Timothy D. Mills
Geiger Engineers
 
  PositionPrincipal, Geiger Gossen Hamilton Campbell Engineers, PC
Project Manager, Systems Manager, Design and Software Engineer.
 
  EducationPratt Institute, New York, New York
Mechanical Engineering
 
  Career
Synopsis
Tim Mills started working as a software engineer for Geiger Associates in 1980. Previously he was a Senior Lab Technician at Creare Engineering. He became Systems Manager for Geiger Associates in 1982. Tim has been a Design Engineer and Systems Manager for Geiger Engineers since the firm was founded in 1988. He became a principal of the firm in 1995.
 
  Project
Experience
Principal in Charge of:
  • Phantom of the Opera Structural Systems, Installations at Various US cities.
  • Dodge Minivan Flying Effects for Introduction Gala, Las Vegas,NV
  • NBC Reusable Olympic Studio Structures for the 2002 Olympics, Sydney, Australia.
  • Various Application Reviews for Large Touring Stadium Stages for Stageco.
  • Various Application Reviews for Large Touring Stadium Stages for Brown United.
  • Hydraulically actuated Automated Mobile Stage Unit.
  • HERCULES Premiere, New York, New York
  • NBC SPORTS Set at the World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA.
  • Super Bowl JumboTron® Tower, Sun Devil Stadium, AZ
Project Manager & Design Engineer For:
  • Atlantic City Historical Convention Center Stage Grid, Atlantic City, NJ
  • Cadillac Tour '96 , USA, Mobile Venue
  • 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Opening & Closing Ceremonies Consulting, Atlanta, GA
  • Automated Mobile Stage Unit
  • Automated Arena Floor Changing System Development
  • Skyline -Cybersport Arena, 42nd Street NY,NY
  • POCAHONTAS Premiere in Central Park, New York, NY
  • Yumi Matsutoya 1995 Tour, Stage Structure.
  • NBC Today Show Set, New York, NY
  • Jumbotron™ Touring Deployment Tower System.
  • Legends of Soccer Tour '93, Robotic Goalie Machine.
  • Genesis We Can't Dance Tour 1992, Stage & Special Effects
  • Yumi Matsutoya 1993 Tour, Stage and Effects.
  • World Youth Day 93, Papal Stage at Mile High Stadium, Denver, CO.
  • Miss Saigon , Road Production Effects.
  • Phantom of the Opera , Road Production Effects
  • Octos , eight-occupant human powered scuplture.
  • Metamorphosis , Sculpture, Osaka, Japan.
  • Magic Garden , Sculpture, Osaka, Japan.
  • Phil Collins '94 World Tour
  • Pink Floyd, Flying Effects, For "Momentary Lapse of Reason" Tour.
Design Engineer or Analyst For:
  • Peng Hu Community Center, Peng Hu , Taiwan, R.O.C.
  • Giants Stadium Dome Study, Meadowlands Sports Complex, E. Rutherford, New Jersey
  • Entertainment Show Rigging, USAir Arena, Landover, MD
  • Tropicana Field (formerly the Florida Suncoast Dome), St. Petersburg, FL
  • Tropicana Field Entertainment Rigging, St. Petersburg, FL
  • Phil Collins Stage Set, 1990 World Tour
 
  Professional
Experience
  • Manage and perform hardware modifications, upgrades, maintenance, diagonosis and repairs on PRIME minicomputer and peripherals and all personal computer workstations.
  • Specified and installed a multiplexed high speed voice/data office LAN system.
  • Specified and installed a multi-user LAN based PC architectural CAD system.
  • Designed, fabricated and operated a digital data acquisition hardware system for a turbo-machinery laboratory.
Software Designer and Programmer of:
  • Complete generic engineering operating environment for structural and mechanical analysis packages. System fully utilizes current state of the art windowing systems, and mathematical and graphics libraries.
  • Interactive Office Management System consisting of project budgeting/management/performance, manpower allocations/projections, timesheet accounts payable with general ledger posting.
  • Interactive three-dimensional input software for use with a two-dimensional digitizing graphics tablet.
  • Data acquisition system for laboratories that collects data from various instrumentation and preprocesses for input into engineering analysis packages.
  • Operator software for a fluid-turbo machinery laboratory that graphically represents sampled data during testing of prototype machinery.
 
  Computer
Language
Fluency
  • C and C++ (Object oriented subset of C).
  • PASCAL and OBJECT PASCAL.
  • Various Object Class framework libraries for Macintosh and MicroSoft Windows.
  • FORTRAN.
  • ASSEMBLER for PRIME and various microprocessors.
 
  Computer
Hardware
Experience
IBM PC and Apple Macintosh, PRIME and VAX minicomputers, CRAY 1, and CDC CYBER mainframes.