1967 Awarded full Title V graduate fellowship to research ways that AV media could be integrated into classroom and corporate training settings.

1976 Founded Concert Associates. Started business on zero capital and became profitable with 11 employees within three months. One year later the company was the market leader in producing Big Island entertainment, partnering with local radio and television, Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines, several South Kohala resort operators, and numerous merchants in Hilo, Kamuela and Kona.

1979-Present Wrote numerous feature stories, including two covers, for American, European and Asian city and in-flight magazines; humor piece entitled, “My Eternity” reprised in Tokyo Journal’s “Best of” end-of-decade issue; selected by The Japan Times to write retrospective on the paper for their 85th anniversary edition. Most recent feature (June, 2000): “Dallas Sushi-Something to Talk About” for The Dallas Morning News.

1980 Brought city of Chicago to a complete and delighted standstill with well-orchestrated circus stunt that caused break-in coverage on all local radio and TV stations, and afterwards front-page coverage in the Chicago Tribune and Sun Times. An hour before dawn, placed elephants at strategic locations along Lakeshore Drive; performers and daredevils at key interchanges of the Eisenhower expressway; lions and tigers, clowns and showgirls on the steps of city hall; and costumed Playboy Bunnies to put the finishing touches on erecting the Big Top astride the Dan Ryan expressway. ... Then the sun came up.

1981-1982 Founded ZA>Communications. Widely considered to be the first non-Japanese to have independently written and published a Japanese-language PC program, and the very first PC trainer of any nationality in Japan.

1983-1986 Wrote “Type*Rite,” Japan’s first kana/kanji keyboard trainer and bilingual word processor, published jointly by ZA>COM and Kenkyusha Ltd., Tokyo, and bundled with NEC and Epson PCs. An OEM version was later sold to Epson America. This Top-20 (Japan) MS-DOS/Windows product enjoyed rave reviews and a long shelf life from the mid-80s to early 90s. Later versions provided for use of the Greek and Cyrillic alphabets, enabling for the first time Greek and Russian word processing on a Japanese PC. Cited by Kosaku Shirota in Japan's leading newspaper, Asahi Shimbun (November 30, 1987), as one of three foreigners who had made significant technical contributions to Japanese society in the 1980s.

1984 Caused (inadvertently) nationwide sensation and hilarity in Japan when April Fool’s article entitled “The Ice Age Cometh? Climatologists Fear Earth Soon Covered with Glaciers and Permafrost” freakishly coincided with once-in-a century spring blizzard that blanketed Tokyo on April 1, 1984, an hour before the Sunday paper hit the stands. Among those “fooled” were the Japanese prime minister, top members of the armed forces and representatives of major corporations, all of whom besieged the paper with panicked inquiries. Wrote one Japanese journalist in a follow-up story, “Not since Orson Welles’ Halloween radio broadcast of a Martian invasion has a hoax succeeded so spectacularly.”

1985-1988 Wrote version 2 of “Applied Business Communications,” a best-selling application program that was bundled with NEC machines sold to Japanese high schools and colleges nationwide; co-authored companion volume “English Business Letter Writing Handbook,” for Kenkyusha Ltd, the nation’s largest and most respected publisher of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works. Now in its 5th edition, the book is a standard reference tool in Japan.

1988-1989 Granted permission by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sponsor the first private journey by ordinary Soviet citizens in modern Japanese history. Wrote humorous magazine feature about the experience which hit the stands the day the couple arrived, lending a surreal celebrity atmosphere to their visit. Also, during this period, published first magazine cover story, a profile of Japan’s leading computer scientist and his revolutionary operating system for intelligent objects; wrote several technology articles for city and in-flight magazines, book reviews for international publications, and travel industry features for Travel Journal.