Team Members
SYNERGY MOON is unique in that its members personify an eccentric, electrifying merge of the arts and sciences. Our spirit is one of social entrepreneur meets extreme adventurer, approaching the world with the creative drive of an artist and the problem solving skills of an engineer.
Team Founders
Kevin and Nebojša each entered separate teams into the competition, and later, seeing the synergies between their teams, they merged them to form Team SYNERGY MOON.
Team Management
Kevin Myrick
People first went to the moon during my first year in high school (1968), and the last man left the moon during my first year in college (1972). I want to be involved in getting back to the moon, to stay! I am the founder and CEO of InterPlanetary Ventures.
Our Mission and Motto is Getting People Into Space! The Google Lunar X PRIZE provides an excellent opportunity to get people interested and involved once again in space exploration and development.
I am both an artist and a technologist. I have worked as a theatrical technical director, lighting and multimedia designer, and videographer. I also work in Information Technology, experienced in both hardware and software systems. I have a B.Sc. in Computer Science, a Bachelors in Information Technology, working as a Technology Manager, Computer Systems Analyst, Systems and Operations Manager, Applications and Systems Programmer, and Software Development Manager. I took graduate courses in Space Studies at UND. I have over 30 years experience as both Artist and Technologist, I am an alumni member of the US National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).
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Nebojša Stanojević
Born 13.08.1969. in Sarajevo, ex-Yugoslavia, lived in Tuzla till '92. He emigrated to South Africa in '92. because of the war in ex - Yugoslavia. Nebojša Stanojević is an Adventurer, Documentary Filmmaker, Editor, Producer, and a devoted Explorer. Since 1992 until now, he worked as an Producer, Director and Editor on numerous Video Productions for many worldwide events including: Miss World 1993, HH Dalai Lama, Elton John, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Bryan Adams, Natalie Cole, Gipsy Kings, David Copperfield, Africa Aids Concert, President Nelson Mandela's Inauguration Ceremony, etc...
He produced more than 40 Commercials, Music Videos, TV series around the world. From 1997 until 2005 he worked as an Assistant Editor and Editor on several Feature Films. He is supporting non-profit activities regarding Art, Children and Education, as well.
In 2004 he started a project to produce TV Series called Around The World - First Bosnian Expedition. original title: Put Oko Svijeta - Prva BiH Ekpedicija. For that project he sailed from Croatia to Thailand, then Costa Rica, crossing Red Sea and Indian ocean on a 30ft (~9m) sailing Boat. During that period Nebojša produced 24 Episodes which were screened on BHT1 (Bosnian state TV, PBS ). Because of nature of travel and production, often the episodes was aired with a just a few days delay after filming, sort of "Reality Show", which required great deal of coordination and working under time pressure and stress.
Nebojša Stanojević :
"After the war People, especially the youth in my country suffers from the restriction of the freedom to travel, they have hardly opportunities to learn and to understand foreign cultures. Also ethnic groups in my country live very much separated. The aim of this program was to bridge different cultures closer, in my own country and as well to world audience. After filming one episode in a School in Sudan, I got following E-Mail from one little Sudanese boy.
" Thank you so much for the video! I am Sudanese and I immensely appreciate education and how it can uplift you from poverty...
Thank you as you have given me another reason to get up in the morning, Thank you.... "
...To me this is the biggest reward I received so far and he encouraged me with my idea for my new projects."
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Maria Catalina
Maria Catalina specializes in knowledge capture for the development of human capital to facilitate a rise in the competencies of Earth’s first Space Generation. A graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC), in 2000 Maria received a Bachelor Degree in Bionomy (biogeochemistry as it relates to astrobiology) and was credentialed for teaching in a UCSC Master's program. She is a NASA NSCORT Exobiology Fellow, a Honeywell Educator Scholar, took the Northrop Grumman Weightless Flight of Discovery on the Zero G 727, and received the AIAA Outstanding Educator Award in 2010 and 2013 for her work on the broader impacts of space related activities in partnership with academia and commerce. To date, Maria is the first, and so far only, K12 educator to command a rotation at the Mars Society - Mars Desert Research Station (Crew 80) in Utah.
As a function of Maria's mission to address impending space industrialization, she has set the goal of raising the competencies of the workforce in a wide range of disciplines. Starting at the middle school age, Maria provides opportunities to drive the desire for their involvement in the most amazing future in space to ever face a global civilization. She started the Astronaut Teacher Alliance, LLC (ATA); a professional development platform for an international network of middle school teachers that now operates in 15 countries. The mission is for ATA educators worldwide to create their own Spaceport Academy's (SPA). The goal is to initiate a collective global conscience with individuals that are a mere 5 years away from status of adulthood and eligible to vote. The vision is a simultaneous rise of "thinkers" creates a sense of belonging to something important, the move of homo sapiens off planet. The first SPA is in California and composed of middle, high school and undergraduates with designs on the lofty goals of the Google Lunar X Prize for Team Synergy Moon.
Miroslav Ambruš-Kiš
Teaching all grades, journalist, reporter, newspapers editor, graphic design, personal computing pioneer, computing magazines pioneer, PostScript pioneer, art director, adventure traveller, high mountin climber (Himalaya, Andes...), interested in all kind of natural and social sciences, technic, art, portrait and nature photographer, travel and war zones correspondent, future astronaut.
Miroslav Ambruš-Kiš's Specialties:
Integration of different skills to unique products and various genres of presentation, wizard in using creative software of different kinds (Adobe Suite, 3D software, communication tools, photo and video editing, graphic design)
Emir Tanovic
Director of European Operations
Emir Tanovic is CEO of our partner organization The Pleiades Astronomical Society from Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina. He has been an amateur astronomer for over 20 years, and took the helm of the society in 2010. Emir is managing our Tesla Orbital Space Telescope project, which will orbit a micro sized space telescope later this year. We will use this project to build and test our operations and communications systems and procedures. His team is also building our Tesla Prospector rover.
Emir is leading the effort to build an observatory and science center in Tuzla, with the backing of the city and the support of Synergy Moon. He trained as an Electrotechnical Engineer. After seeing our plans for the MoonStake MicroReearchFacility and its companion LunaBot MicroRover, he asked to also lead the team designing that system for us.
Launch Provider Interorbital Systems
Randa Milliron
Interorbital Systems' co-founder, is also the corporation's Chief Executive Officer. Confident in positions of leadership, her professional experience spans the television and film industries, and academia. She has served as a Television News Director and Producer at the US Military Station, AFN Berlin.
For over a decade, Ms. Milliron has taught television production and communication courses at colleges in Europe and America, and is currently on faculty with the University of Phoenix. Randa holds a BA in Psychology and an MA in Linguistics from Duquesne University. An award-winning television director/producer, Randa is in charge of all promotion, marketing and public relations. She is also involved in the aerospace engineering assembly and design, specializing in high temperature composite materials.
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Roderick Milliron
Roderick Milliron is Interorbital Systems Chief Propulsion Engineer and Rocket Systems Designer and President. He is primarily responsible for propulsion system design, overall rocket systems design, and software design. He has more than 23 years of experience in the aerospace industry, primarily in the areas of software development and rocket engine hardware development.
Prior to co-founding Interorbital Systems Corporation, Mr. Milliron co-founded Cyberplex Systems, an engineering application software development company. From 1979-1984, Mr. Milliron was a Radar Systems Engineer at Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Bethpage, New York. At Grumman, he was involved in Airborne Early Warning (AEW) tracking algorithm and software development. He also worked on passive detection system (PDS) algorithm and software development as well as an interactive Battlefield Simulator. Between 1984-1987, he was a Software Systems Engineer at General Dynamics Corporation in Pomona, California. At General Dynamics, he was involved in software development for various terrestrial and space surveillance projects. His extensive software engineering experience is currently being applied to the development of a novel low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU), guidance system software, and various rocket control system software. Roderick has also been independently designing, building and testing liquid rocket engines and space launch vehicles for the past 20 years. He has also taught Chemistry at California State University, Los Angeles, and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Roderick is a frequent guest speaker at national and international space conferences.
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Telecommunications
Marc Posen
Mark Posen is the Managing Director and Principal Consultant of RPC Telecommunications Ltd. in the UK and Director and Principal Consultant of RPC Telecommunications Asia Pacific Pty. Ltd. in Australia. He has substantial professional experience in the satellite telecommunications industry since 1983.
Prior to going into the private consulting business, Mark was an engineering manager with British Telecommunications PLC where he held a number of posts including Head of Satellite Systems Consulting Group and Satellites and Lines Development Advisor.
He is very experienced in the interference management, international and national regulation and frequency coordination of satellite telecommunications networks. He is an expert on the Radio Regulations and associated procedures of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and, on behalf of a number of national telecommunications administrations, has been responsible for making and coordinating ITU satellite filings and providing representation at an international level. Mark Posen is a Chartered Engineer, listed on the professional register of the UK Engineering Council and is a Corporate Member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers.
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Gerard Auvray
Gerard Auvray is a French electronics engineer and for my hobby I build amateur satellites. This last 2 years he was president of AMSAT-F. In 1993 he was responsible of the payload of the satellite ARSENE launched by Ariane. In 1997, 1998 and 1999 he built the 3 small replicas of Spoutnik launched during EVA from MIR.
IN 2002 , they launch 2 payloads from the third stage of an Ariane Rocket. Today, he is building a solar sail named Libellule (Dragonfly). Gerard also supports 2 french project of student picosatellites.
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Ted Green
Ted Green aka TheGotWifiCowboy is world known for global wireless developments, where he and his group create wireless networks spanning counties to countries for governments, municipalities , internet service providers, content providers and media firms.
Green has had articles written in Taylor Press , Elgin Courier , Bastrop Advertiser, Giddings Times, The Lexington Leader, and Channel 5 News Cable over his leading wireless technology, rural technology projects and local community wireless network accomplishments. Green, a pioneer in wireless technology (WLAN), Internet service provider (ISP) and network deployments across rural Texas, is also the inventor of MobileMesh. Green still serves as a technology advisory for technology groups, incubators, start-ups, panels, governments and community projects world wide, and is an active IT Ambassador, preserving the global rights to Internet Access.
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Pat Barthelow
From Auburn California, Ham Radio Operator since 1967, WB6ZSB, AA6EG, N6IJ, University Studies in Monterey, and Cal State U Fresno; Surveying/Photogrammetry Now called Geomatics, 4 Year Bachelor Science Program, Earned LSIT; Will bring to Synergy Moon, Existing networks of Large Dishes and their management world wide, Weak Signal Space Communications, from Moonbounce.
Additional Work: Arctic Oceanographic Expedition , From Resolute Canada to Alert, Canada, 82 degrees North Physical Oceanography; Acoustics, US Navy. Additional College Studies, Electronics, Communications, Programming, and Data Acquisition Systems.
Design Consultant:
Underwater Acoustics, Data Collection, On-Board race car Computers, Part of the Team that built the world’s first timing and scoring system ,Indy 500 motor Race and adopted for all races, Indy Car Series
Began Moonbounce communications pursuits, Established Echoes of Apollo moonbounce events, using Large Dishes, first with Jamesburg. World wide publicity, and published Articles, in technical journals Refereed papers, on Moonbounce (Ensenada Mexico) Developed a moonbounce system design, and marketing business (Moon Relay) to integrate large dish Moonbounce operations into STEM programs at University Level, and Moonbounce events which provided real space communications exposure to kids as part of Science outreach programs.
Set up,commissioned, paired with , or operated, Moonbounce dishes,worldwide, including
Jamesburg 30 metre, Arecibo 305 metre , Stanford/SRI, 46 metre , Dwingeloo Holland, 25 metre
Future Moonbounce dish commissions in development, Currently Planning Large Dish Moonbounce commissioning in Mexico, Huntsville Alabama, and Maryland
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Authored Moonbounce Related technical articles, for Amateur Radio Journals world wide
CQ, CQ-VHF, Aviation Week, USA, Czech Republic, and Holland.
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Special Projects
Donnel Perry, Business Development Specialist
Donnel Perry's passion has always been music/entertainment, video games, & Japanese anime. The most important thing to him is to strengthen the mind body & spirit to its maximum capacity. Donnel aspired to be a polymath similar to Leonardo Da Vinci. In his earlier academic years he excelled in sports as a champion sprinter, qualifying for the State wide tournament, and in science, qualifying in city-wide science fairs.
Donnel's online persona via popular social media networks Tagged.com, Myspace.com, & Facebook collectively attracted millions of hits, views, & listens starting from age 13. He home schooled his last year of high school in order to fully pursue his passion of being a professional recording artist & corporate business pioneer. At 18 he founded D.I.S. Global Corp to serve as a central networking base for brand consultation/event coordination, digital/guerilla marketing, & special project management all entrenched around a fully functional and able production company & entertainment label.
Mr. Perry is the brand ambassador of a live broadcasting social media app based out of Fountain Valley, California called Hang W/ (www.hangwith.com) whose investors consist of superstars 50 Cent, Terell Owens, & Timbaland.
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Michael Smith, Business Development Specialist and Eclectic Entrepreneur
Some people say if it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing right. I agree wholeheartedly.
I like to add this: Let's do it right, and let's do it BIG!
Having founded, operated and sold over a dozen successful companies (yes, a few weren't at all successful; a couple didn't even get off the ground), I've come to learn firsthand that it's generally no more effort, and in fact quite often less of one to not just dream big, but to build "big". Fortunately, and equally as important, I have discovered that there is a great group of like-minded entrepreneurs from all over the world, also searching for that big idea and looking to align themselves with it.
To that end, I search for opportunity. Add to that fun, excitement and adventure and I'm IN!
Damn the torpedoes; let's just do it!
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Bipin Agravat, Business Development
Bipin is an innovator, mentor, and educator by nature, technocrat and entrepreneur by profession (information, communication, space technology), and an engineer and manager by educational qualification. He uses observation, imagination, and visionary skills to predict the future project, technology, and startup market (web, mobile, wireless). Above all he is a human being; Productive, Contributive, Creative. His specialties include: innovative product development, team building, plan development, and fundraising for startups, strategic business development, mergers acquisition and expansion, and mentoring and teaching in business management.
He is founder of Willager which engages in technology development in software applications for the web and mobile multimedia. He is founder of SpacecampingIn which engages in space related hands on activity, workshops, competition, and seminars. He is founder of Ability which engages in next generation smart interactive applications that combine text, voice, and interactions to deliver educational communication and content effectively and productively.
Bipin is active in innovative product development: Mobile, Web, and Software. He provides special service to startup companies, incubators, and angel investors for their software needs. He is a winner of 4 multinational awards for his innovation in mobile applications, desktop applications for communication, mobile educational projects for the general public, and innovative uses of voice and text for content deployments.
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Dragan Stiglic, Media Director
With background in computer sciences, applied physics and directing for film & multimedia, Dragan is multidisciplinary high tech creative who uses all possible advantages of technology when creating for film and multimedia, while reaching always for innovative and creative solutions when solving high-tech problems. High energy goal oriented creative with dual science & art background, Dragan was working as a director, previs director, VFX supervisor, high tech consultant and UX designer.
With experience spanning numerous commercial, feature film, games, software, entertainment rides, internet, virtual studio, VR & AR projects, Dragan was influencing various significant developments in both high-tech and entertainment industries.
Dragan invented seed concept for world's first commercial virtual studio technology system at Pixel Control (today Viz-Rt), and co-patented LightWarp lens - world's premiere non-linear-3D-CG lens - empowering full optical control of 3-D layout for stereoscopic and multi-view 3-D productions.
In mid-nineties he created concept and pipeline for premiere commercial virtual studio based production facility, Virtual One, and designed Capscene, at that time a premiere concept for VR-tech-based pre-visualisation that was launched as open-source presentation concept. Later on, when technologies matured, this concept was emulated and used in more or less expanded forms by production and VFX companies world-wide.
Dragan co-designed and assisted integration of latest aero-space high-tech entertainment gig Rocket Racing League. Co-creating both content and technology - based on VR and AR systems, he assisted creation of world's largest virtual pathway in the sky.
Recent focus: UX design and creation of Reversed Augmented Reality concept where live video feeds are contextually super-imposed over animated 3D models of any machine/device and/or industrial process.
With track record in managing or assisting innovative product development with proven success rate, Dragan is responsible for creation of VR and AR systems, resolving multi-disciplinary high-tech problems, as well as creating concepts and animations that will be part of awareness and outreach programs in Team Synergy Moon.
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Rick Maschek, Rocketeer
I started flying around 1961 with an assortment of propellants (match heads, gun powder, zinc/sulfur when I got a copy of Rocket Manual for Amateurs by Captain Brinley and finally my own propellant designs in high school chemistry. Tried my first liquid fueled rocket in the 7-8th grade but a design flaw devastated my mom’s kitchen that ended my EX rocketry until high school. Geology won out over rocketry in college but later became a BAR when I became a science teacher and began having students do Estes kits and then scratch builds gradually getting into HP rocketry and Team America Rocket Challenge (TARC) with my students
My dad worked for Convair and later General Dynamics missile division but I have been interested in rocketry since the early Viking program, a TV show called Men into Space and Alan Shepard caused me to trade in my dinosaur toys (I am a geologist by education)
Got started on the Sugar Shot to Space project by simply volunteering to help recover the rocket or build custom chutes and it has led me to all sorts of cool and interesting facets of the project. It just may help me finish a goal that I thought was an impossibility as a youth because I was too tall for NASA to be an astronaut and thus could never get into space.
Besides casting the Sugar Shot grains, motor assembly, recovery systems and other things tasked to me on the project I am continuing (ever-so-slowly) on my X-15 level III Tripoli project, helping on Jeff Jakob's R-hybrid team, "consulting" on several other projects on the NASA Centennial Challenge and Student Launch Initiatives, the N-Prize, Carmack's Challenge and others, including working with Team Synergy Moon on this Google Lunar X PRIZE.
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Lunar Exploration Technology
Curt Walsh
Lunar Lander Development
Curt Walsh was one of the propulsion engineers for team Phoenicia. This was not his first space related competition. Curt formed team Seraphim Works to build a rocket powered lander and participate in the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. He brings the skeleton of that lander with him to our team, which we will use as a test platform for our lander technology. His engineering knowledge and experience will be invaluable to our team as lead engineer for our lander construction.
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Blaze Sanders
Spacecraft Systems Engineer
Blaze Sanders was the Technical Program Manager for team JURBAN. He is currently the co-founder and CTO of Solar System Express, a New Space company created in August 2010 to enable space settlement, via increased human capability on Earth. The company's product lines include the Gravity Development Board (GDB), a space tolerant, open hardware prototyping board that can sense and control its environment. Blaze is an energetic visionary engineer with the goal to enable the "NewSpace" revolution, enabling sustained space exploration, for both humans and robots.
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Lunar Science and Exploration
Sayandeep Khan
Sayandeep Khan was born on July 22, 1989, in India, in the city Kalyani, province West Bengal. He was raised in a town called Ranaghat, in West Bengal, India. Presently he is an undergraduate college student at Jacobs University in Bremen, Germany.
His interests mostly lie in Particle Dynamics: Classical and Mechanical, Matter Dynamics, Nature and Properties of Energy and Work, Planetary Geoscience, Space Science and finally Cosmology as a whole. He intensively studies all areas of engineering, ornithology, entomology, and exploratory biology.
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Brian White Shiro
Principle Investigator for Lunar Science for Team SYNERGY MOON. Brian is a geophysicist currently working for NOAA in the US. He has a bachelor's degree in geology, physics, and integrated science and a master's degree in earth & planetary sciences, and is working on another master's degree in space studies.
Brian has previously attended the International Space University summer session. Most of his work experience is in geophysics research (basic and applied) including seismology, InSAR, GPS, and exploration geophysics. Brian has extensive field experience installing seismic stations and is very interested in helping set up a new lunar seismic network. "I'm excited about all things related to space exploration and willing to learn new skills to help advance humanity's exploration of its nearest neighbor."
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Technology Development and Mission Operations Systems
Dr. Edin Omerdić, BEng., MEng., PhD.
Simulation and Operations Systems Design.
Edin was born in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1968. Edin has received the Dipl. Eng. and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, in 1997 and 2001 respectively, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Wales, Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom in 2004.
He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Mobile & Marine Robotics Research Group, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include nonlinear ship motion, design of intelligent autopilot for ship control, implementation of neural networks and fuzzy logic in intelligent systems, development and design of fault diagnosis and accommodation system for over-actuated open-frame underwater vehicles, and development and design of guidance, navigation and control system for AUVs.
Edin has just completed his latest project, the MPPT Ring. MPPT Ring is a multipurpose platform product, which enables easy system integration, planning, simulation, training, fault tolerant control, enhanced operator interface, auto enhanced survey execution and offline analysis of subsea operations.
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Anthony Bradley
Born in Wiesbaden Germany, Anthony Bradley grew up overseas and did not reach the USA until my early teens. He entered the Navy where he served as a navigator, rescue swimmer, and sharp shooter. After the military, he moved to Richmond Virginia and became a father. He then began my second phase of public service by joining a local volunteer rescue squad.
His time and training there set the foundation for a career in public safety, beginning with the police department as a communications specialist. After four years of in the local police department, Brian landed his dream job with the fire department where he worked as a Medic/Firefighter/Rescue diver and eventually began to teach in the fire academy. In 2001, after suffering severe and debilitating electrocution injuries while battling a fire, his life changed forever. To try to overcome the pain, he turned to my artwork. To use the phrase that artistic expression "opened the flood gates" is a true understatement. The artwork produced by Gravity Well is inspired by the collective experiences He had over the past 43 years on planet Earth.
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Multimedia Artist
Helena Bulaja
Helena Bulaja was born in Split, Croatia in 1971, and was educated in History of Art and Comparative Literature at Zagreb University.
She worked as an art director, designer and illustrator for various computer magazines, and started her career as a digital artist in 1995.
In 1996 on Salon of the Young Artists in Zagreb, together with Petar Grimani and Zvonimir Bulaja, she exhibited the first interactive Internet installation in Croatia entitled "...lOok ... wwwsculpture ... Freedom in the City or Just an Illusion". Web pages of the project were recommended at Geocities.com, Hotwired.com etc.
In 1997 the project continued on the Salon of Architecture in Zagreb, where she made an Installation ..."lOok"...WWWSCULPTURE ... introducing real space to cyberspace and vice versa - METAPHORS", experimenting with telepresence and urban space improvement through the use of the new technologies. Web pages of the project were presented at Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria, in Net Art selection.
In 1999 with her husband Zvonimir she founded a publishing company 'Alt F4 - Bulaja naklada', which became the leading Croatian multimedia and CD-ROM publishing house. The company had its first success with the edition "Classics of Croatian Literature", a collection of Croatian literature classics in e-book form. The CDs are still national bestsellers.
In 2000 she started the most successful Croatian interactive project: a collection of animated and interactive stories "Croatian Tales of Long Ago", based on a fairytale book with the same title written in 1916 by Ivana Brlić Mazuranic, "the Slavic Tolkien", one of the most famous Croatian literature classics. The project won about 30 international awards and recognitions, at the animation and new media festivals worldwide, including the most important ones (San Francisco, Rio de Janeiro, Montreux, Toronto, Austin, Zagreb, Annecy, Hamburg, Ottawa, Seoul...). Helena gathered together creative teams from Australia, USA, Canada, Germany, France, Russia, England, Denmark and Croatia, and each team transferred one of eight fairy tales from this famous book into the digital world, with complete creative freedom. There were more than hundred people involved in this project: animators, illustrators, musicians, programmers etc. The project was a unique step towards exploring the relation between digital media and traditional, classic literature. It was also done in the unique way, with 8 independent teams of collaborators from all around the world, whose work was coordinated on the Internet. CD-ROMs "Croatian Tales of Long Ago" (Part One and Part Two) were claimed to be the most important project in Croatian animation and cinematography of the decade, of the 21st century etc, by the leading Croatian media.
For this project Helena authored, directed and animated the cartoon "Regoch", awarded at International Family Film Festival 2007 in Hollywood (best foreign short animation), and selected and screened at Euroshorts 2006, Warsaw, Reel Women Film Festival 2007, Los Angeles, AFIA 2007 in Aarhus, Denmark, and Interfilm 2007 in Berlin. At Imagining Ourselves Online Film Festival 2007 in San Francisco "Regoch" was voted second best European short film by the Internet audience.
From 2007 "Bulaja naklada" started a new series of publications based on the project: each tale is to be published as a special "deluxe" edition that includes a book, DVD, CD and other surprises and activities. Helena's design of the first book/package from the series, "Stribor's Forest" based on the cartoon by the Scottish animator Alistair Keddie, is the only book that won two "Kiklop" awards, which is the most prestigeous Croatian book award given at Pula Book Fair: best children book and best design. At the end of 2008 the second pack from the series was released: "Neva" based on the cartoon by Canadian Edgar Beals, with even more innovative concept and design.
Helena's new project - started in 2005 - experimental interactive film "Mechanical Figures - twentythousandcycles.NET" is inspired by Nikola Tesla. The main focus of the project is exploration of the process of creativity. Helena again gathered an impressive team if international authors. The project moves the boundaries of the digital media, in the space between the Internet, film and performance. Being very multidimensional, the project questions and reinvestigates the film as a form of art which is today more and more consumed through handheld and mobile devices, as well as the Internet. Tesla is the main subject of the film not only because of his interesting and intriguing persona, but also because he was an inspiration to many well known artists. So the starting point of the stories are the interviews with artists and creative individuals like Terry Gilliam, Andy Serkis, Laurie Anderson, Marina Abramovic, Christopher Priest, Douglas Rushkoff and many others, and their thoughts will be the origin for creation of a peculiar and distinctive story about the creativity and technology.
From 2005 Helena Bulaja is a member of Zagreb City Council's expert advisory board for new media, urban and alternative culture.
Helena, with her husband Zvonimir, organized and directed very successful festival of "digital creativity" DECro in Zagreb, Croatia, in 2003 and 2005, focused on the creative use of new technologies and digital tools. The festival gathered famous panelists and lectures from the fields of new media, animation and Flash, including one of the most famous Web designers today Joshua Davis.
She is a member of the jury of the Flash animation storytelling festival "The Greatest Story Never Told" in San Francisco from 2003 on.
She was a program director of "Cartoon Night", a special animation program at the fairytale festival Fiabesque in Peccioli, Italy, in January 2007.
As a guest speaker or a panelist she was invited to numerous conferences and universities, among others Brookes University's "Dust or Magic" Conference in Oxford, Bologna Book Fair, Dresden Film Festival's "Exchange Forum", Edit Festival in Frankfurt, and New Media School in Auckland, New Zealand.
Helena lives in Zagreb and is a mother of 4 children.
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Stas Rutkowski
A long-term Internet pioneer and innovator Stas has been instrumental in multiple successful "ahead-of-their time" Internet startups. These have included pre E-Bay Internet auctions, pre Netflix film resource and video rental services and his personally conceived and industry recognized contribution, The Gallery for the Digital Arts which set a goal in 1995 to usher digital art recognition as an important new form of fine art.
Stas also participated in the initial teams with multiple internet technology companies and online businesses with focuses including internet speed optimization, pre google industry web search, multiple online fine arts galleries, wedding gift registries. Stas also has supported members of his spiritually and socially conscious communities with his assistance in the formation and launch of organizations and businesses including new energy and socioeconomic focused non-profits, multiple first year music festivals and global conferences, Costa Rican based Yogic and permaculture communities and a leading collective of permaculture teachers and their global event promotions. Healing, consciousness studies and healing centers have also been a focus of Stas and his clients and he was recognized by The Institute of Noetic Sciences as a Visionary Community Leader. During a 3 year sabbatical from running his design firm, Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees, Stas was Creative Director of the world's fifth largest ad agency for which he created a cutting-edge Internet division. During his 15 years in design, he has garnered clients among leading fortune 500 brands. Among his honors was a global Echo Award for the Direct Marketing launch campaign for Adobe's InDesign 2.0. ALthough technology has played a pivotal role in Stas' career he first and foremost is an artist and focuses on usability and cutting edge design that is both effective and alluring. Stas also has worked as a Video-J artist and contributed live projected VJ arts at Alex Grey's Chapel of Sacred Mirrors and multiple festivals and music events across California and Oregon. Stas currently resides in Oregon and maintains involvement with many of the organizations he was instrumental in the startup phases with and remains on the Board of Advisors of the New Energy Movement a Portland Oregon based Non-Profit promoting advanced, clean and renewable energy technologies.
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Gordana Gredicak Sojat
Gordana and Zorislav Sojat (Shoyat), a married couple from Zagreb, Croatia, started their activity in the areas of light art, light scenography and creative lighting in 2003 in Pula (Croatia), when for the first time they decided to present the results of their years long exploration of light as a artistic medium to the public. In these artistic areas they had a series of solo and collective exhibitions and installations.
Some of Their best collaborations have been with other artists (e.g. Djurdjica Horvat, Dijana Nazor, Ivo Kuzmanic, Toni Horvatic, Kristina Bjelopavlovic, Boris Ljubicic, Matej Mestrovic, Jadranka Hlupic-Dujmusic, Neva Lukic...). They have had an especially fruitful cooperation throughout many years with Mislav Katalinić. They are also authors/co-authors of several artistic-scientific and artistic-spiritual short films. They devote special attention to the interrelation of sciences and arts (art in science and science in art), to multidisciplinarity in sciences and arts and to synaesthesia.
They had more than 50 public exhibitions of their work: on the Split Saloon and in the Diocletian's Cellars in Split, on the Knin Fortress, the Vukovar Promenade, Krk Walls; on the Strossmayer Walkway and the Tower Lotrščak, in the Glyptotheka of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, in the Great Hall of Vatroslav Lisinski, the Klovicevi dvori gallery, on the Rudjer Boskovic Institute... in Zagreb, as well as in Pula, Sibenik, Ljubljana, Zemun, Puttaparthi... Their film and science promotion work was co-financed and presented through several European and Croatian scientific projects. The animated film "Tesla Continuum" was awarded on the "Marie Curie Workshop" in 2006. The spiritual-artistic film “Ganesha” was presented in several places in Andra Pradesh, Karnataka and Kerala (India).
During their work with the light as a medium they also invented several light art devices: the homelight projector, the lightbrush and the lightwell.
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Awareness and Outreach
Team Poet In Residence Gayle J. Greenlea
Gayle J. Greenlea began writing poetry at age eight, inspired by a love of trees which has remained a central theme throughout her life. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, daughter of an Aerospace Engineer and an English Literature Professor, she developed an early appreciation for both Science and the Arts. She now resides in Sydney, Australia, where she works as a professional Counselor and Spiritual Care Practitioner in the health system.
A peace and justice advocate for more than three decades, Gayle has worked to further multicultural and interfaith collaboration, provide care and support in the gay community, promote prevention of violence and sexual abuse and ameliorate healing for survivors. She holds an MDiv in theological studies from Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus Ohio and is recipient of the Anna Seidler Award for Systematic Theology, 1988.
One of her poems was commissioned for the Fair-Well to Violence event in San Antonio, Texas in 1995, and she has written liturgy and presided as Celebrant for gatherings of the National Association of Mental Illness and the National Hispanic Ministries Conference for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She has worked as both a print and broadcast journalist, Press Secretary for the Democratic Party and Get Out the Vote in Texas, and co-authored a paper on Spirituality and Health, published in the Australian Health Review, March 2010. Her poem, "Wonderland," received the PROD award from Australian Poetry in 2011. Her poetry is also published in St. Julian Press.
Gayle is finishing a novel, sings and plays guitar and dabbles in photography, art, quantum physics, string theory, and cosmology. She has a passion for theatre, nature, Space, cats, coffee, chocolate, cooking, Spanish language and culture, human rights and the dignity of all creatures.
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Csongor Farkas
Csongor Farkas is an accomplished musician and multimedia artist. Introduced to music at age of five when he started playing cello, which paved the way to mastering of many other instruments and later on in his life to composing music for movies, TV commercials, and other musicians.
In addition of being a musical child prodigy Csongor is also an accomplished Web Designer and Flash Developer with many years of experience in programing and the advertising industry. Exhilaration for life, adventuring spirit, love and synergy are at the core of his soul. These same attributes made Csongor an excellent Creative Director for Human Synergy Project which he helped co-found.
"...I waited for such a long time to find people who do not attack with politics and religion. People who are whole as beings, without judging others. When I first got introduced to "Synergy", it was through Human Synergy Project, by it's founder Nebojsa Stanojevic. I realized very soon that I would like to participate in any way in an organization that promotes synergy."
I hope that all people from this planet will be influenced with this true "religion" and it is also my wish. :)
So thank you Nebojsa, and thank you all from Synergy Project and Synergy Moon Team and to Synergy itself that connects all the people.
"Being part of this Synergy, creates this feeling of wholeness in me,
for which I am most grateful:)"
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Đurđica Terzić
Đurđica Terzić studied human behavior, emotions and the unconscious mind since her early days. First exploring it only through intuition, getting involved in work-shops and later theatres which contained the elements of experimenting, meditation and art in its universal meaning. She also participated in a Butoh dance theatre.
With more sharpened senses Djurdjica starts taking singing lessons and after a short period of time she started lending her voice to many music groups such as DjuChong (www.myspace.com/djuchong)
She is an achieved 3D designer who managed to impress audiences with ahead of the time video-installations combining different techniques long before she graduated and became Master Architected. Afterwards she worked as an Executive Director in an Architecture studio called Plan TZ. At the same time Djurdjica become a Creative Director for Human Synergy Project which she helped co-found. Djurdjica is also Awareness Outreach Specialist for Team Synergy Moon which is another worldwide known project inspired by the concept of Synergy. Djurdjica is also a teacher of Hatha Yoga at the Peace Flame House, giving lectures to more than 60 people. (www.kpm.ba)
Her main interests have not changed only grew, concerning the Human rights regardless of social status, and expansion of human consciousness.
"I've heard it said
there's a window that opens
from one mind to another
but if there's no wall,
there's no need for fitting
the window, or the latch"
(Rumi)
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Belma Berberović
Team SYNERGY MOON Press Relations.
Born in Doboj, Bosnia & Herzegovina. Took her first steps in becoming a journalist at the age of fifteen trough a local television network. Belma graduated Journalism in 2008 at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Sarajevo. She proceeded with her education at the Faculty of Political Science on post-graduate studies of Communication and Public Relations. During her studies she was a member of many editorial boards in Sarajevo which led to her professional engagement to EFM Radio, Sarajevo.
Bosnia & Herzegovina
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Kevin Jefferson
Freelance photographer and writer/reporter for San Francisco Bay Area newspaper
United States of America
Bryan Versteeg
Team SYNERGY MOON Concept Graphic Designer
Canada
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Education
Test Pilots/Astronauts in Training
Nebojša Stanojević
Born 13.08.1969. in Sarajevo, ex-Yugoslavia, lived in Tuzla till '92. He emigrated to South Africa in '92. because of the war in ex - Yugoslavia. Nebojša Stanojević is an Adventurer, Documentary Filmmaker, Editor, Producer, and a devoted Explorer. Since 1992 until now, he worked as an Producer, Director and Editor on numerous Video Productions for many worldwide events including: Miss World 1993, HH Dalai Lama, Elton John, Tina Turner, Joe Cocker, Bryan Adams, Natalie Cole, Gipsy Kings, David Copperfield, Africa Aids Concert, President Nelson Mandela's Inauguration Ceremony, etc...
He produced more than 40 Commercials, Music Videos, TV series around the world. From 1997 until 2005 he worked as an Assistant Editor and Editor on several Feature Films. He is supporting non-profit activities regarding Art, Children and Education, as well.
In 2004 he started a project to produce TV Series called Around The World - First Bosnian Expedition. original title: Put Oko Svijeta - Prva BiH Ekpedicija. For that project he sailed from Croatia to Thailand, then Costa Rica, crossing Red Sea and Indian ocean on a 30ft (~9m) sailing Boat. During that period Nebojša produced 24 Episodes which were screened on BHT1 (Bosnian state TV, PBS ). Because of nature of travel and production, often the episodes was aired with a just a few days delay after filming, sort of "Reality Show", which required great deal of coordination and working under time pressure and stress.
Nebojša Stanojević :
"After the war People, especially the youth in my country suffers from the restriction of the freedom to travel, they have hardly opportunities to learn and to understand foreign cultures. Also ethnic groups in my country live very much separated. The aim of this program was to bridge different cultures closer, in my own country and as well to world audience. After filming one episode in a School in Sudan, I got following E-Mail from one little Sudanese boy.
" Thank you so much for the video! I am Sudanese and I immensely appreciate education and how it can uplift you from poverty...
Thank you as you have given me another reason to get up in the morning, Thank you.... "
...To me this is the biggest reward I received so far and he encouraged me with my idea for my new projects."
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Miroslav Ambruš-Kiš
Does this with Team SYNERGY MOON.
Teaching all grades, journalist, reporter, newspapers editor, graphic design, personal computing pioneer, computing magazines pioneer, PostScript pioneer, art director, adventure traveller, high mountin climber (Himalaya, Andes...), interested in all kind of natural and social sciences, technic, art, portrait and nature photographer, travel and war zones correspondent, future astronaut.
Miroslav Ambruš-Kiš's Specialties:
Integration of different skills to unique products and various genres of presentation, wizzard in using creative software of different kinds (Adobe Suite, 3D software, communication tools, photo and video editing, graphic design)
Croatia
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Brian White Shiro
Principle Investigator for Lunar Science for Team SYNERGY MOON, Co-Founder of Astronauts4Hire. Brian is a geophysicist currently working for NOAA in the US. He has a bachelor's degree in geology, physics, and integrated science and a master's degree in earth & planetary sciences, and is working on another master's degree in space studies.
Brian has previously attended the International Space University summer session. Most of his work experience is in geophysics research (basic and applied) including seismology, InSAR, GPS, and exploration geophysics. Brian has extensive field experience installing seismic stations and is very interested in helping set up a new lunar seismic network. "I'm excited about all things related to space exploration and willing to learn new skills to help advance humanity's exploration of its nearest neighbor."
United States of America
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Olav Zipser
FreeFly the Black Sky!
The Freeflying concept since its introduction has created an opportunity for skydivers to fly in new ways. FreeFlyers are Skydivers who do not fall, but fly through the sky. They manipulate the airflow around their body in such way, that incredible pure human - non powered - flight performances and maneuvers are possible. What Freeflyers can do in the sky nowadays, only 15 years ago was practically unimaginable and purely descirbed as a "dream".
FreeFly is human Flight. Freefly, the art of Human Flight, started to develop in 1989 with the "father of FreeFly", the German Olav Zipser and found its recognition in the official world of Sports in 1996. (1st official competition: X-Games Pro Tour).
The first official FAI nationals were hosted in the year 2000. At the year 2005 FreeFly was 1st times introduced to the Olympic World Games Comittee. With 'Freefly' you will learn to fly your own body freely in every possible direction, orientation and rotation while remaining in control of your flight and trajectory (Olav 1989)
Now Olav Zipser is researching requirements and technologies that will soon make him the first Free Flyer to freefly from Space, FreeFly the Black Sky!
Germany
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Team Aerospace Advisor Mike Vucelich
Mike Vucelich, who led the Apollo XIII rescue mission, was a Serbian engineer born in Croatia. His Space experience includes work at North American, Rockwell and NASA. He retired after the last successful Apollo/Soyuz mission. He worked with Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus, and other NASA greats. We are honored that Mike chose to share his wisdom and experience with Team Synergy Moon.
Mike Vucelic passed away on Saturday, August 8 2012 in USA at 82 years of age.
Honorary Members
Addtional Thanks to...
FM Jam
Recording Studio
Cody Gavin
Web Programming
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Adnan Gulamović, aka Gula
Muscian
Zlatko Redžepagić-Avdagić
Humanitarian
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Jasmin Dervišević, aka HZA
Muscian
Tino Dervišagić
Graphic Design
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