As Director of Creative Industries at Northeastern University in Boston, Terrence oversees all Game Design & Interactive Media curriculum and research activities. He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, the Visual Effects Society and has been active in SIGGRAPH since 1988. An ACM Distinguished Lecturer, Terrence most recently served as the 2006 Computer Animation Festival Chair and SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair.

Author of the industry standard “CG101: A Computer Graphics Industry Reference”, SHOTS magazine has called Terrence “Possibly the most mobile practitioner in the CG industry” [Nov. 98]. With 20 years of very eclectic production experience, he has served his own consulting company "Digital Fauxtography" as a Creative Producer, Director and VFX Supervisor. Terrence came up through the ranks on about 20 major feature films, including flying the ‘Millennium Falcon’ in the Empire Strikes Back, feeding Boba Fett to the Sarlac in Return of the Jedi, created pixie dust in Hook and general movie magic for True Lies, Interview with a Vampire, Titanic and Fantastic Four. He is less known for single-handedly developing the original CG pipeline for SouthPark in 1996 and as the on-camera image analysis expert for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters.

Interactive projects have included Cyberia2, SimCity4, Batman: Dark Tomorrow, Alter Echo and the Xbox launch title Bruce Lee. As an award-winning Director & Producer his short animated film Bunkie & Booboo won first place in the World Animation Celebration in 1998. He currently is an active international lecturer and consults with major production studios world-wide.