I have been employed in engineering and start-up technology ventures for 30 years. I am currently consulting with Body Surface Translations. Before joining BST I taught at Chapman University, as a Clinical Assistant Professor and acting Director of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics and the Director of Launch Labs, their student incubator (since renamed). Prior to that I held the position of General Manager of Motion Analysis Studios, a subsidiary of Motion Analysis Corporation. Motion Analysis is the acquirer of my Tech Coast Angels funded start-up, MaMoCa. As CEO, I led MaMoCa from an idea through external funding and on to acquisition. Prior to MaMoCa, I was a Lecturer and Senior Research Engineer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. While at Stanford I co-founded Imaging Therapeutics, subsequently acquired by Conformis, developer of the worlds first subject-specific total knee replacement system. Conformis went public on the NASDAQ and has subsequently been taken private.
Prior to Stanford, I was splitting time as a Research Engineer III in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center and as Engineering Director for Computerized Functional Testing Corporation, while pursuing my BS, MS, and PhD in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago. I am a veteran of the US Army and am a member of the Fallbrook VFW. I hold nine issued US patents, and I have more than 30 refereed publications . I am Chairman of the Board of Good Dog! Autism Companions.
I am available to consult on engineering problems in the application of computer vision and image processing techniques to the biomechanics of human movement. Some of these application areas are in medical device design and evaluation, while other applications are in entertainment technology. I am particularly interested in marker-less motion capture for low cost content production and wide-adoption low cost dynamic evaluation of human orthopedic disease and injury.
I am available to consult with start-up companies. I have made engineering and management contributions tomany start-up companies over the years, including: Computerized Functional Testing Corporation, Imaging Therapeutics, MaMoCa, Instant Carma, Maya Medical, Black Swan Neuro, and Body Surface Translations, along with a few other current stealth mode companies. I have guest lectured and act as a mentor in the business school at USC .
I’ve recently begun writing screenplays and self-publishing those converted works as novels. The latest screenplay, Just Put Chuck Vindaloo, has been accepted to the XXV Life Fest Film Festival.
