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
I’ve conducted the orchestra at Google in Mountain View (now known as the Googler Orchestra) several times.
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’ve played oboe and English horn in various local groups. Here’s a fairly complete list:

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 manage or recently managed the following web sites (not including this one):

South Bay Philharmonic
Redwood Symphony
Gianera Villas Home Owners Association (no longer active)

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.