This was an upgrade from a simple projection system at Conmy Hall, Joint Base Myer-Henderson in Arlington VA. I commissioned a 140-foot video wall, measuring 10400 pixels wide. I built a User Interface and configured the custom playback and live-source routing capabilities. This has enabled a wide range of applications for ceremonial functions and Army-Band theatrics. In its first years I also provided tech-support and engineered additional custom features, such as key-fill overlays.

At PNC Arena, Prudential Center, and Capital One Arena I managed tech support and maintenance for their ice projection systems.

At UBS Arena in Long Island NY, I scoped, sold, and project managed the installation. I also programmed the user interfaces and trained their broadcast crew on the integration with a 4K broadcast system.

Part of Intel's Olympic sponsorship, this was kind of a fun-house setup in front of Stade du France. You perform exercises in front of cameras and THE AI analyzes you and tells you what kind of athlete you might be. For this project I worked for the experiential company The Famous Group. I engineered all of the screens, audio, lighting, depth cameras, and more, through a month-ish build and a month long run.

College hoops bring all the hype when they have installed projectors just for the court. I designed, sold, and supported projection-mapping systems for several NCAA arenas.

League of Legends is a multiplayer online game with a huge following. Their tenth world championship was held in Paris, with millions more tuning in online. Quince Imaging provided media servers, projection blending, and graphics operation. I blended short-throw projectors on the holographic scrims, and supported Pandoras Box and Ventuz media operations.

Part of a $125 million new build, the First Baptist Dallas sanctuary called for seven 22k rear projectors on a compound-curved 150' wide screen. I blended the screen with Pandoras Box Broadcast Servers. The more interesting engineering was in the control room, where everything on the sanctuary screen is shown in duplicate on a working quarter-scale projection system with identical contours. I built controls in Widget Designer to operate both systems in parallel so the video operators have an accurate heads up. Also the staff can test content and work with templates with the sanctuary system powered down.

Christie Digital debuted their first full-RGB laser projector, and I took initiative to design a booth worthy of the theatrical crowd at LDI. I designed and built the custom scenic flats, and installed and programmed a system that makes a statement: While LED screens are taking over all things rectangular, only projection technology can cover the gamut of geometric possibilities.

Atop a skyscraper in San Farancisco, I installed a media system to blend four 4k live camera feeds. Visitors down in the lobby looked into retro-fitted “binocular” machine that let them swivel and pan around a real-time panorama of the entire region.

At Harvard Business School I configured and programmed Pandoras Box servers to take commands from Crestron and play full resolution content on a 9920 pixel wide screen.

At the Intercontinental Hotel in San Diego I mapped the exterior to play artistic content on the facade every night.

For the Carolina Theatre in Charlotte NC, I project-managed an ongoing AV buildout and also did previsualization. I built a model in Unreal Engine to show how the interior video mapping system they had purchased could be used while the real system encountered years of construction delays.

At many other sites I performed surveys and sales engineering, project managment, programming, technical support and operator training.

Every Thanksgiving the Dallas Cowboys put on a big game and a big halftime show. I was called upon to use Pandoras Box to run the outer and inner LED screens on this custom beauty. The flown sections are rigged to the stadium's jumbotron. Fiber optic networking let the media servers control the screens from very long distances. The whole set builds and strikes in under ten minutes, thanks to 200 volunteer(!) wagon pushers. It was an impressive show, if you're into Luke Bryan.

Projecting on random objects in the corner of a ballroom? Welcome to class. Training other programmers how to use media servers has been my most rewarding work. Sometimes programmers are preparing for a specific installation that is already specced. Other programmers are freelancers chasing the big video dollars. Some students were simply owners or producers who would never operate a show but wanted to learn how these mysterious computers work.

VivaVision is a quarter-mile-long LED canopy over Fremont Street, Las Vegas. Every hour, 365 nights a year, the screen plays a gigantic music video. The original computers running VivaVision were strange nonstandard boxes. The task was to replace them with Pandora's Box Media Players. I created a timeline scheduling system and brought in existing content. We also connected the new players to sound, lighting, and other control systems that had been manually operated for many years.

As an Assistant Technical Director at the Washington National Opera, I drafted CAD drawings and prepared upcoming shows while managing IAATSE crews through shows and tech days. 

Lead ATD on: 

Madama Butterfly(2006), L'elisir d'amore(2006), Sophie's Choice(2007), Democracy(2004), WNO 50-Year Gala(2006)

Supporting ATD on:

Die Zauberflote, The Maid of Orleans, I vespri siciliani, Porgy and Bess, Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Macbeth

Prior to the Opera, I was a Technical Director for a number of theaters around DC: Metro Stage in Alexandria, Capital Hill Arts Workshop, GALA Hispanic Theater. As a TD I hired help and built the scenery, and I coordinated with lighting and other departments.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art annually hosts New York's ultimate dress-up party. In 2011 the Gala was honoring the tragic loss of designer Alexander McQueen. This called for a 200' seamless image on the Temple of Dendur room's rear wall facing Central Park. I took this concept to reality as System Designer, integrating with the lighting design and building a multi-projector content solution given a high resolution animation. The real innovation was in rigging: Frost Productions fabricated custom platforms to hang 16k projectors elegantly from the glass wall of the museum.

At Coolux we built and ran a booth every year at InfoComm, LDI, and NAB, to showcase the newest features of Pandoras Box, find new customers, and keep up a network of video geeks. It is a lot of fun to meet strangers and talk tech when you have interactive video gadgets. 

In 2014 the new gadgets included IR tracking tags that let projection effects follow someone such as a performer across stage. Also the new Drawing Canvas feature, which makes for projected graffiti.

This particular booth required some stage carpentry I was thrilled to take it on. It had been too long without sawdust in my nose or a professional reason to buy pulleys.

NCTA an association that educates congress about the benefits of cable and internet access. Their office on Capitol Hill got a big touch screen driven by Pandora's Box Media Servers. I developed the interactive programming for this screen with Coolux Widget Designer. 

I like this design for its navigation belt to organize everything, and simple gestures to go in and out of content. Thanks to the flexibility of the software, the layout, navigation and gestural behavior was all developed onsite in two weeks, given only raw content to showcase.

Honda's 2012 Dealership Meeting called for projection mapping on moving scenery. When scenery stands still, you can usually projection-map 3D contours with 2D tricks in a variety of softwares. However, scenery that moves needs true 3D mapping and realtime rendering.

Honda's 40' moving wall passed between the beams of a dozen different projectors, and the content followed seamlessly. The motor/automation system sent position data to Widget Designer. WD controlled the X position of a Pandora's Box layer, and the layer was loaded with a 3D mesh of the wall.

At a shoe manufacturer’s corporate headquarters I installed an interactive video wall to showcase their HD commercials as well as ultra-high-res 7k custom content. Pandora's Box Media Players drive the 21 LCD screens while an Airscan infrared laser scanner tracks users gestures. I programmed all the interactivity with Widget Designer.

The headquarters is where sales staff bring international retail clients in to make deals. As the company’s head of multimedia once told me, "believe me, this video wall sells shoes."