“Gary played a key role in training team members on the legacy authoring tools and publishing environment, and also in migrating and updating hundreds of legacy articles to DITA, setting up the team for success in a massive content migration project. Gary has an innate drive to learn and grow. So he takes on any new writing project with enthusiasm and a "can-do" attitude, taking the initiative to research and test the subject so that he understands the target audience and their information needs better. He breaks down complex subjects to make them more easy to digest. He is the first person to volunteer for an assignment, and tenaciously works until the work is delivered on time. He is reliable and kind, and I strongly recommend him for any content development team.”
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As a tech writer and illustrator, I've created documentation, user guides, procedures…
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University of Pennsylvania
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Activities and Societies: Photo editor of yearbook.
I majored in English and minored in science. {4 years as an undergrad plus 1 semester additional graduate work in science and med school lab.} This prepared me well for tech writing, especially since I already had a strong science background (I had an amateur radio license at age 11 and a commercial license at age 13).
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Agile Training Bootcamp
Cprime Learning
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Founder and President/Board Member Emeritus
Angel Flight West
Health
I was one of a half dozen or so founders. We defined the organization, signed up volunteers, promoted free medical flights to hospitals so they could offer them to patients in need, raised funds, and helped grow the organization. I bowed out of active involvement on the board after over 10 years to make room for others to further grow it. Now Angel Flight caries tens of thousands of patients and family members a year.
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iBooks Author - The Definitive Guide
iTunes Store
An eBook for reading on an iPad, created with Apple's iBooks Author software and explaining how to use that software. I wrote the copy. Illustration, layout and final production were handled by Trailer Park after my departure.
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The Sound Reinforcement Handbook
Hal Leonard Publishing (for Yamaha)
This book is now long in the tooth, yet it still manages to sell and be widely appreciated. A text in many audio schools, it explains the basics of how sound systems work and how to set them up. It was written quite a while ago, so there is little discussion of modern digital audio equipment as that was only just beginning to appear when this was published.
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System and Method for Dynamic Note Assignment for Musical Synthesizers
Issued US 7,728,213
An embodiment of the invention creates a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of instrument voices available to be sounded by said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the sound of a live orchestra or other ensemble. The method includes the steps of building an array based on the number of notes to be played and the number of instrument voices available to play such notes, and allocating notes to the…
An embodiment of the invention creates a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of instrument voices available to be sounded by said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the sound of a live orchestra or other ensemble. The method includes the steps of building an array based on the number of notes to be played and the number of instrument voices available to play such notes, and allocating notes to the voices pursuant to algorithmic determination. As notes are released or newly played, all notes are dynamically reassigned to instrument voices so that, to the extent practicable, all channels play almost all the time. Additional methodology provides for correct assignment of notes across multiple different sections (or types) of instruments for purposes of real time orchestration.
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Microphone Bleed Simulator
Issued US 7702116
The invention is a microphone bleed simulator which processes the audio signals recorded with one spot microphone and one room mic (or one spot mic alone) and simulates the sound that would be created in a typical studio recording environment wherein multiple spot microphones and multiple room microphones distributed throughout that environment all pick up sounds from any given sound source. Such multiple microphone contributions to the mixed sound are what imbue actual recordings with much of…
The invention is a microphone bleed simulator which processes the audio signals recorded with one spot microphone and one room mic (or one spot mic alone) and simulates the sound that would be created in a typical studio recording environment wherein multiple spot microphones and multiple room microphones distributed throughout that environment all pick up sounds from any given sound source. Such multiple microphone contributions to the mixed sound are what imbue actual recordings with much of their characteristic sound quality and sense of realism, and what make recordings of ensemble instruments sound as though the players were performing together in one place. The system and method of the invention artificially simulates this natural microphone bleed and provides the means to create scaleable, realistic multi-channel sound mixes in formats such as stereo, 5.1 and 7.1 surround. The invention is particularly well suited to processing sampled or synthesized sound.
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System and Method for Dynamic Note Assignment for Musical Synthesizers
Issued US 7,109,406
The invention is a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of channels of said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the orchestration of a live orchestra. The method includes the steps of selecting a note/channel assignment table corresponding to the number of notes to be played and the number of channels allocated to the playing of such notes, and assigning notes to the channels pursuant to the assignment…
The invention is a method and system for assigning notes to be played by a musical synthesizer to a predetermined number of channels of said musical synthesizer, so that the musical synthesizer may emulate the orchestration of a live orchestra. The method includes the steps of selecting a note/channel assignment table corresponding to the number of notes to be played and the number of channels allocated to the playing of such notes, and assigning notes to the channels pursuant to the assignment table. The number of channels would typically be the same as the number of instruments in the orchestra section being emulated As new note events occur, notes are dynamically reassigned to channels so that, to the extent practicable, each channel plays a single note at a time.
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