
IUMA is indebited

to these individuals and companies

for their tremendous support:

Anita Schiller & John McCrae of Silicon Graphics
Kathrine Webster of Sun Microsystems
John Magid & Paul Jones of SunSITE, University of North Carolina
Michael Tiemann , John Gilmore & Tim Wicinski of Cygnus Support
Merril Smith, Nakamichi Coporation
Tobias Bading, Berlin University of Technology
John Stautner & David Hartley, Aware Corporation
Richard Gross, Antex Electronics
Stephan Hartman
François Dion
Andy Holdern, Xing Technologies
Fal Sarkar of Xinet

The IUMA Staff

Robert Lord

TITLE: President
ANTIQUATED EQUIVALENT: Co-Czar
KNOWN TO MANY AS: El Sleepy Dragon
DESCRIPTION: Robert Lord, a senior at University of Califonia, Santa Cruz, is a computer science major specializing in digital signal processing and information theory, enjoys talking back to televisions, roller skating rinks with record players, living a life free of palindromes and Brandee because she's so cute.

Jeff Patterson

TITLE: Chief Financial Officer
RUSSIAN STATUS: Co-Czar
DESCRIPTION: Jeff Patterson is currently a junior at University of California at Santa Cruz. He started studying Computer Science at UC Berkeley but couldn't stand their program, so transfered to a much better school. He plays in a band called the Ugly Mugs and works for Pitney Bowes delivering and sorting mail at the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). He owns a pair of wool Converse lowtops (but not the ones Rob wants).

Jon R. Luini

TITLE: Chief of Operations
KNOWN TO MANY AS: Kaiser
DESCRIPTION: Dumping his history as a head sysadmin at places such as SCO and HaL Computer Systems, Jon went from full to double time on IUMA in late 1993. He's also in a few of the bands listed herein, Deth Specula, Eden Retread, The Mudkats, and Nereid Cluster. He's not as stodgy as this little bio may seem, he just can't be funny when he really needs to go to the bathroom....

Brandee Selck

TITLE: Art Director
TITLE DE PLUME: Graphx Grrrl
DESCRIPTION: Fresh out of the University of California at Santa Cruz with an Art degree in hand, Brandee has eased her way into the "real world" by scanning objects and creating graphics for IUMA. Otherwise she spends her time throwing potlucks and zipping around town on her bike. She likes label makers, wind-up toys, breakfast cereal, and grrls with attitude.

Will Hobbs

TITLE: Director of Marketing
WARRIOR STATUS: Caliph
DESCRIPTION: Will got his hair cut in Egypt and he's never felt the same since.

Danny Johnson

TITLE: Senior Multimedia Specialist, Projects Manager, Doom
MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS: "Fatboy"
Known primarily for his egg-chili and corn kabobwiches, Danny has become a key music digitizing virtuoso in the western hemi. Studying theater at the University of California at Santa Cruz and trying to avoid a life of working at a liquor store...he is slathering like sasquatch. For the artistic side, check out the Whistle Pigs and the Ugly Mugs...He is also flame retardant.

Michel Hoche-Mong

TITLE: Manager of Multimedia
AVG. HAIRS LOST EACH DAY: 24
Michel snoozes as much as he can, but only while he is away from his various activities as a Mac sysadmin, MIS dude, programmer, mountain biker, bassist, nominal head of IUMA's encoding department, and occasional IUMA techie. He is also currently writing the Mac interface for IUMA's upcoming shareware MPEG decoder. He spends his spare time arguing with himself and reminding "jon" to use capitals.

Russ Granger

TITLE: Special Projects Guy
LOOKS LIKE: A bass player

Russ does most of the custom work for record labels and bands at IUMA. He also works random contracts in the computer biz putting companies on the web (currently working on a site for QuickTime at Apple computer), plays bass in Poppy, runs SCAM, a website of nothing but info about Santa Cruz' music scene. In 1995, he plans to continue working at IUMA, produce a CD and tour with Poppy, launch a SCAM newspaper, start a record company, and book more live shows.

Carl Roth

TITLE: Technical Specialist
PIERCINGS: At least six.
Carl is on the technical staff if IUMA, where he relaxes on his time off from graduate research at UCSC. He works for IUMA as a way to pay back society for all those times he forgets to leave tips in coffeehouses.

Ahin Savara

TITLE: Director of Fulfillment
ROYAL POSITION: Raja
Recently denied early decision at Harvard Business School, Ahin graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. with a B.S. in Computer Science. Has done research at the Oregon Graduate Institute (OGI), under Dr. David Novick, Director of the Interactive Systems Group. Not inclined to revolve around "hard-core" computer science, Ahin designed his own minor -- The Music Industry: An Entreprenurial Perspective, to assist in HIS endeavors: founding the Music Dorm; a residential environment that supports the appreciation and promotion of music, manage the infamous band, electro betty, to finally, after graduating, working for his idol -- Bill Graham Presents. But then it happened. From BGP to IUMA, there is no substitute!

Evan

TITLE: Multimedia Specialist
ALIAS: hero
Encodin's my bag out here at IUMA.
Check out my band "i". We've just found a new bassist, or he found us, and we are working towards new recordings and gigs...yipee!!!
Keep the faith...

Dave Sitko

TITLE: Multimedia Specialist
INTERNAL NAME: Noteboy
Uhhh... uhhhh... uhhhh. uhhuhuhh.... huhuhuh.

Neil Magedman

TITLE: Technical Specialist
HOME STATUS: Derelict
Neil talks too much.

Elan Papa

TITLE:Production Goddess
CURRENTLY SEEKING: A peaceful world
A newer aquisition to IUMA and fresh from the world of low-budget feature films, she hopes to assist not only her co-conspirators, but the many musicians who plan to experiment with multimedia. "Turn-ons: the ocean, surfing, sun, percussion, live music, and dancing under a full moon, barefoot. Turn-offs: narrow-minded people, bills, legal battles, Patriarchy, and Playboy interviews."

Lawrence Rubin

POSITION: Support/Encoding
GROOMING: Top-notch
FAVORITE QUOTE: "Can't sleep, clown'll eat me!" -B. Simpson
Lawrence is currently a senior at the University of California, Santa Cruz, pursuing his Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology. During the spring quarter '95, he will be participating in the development of the Monterey Bay Media Center, which involves the construction of web sites for all of the scientific and academic institutions in the Monterey Bay area. He is also a member of the Addicted To Noise production team.

Reps and Consultants

We've got a variety of remote IUMA reps and consultants who help get the word out about electronic distribution to musicians in their area.

Tony Stonefield

TITLE: African Representative
INDIGENOUS RANK: Tribesman
Tony is IUMA's African representative, the founder of Global Music Outlet.
QUOTES: "Be good to your inner alien!" "The wind blows in order to hear itself in us."
POEMS:One time... / Single threads of time...

IUMA Reps and Consultants

Darren Layne

AREA: New Jersey
OTHER PROJECTS: In his spare time (spare time? what's that?!), Darren heads up the Jersey Area Music Source - the definitive on-line guide to music in the Jersey Area. Comments and suggestions? Drop him a line at jams@iuma.com.

Adam Cassel

AREA: Portland, Maine
Email: adam@agate.net

Some definite thanks to IUMA supporters and aides from around the world is due. For now, that will take form in us tossing images of them in here where we can.

IUMA is indebited to these individuals and companies for their tremendous support: