Geography: I am a graduate student in Geography at Hunter College, with research interests in transportation, renewable energy, open-source GIS, urban infrastructure, and food production. This website includes an extensive collection of digital photos of New York City, photo galleries of various American Theatres, random bits of American Infrastructure, and my experience in 2005 with Hurricane Rita. GIS programming work includes MMQGIS, a set of useful python plugins for the QGis open-source mapping and analysis software package.

My most recent writing includes a tour and valuation of the proposed North Shore rail line reconstruction on Staten Island, an analysis of fossil-fuel energy used in the United States for food production, processing and distribution and an analysis & history of changes to the Upper West Side's Stable Row.

Music: I have been writing and/or performing music for over 30 years in a variety of settings and this website includes MP3 collections of some of my pop-rock work: Together Again (2006), A Face in the Crowd (2004), and Time To Move On (2001). My trombone and guitar playing is featured on the collections Best Served Loud, Fragments, and Debut. I wrote and produced Mossadegh, a rock opera based on the C.I.A.-orchestrated 1953 Iranian coup, for the 2004 New York International Fringe Festival. I wrote and produced the musical comedy The Irreplaceable Commodity for the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival. The website for Mossadegh had a surprising afterlife, receiving attention from the BBC, Radio Farda, and numerous Iranian blogs. I have a music education degree from North Texas State (now UNT) and marched with the drum and bugle corps Blue Stars (1980), Louisiana Southernaires (1981) and Madison Scouts (1984).

Linux / Web: I am an advocate for the Linux computer operating system and have used it on my home systems since 2000. I maintain Linux for Laptops installation instructions for a variety of Toshiba laptops (see navigation bar to the left for models). I also support MMUSBAUDIO (a device driver for the Roland USB audio devices), MMQGIS (a set of helpful python plugins for QGis mapping and analysis package), and MMPTP (a Linux utility for downloading pictures from PTP digital cameras). I have been working with various flavors of UNIX since graduating from North Texas State with a Master's degree in Computer Science. I worked as a C/UNIX programmer in Dallas at Texas Instruments and VISystems before moving to New York City and I have completed the CTA network administration and design program at Columbia University. Aside from my personal web content, I am also maintain websites (in meticulously hand-coded HTML and PHP) for The National Asian-American Theatre Company, The Kaleidoscope Theatre Company and Andros on Ballet (a ballet history site for teacher Dick Andros). I inherited and upgraded discographies for Louis Armstrong and Sarah Vaughan, and I cover over three centuries of my family's history on The Privett Family Website.

Theatre: From 1991-2006 I worked in theatre in New York City. Off-Broadway I appeared as a performer in the musicals Making Tracks and Shanghai Lil's. Regionally I appeared in productions of 42nd Street (Julian), The Pajama Game (Sid), The King & I (King). Television credits include All My Children, As The World Turns, The City, Law & Order and background work on an extensive number of other forgettable television shows and feature films. I toured four seasons with the award-winning children's theatre company Theatreworks/USA (Secret Garden, Swiss Family Robinson, Charlotte's Web, Romeo & Juliet) and worked as a stage manager with Artspower, The Kaleidoscope Theatre Company and the 78th Street Theatre Lab. At various times I have been a member of The Dramatists Guild, Actors Equity Association, AGMA, AFTRA and SAG.