Theme Park Attraction Design & Special Effects

• Universal Studios Singapore
  
  
  • - Site Acceptance Test Director for show equipment Installation and Site
      Acceptance buy-off per Universal Studeios General Performance
      Specifications for the WaterWorld and Journey to Madagascar attractions.
  • - Project Manager overseeing a Los Angeles based Turn-Key Vendors
      Operations and Scheduling.
  
  
• Universal Studios Hollywood - Simpson's and Mummy Attractions
  
  
  • - Created the USH Simpson’s ride vehicle as-built motion base drawing package as well as an “as-built” drawing
      package for the USH BTTF vehicle motion base.
    
  • - Performed “Blue Sky” feasibility design studies for the USH “Dervish” project.
  • - Designed the Simpson’s “Kwik-E-Mart” store. Facade and Interior Show Elements.
    
  • - Created the Simpson’s plaza drawing package from artist input.
    
  • - Designed the Simpson’s “Photo-Op” Kiosks.
    
  • - Designed the Simpson’s Projection Booth light block covers, with opening lens adjustment access doors.
    
  • - Designed the Simpson’s Ride Vehicle Control console.
    
  • - Designed the Revenge of the Mummy attraction’s maintenance area track intrusion gate and sensor assembly.
    
    
• Universal Studios Japan - WaterWorld, Jaws, Back to the Future, and Terminator 2
  
  
  • - Managed three WaterWorld Attraction Show Action Equipment contracts, Special Effects Packages, three
      WaterWorld Show Boats, and designed a new USJ WaterWorld Seaplane.
    
  • - Supervised Seaplane 3 construction.
    
  • - Recommended Design considerations for the “Jaws” attraction boats.
    
  • - Designed the rear section of the “Back to the Future” ride vehicle.
    
    
• Universal Studios Hollywood
  
  
  • - Designed Universal Studios Hollywood “WaterWorld Seaplane 1”.
  • - Designer and Project Manager for the Universal Studios Hollywood “WaterWorld Seaplane 2”.
  • - Designed the Apollo 13 ride track and vehicle (design dropped and replaced by the “Twister attraction).
  • - Designed the “Terminator 2” ride track and vehicle drive carriage, design used for USH, USF and USJ.
  • - Designed the USH Jurassic Park “Car Drop” body, chassis, articulating mount arm, the rear wheel pneumatic
      drive system, and the Ford Explorer body (fiberglass reproduction), bumper and headlight mounting systems.
  • - Designed the USH Jurassic Park “Car Drop” body, chassis, articulating mount arm, the rear wheel pneumatic
      drive system, and the Ford Explorer body (fiberglass reproduction), bumper and headlight mounting systems.
  
  
• Universal Studios Florida
  
  
  • - Managed the design of the USF Islands of Adventure “Pteranadon Flier” ride system.
  
  
• Walt Disney Imagineering
  
  
  • - Managed the design of the Disneyland “Light Magic” show vehicles.
  • - Managed the design of the Disneyland “Rocket Rods” ride track.
  • - Design team leader and construction supervisor for the Disney/MGM Studio Tours and California Adventure “Twilight Zone Tower of Terror” ride vehicles.
  • - Designed the Anaheim & Tokyo Disneyland Toon Town “Roger Rabbit’s Car-Toon Spin” ride vehicle and ride
      track.
  • - Designed the ride track design concept drawings for the Euro Disneyland “Little Mermaid” ride system.
  • - Managed the Design and Drafting department.
  • - Designed the Walt Disney World “Splash Mountain” flume and ride track steel.
  • - Designed the Walt Disney World “Splash Mountain” station conveyors and the pre-lift conveyors.
  • - Designed the Walt Disney World “Splash Mountain” ride track chain lift troughs.
  • - Managed the design of the Walt Disney World “Splash Mountain” steel components used at water intakes.
  • - Designed all audio mounting systems for WDW’s “Muppets Theater” and “Honey, I Shrunk the Audience”
      attractions.
  • - Redesigned all Disneyland dark ride vehicle chassis and lap bar systems for use at Euro Disneyland.
  • - Designed the Tokyo Disneyland “Splash Mountain” counterweighted store window.
  We offer complete design services from start to finish. Our areas of expertise include:
  Generating proposals, cost estimating, budgeting, scheduling, concept design, attraction design and development as well as mechanical engineering.
  We also assist clients with product development, field engineering, project and vendor management, manufacturing supervision, construction and installation supervision, testing and quality control. We conduct both foreign and domestic business.

Highlights of Commercial Product Design Experience