July 2019 – present

Music Manager, Princeton Entertainment, Philadelphia, PA for America’s Wonders

• Set up orchestral score templates for conductor and all parts

• Cooperated with other composers and copyists to assemble final scores and partbooks for orchestra

• Managed solutions for error corrections

• Interfaced with Orchstral Librarians and printer services

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January 2016 –present

Department Chair of Music Industry Studies | Course Director of Projects & Portfolio VII

Music Production Bachelor of Science program | Full Sail University, 3300 University Blvd., Winter Park, FL  32792  

• Manage a staff of 5 Course Directors, 7 Associate Course Directors, and 2 Lab Specialists
• Assist in Administrative projects, hiring, training, curriculum improvements, budget decisions, show production, monthly graduations
• Hall of Fame 10 and 11 Music Director

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1974 – current 

Professional Concert Music Composer                                                                               

• Work performed and professionally recorded and released and gained rave reviews from leading musical criticism establishments in the US and Europe. 

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September 1986 – current

Commercial Music Composer, Producer and Engineer                   

• Maintained an award-winning, successful business in commercial music

• Promoted, canvassed, sold, produced, engineered and delivered productions

• Produced National, Regional and local jingle and music branding campaigns

• Produced music for national TV and radio, soundtracks, theme parks, and corporate shows

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June 1995 – current

Audio Engineer, Mix Engineer

United States                                                                                                

• Classical music production for various record labels and music organizations.

• Active, voting Grammy member

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January 2012 – January 2016

Department Chair of Music Technology, Course Director of Music Genres course 

Music Production Bachelor of Science, Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL 

• Instructional Design for the  Music Production Bachelors Degree Program

• Created Syllabi and Course Work for Music Genres

• Manage the Music Production Technical courses Department, a team of about 20 professors and instructors

• Regularly teach Music Genres and Music Theory to 50 students per month through the year

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October 2009 – January 2012

Curriculum Designer for the Music Production Bachelor of Science Degree Program 

Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL October 2009 – January 2012

• designed the overall program for accreditation under the guidance of the Vice President of Education Affairs and the Audio Arts Program Director

• Created the initial Syllabi, Outcomes, and descriptions for each course in the program

• Managed the Music Production Asset team to produce over 30 online video lessons (as of June 2010)

• Created scripts, music, and video assets for use in courses

• Taught students in Music Composition Programming I

• Trained new staff

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August 2008 – May 2009

Director of Faculty Development Department

Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL August

• designed, branded and implemented successful policies, web tools, information including

•Creating Continuing Education programming  and led development of its supporting online database management

• achieved a thriving Continuing Education program at Full Sail

• collaborated and implemented the iTunes U rollout with Mark Gilbert and IMT

• redesigned the New Employee Orientation program and introduced Full Sail culture and policies to new hires.

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December 2007 – August 2008

Corporate Trainer

Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL 

• Helped to create and implement new Continuing Education systems

• Taught faculty the Apple Operating System, Podcasting techniques, and common  office and productivity software

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May 1991 – December 2007

Course Director of  Music History

Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL 

• designed and built the highly rated Music History popular music style survey course for recording engineers

• authored textbook Music History, with additions by Matthew Gorney, published by Full Sail University from 1994 through 2010

• built and managed a small high caliber team of experts

• from 2003 – 2007, produced and authored over 30 hours of effective classroom video that provided the backbone of lecture content.

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March 1995 – January 2003                 

Co-director of music                                                            

Oviedo Presbyterian Church  2500 Lockwood Blvd., Oviedo, FL 32765                                    choir

•    Conductor and vocal coach for a small church choir

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April 1994 – February 1997

Course Director of Introduction to the Media Arts

Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL 

• designed the curriculum for its transition from “Introduction to Recording Arts”

• authored the original textbook covering physics of sound and light, film, audio, and digital media and the entertainment business

• managed a small staff for this important first course at Full Sail

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March 1990 – May 1992

Lab Specialist for Tapeless course

Full Sail University; Winter Park, FL 

• Taught labs and selected lectures for Full Sail’s Synclavier course

• Developed and taught the more advanced “Intermediate Tapeless” course

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September 1987 to March 1990

Producer, Synclavierist

Kopperhead Studios, 935 Schneider Road, North Canton, OH 

• Canvassed new leads and maintained an active client list covering Northern Ohio region

• Bid and closed sales of music production jobs

• Billed and collected revenues on my music production jobs

• Composed and Produced over 8 hours of production music tracks, jingles, and music for advertising campaigns using Synclavier and 24 track John Storyk designed studio complex

• Produced music of lower budgets in MIDI based 16 track multitrack studio

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September 1988 – December 1989

Adjunct Music Professor

University of Akron,  School of Music,  Akron, OH. A leading music university in Ohio with over 300 active music majors at that time.

• Music Theory I

• Music Theory II

• Introduction to Music Theory

• Electronic Music

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April 1986 –  September 1987

Small business owner,  subcontracting from the Akron Beacon Journal newspaper Circulation Department, 44 East Exchange St, Akron, OH 44309

• I interviewed, hired, and trained and employed high-school students for evening, door to door subscription solicitation

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June 1985 – April 1986

Retail Salesman, J.C. Penny Men’s Suit Department, Rolling Hills Mall, Akron, OH 

• Selling, preparing alterations

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June 1985 – September 1985

Director of Trip Camps, Camp Y-Noah, Summit County, OH YMCA Clinton, OH

• In charge of all trip-camp operations

• Led week-long camping and canoeing trips for co-ed teens and staff. Group sizes 5 to 30

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September 1983 – June 1985

Graduate Assistant Instructor, University of Akron School of Music 

• Electronic Music Studio manager

• Music Theory grading assistant to faculty

• Taught Introduction to Music Theory classes

• Taught Fundamentals of Music night clases

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October 1982 – September 1983

Service Manager, Montgomery Wards Auto Center, Rolling Hills Mall, Akron, OH

• Interface between mechanics and customers

• Commission sales of tires, automobile maintenance

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September 1980 –  June 1983

Electronic Music Instructor

University of Akron School of Music

• As an undergraduate student, the University paid me to be the lab instructor for the Electronic Music Lab (and for one semester, the lectures of the course, as well)

• Composition, tape recording and editing techniques, additive and subtractive synthesis theory and application

• MOOG System 55, MOOG Series I, ARP 2600, Bode, Ampex and Tascam multitrack tape machines, Tascam console, Yamaha DX-7 (1983)

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October 1978 – October 1980

Retail Furniture Salesman, Maddox Fabulous Furniture, Akron, OH

• Commission only sales floor

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June 1978 – December 1978

Public High School Saxophone Instructor, Akron Public Schools Music Fund, Buchtel High School

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June 1976 –  September 1978

Factory Labor / Line Work Full-time while attending college

• Plastipak, Inc. in Medina, OH

• Harco, Inc. in Medina, OH

• Morton Salt Company in Rittman, OH

• Clampco, Inc. in Wadsworth, OH

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December 1968 –  June 1976

Akron Beacon Journal Newspaper Boy / route owner, Wadsworth, OH

• an excellent job experience for a young person (10 yrs-18 years old)