Cover Letter

December 3, 2025

Dear CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival,

Please see my resume below in application for artwork submissions to the CURRENTS 2026 Art & Technology Festival. Dan McCulley and I are collaborating to envision two exciting new media art projects for your festival.

I retired in June 2016 after working 16 years for Intel Corporation as a Senior Software Engineer, Innovation Center Director and Datacenter Manager. Now I seek opportunities as a volunteer helping local non-profit organizations by applying the skills and experience acquired during my 38-year work history.

Participating in the growth of the New Media art community as a contributing artist is a wonderful opportunity. I have been a huge fan of New Media arts for many years. As you can see by my resume, I have been passionately devoted to the New Media arts as a board member, artist, curator and patron.

I have been creating digital and interactive electronic artworks ever since first getting my hands on a computer as an architecture student at the University of Florida. After graduating college and moving to New Mexico in 1981 my first work experience was in the AEC industry where I sharpened my skills in computer aided design and 3D photorealistic rendering. I also joined the Digital Fine Arts Society of New Mexico and began printing high-resolution computer-generated artwork using AutoCAD and POV-Ray software. That was the start of my journey pursuing New Media art.

Later in my career I was fortunate to become an employee of Intel Corporation. There I found myself fully immersed in the high-tech world. As Director of the Intel Innovation Center my role empowered me to reach out and benefit the community in ways I could not have imagined when I first arrived in the Land of Enchantment.

With the help of Intel’s generous support, I donated computers to Dr. Jonathan Wolfe at the Fractal Foundation, donated projectors to Steina and Woody Vasulka, donated projectors to The PASEO Project in Taos, sponsored the ISEA 2012 Symposium, provided workshops at the Taos Toolbox Makerspace, donated a supercomputer to the UNM ARTS Lab, sponsored the Duke City Shootout Digital Filmmaking Festival, hosted the Women In Technology awards, and contributed as a Board Member on the New Mexico Technology Council for six years. I was a board member of CURRENTS / Parallel Studios Inc. from February 2019 to October 2022.

As an Intel retiree I was offered the opportunity to be an Intel Encore Fellow and donate 1,000 hours of my time to a local non-profit, which I gladly took. I chose to work for the Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts in Albuquerque. Founder and Artistic Director, Shira Greenberg gave me the title of Renaissance Man, and I happily worked there part-time for a year doing everything from upgrading their wireless network, to designing and building floating dance floors for all their studios, to installing new electrical circuits for their Black Box theater. I continued my engagement (post Encore Fellowship) with Keshet working on a creative Sci-Art project in which a diverse group of dancers and scientists (including the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel) investigate opportunities to collaboratively develop a dance movement evoking a common understanding of human discovery.

My hands-on volunteer efforts since retiring from Intel, include supporting The PASEO Project in Taos. I have supported the ground-breaking work of the inspirational founders Agnes Chavez and Matt Thomas since the beginning. For example, in 2017 I volunteered to install remarkable projection-mapping animated artwork on the Hotel La Fonda de Taos, by Japanese-born Brooklyn projection mapping artist, Motomichi Nakamura. In 2018 I supported various electronic artist installations such as Circular Dimensions by Cristopher Cichocki in Kit Carson Park and installed a rear-projection system covering the front windows of the PASEO Project Hub.

Tom Greenbaum with Richard Lowenberg at the CURRENTS New Media gallery, Sante Fe, NM (4/12/2019).

As you can tell, my passion to support the New Mexico artist community continues in my retirement. It is my wish to continue to apply my past experience and devote my time, energy and skills to the important growth of New Media art and artists.

Best regards,
Tom Greenbaum

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Thomas J. Greenbaum Resume

Awards / Publications / Presentations / Exhibitions

• Guest Lecturer, Leonardo/ISAST, July 2019, “Creative Thinking & Innovation Methods” a Leonardo LASER Talk by Tom Greenbaum at Los Alamos Science Festival. The most important tools that creative people (and people who manage creative people) can use are those that enable them to effectively enable the creative process from idea generation to innovative application or artwork creation. These are Thinking Tools that may benefit artist and scientist alike.
• Guest Lecturer, “Why Knot?” a Leonardo LASER talk by Susan Latham and Tom Greenbaum, at Evoke Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, December 2019. The presentation discusses knots and the power of knots in science and art.
• Guest Lecturer, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, NM, May 2018. Guest lecturer for the Da Vinci Dialogues panel discussion. Participants include artists who use a variety of new media and scientists who use art in their science.
• Interactive kinetic light and fused glass artwork “Stupafy” at the Taos Toolbox Makerspace Grand Opening, Taos, NM, June 27, 2015.
• Exploring DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) for Intel’s Data Center – IT@Intel White Paper, March 2014, contributor.
• Curator for ISEA (International Symposium Electronic Arts) 2012 Artist Residency – Intel Corporation presents Blue Wade, Kura Puke & Matahiapo: My Land My Light, Albuquerque Museum, September 2012.
• Data Visualization Workshop for ISEA 2012– presented to students of Hip Hop playwright Idris Goodwin: Instant Messages, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM, September 2012.
• Exhibition for ISEA 2012, Sphere of Influence, with Dan McCulley – digital dome interactive projection system and fused glass sculpture, Harwood Art Center, September 2012.
• Curator for ISEA 2012 Exhibition, Sharing Our Light – a series of photographs and interactive videos by collaboration with Intel resident artists Kura Puke and Blue Wade, Intel Innovation Centre, Rio Rancho, NM, September 18 – January 6, 2012.
• Taking the Initiative to Make an Impact: One Data Center Manager’s Journey in Energy Management, Teladata’s 4th Annual Technology Convergence Conference, San Jose, CA, February 2, 2012.
• Intel Environmental Excellence – 2010 Gold Award, for Global Data Center Power Saving (see end of this resume).
• Data Center Landscape, Intel Premier IT Provider (IPIP), NYC, October 6, 2010, and Tempe, AZ, November 3, 2010.
• Fused glass artwork “Morphology of a Virus Attack” at “The Art and Science of Systems Biology” exhibition, the Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe, NM, March 26-28, 2010.
• New Mexico Technology Excellence (TechEx) Award, for Air Economizer POC, from New Mexico Technology Council (NMTC), April 2, 2009.
• Wall Street Journal front page ad, April 2010, (Photograph of Tom Greenbaum featured on many Intel ads and brochures).
• Data Center Lessons Learned, New Mexico Technology Council (NMTC), Santa Fe, NM, March 13, 2009.
• Intel Innovation Award (IAA), for Driving Innovation Through the Air Economizer POC, Q3 2008.
• Fully Transportable Digital Dome With Outside-In Projection System for Geoscope Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization, Occam’s Razor Exhibition, Santa Fe Complex, Santa Fe New Mexico, October 18, 2008.
• DC Capacity Visualization, Intel IT Operations Innovation Award, Q3 2008.
• Spherical Metaphor (Spheriphor) For Geoscope Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization, 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE5), UC Berkeley Campus, June 7, 2007.
• Full-Dome Immersive Business Visualization (BizViz). Intel Information Services and Technology Group, Technical Community Conference, Granlibakken Resort, Lake Tahoe, October 25, 2005.
• Application Analysis for Factory Network, Computer Security Institute (CSI) 31st Annual Conference, Wash. D.C., November 8, 2004.
• Digital Fine Art Society Group Show, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 5-30, 2004.
• Landscape & Portrait – Digital Orientation, Kimo Theater Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico, September 3 – October 29, 2004.
• Various software reviews and how-to articles for 3D Artist magazine.

Education/Training

• BS, Dec 1981, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
• AutoDesk Value Added Reseller (VAR), CAD and 3D Modeling for System Integrators
• Network Security Professional
• Automated Software Load/Stress Testing
• Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) Process Integration
• ITIL Foundation Certification
• Certified Data Center Professional (CDCP), October 2008

Work Experience

Member Board of Directors – Oct 2022 to Oct 2023

STEMarts Lab, Taos, NM

The STEMarts Lab mission is to design immersive and educational sci-art experiences that empower youth and communities through art, science and technology. The Space Messengers platform is a multi-artist immersive and interactive projection installation with VR experiences. This is called MR (Mixed Reality) because it bridges real and virtual experiences. Space Messengers visualizes data. The installation is a culmination of an international youth exchange program. It generates messages collected from a custom platform called the Space Board.

STEMarts Lab was founded in 2009 as an R&D platform for Sci-Art explorations applied to education. Since then, it has evolved to deliver innovative sci-art installations, STEAM programming, teacher training and professional development to schools, art/science organizations and festivals.

Member Board of Directors – Feb 2019 to Oct 2022

CURRENTS / Parallel Studios Inc., Santa Fe, NM

Parallel Studios (a 501(c)(3) non-profit) has been producing, curating and designing small and large scale “CURRENTS” video exhibitions in Santa Fe since 2002. In 2010 we launched CURRENTS New Media as an annual, citywide event. The festival brings together the work of established and emerging New Media artists, from New Mexico, the US and the World, for events showcasing interactive and non-interactive installations, multimedia performances, VR and AR environments, single channel video, animation, experimental documentary, web based/app art forms, robotics and 3D printing. Parallel Studios reaches out to local high and middle school students through its Youth Media Makers Program.

Renaissance Man – Sep 2016 to Sep 2017

Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts, 4121 Cutler Ave NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110

Tom worked as an Intel Encore Fellow supporting IT systems, Keshet Center for the Arts facility design and expansion, Keshet Ideas and Innovation Center and Arts Business Incubator development. Tom’s responsibilities included bringing order and growth to various areas within Keshet Center for the Arts’ facility, programs, and internal operating systems. Established long-term systems that can support the longevity and safety of the facility and operations and quality of experience for the clients/students/audiences of Keshet.

Work with the facility and production manager to explore improvements in systems and develop proactive action steps to maintain a healthy Center for the Arts. Work with the Artistic Director to explore programmatic improvements within various Keshet programs.

Data Center Operations Manager/
ITIL Problem Manager – Jan 2008 to Jun 2016

Intel Corporation, 4100 Sara Road, Mail Stop RR4-104 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124

Responsible for all Information Technology data center rooms on the Rio Rancho site. In total, the IT data centers on the Rio Rancho site contained more than 8,600 servers. Tom managed one of Intel’s global Hub data centers supporting Intel’s data center consolidation strategy. Tom supported several data center rooms with different missions and infrastructure and a diverse range of IT customers including: Design Engineering (chip design validation), office users, manufacturing, enterprise systems.

Customer systems include: storage arrays, tape backup systems, virtual tape libraries, virtual server environments, high memory servers, large batch computing pools. Tom’s other responsibilities included room owner for the Encanto Supercomputer and owner of Intel’s first Container Data Center. Tom also served as Problem Manager for America’s Region of Intel Data Centers and the Latin America Region (LAR) Datacenter Owner.

Innovation Center Executive Director/
Senior Software Engineer – Jul 2000 to Jan 2008

Intel Corporation, 4100 Sara Road, Mail Stop RR4-104 Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124

Executive Director of the Intel Innovation Center at the Rio Rancho campus.  Foster innovation and creativity among Intel employees to generate new concepts, intellectual property, usage models and products.  The Innovation Center mission was to reach out to community members and support collaboration within New Mexico between public and private entities on new innovative technologies.

Benchmarking Program Manager for the Intel Platform Capability division. Projects included quality assurance for Internet Media Services (IMS), configuration management for the Wireless Products Division (WPD), Virtual Factory (VF) Team Lead for Application Analysis for Assembly Test Manufacturing (ATM) Factory Network Isolation, and Project Manager for Engineering Computing (EC) to Configuration Management Data Base (CMDB).

Information Technology Manager – Nov 1997 to Jul 2000

Flatow Moore Shaffer McCabe, 809 Copper Ave, NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

IT systems manager for an 88-person architectural, engineering and interior design firm; New Mexico’s oldest and largest AEC firm. Roles and responsibilities included Network systems administration, implementation of new technologies and systems, webmaster for Intranet and Internet websites, applications support for entire suite of office software. Responsible for CAD standards, training and support for AutoCAD and engineering software.  Developed multimedia presentations, 3D design visualization, and interactive CD-ROM project tours.

Configuration Manager/
Software Quality Assurance – Aug 1994 to Nov 1997

MORE, Inc., 7208 Jefferson, NE, Suite A, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109

As Configuration Manager Tom was responsible for file management, distribution management and version control for a software development firm specializing in retail bank automation. Tom served as Configuration Manager for a software testing laboratory at Chase Manhattan bank headquarters in New York City and was responsible for the implementation of the Windows-based MORETeller system for worldwide deployment in 600 Chase branches on approximately 6000 workstations.  At the Albuquerque office Tom was responsible for network administration, setup, installation and maintenance of workstations and network infrastructure.  Tom wrote automated software-testing scripts and InstallShield software installation executables.  Tom also provided graphic design, documentation, and marketing support.  Tom designed and implemented the training program for 3rd party vendors.

Value Added Reseller (VAR) – Apr 1992 to Aug 1994

Interface ICS, Inc., Integrated Computer Systems, 600 First Street, NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

Tom worked for a value-added reseller (VAR) specializing in high-end computer aided design (CAD) systems for architects and engineers.  Tom was Autodesk Multimedia VAR certified (only two such certified VAR’s in New Mexico).  Tom provided customization, training and troubleshooting for AutoCAD, 3D Studio, third-party CAD software, multimedia, graphic design, desktop publishing and database software. Tom was responsible for installation and configuration of PC CAD/multimedia systems, plotters, digitizers, scanners, printers, graphics accelerators and other peripherals. Tom’s skillset included 3D model design for customers; including 3D nuclear power plant modeling and animation for Siemens, Ogden Environmental, SEA Corp. and IGD, Inc. Tom wrote software reviews and how-to articles for “3D Artist” magazine. Tom also contributed in designing marketing strategies and video demonstration for “MetalMan” sheet metal design software. Tom received dealer training for AutoCAD r11 & r12, Advanced Modeling Extension (AME), 3D-Studio, AutoCAD Designer, Softdesk (architectural, civil & mechanical), Archibus (facilities management) and LandCADD (civil) software.

Marketing Manager & Designer – Nov 1988 to Nov 1991

James N. Rowland Partners, Inc., 925 Luna Circle, NW, Albuquerque, New Mexico  87102

Tom headed the marketing department of a 14-person architectural firm.  Tom wrote, designed and produced responses to requests for proposals (RFP), project proposals and promotional materials including brochures, flyers and advertisement, work plans and schedules, resumes, project descriptions, presentation artwork and animated 3D computer graphics.  Tom organized pre-proposal conferences, consultant coordination and customer presentations. As a Designer Tom executed architectural and HVAC mechanical design for major new facilities, renovations, remodels, and additions including: educational facilities, residential developments, banks, custom homes, office buildings, motels, hospitals, libraries, police stations, and detention centers.  Tom was responsible for architectural design and drafting from schematic design through construction documents.

Designer/Draftsman – Feb 1988 to Aug 1988

Anthony DiSunno, A.I.A., Architect, Seven Osborne Lane, East Hampton, New York 11937

Architectural intern for outstanding residential architect.  Architectural design and drafting services for East Hampton clients.  Residential design for Paul Lauder (former Ambassador to Austria).

Designer/Builder – Feb 1987 to Feb 1988

Men at Work Construction, Inc., P.O. Box 572, Montauk, New York 11954

Finish carpentry and framing for general contractor on the construction of new custom homes, additions and remodels.  Wrote proposals and cost estimates.

Designer/Draftsman – Aug 1986 to Dec 1986

Francis Fleetwood and Associates, 25 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, New York 11937

Design of custom homes for exclusive East Hampton clientele.  Projects for the Steven Spielberg Residence, and the Steve Ross Residence (CEO of Warner Communications).

Mechanical Designer – May 1983 to Jun 1986

Aztech International, Ltd., 2417 Aztec Road, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87107

Mechanical equipment and HVAC design for a manufacturer of radiant heating systems and industrial evaporative cooling systems.  Worked directly with the chief engineer.  Designed innovations in mechanical equipment sheet metal enclosures.  Implemented improvements for fabrication and assembly of HVAC equipment including, implementation of a CAD/CAM system, spreadsheet and database programs to track the manufacturing process, and a standardized component system.  Graphic design for product catalogs, executed all production and submittal drawings and wrote operation and maintenance manuals.

HVAC Designer/Draftsman – Feb 1982 to Mar 1983

Miller Metal Company, 4538 McLeod Road, NE, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109

Served as the only draftsman for a large HVAC contractor.  Completed duct and register layouts, mechanical equipment room plans and elevations, roof plans, as-builts, and reflected ceiling plans.

Skills / Technical Experience

Fused Glass, Digital and Interactive Artist

• KARMATETRA.COM my personal website.

Process Improvement, ITIL & CMMI

• Project Manager for Engineering Computing to CMDB project.
• ITIL Foundation Certified.
• Author of the Learn ITIL Intelpedia article.
• Certified CMMI Level 2 Auditor, Capability Maturity Model Integrated Process Integration.

Innnovator

• Developed, interactive, online applet for managing Data Center Capacity using the MIT Processing language. Won the Intel IT Operations Innovation award for DC Capacity Visualization Q3 2008.
• Key contributor for Container Data Center Proof of Concept, including test plans and CW resource planning.
• 3D Visualization of Fab7 Datacenter and planning for the 2007 Rio Rancho CIO Visit.
• Founding member of Albuquerque chapter of International Game Developers Assocation (IGDA).
• Developed novel Serious Games – Google Earth concept for Gameslam event at the Duke City Shootout, in the Insomnia Lounge using Google Earth as a Serious Games platform.
• Intel Rotation engineer mentor for innovation projects.
• Advocate for the use of 3D Visualization methods to improve decision making inside Intel.
• Spherical Metaphor (Spheriphor) for Geoscope Multi-Dimensional Data Visualization. Internationally acknowledged as the inventor of the Spheriphor. Presented the Spheriphor concept to the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth (ISDE5) at the UC Berkeley campus June 5-9, 2007.
• Proposal development for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Supercomputer on the Intel Rio Rancho campus. Planning for the NSF RR visit.
• Contributor to the Innovation at Intel program.
• Member of the Intelpedia Distributed Editors.
• Responsible for Intel PCAM (Platform Capability Account Management) IP Indicator Improvement. Owner of PCAM IDF Submission Critical Status Indicator (CSI). Author of data analysis for IT IDF Submissions historical data, using Sparklines to show trends.
• Won the Intel PCAM 5x5x5 Innovation contest in Q2 2006.
• Manager of the RGIC (Intel Rio Grande Innovation Centre).
• Designed and implemented Intel PCAM Business Visualization Laboratory.
• Primary author for new Factory Health Visualization for Intel Fab11 Manufacturing.
• Deployed multi-screen display visualization capability in Intel Fab11 team room.
• Intel Brownbag for POV-Ray education and advocacy.

Software Quality Engineering

• Member of Intel SET Sub Team on Project Acceleration.
• Intel DCT/ASE/Id Entitlement Mgt Test Manager.
• Intel PCAM PMO CMMI Project Manager forum member.
• CMMI Level 2 certified auditor in Intel Flex Services.
• Software Quality Engineer for 4 years on the Intel Software Validation Services team.
• Invented the term UDE (User Dissatisfying Event) to broaden our understanding of software quality from the users’ perspective inside Intel.
• Managed a software testing laboratory at Chase Manhattan bank headquarters in New York City fort the implementation of the MORETeller system for worldwide deployment in 600 Chase branches on approximately 6000 workstations.

Benchmarking Program Manager

• Benchmarking Program Manager for Intel PCAM.
• DCV Benchmarking and benchmarking for the HPC1 project.
• Proposed a Time To Decision metric to improve the efficiency of Intel IT.
• Proposed new Total Cost of Decision (TCoD) concept.
• Managed the PCAM HPC Benchmarking effort.

Computer Security and Quality Assurance (SQA)

Following are projects representative of my computer security and SQA expertise:

More, Inc.

• Managed a software testing laboratory at Chase Manhattan bank headquarters in New York City for the implementation of the MORETeller system for worldwide deployment in 600 Chase branches on approximately 6000 workstations.
• The MORETeller system proved unbreakable by Chase employees which resulted in More, Inc. winning the contract. Competitors for the contract included EDS, IBM, NCR and Olivetti which is remarkable since the MORETeller team was a small, startup endeavor with approximately 30 employees.
• Wrote automated software-testing scripts and InstallShield software installation executables.

Intel Corporation

• Department of Homeland Security inspections of the five datacenters I managed on the Rio Rancho site.
• Software Quality Engineer for 4 years on the Intel Software Validation Services team.
• Training, certification and hands-on software testing experience with Mercury Interactive automated test tools (such as LoadRunner and SiteScope).
• Wrote test plans, test cases and automated test scripts for several projects including Intel Media Services (IMS) datacenter upgrades.
• Certified Network Security Professional.
• Developed method of Application Analysis for Factory Network Isolation project. This network traffic analysis method proved successful in securing Intel’s factory networks from malware attacks and protected the factory from the 2003 SQL Slammer computer worm. This work was recognized internationally when I presented my methodology titled Application Analysis for Factory Network at the Computer Security Institute (CSI) 31st Annual Conference, Wash. D.C., November 8, 2004.
• ITIL Problem Manager for Intel Data Center global operations.
• Member of Intel SET Sub Team on Project Acceleration.
• Intel DCT/ASE/Id Test Manager.
• Primary author for an innovative 3D Factory Health Visualization for Intel Fab11 Manufacturing.
• CMMI Level 2 certified auditor in Intel Flex Services.
• Invented the term UDE (User Dissatisfying Event) to broaden our understanding of software quality from the users’ perspective inside Intel.

Honors and Awards

Intel 2010 Environmental Excellence Gold Award Winner

Taken in part from an Intel IT Newswire article by Karen deVallet.

Intel’s Environmental Health and Safety team recently judged over 60 nominations for the prestigious annual Environmental Excellence Award. Out of the field of nominations, DCH’s own Thomas Greenbaum won the Gold Award for creating and driving an innovative process to reduce energy in the New Mexico data center, a solution that he then proliferated globally.

In 2009 Tom reduced 1.2 million kilowatt hours in the Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Data Center that he manages. He then drove an effort that resulted in 100 power-saving projects totaling close to 14 million kilowatt hours across all global data center networks.

Tom’s methodology remains in use, and in 2010 the data center energy savings is estimated at an additional 22-million-kilowatt hours per year. Even more remarkable, 75 percent of the energy saving projects didn’t require any capital expense.

New Mexico Technology Excellence (TechEx) Award

Issued by New Mexico Technology Council (NMTC), April 2009. Associated with Intel Corporation. Fourth Annual New Mexico Technology Excellence Award. Technology Solution Award for Air Economizer Proof-Of-Concept.

Intel Innovation Award (IAA)

Issued by Intel Corporation, Oct 2008. Associated with Intel Corporation. For Driving Innovation Through the Air Economizer Proof-Of-Concept.

Project website: CURRENTS 2026

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