I’m a husband, a father, and a maker (I helped make the kids). I have a wide variety of interests and am deeply curious. Curiosity has helped me solve problems and opened my mind to be able to see the world from a variety of perspectives.
I have always had a love for filmmaking. I started in high school and then went to university to learn production. I got a job offer at Oak Ridge National Lab in 1995, before graduating college, so I went there for nearly four years. There are too many amazing moments at ORNL to mention here, but some of the highlights include:
- Working with some of the first 3D scanners
- Shooting video inside of a pool nuclear reactor
- Creating videos for the President of the United States and Congress
- Working with the FBI on a domestic terrorism case
- Working with Progressive Networks (later Real Media) to test streaming for the web
I left ORNL and went to HGTV to set up streaming for them. We were creating podcasts before the iPod even existed. I also organized and ran the WebTV interactive broadcast for events like the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade. The streaming and interactive TV brought me a lot of interest and attention from other content owners outside of Scripps, and I was given permission to spin up my own company and infrastructure and work with these companies on the side. Two months later, I tendered my resignation and launched EonStreams Inc.
EonStreams was a streaming media company that started in 1999 in my house, in a spare bedroom, and grew to be worth millions of dollars. We hosted live events and were one of the largest radio streaming platforms in the world. The company was sold several times, and the original investors ended up splitting just under $50 million dollars awarded to the company.
After Eonstreams, and some time spent reinventing myself, I ended up working for Jewelry Television in 2004. Again, I was hired to set up streaming for the company but quickly moved on to creating new technology for use in their broadcast system. Working with a team of engineers and creatives, we created the first patents for JTV. We created computer controlled camera gimbals that would not only move the camera, but also capture the shot and create clips that required no editing. We went on to create several more patented products over the next ten years. It was this engineering process that introduced me to the world of 3D printing.
Since 2010, I have been running my other company, EonEntertainment Inc. I started this company so that I could keep a foot in the production world and make documentaries and short films. This eventually lead to working with several film distributors and exhibitors (theatres) to convert their trailers and features so they would work in digital theatres. I have also worked with special effects artist Steve Johnson to digitize and manage his archives of thirty years of filmmaking and special effects.