mp3, pdf and flv files, and over 100
Flash demonstration and testing swfs; search engine;
user controlled historical timeline; ...
08.2003 - 04.2004
Flash MX developer for Measured Progress.
Building AS 2.0 classes and components
for educational testing:
scientific graphing calculator;
Flash word processor;
Test layout application receiving XML data (inline elements,
recursive tables and lists, masked lists, ...);
MathML equation editor; ...
12.2002 - 04.2003
Flash MX/Actionscript developer for Measured Progress.
Built flexible Flash components: primary project to construct
a test layout application incorporating text, images, symbols, shapes,
radio buttons and more from XML data.
Developed a Flash kiosk for OS X using AppleScript.
03.2002 - 05.2002
Flash 5 business presentation for Vanquish, Inc.
(Over 4 minutes of narrated animation, 1.7 mB);
03.2002 - 05.2002
Educational modules for PBS website (WGBH)
(Achieving the "impossible" with Flash 5);
02.2001 - 02.2002
Shockwave/Flash developer for ExploreLearning.com;
12.1999 - 10.2000
Shockwave Developer for Apps.com (games and applications).
Teaching
15 years university teaching experience:
All levels mathematics; Statistics; Physics; Engineering;
Led development of and cotaught course in bioInformatics ('96, '98)
New Media Kudos
♦ 2001 Nomination for Webby Award
("Oscar of the Internet");
♦ 1999 Finalist Macromedia's People's Choice Award
Teaching Kudos
♦ 2000 Harvard University White Award for Excellence in Teaching
♦ 2000 Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching
Author of several articles on Mathematical Physics, and one book:
♦ Division Algebras: Octonions, Quaternions, Complex Numbers and the Algebraic Design of Physics,
1994, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht (reprinted 2002).
♦ Organized and led international workshops on applications of
Division Algebras to Physics (1993 Sweden; 2000 UK).
