michaelbix = username for Michael Billingsley, alternately Michael Cerulli Billingsley, alternately Ngakpa K. Jigme Tonpa (a practitioner in the Drikung Kagyu and Karma Kagyu schools of Tibetan Buddhism).
Occupation - Recording Engineer/Producer, Straight Arrow Recordings and Inventor/Consultant (acoustics, transducers, vibration and human perception - inventor of the Crown SASS˝stereo microphone).
Occupation - Independent Researcher, Folklorist and Cultural Archaeologist (specialising in northern Atlantic pre-history and its regional prehistoric climate and geologic events, and their impact upon emerging and waning cultures c. 20k to 2k years BP - Consultant to the Irish Spiritual Heritage Association).
Occupation - Media Artist (producing works - sometimes mixed - of photography, video, performance, installation and music/sound; recognised through awards and funding in the U.S. and Canada).
Canadian citizen - presently a U.S. and occasionally Irish resident. Member of the Irish Film and Television Academy, Audio Engineering Society, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, American Geophysical Union, International Permafrost Association, and Permafrost Young Researchers Network. Affiliated (via LinkedIn) with Information Technologies for Cultural Heritage, Maritime Archaeology, Arts Ireland, Freelance Cultural Resources Professionals, Irish Heritage, and Enterprise Ireland - Americas. Research consultant for the Irish Spiritual Heritage Association.