Christopher Hurwitz

415-731-5877
1032 Irving St, #232
San Francisco, CA, 94122-2200
peachy@alumni.caltech.edu
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~peachy



SHORT TERM OBJECTIVE
Freelance consulting work in the fields of writing, film, WWW authoring, computer graphics, and multimedia.


LONG TERM OBJECTIVE
The evolution of mutually beneficial partnerships which further my pursuit of media production, novel and screenplay publication, digital sound sculpting/music, and film direction.


EDUCATION
B.S., Engineering and Applied Science
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
June 1990
GPA: 3.5


WORK EXPERIENCE

Writer, 1995-present

The bulk of my resume details my technical career. As such, it overlooks my passion for artistic creation. In early 1995, I stepped away from my established career to pursue a variety of writing projects: essays, short stories, novels, and screenplays. I am currently focusing on my first novel.


Freelance Consultant, 1995-present

To fund my writing time, I work periodically as a freelance consultant. In this realm, I have developed a congenial contracting relationship with Red Sky Interactive. Over the past two years, I have logged over a thousand hours on various projects.


Morgan Interactive, Vice President, Engineering, 1993-1995
Technology lead at edutainment CD-ROM development firm.

Morgan Interactive Multimedia Engine
Led development of realtime, multitasking, multimedia engine in C++.
The engine was designed to handle the flow of parallel streams of realtime media using a plug and play, object-oriented, component based architecture.
Long term goal involved using the engine as an interface to an online, interactive, edutainment world for children.

Edutainment Multimedia Authoring
Authoring, optimization, and CD-ROM mastering for Director based multimedia titles for Macintosh and Windows



SimGraphics Engineering, Software Engineer, 1991-1993
Computer Graphics programming for Virtual Reality related applications on high end SGI workstations.

VActor Performance Animation System
Software development of digital puppetry system which allow actors to control computer generated, digital puppets directly with his or her facial muscles.
Travel to remote locations, including Japan and Germany,to manage formal VActor productions.
Design and implementation of VActors for commercial clients.

VRW, Virtual Reality Workbench
Revised and expanded functionality of realtime, 3D, CAD assembly testing environment.



Hero Locations, Location Scout, 1990-1991
Hunted sites for commercials and videos as a freelance location scout in Hollywood.



SOFTWARE SKILLS
Web Authoring: HTML, CGI, forms, and image maps. Learning Java and Perl.
Media Tools: Director 5.0,  After Effects 3.0,  Premiere 4.0,  Pixar Typestry 2.1.1,  Photoshop 3.0,  DeBabelizer 1.5.5,  SoundEdit 16,  Deck II
Internet Tools: Netscape, Eudora, FTP, Telnet, Archie, Gopher
Environments: SGI, HP/UX, X/Motif, Macintosh, Windows 95/3.1, DOS
Languages: C++, C, Pascal, BASIC, Unix shell scripting, Director Lingo
Miscellaneous: Internet fluency.
CD-ROM authoring/mastering.
3D Rendering, Lighting, and Modeling techniques.
Algorithmic texture generation.


CONSULTING EQUIPMENT

Macintosh 6100AV, CD-ROM, 14.4 modem, 1GB internal, 2x730MB Joule portable drives
Gateway 2000 486/66, CD-ROM


ACTIVITIES
Ultimate Frisbee, SCUBA, Photography


REFERENCES
Paul Smith, Red Sky Interactive, 415-421-7332
Dave Wallace, formerly of SimGraphics Engineering, 415-621-0126
Dr. Alan H. Barr, Caltech Graphics Dept, 818-395-2825