Recent Experience

2022-PresentAuthor, Digital Creator



2001-2021 Designing Success, Inc.,(rebranded in 2025 as Social Bridge Technologies) Houston, Texas

2020-Salt Lake County, Utah, USA


Assigned by Designing Success as the lead developer for the prototype version of this project. mySAMI is a phone app for a Utah-based organization that enables client beneficiaries to track their own progress in education, employment and life goals.

2017-Generations Journey, Seattle, Washington, USA

Assigned by Designing Success as the lead developer for this client project, a web app for a Seattle-based organization that enables institute members to track the progress of tribal members ("wayawa" in Lakota Sioux) in education and employment.

Prior Experience

1991-2000
Founder and Managing Director -- originally operated as an authorized Apple training center from 1992-1994; designed interactive multimedia product demos, kiosks, courseware, Web sites and DVD titles; consulted for large tertiary school systems in Pacific Rim countries in areas of facility design and multimedia training. In USA, from 1998 to 2000, 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 web application software publisher.

1981-1991 ZA>COM, Tokyo, Japan

Founder and Managing Director -- designed and programmed PC applications such as word processors, keyboarding tutorials, business letter writing programs and board games, including the the electronic version of Othello (Osero in Japanese); set up the first PC classrooms in Japanese vocational schools; supervised and trained trainers.

1979-1980 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.

1976-1979Concert 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.

1969-1975 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.

1976-2000-Consultations

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

Tokyo Journal, The Japan Times, The Daily Yomiuri, Asahi Evening News, The Dallas Morning News, West Hawaii Today, Apple (Japan, Australia, New Zealand), Macromedia, RasterOps-TrueVision (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), Japan Women's University, AIT Foundation (New Zealand), NEC (Japan), Toshiba (Australia), IBM (Japan), Microsoft (USA, Japan, Australia), Epson (USA), NHK Television (Japan), Florida National University (USA).

Career Highlights


Highlights 1979- Wrote feature stories, including two covers, for American, European and Asian city Present 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. 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. 1985-1988 Wrote "English Business Letter Writing Handbook," published by Kenkyusha Ltd. Tokyo. Now in its 5th edition, the book is a standard reference tool in Japan. 1990-1991 Founded Imagine21. Wrote "Hello -- A Celebration of QuickTime" interactive CDROM 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. 1992-1994 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. 1994 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. 1996-1997 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. 2002-2021 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 one hundred city and county housing agencies in thirty-two states. The software was written for Windows 2012/2008/2003/in a SQL 2019/2017/2014/2012/ and ColdFusion 2018/2016 server environment. Education-Tertiary


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

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

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



Bishop McGuinness High school/, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Awards: None, Expelled Twice for chronic misbehavior and absenteeism 1959 Harding High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Awards: None, Expelled for pulling pranks, 1961

Bishop McGuinness High school/, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Awards: None, Expelled schol policy violations 1963 Harding High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Awards: Graduated with highest ACT score in class,1963 Harding High School, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Awards: Selecated to write profile of beloved Vice Principal, the late Alvin Freiberger, for schol's 100-year comerative pub;ication.