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Education
& Instruction
2005
Droidmaker US Tour
Author/Performance Lecture
Toured 20 cities in the Winter of 2005, "performing" at 45-minute slide-show and story from the book Droidmaker. Appearances include: Apple Stores (Soho, Chicago), Brown University, Video Symphony (LA), Moviola Digital (LA), Pixar, Ex'Pressions Digital Center, FedEx Institute of Technology (Memphis), Columbia College (Chicago), Adobe (Seattle), University of Washington, Xerox Parc, Netflix, Macworld SF (Keynote).
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
1992 - 1993
American Film Institute (AFI)
Instructor
"Intro to Electronic Post Production"
(Spring, Summer, Winter)
1991 - 1992
AFI-Apple Computer Center
Advisory Board Member
1992
International Teleproduction Society
Moderator
"The Future of
Editing"
1989
UCLA Extension
Guest Lecturer
"Electronic post
production and the independent producer"
(Winter, Spring, Fall)
UCLA Extension
Instructor
"Electronic
Editing"
(Winter, Spring)
1988
Women in Film Conference
Panelist
"Post Production
seminar"
1981 - 1985
Brown University
Sc.B. Neural Science
Areas of study include
Human Cognition, Planetary Geology, Play Writing, Market Investment, and a
small-but-functional knowledge of computer programming and circuit design.
1963
Born in Gainesville, Florida
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Employment
& Corporate
Profile on Linkedin
2006 - present
Netflix
Director, Community Experiences
Responsible for the community-based strategy for Netflix, and on the team leading the development of the Netflix website.
1994 - present
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. 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.
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Publishing
& Photography
Books on Amazon
Profile on Flickr
2006
“ILIFE 06 Apple Training Series”
Peachpit
Press.
2005
DROIDMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital
Revolution
Triad Publishing Co.
2005
“ILIFE
05 Apple Training Series”
Peachpit
Press.
2004
“ILIFE
04 Apple Training Series”
Peachpit
Press.
Author, Illustrator, Photographer, Videographer.
2003
“Making
Movies with Final Cut Express
Peachpit
Press.
Author, Illustrator, Photographer, Videographer.
2002
"BEGINNERS FINAL CUT
PRO"
Peachpit
Press.
Author, Illustrator, Photographer, Videographer.
2001
"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.
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 (*The patent application process was never completed.)
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
1990
TV Technology
Writer, "CMX 6000"
American Cinemeditor
Writer, "Bertolucci in
London"
1988
TV Technology
Writer, "CMX 6000"
1984
"Computer Gardening Made Simple
Author, Publisher
Short humor book. First printing
3,000. Sold out.
Zick Productions, pp. 32
1981
"Defending the Galaxy"
Author, Designer, Co-publisher.
Triad Publishers, pp 225.
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Editing
& Production
Profile on YouTube
2003 - 2004
Apple Computer
“Going Digital with iMovie and iDVD.” Architect of the video literacy
curriculum incorporated into Apple’s consumer video initiatives. Produced
demonstration videos and lectures.
TRAINED Apple instructors at flagship Apple retail stores
(“Creatives”) as part of Apples new retail strategy.
2002 -
Making Movies with Mike
Producer-Editor
Television series currently--and forever-- in pre-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, V.3--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
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