Our Team
FLAAR staff includes different people from varying backgrounds. We believe this mix is one factor that makes our institute effective as we monitor the development of digital imaging technology worldwide. All the full-time employees are Guatemalan (logical, since our main office is in Central America). But volunteers tend to come primarily from Europe, either German-speaking or from Eastern Europe or the Balkan area.
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Nicholas Hellmuth with three of the FLAAR team of managers: Flor de Maria is the office manager (right). Diana at the left interacts with readers of the web site who send e-mails. Ana Maria handles all the airplane, hotel, and travel arrangements for Dr Hellmuth, who this year will travel over 200,000 km for lectures, trade shows, inspecting factories and demo rooms of inks, media/substrates, printers, flatbed cutters, routers, laminating and coating equipment, RIP and color management software and hardware. |
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In addition to Nicholas Hellmuth there is an experienced FLAAR team of photographers at FLAAR. Dr Hellmuth has had his photos published by National Geographic and Hasselblad magazine plus Japanese coffee table books. Eduardo Sacayon (second from left) has been selected by Photokina to do an exhibit in Germany later this year. Juan Luis Sacayon (far left), Gandhi Ponce (second from right) and Jaime Leonardo (far right) help with test digital camera equipment projects in Mayan archaeology and digital photography. |
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Antonieta Cajas, archaeologist and Priscila Sandoval, biologist doing library research on Maya archaeology, ethnozoology, and botany. Cristina Guirola was out on a field project and thus is not in the photo. FLAAR itself undertakes no excavations since there are plenty of capable Guatemalan projects. Instead of excavations we evaluate 3D scanning equipment and digital photography equipment that can assist field projects. Local field projects can request a team from FLAAR to assist them in their photography. |
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This is the FLAAR web design team in Guatemala, City: Elsa Morales, Cindy Contreras, Jacqueline Najera, Nicholas Hellmuth, Enner Escobedo, and Eliseo Hurtado. They are in charge of updating and reviewing the more than one thousand pages of our diverse sites with new information and photos obtained from the site visit cases, lectures, trade shows, etc. Our sites provide evaluations to over one million visitors per year. |
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(1) Eduardo Sacayon, Juan Luis Sacayon, and Cindy Contreras are all trained in 3D scanning, as is Dr Nicholas Hellmuth. (2) Camila Morales, a student of archaeology, has been scanning archaeological sculptures and 4th-8th century artifacts in museums for FLAAR in Guatemala for many months. (3) Ievgenia Nemirova is a student of architecture and thus experienced to handle 3D modeling software |
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