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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.
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