Resume

• Born:
  • 16 July, 1956, Cooperstown, New York

• Marital:
  • Married: 1981, Children: Price, 1988; Nathaniel, 1990; Maura, 1994.

• Education:
  • University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19711; May, 1977-June, 1981

• Degree:
  • Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, June, 1981

• Honors:
  • Four Semesters Dean's List,
  • Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu

• Employment:
  • 1 June, 1996 - Present, Walt Disney Feature Animation. 500 South Buena Vista Street, Burbank, CA 91521-8959, (818)526-3597. Software Technical Director, "Dinosaur".
  • 9 November, 1993 - 23 May, 1995 ReZ.n8 Productions, Inc. 6430 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1000 Hollywood, CA 90028 (213)957-2161. Systems Manager, technical strategist in multimedia over wide-area networks.
  • 4 January, 1988-31 October, 1993 The Post Group 6335 Homewood Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90028 (213)462-2300 X810. 3D Graphics Programmer, Digital Center. Co-inventor of a distributed multiprocessing method for theatrical film recording from digital video (525/625-line) with enhanced image quality.
  • 1 November, 1984-23 December, 1987 Goldsholl Design and Film, Inc., 420 Frontage Road, Northfield, IL 60093 (312)446-8300. Direction, Production and Technical Support of Computer-Generated Imagery and Animation. Founded the Goldsholl Design and Film Computer Graphics Department.
  • 11 February, 1981-30 October, 1984 AT&T Technologies, Inc., 1200 Warrenville Road, Naperville, IL 60566. Development Engineer, Diagnostic Development 5ESS, on permanent assignment to AT&T Bell Laboratories Department 55618.

• Consulting:
  • 29 April, 1990-Present Wolfram Research, Inc. 100 Trade Center Drive, P.O. Box 6059, Champaign, IL 61826-6059, Freelance Computer Graphics Artist.
  • January, 1989-Present Film and Video School, California Institute of the Arts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, CA 91355 (805)255-1050 X2427. Technical Consultant, Computer Graphics Laboratory.

• Expertise:
  • UNIX System and heterogeneous computer network programming and administration in the film and video graphics production industry. System types: Silicon Graphics (IRIX, C, C++ and GL fluent, X/Motif), Sun, Pixar Image Computer (CHAPTools, CHAP-IP, CHAP-Volumes, CHAP-C, CHAP-Assembler), IBM-PC Compatible (DOS, Mark Williams C, Novelle), Apple Macintosh (MAC-TOPS, NFS-Share); Internetwork routers: Cayman Systems, Livingston, Ascend.
  • Peripherals: Abekas A60 (Ethernet and SCSI Interfaces), Solitaire Image Recorder, Quantel Mirage, Sony System G, Cyberware Laboratory 3-D Digitizer, Computer-Aided Rapid Mechanical Prototyping (Automated Fabrication, e.g.: Stereolithography, etc.) Systems.
  • Software: OpenInventor, Builder Xcessory, Alias/Maya API, Wavefront Technologies Advanced Visualizer and custom enhancements to the Advanced Visualizer capability, Side Effects Software Prisms maintenance, custom electronic film printer applications, Pixar Image Computer image processing suite, including volume visualization, RenderMan maintenance the Mathematica system for doing mathematics by computer, custom interfaces for Automated Fabrication.

• Patents:
  • Stewart Dickson, William Villarreal; Video Signal Processing System, United States Patent 5,191,416, March 2, 1993.
  • Stewart Dickson; Stringed Musical Instrument with Electrical Feedback, United States Patent 4,248,120; Feb 3, 1981, (Electroacoustic Monochord).

• Publications:
  • World-wide 1982-present. Bibliography available.

• Affiliations:
  • American Mensa Ltd.
  • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
  • Graphics Special Interest Group (SIGGRAPH)
  • International Sculpture Center (ISC),
  • YLEM
  • International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST)
  • Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA)