Author, Developer, Educator, Manager — who wrote the world's first bilingual (English/Japanese, NEC 1981) word processor, the world's first multilingual (English/Japanese/Russian/Greek, NEC 1984) word processors, the world's first interactive application to display digital video (Hello QuickTime! Apple Computer, 1991), and the world's first multimedia program driven by voice recognition (Apple Computer, 1993); authored best-selling mass-market applications and highly acclaimed proprietary products, including the market leading Tracking At-A-Glance™ (Designing Success, 2003) web application currently installed on city and county government servers nationwide; wrote numerous articles and stories for the mass media; pioneered secondary and tertiary PC training programs; participated as a keynoter, invited speaker, panelist or featured presenter in numerous trade and instructional technology shows, seminars and conferences worldwide.

Have worked since 2001 as a web applications developer and database administrator. Sole creator of source code, client database and user interface for best selling case management tracking system for housing authorities and social work agencies nationwide. Licensees include U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (Washington D.C.), Youngstown (Ohio) Metropolitan Housing Authority, Muncie (Indiana) Housing Authority, Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Housing Authority, East Baton Rouge (Louisiana) Housing Authority, Biloxi (Mississippi) Housing Authority, Washington D.C. Housing, Housing and Redevelopment Authority of Duluth (Minnesota), City of Phoenix (Arizona), Newport (Rhode Island) Housing Authority, San Antonio (Texas) Housing Authority, Greensboro (North Carolina) Housing Authority, Meridian (Mississippi) Housing Authority, Orlando (Florida) Housing Authority, Cuyahoga (Ohio) Metropolitan Housing Authority, Indianapolis (Indiana) Housing Authority, Mobile (Alabama) Housing Board, Louisville (Kentucky) Housing Authority, Chester (Pennsylvania) Housing Authority, Stamford (Connecticut) Housing Agency, Oakland, (California) Housing Authority, New Haven (Connecticut) Housing Authority, New Albany (Indiana) Housing Authority, Nashville (Tennessee) Housing Authority, Memphis (Tennessee) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of the City of Durham (North Carolina), Tuscaloosa (Alabama) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (Wisconsin), Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (Texas), Housing Authority of the City of Greenville (South Carolina), Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino (California), Dallas (Texas) Housing Authority, Wardell Yotaghan RMC Chicago (Illinois), Akron (Ohio) Metropolitan Housing Authority, Benton Harbor (Michigan) Housing Commission, Hartford (Connecticut) Housing Authority, Stark Metropolitan Housing Authority (Ohio), Long Branch (New Jersey) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of the City of Fort Myers (Florida), Spartanburg (South Carolina) Housing Authority, Rock Island (Illinois) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of Portland (Oregon), HJ Russell and Company, Atlanta (Georgia), Kokomo (Indiana) Housing Authority, Housing Opportunities Commission of Montgomery County (Maryland), Burlington (Vermont) Housing Authority, Workforce Solutions of Providence/Cranston (Rhode Island), Miami-Dade County (Florida), Vancouver (Washington) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of the City of Easton (Pennsylvania), Housing Authority of the County of Los Angeles (California), Detroit (Michigan) Housing Commission, Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Workforce Partnership of Greater Rhode Island, Office of the Deputy Mayor for Economic planning and Development (Washington D.C.), Denver (Colorado) Housing Authority, Tacoma (Washington) Housing Authority, Martin (Tennessee) Housing Authority, Decatur (Illinois) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of Baltimore City (Maryland), Niagara Falls (New York) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of the City of Columbus (Georgia), Louisiana Housing Development Corporation, Housing Authority of the City of Frederick (Maryland), Sioux Falls (South Dakota) Housing and Redevelopment Commission, Fayetteville (North Carolina) Metropolitan Housing Authority, Macon (Georgia) Housing Authority, King County Washington) Housing Authority, Housing Authority of New Orleans (Louisiana)

UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Completed post-graduate courses.

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
MS, Library and Audio-Visual Sciences (Title V fellowship)

Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
BA, English and History (Dean's List, Who's Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities)

lmagine21 Corporation, Japan, New Zealand, USA
Founder and General Manager — originally operated as an authorized Apple training center from 1992-1994; designed interactive multimedia product demos, kiosks, courseware, Web sites and CD-ROM titles; consulted for large tertiary school systems in Pacific Rim countries in areas of facility design and multimedia training. In USA, built the following sites: Jim Gwin Archtects, Houston, Texas, an architectural firm. APS Training Centers, Miami, Florida, a vocational school chain. The Pacific Institute, Seattle, Washington, a motivational speakers bureau. Designing Success Inc., Hollywood, Florida, a database software publisher whose products include Tracking At-A-Glance™.

ZA>Communications, Tokyo, Japan
Co-founder and Managing Director — designed and programmed PC applications such as word processors, keyboarding tutorials, business letter writing programs and board games; set up the first PC classrooms in Japanese vocational schools; supervised and trained trainers.

Circus Vargus, Lakewood, California, USA
Marketing Director — produced several venues of “America’s Big Top Giant’s” 1980 tour of Western USA, Canada and Mexico. Responsible for site management, permits, ticketing systems, suppliers, publicity, community relations and marketing for second-largest U.S. circus and world’s largest tented show.

Concert Associates of Hawaii, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA
Founder and General Manager — produced entertainment events such as live concerts, beauty pageants, community festivals, dance competitions, sport fishing tournaments and music segments for Honolulu television; served as a design consultant (lighting and special effects) for several island and mainland discotheques.

College of the Canyons, Valencia, California, USA
Instructor and Reference Librarian — taught classes on how to integrate media (slides, film, audio and music) into instructional programs and large-group presentations; worked part-time as evening Reference Librarian; catalogued the college library film and music collection.

Companies for whom I have worked as a part-time employee, independent contractor, franchisee, consultant or special contributor:

The Japan Times, The Daily Yomiuri, Asahi Evening News, The Dallas Morning News, West Hawaii Today, Apple Computer (USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand), Macromedia, RasterOps (USA, France), SuperMac, Adobe Systems, Pan Abode, All Nippon Airlines, Aloha Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Aeroflot Airlines, U.S. State Department, Yamato Foundation (Japan), Bunsai Foundation (Japan), Sano Foundation (Japan), AIT Foundation (New Zealand), NEC (Japan), Toshiba (Australia), IBM (Japan), Microsoft (USA, Japan, Australia), Epson (USA), NHK Television (Japan), Florida National College (USA).

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

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.

Wrote 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.

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.

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.

Wrote Version 2 of "Applied Business Communications," a MS-DOS/Windows application program, and companion volume "English Business Letter Writing Handbook," published by Kenkyusha Ltd. Tokyo. Now in its 5th edition, the book is a standard reference tool in Japan.

Founded Imagine21. Wrote “Hello — A Celebration of QuickTime” interactive CD-ROM for Apple Computer; demonstrated the program—the world’s first to display multiple digital video clips—in several countries during the worldwide launch of QuickTime 1.0. Tour sponsored by Apple, Adobe, RasterOps-TrueVision and Macromedia. Delivered several Macworld keynote addresses with Apple CEOs John Scully and Michael Spindler.

Wrote "Kanda Multimedia," a bilingual PC courseware package for learning multimedia skills (2D and 3D graphics, digital audio and video, animation and music) that was licensed to several colleges and vocational schools in Japan and New Zealand.

Wrote world’s first interactive program to utilize speech recognition as primary user interface. Delivered keynote address (with Microsoft’s Bill Gates) and demonstrated program at “Interactive 94”, New Zealand’s inaugural new media conference.

Created "Welcome to British Hills," a panoramic tour of a Japanese theme resort; wrote "Manor House" production guide and game demo; demonstrated both QuickTimeVR products in special sessions at San Francisco and Tokyo MacWorld expos.

Completed first novel and supporting Web site. “Manor House” selected in 2000 as a top-five finalist (of 217 novels entered) in the Austin Writers’ League’s (America’s second-largest writers’ group) “Mainstream Fiction” division. MH was also a top-rated entry (out of 3,500 book excerpts) on AOL/TimeWarner’s e-book/POD publishing site. In 2001, an excerpt from second novel, “My Trip,” a CIA-KGB comic thriller, became the site’s all-time most popular, most-reviewed, highest-rated submission.

Authored several releases of Tracking At-A-Glance™, a market leading case management system for housing authorities and social work agencies nationwide. The web-based application has received an endorsement from U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and is licensed to over eighty city and county housing agencies in thirty-two states. The software was written for Windows 2008/Vista/2003/XP/2000/NT in a SQL 2008/2005/2000 and ColdFusion 9/8/7/6 server environment.

Entrepreneurial. Possess organizational abilities for new projects and enterprises, product and site launches; copy and feature writing for press releases, advertisements, articles and stories; proposal writing and fund raising; technical editing of scientific publications and business communications; scripting languages and APIs for cross-platform (Windows/Macintosh) multimedia development; bilingual user-interface design and integration of all media types (text, graphics, audio, video, music, animation) into interactive programs; HTML, XML, Flash, Flex, SQL, ColdFusion, ASP, Perl, Java and JavaScript for dynamic site construction and web-based applications, plus technical yet user-friendly English for on-line and printed documentation; PC training center design, teaching and management; sales/marketing, project and product management abilities; teaching, training and librarianship; hold California state teaching and library credentials, issued for life.