Timothy D. Mills

Principal, Project Manager, Mechanical Design and Software Engineer, Systems Manager.

Education

Pratt 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:
  • Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, Flying Effects Rigging, Foxwoods Theater, NY, NY.
  • Aqua Theater Lifts-Le Reve Complex, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Graving Dock 2 Retractable Roof Study, Groton, CT.
  • 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 2000 Olympics, Sydney Australia.
  • Various Application Reviews of Large Touring Stadium Stages for Stageco.
  • Various Application Reviews of Large Touring Stadium Stages for Brown United.
  • Hydraulically actuated Automated Mobile Stage Unit.
  • HERCULES Premier, New York, New York.
  • NBC Olympic Studio Structure for the 1996 Olympics, Atlanta, GA.
  • NBC Reusable Olympic Studio Structures for the 2002 Olympics, Salt Lake City, UT.
  • Super Bowl JumboTron® Tower, Sun Devil Stadium, AZ.
Project Manager and Design Engineer For:
  • BC Place Stadium Soccer Screen Deployable Canopy, Vancouver, B.C.
  • Opening Ceremonies of the 2011 Pan American Games, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
  • Carrier Module Outfitting Facility Retractable Roof, Newport News, VA
  • Atlantic City Historic Convention Center Stage Grid, Atlantic City, NJ
  • Cadillac Tour '96 , USA, Mobile Venue.
  • 1996 Centennial Olympic Games, Opening & Closing Ceremonies Consulting, Atlanta, GA.
  • Automated Arena Floor Changing System Development.
  • Skyline -Cybersport Arena, 42nd Street, New York, NY.
  • POCAHONTAS Premier 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, East Rutherford, NJ.
  • 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, diagnosis 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.

Publications

  • Assessing Existing Theater Structures and Rigging Infrastructure for Large Production Demands”, SEI Structures Congress 2011, published by the ASCE, Las Vegas, 2011