Problem Solver
bob Jones
Don't put off hiring me until the end of the process. You'll get a much bigger bang for your buck if you buy a few hours of my time early on and then put me on retainer. The experience I have is unique and narrowly focused so I can save you time and $ in R&D.
Areas bob Jones is Knowledgeable in:
How soap bubbles work and what surprising things we can do with them.
Educating children in new and sticky ways. Especially with interactive, humorous live presentations.
Bringing new soap film related toys to market.
Educating children in new and sticky ways. Especially with interactive, humorous live presentations.
Bringing new soap film related toys to market.
Techniques bob Jones Uses:
Tapping into a deep digital personal library/collection of books and other media puts the best thinking from dozens of years of scientific study at my fingertips. Searchable, cut & pasteable for the benefit of my clients.
Tapping the expertise of a half dozen professional bubblers scattered around the globe. Each with their own bit of expertise, willing to share as a return for previous favors.
Historic archive of bubble performance related information to draw from. Because old & forgotten ideas are just the sort of new and different ideas my clients are looking for.
Tapping the expertise of a half dozen professional bubblers scattered around the globe. Each with their own bit of expertise, willing to share as a return for previous favors.
Historic archive of bubble performance related information to draw from. Because old & forgotten ideas are just the sort of new and different ideas my clients are looking for.
bob Jones's Problem Solving Skills:
- Author of three books & a few EduTainment related trade magazine articles.
- Performance skills coach/consultant/bubble wrangler to theatrical production companies, media & individual artists around the g
- TV expert/interview/demo. Discovery Channel - when Time Warp sought a bubble wrangling specialist to help them explore soap fi
- Since 1986, full time, I've built & toured original one-man-shows (Themes: math, science, Weather, R-R-Recycle, Am. History, Re
- Owner/Curator of SoapBubbler.com, the webs largest non-commercial site dedicatated to advancing soap bubble creativity, science
- Soap Film Research, Development & Application Specialist. First in America to receive Govt Arts funding for Sciency Bubble Sho
- I break adult sized concepts down into kid sized bites & create humor-based educational presentations for schools & museums.
- Diagnosed with Aspergers: The source of my super-human ability to focus-in on one small slice of a problem for a very long time
- Self-Taught soap-film system chemist: Solving bubble & soap-film performance due to environmental conditions & other problems b
- Support patent quests of other professional inventors by offering by contract R&D services, Non Disclosure - Able & Ready.
bob Jones's Problem Solving Experience:
- Lights, Camera, pop!
Exploring what really happens when bubbles burst with high speed video (up to 10,000fps) requires a lot of intense light - hot enough to make fluid covered bubble props literally steam in minutes. Venting that heat requires an industrial air conditioning system and sometimes gusty conditions.
I got the bubble-expert gig on Time Warp (Discovery Channel) in part because during the interview process I anticipated the lousy atmosphere for bubbles and gave the production company (PromaTwo Productions, ON, Canada) a "heads up".
Armed with bubble solutions capable of withstanding the punishment of their studio meant less time wasted & fewer union-scale downtime hours billed. - I worked with an urgent care patient facilitator (gratis) to develop new methods of including bubbles in therapy at children's hospitals - especially bubble activities to calm breathing, help the doctors judge nerve functions & coordination and as a distraction technique to use during very uncomfortable medical procedures.
- What is the best solution?
Since 2007: Evaluating bubble solution concentrate formula for Bangwool Land Co. South Korea. Preparing and testing various formulations & reporting results via written, photographic and video correspondence.
On 5/16/09 Bang-Wool Land Co. earned a Guinness World Record for Number of People in a Bubble: 90. - How to get bubbles to perform on cue?
San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park 2008 & 2009 summer season. On-site bubble skills coaching, on-retainer consultant & prop construction. The Billion Bubble Show at the Benough Amphitheater, produced by Michael Wulffhart, ARIMAW Productions. - "No"!?
In 2007 with less than 12 hours on account to work with, I helped an established inventor in Massachusetts (protected by NDA) save many thousands of dollars... by disappointing him.
Invited late to the process, just prior to ordering fabrication of prototypes, I reviewed the plans, detailed the faults, armed myself illustrative & documented examples to prove my case and thwarted his dream.
Then I gave him a couple of work around ideas to get his heart beating again.