Phillip Miller:  

I've come full circle as of late - twice. I practiced architecture for a decade, got hooked on computer visualization, wrote about it, got recruited to work on the software tools I was writing about, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the beginning of the dot-com race, helped create some of the best animation and effects software tools in the industry (3D Studio MAX, Combustion, Flame, etc.), and eventually worked at Adobe (yes the Photoshop company), heading up product management for their web tools group (Flash, Dreamweaver, etc.). While we loved San Francisco, and I greatly enjoyed tech, we moved back to Rockford (after 13 years away) to be close to family; and took the opportunity to get back into architecture - using some of the tools which I helped create. After 18 months i...Expand for more