• 3D model and speech-animate in Poser - Mimic - Studio 3 software a female avatar as per client's requirements.
• Video edit, compress and integrate 'Kora' avatar (for VSDN - Digislide) in Powerpoint presentation.

2010 - Holographic Installation, Deja Vu Exhibition of Holographic Art and Stereoscopic 3D, Vancouver, Canada

Responsibilities:

·         Venue selection, technical installation, laser and white-light illumination of holograms, maintenance of facilities and hardware for duration of exhibition

2010 - Stereoscopic 3D film producer - director - stereographer, independent productions in   HD 3D, Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Produce, location manage, co-ordinate production.
• Write scenario and screenplay, and cast actors.
• Arrange vendors, select stereo 3D rig and test quality.
• Direct and shoot HD 3D films as per scenario requirements.
• Conform and edit material; present results as required.

2010-2009 – Project Designer and lead, Sonora Technologies,  B.C., Canada

Responsibilities:

• Write script and record audio-video of avatar content in video shoot; edit and prepare all video material extending linked content.
• 3D model and speech animate in SR browser environment a female avatar as per client' s requirements.
• Design and produce speech-interactive avatar 'Sonora' for Sonora Technologies Inc., Canada, for presentation at B.C. Showcase, 2010 Winter Olympics, Vancouver, Canada.
• Code all html and JavaScript browser content for avatar environment.
• Supervise 3D modeling and animation for 'Sonora' avatar.
• Install and de-bug all software / hardware for kiosk presentation of avatar content and speech-interactive media.

2009-2007 – Producer-director-project lead, pulsed holography, independently produced at Laser Reflections, Las Vegas, NV, and Los Angeles, CA

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing leased studio, design and produce pulsed master transmission holograms of human and sculptural subjects with GEOLA pulsed laser and holocamera.
• Create a three-series body of pulsed hologram and sculptural works that was exhibited in 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.
• Make white-light transmission transfers of master holograms as study for future installations.

2006 - 2002 Distinctions:

• 'Classic Suite', a four-piece set of interferometric holograms by Al Razutis, is feautured on the cover of 'Basics of Interferometry' (2nd edition 2006) P. Hariharam, Academic Press.
• Invited to present a retrospective of film, video, stereoscopic 3D video  at Seoul Net and Film Festival (SENEF, 2004), Seoul, Korea, and the Electronic Media Arts Festival (SENEF), Seoul, Korea (2004).
• Invited to present a retrospective of film, video, performance with VR  at Electronics Media Arts Festival (EMAF, 2002), Osnabruch, Germany (2002).

OTHER EXPERIENCE

2011-1996 - Web-Master and Web graphics artist, Visual Alchemy, Los Angeles, CA, Saturna, Canada

Responsibilities:

• Create content and layout and manage web sites for cultural, corporate, foundation, scientific, and entertainment clients  with client-driven designs (eg. SIPOA.ca, AnnePopperwell.com, Saturnarec.org, LosZacatitos.net, RobertaBooth.com,. Spindulys.com, Jane Fontana, Los Angeles, CA;   American Museum of Beat Art, Los Angeles, CA;     Hi-Q Industries, Arcadia, CA; SACOR Inc., Los Angeles, CA.) 
• Create all graphics elements, e-commerce, 3D displays, HTML and VRML design-programming, audio and video displays, interactive PDF forms, quick-time VR and Ipix walk-throughs, biographic libraries and resources.  Domain registration, server configuration, file update management. 
• Produce internet web sites featuring experimental use of video and dynamic content, Virtual Reality (VRML 2.0) - Commissioned sites include VRML elements  for 6DOS: The Library for Bell Northern - Nancy Paterson, and Uroboros VRML 2.0 for Banff Center, Alberta.

2001-2000 - Head of Virtual Reality and Animation,  Mission Corporation, Bellevue, WA

Responsibilities:

• Created and headed Web Graphics - 3D Animation - Virtual Reality department at Bellevue, WA. start-up company.
• Oversee budget, hardware aquisitions, hiring, and workflow as department head reporting to the CEO.
• Successfully conduct R&D and product development in speech-interactive VR avatar with set-top box technologies.
• Manage staff of 2D graphics artists, Flash animators, web-designers, 3D (Max and Maya) modelers and animators, virtual reality and speech-recognition artists. 
• Laiason with software and hardware development departments with priorities for avatar set top box development and demos.
• Manage technical designs, production, quality control, and schedules for creation of prototype interfaces and demonstration displays.
• Supervise demo development and presentations in Bellevue WA, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1999-1995 - Documentary Video and Stereoscopic 3D Video producer-director, independent productions,  Los Angeles, CA, Vancouver, Canada

Responsibilities:

• Writing, producing, directing, cinematography, stereoscopy, editing, and visual FX on all independently produced stereoscopic 3D films.

1999-1995 Distinctions:

• (1999 - 1995) Received four awards from the Shearwater Foundation to produce and direct a series of video and DVD documentaries on west-coast holographic artists.
• (1999 - 1996) Produced and directed innovative and award-winning Stereoscopic-3D videotapes which received top awards at Southern California Stereo 3D Film Festivals
• Invited to present self-authored stereoscopic 3D video  program of video art at the Louvre, Paris, France (1997)

1994 – Writer, ‘Laser Lab’, Secondary Education Physics Handbook, Hi-Q Products, Arcadia,  USA.

Responsibilities:

• Research and write all content for handbook on holography and lasers for secondary school physics classes.
• Prepare and test experiments for laboratory component of book.
• Edit and confirm contents of book with external evaluators.

1993-1991 – Installation Lead, ‘Images in Time and Space’, touring holographic works exhibition, Pasadena and Burbank, USA.

Responsibilities:

• Manage staff for installation and exhibition of large collection of holographic works.
• Supervise all construction and installation of lights, holograms, supporting structures for display.
• Maintain exhibition in excellent condition during the duration of shows.
• Supervise closing and packaging of exhibition for storage.

1987-1978 - Professor - Educator, Centre for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Associate Professor (Tenured) and Head of Film-Video program.

Responsibilities:

• Create and develop new curriculum in film production, video production, film studies, film analysis and film theory at the undergraduate level.
• Oversee film and video production by students, deliver evaluations, and oversee film studies curriculum at the undergraduate level as senior member of academic department.
• Take lead in hiring, budgets, curriculum and administration, and teaching of selected courses (film production, video production, screenwriting, critical studies, special topics workshops, including holography) in four-year undergraduate program.
• Oversee student productions in stereoscopic 3D film; oversee the public presentation of these works by developing projection and screen technology.
• (Resigned in 1987 to pursue independent production.)

1986 – Chair of Practical Holography Panel, SPIE Conference, Practical Holography, Los Angeles

Publication:

• ‘Bride stripped bare: on the problems of interpretation of holographic art', Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), Practical Holography II, T.H. Jeong (Ed.), Vol. 747, pp. 84-89. 1987.
• ‘Art and Holography’, invited paper, Canadian Holography Conference,1986, Ottawa, Canada.

1985  - Holography Instructor, Directed Studies and Physics course,  Simon Fraser University, Canada

Responsibilities:

• Curriculum design, lectures, lab demonstrations, and evaluation of student work in basic holography.

1986-1984 - Publisher and Editor, 'Wavefront' holography magazine and 'Opsis' Journal of Avant-Garde and political Cinema., Vancouver, BC

Responsibilities:

• Write articles and edit materials from contributors to the magazine.
• Coordinate activities between editors, contributors and designers of each issue of the publication.
• Supervise external vendors, all financial aspects, accounts, and technologies required for publication of magazine.

1985  - Artist in Residence, Fringe Research, Toronto

Responsibilities:

• Interferometric hologram mastering and multi-color white-light transmission hologram transfers using S. Benton techniques.
• Perform all required calculations, tests, and evaluations for generating and transfering interferometric holograms.
• This work has been internationally exhibited.

Education

1967 California Western Univ. - BA, Majors:  Chemistry, Physics; Minors: Mathematics, Biology (Cum Laude)

1968 Univ. of California, Davis - (graduate fellowship - PhD program): Nuclear Chemistry. (Resigned)

Associations

International 3D Society, Member

Society for Information Display (SID), Member.

Citizenship:  USA, Canada