What I Do

Analytical Chemistry

I work for Agilent Technologies , helping to design instruments for chemical analyses. That means that I do things like this:

• Write software
• Do math
• Drill holes in metal
• Play with lots of other fun things

Much of my work has focused on time-of-flight mass spectrometry. Here’s a fun demo illustrating the principals of TOFMS.

See my Curriculum Vita. (PDF)

Conducting

I’m the principal conductor of the South Bay Philharmonic, which was once known as the Hewlett-Packard Symphony Orchestra.

• See my conducting repertoire
  and conducting résumé
• Conducting SBP’s debut concert in 2009
  
• Read a silly little article posted about me at work in 2000.
• I was one of four conductors in Redwood Symphony’s performance of Ives’s 4th symphony in 1998. See a photo. Read the review .

Oboe / English Horn

I play oboe and English horn in Redwood Symphony and often in various other groups. Here’s a fairly complete list:

• Redwood Symphony
• Nova Vista Symphony
• Peninsula Symphony
• Master Sinfonia
• Palo Alto Philharmonic
• Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra

Here are some video and audio clips:

• Playing Star Wars in a Star Trek costume
  
• Playing oboe and (pre-recorded) piano
  Diana Keech’s Scherzo Rondoso (excerpt). I’m playing oboe and pre-recorded digital piano here, at a Fall 1999 HP Symphony concert, in what is believed to be the world-premier recording of this piece.

Find more audio and video clips here.

Web Design

I currently manage the following web sites (not including this one):

• Redwood Symphony
• South Bay Philharmonic
• Gianera Villas Home Owners Association

Typography

I design and typeset the concert programs for Redwood Symphony and the South Bay Philharmonic. For many years I helped produce marketing materials for Redwood Symphony as well.

Once upon a time, I was the typographer for Inforum, an internal publication of Agilent Laboratories.

Here is an old piece I wrote on Typography for Scientific and Business Documents.