I've been doing game audio all my professional life and can't imagine doing anything else. I'm enthralled by the creative, compositional challenges, the technical issues and the business challenges. It's a tremendously exciting time to be in the industry. Since I started in 1987, I've witnessed (and helped transform ) the industry go from "bleeps and bloops" to the current surround sound, high-power, high-fidelity systems we have today.I was honored to have been the recipient of the Game Audio Network Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008, and inducted into the Pinball Expo Hall of Fame in 2017. I was also quite surprised when I discovered that the band, The Pixies, had covered one of my video game compositions (Theme from NARC) and released it on two of their CD’s.I thoroughly enjoy sharing knowledge and experience about the industry—it was a staple of my 10 years at Microsoft. I created GameSoundCon in 2009: to help educate the next generation of interactive composers and sound designers and have grown it into the largest professional conference on game music, sound design and virtual reality audio in the worldA few other projects I’ve been involved in:- Composer/Sound Designer for approx 150 arcade and video games for companies including EA, Sega, Data East, Namco, Capcom and Digital Dreams Entertainment- 3D audio Consultant for the Mixed Reality company, Magic Leap- Consultant for Microsoft helping design the Xbox One Audio System -Primary architect for Xbox audio system (also did the “Boot Sound”) -Primary architect for Xbox 360 audio system -Architect for “XACT” among the earliest game audio design tools and the XMA audio compression format-Designer of BSMT2000, arcade game sound chip-Designer of QSound’s Q1 3D Sound chip for arcade chips-Assistant to film and jingle composer John TatgenhorstI also am inventor on about 25 patents in audio and game technology.Specialties: Interactive audio technology. Media consulting. Expert witness on game, technology and media issues, music technology,audio technology