Presenter: Jerry Suppan

In this era of exponential growth of digital images and video, how do we go about processing and maintaining such voluminous data in our own personal collections?  It surely seems like such multimedia data is overwhelming and in a continuous state of exponential growth with no end in sight! The key is to devise a system by which we control our multimedia data rather than the data controlling us. Jerry will present concepts and processes he employs to deal with this phenomenon.  Hopefully his ideas and strategies in dealing with voluminous data might have some peripheral spinoff and benefit for application to the audience’s own multimedia collections.

With the Photo Imaging Expo (PIE) 2010 coming up soon, as a bonus topic, he will also talk briefly about considerations for purchasing digital video and imaging equipment based on personal desire, need, and budget.

If you carry a camera around as readily as you do a mobile phone, or you are thinking about purchasing one in the near future, or upgrading existing equipment as Jerry intends to do, then this presentation is definitely for you. He believes there will be something for everybody to gain some concepts and education as food-for-thought to carry back with you.

Jerry Suppan was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. After a 3-year stint in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which included a year and a half in Vietnam, he returned to the Chicago area to attend junior college. There he majored in engineering while concurrently working in airline ground operations. Through an internal company transfer to Honolulu, Hawaii, he continued to work for the airlines while attending the University of Hawaii, graduating in Japanese language studies. Since coming to Japan in 1982, he is now a permanent resident of Japan.

Jerry has worked in a diversity of corporate environments. To name some, he provided Windows network support in the financial industry, did translation services for U.S. military intelligence, and also was a sales representative for promotion of Hitachi consumer electronic products in the U.S. military market in Japan. Presently he freelances in entrepreneurship and investments....activities which involve education, talent productions, online selling, and offshore FX trade investments.

http://www.gallery.suppan.net
http://picasaweb.google.com/tokyojerry
http://tokyojerry.smugmug.com

TIME: Doors open at 6:30, with the meeting getting underway at 7 pm.

COST: Members free, non-members 1000 yen at the door.

VENUE: The meetings are held in the basement of the Tokyo Union Church ,
(map) http://www.tokyopc.org/venue/omote_map.html ,
on Omotesando Dori, a short walk from the A-1 exit of theOmotesando subway station on the Ginza, Hanzomon, and Chiyoda Lines.
We hope you can make it to the meeting.  For those who can’t, please join us at Shakey’s down the street after 9 pm.