2002
Digital Video: An Introduction...
Instructor/Author
3-hour online seminar - consumer distance learning project produced by the American Film Institute and the academic consortium lead by Columbia University, fathom.com

2001, 2002
Macworld Expo, New York and San Francisco
Speaker:
"Power DV: Editing for Home Video"

  2000
AFIFest 2000, Los Angeles
Moderator/Pannelist: The Instantaneous Vision
How Digital Changes Filmmaking

1999
Silicon Valley Association of Software Entrepreneurs
Pannelist, 10/99
"Creativity on the Internet

1997
UC Berkeley, School of Business
Guest Lecturer, 2/7
"Entrepreneurship" course from Sam Salkin

1994
NAB Conference, Las Vegas
Technical Paper and Speaker:
"New Approaches to Multimedia"

1993
Director's Guild of America (DGA)
Lecture Seminar-Instructor:
"Digital Post-Production for Film"

Montreux International Television Symposium
Seaker and Presenter (paper topic):
"Offline and Digital Post-Production"

Electronic Film Facilities Editing and Creative Tools (EFFECTS) Conference, Hamburg, Germany
Speaker and Guest

1994 -1999, 2001 - 2002
Petroglyph, Inc.
CEO, Chairman
Created original business, designed look-and-feel, author of business plan for the Ceramic Lounge™ retail and art studio chain. 1999 revenues of $2.3MM in six studios in No. California. Managed equity financing. Acquired consumer rights for Silver Alchemy™ from Mitsubishi Materials (Japan, 1999); 1997 Entrepreneur of the Year finalist from Silicon Valley Business Journal; Selected as the #7 Fastest Growing Private Company in Silicon Valley (1999).

1993 - 1994
Aurora-CMX
Director of Philosophy
Human interfaces and direction for CMX's new editing systems and Aurora's SGI-based paint systems; company strategy and planning, advertising, and marketing.

1992 - 1993
CMX
Senior Design Consultant
Architect of CMX's digital nonlinear editing system, the CMX CINEMA

1989
CMX Laser Systems, Inc. (CLSI)
Staff Editor
CMX and The Post Group joint-venture to rent CMX 6000s for the Hollywood market [A transparent transition from prior CMX-TPG work.]

1987 - 1989
CMX
Staff Editor
Associate Product Manager
Hired by CMX at the introduction of the CMX 6000 laserdisc-based editing system to facilitate and streamline the system's release into Hollywood. Began training classes, wrote user manual, consulted on television series at The Post Group.

1987
Sonic Solutions
Operations Mangager
Digital audio products and services for the professional recording industry. Sonic Solutions was a start-up company developing the "No Noise" digital CD premastering techniques. Employee #3. Highlights include:
The Turning Point J. Mayall (Polygram)
The Disney Collection 1 & 2 (Disneyland)
The Best of Ritchie Valens (Delfi)
Live Dead Grateful Dead (MCA)
Stoney End B. Streisand (CBS)
Black, Brown & Beige L. Armstrong (RCA Bluebird); Employee #4

1985 - 1987
Lucasfilm, Ltd/The Droid Works
Marketing Associate
Editorial & Operations Instructor
Marketing-Development Liaison
George Lucas's pioneering venture into developing new technology for picture and sound post production. Worked with the president and VPs in the marketing, research, support, and demonstrations of the EditDroid and SoundDroid products.

2002
"UNNAMED PROJECT 2002"
Peachpit Press.
Author, Illustrator, Photographer, Videographer.

2002
"THE LITTLE DIGITAL VIDEO BOOK"
Peachpit Press.
Author, Illustrator, Photographer, Videographer.

2000
"NONLINEAR" Fourth Edition
Distributed by Triad, pp 432. The industry standard text on the topic.
Over 30,000 sold to date. Website is a key industry resource.

1999
Inventor
US Patent Pending
"New Methods for Internet Searching and Browsing of an Object Database."
Filed Q4-99; Sold Q3-01

1991 - 1999
Playground Productions
Freelance design, photography, writing, logos, publishing, marketing and consulting.
*Mike's Famous Yogurt Cheese Maker (tm) - Packaging & promotions design.
*Westside Animal Hospital logo (1998)
*Father Time Essay (1999)

1995
"NONLINEAR" Third Edition
Distributed by Triad, pp 320. The industry standard text on the topic.

1992, 1993
"NONLINEAR" Second Edition
Distributed by Triad, pp 256.

1991
"NONLINEAR, a guide to digital film and video editing
Author, Illustrator, Designer, Publisher.
Distributed by Triad, pp 225

2002 -
Making Movies with Mike
Producer-Editor
Television series currently in production.

1999 - 2002
Various
Editor, Director, Producer
Hundreds of hours of editing self-produced DV video projects on Final Cut Pro v.1, v.2--personal documentaries, music videos, shorts.

1991
Screen Kiss
Editor - Director
Music Video. 16mm 3-day shoot for the 1985 Thomas Dolby single. Released in 2002.

1991
Love and Curses
Editor
1-hour television series for Universal Television. Earlier episodes released as "She-wolf of London." First television series edited on the AVID.

1990
Get Back
Editor
Feature Film. 25 concert performances by Paul McCartney from his world tour.

1990
The Sheltering Sky
Assistant Editor and Consultant
Feature Film. In London. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and edited by Gabriella Cristiani, both 1988 Academy Award winners for "The Last Emperor."

1989
Jezebel's Kiss
Associate Editor
Feature Film. Directed by Harvey Keith.

1987 - 1988
Hidden Rage
Co-Editor
Feature Film. Directed by Shuki. Saban Pictures. Released on video as "Perfect Victims." First feature film edited on the CMX 6000.

1986 - 1989
Post Production Consultant
Through editorial and post production support positions at TDW, CMX, TPG, and CLSI, acted as the assistant editor intermittently on numerous television series, pilots, movies-for-television, and specials, among them:
Lonesome Dove (CBS/Motown) '88
Major Dad (Universal) '89
Baby Boom (MGM) '88-'89
TV 101 (GTG) '88-'89
Gideon Oliver (Universal) '88-'89
Dolphin Cove (Paramount) '88-'89
Hard Time on Planet Earth (Disney) '89
Bronx Zoo (Paramount) '88
The Twilight Zone (CBS) '86-'87
Matlock (Viacom) '86-'87