Detailed Curriculum Vitae – Harry Mathias Harry Mathias +1 805 379-9003
[email protected] 1060 South 3rd Street, Apt 216 San Jose, CA, 95112 USA Education San Francisco State University: Bachelor of Arts Degree in Radio, Television, Film. 1968 San Francisco State University: Masters of Arts Degree in Creative Arts Interdisciplinary Studies, 1968 to 1974, with a degree emphasis in: Film Production, Broadcast TV Production, Broadcast Engineering, Drama, and Computer Graphic Systems Design. San Francisco State University, Graduate Teaching Assistant for Dr. Richard Marsh, PhD in Communications Theory and Far Eastern Religions for 2 semesters. While a student at SFSU, I directed the first production of Samuel Beckett’s 1965 TV drama Eh Joe. Eh Joe, a piece for television, written by Samuel Beckett who was present at my video taping in 1966. The first English broadcast was broadcast eventually on BBC2 (4th July 1967) with Jack MacGowran, for whom the play was specifically written, playing Joe. Samuel Beckett is world famous for writing the play: Waiting for Godot and many other works. While a Graduate student, I received a grant from IBM to do advanced engineering research experiments that resulted in the first practical computer generated film production images. My research project resulted in a practical system for producing these images, and this was used to create commercially broadcast computer images for CBS and PBS Network Broadcasts. Various Other Classes: Numerous training courses and technical certification. Including, but not limited to: • Eastman Kodak’s Lab Manager Class (I was the only person, who was not a film laboratory manager, to ever graduate from this training program.) • DreamWeaver HTML and XTML code writing toolsets training.