As a consultant for many Fortune 100 companies, I solved problems during telephone conversations, brainstorming sessions and extended participation. Invented the first drip coffee maker and first tear-off bottle cap. Chief Architect and Director of the Linganore Design Center designing the award winning new town of Linganore, Maryland My cross disciplines, Architecture and Industrial Engineering at MIT and Taliesin under Frank Lloyd Wright, practiced throughout my career, bring to each field a unique ability to optimize economy while providing form derived from function solutions to design problems. Projects ranged from a simple electric motor brush wear indicator to a large cinema for Beijing. Examples in both fields are available at www.design-lab.com.