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My college years, 1984-1988
University
 BA,
College Scholars, High Honors
9/84-5/88
University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
TN
An individualized honors program which enabled me to study applied
design in the visual and performing arts, psychology and philosophy
(required a faculty advising and review board). Major/Minor: Photography/Technical
Theater/Theater Design & Stagecraft.
By applying for and being accepted to the College Scholars program,
I was able to pick the best professors and courses the University
of Tennessee offered and allowed to take advanced courses without
prerequisites, which greatly enhanced my college experience. I
gained a broad and in-depth exposure to many disciplines: far
better than ordinary programs, IMHO, to prepare me for multidisciplinary
work.
During college, I undertook a number of personal study initiatives
in television and theatrical production, publishing and graphic
design, and black & white fine arts photography, described
below.
- "Some Assembly Required": A collection of essays and photographs
presented for my College Scholars project.
- Golden Key National Honor Society.
- 1988 Student Art Competition, Thompson Photo Materials Award.
"Lord Lindsey Sophisticates."
- Published photograph: "Two Men at the Fair." Fall issue, 1987,
The Phoenix, University of Tennessee Student arts magazine.
- Published photograph: "Dutch at the Kendoor Marble Company."
Winter issue, 1987, The Phoenix, University of Tennessee Student
arts magazine.
Lighting Designer, Blithe Spirit
1/88-2/88
Theater Students Association, UTK
Designed lighting for a three-act play. Drafted lighting plots
and necessary equipment schedules. Assigned crew duties. Trained
new Master Electrician and assisted in hanging of show.
Master Electrician, Pygmalion
11/87-12/87
Clarence Brown Theatre Company (Equity), UTK
Responsible for maintenance and nightly performance of 250+ lighting
instruments, color, circuiting, dimmers and misc. electrics. 36+
hours/week in addition to regular class workload and part-time
job during hanging/run of show.
Master Electrician, A Day In The Death of Joe Egg
1/87-3/87
University Company, UTK
Responsible for hanging and maintenance of lighting instruments,
dimmers, and misc. electrics. 40+ hours/week in addition to regular
class workload and part-time job during hanging/run of show.
Electrics and set construction crews for 6 shows, 1986-7. University
and professional companies.
Crew
Beyond Therapy. Electrics crew, 10/86. University
Company.
The Lion in Winter. Set construction crew, 8/86.
Clarence Brown Company.
West Side Story. Electrics crew5/87. University Company.
The Man Who Came To Dinner. Electrics crew, 9/87.
University Company.
Personal
Initiative
 Founding
Editor / Publisher
1/86 to 1/90
The Lame Monkey Manifesto, Knoxville, TN
Published a quarterly 12-page tabloid entitled The Lame Monkey
Manifesto, distributed free of charge on the campus of the University
of Tennessee at Knoxville with loose confederation of volunteers
and contributing writers working for a publication I conceived
and published. Features include campus satire, and instructor
evaluations by students (which led to the Student Government published
"Tennessee 101" course guide).
I learned how to apply my skills to create something much larger
than the sum hours of effort. I learned how to manage time and
make (my self-imposed) publishing deadline despite attending university
full-time and holding a part-time job.
- Performed all production related functions, including writing,
ad sales, photography, editorial control of content, design,
and the assemblage of camera ready flats.
- Managed a small staff of volunteers.
- Produced paper entirely in a Macintosh environment.
- Distribution 5,000 (estimated 2-3x greater readership).
- Part of the permanent collection of the UT library and Minnesota
State Archives.
- Legacy included a half-dozen alternative publications, including
the MetroPulse.
 The
last issue (#23) of the celebrated underground student newspaper
of the University of Tennessee. Contains Instructor Evaluations
and 'Yusef and the Christian Yuppies'.
 Acrobat,1.1MB:
download here.
During break and holidays, I formed (and closed) 3 businesses
with student partners. Projects included:
- Knoxville Cash Saver, a retail coupon book. Designed
and produced coupons books in early-1985 using MacPaint and
a Laserwriter. I believe this is the first desktop publication
in the southeast US region.
- Cableworks, a free, direct-mailed TV listing targeting
prime neighborhoods in the Knoxville area funded by advertising.
Created mock-ups, arranged for content, made business plans,
and canvassed potential advertisers.
- Plaid Planet Advertising. Provided graphic design services
to local businesses.
Extracurricular
Activities
Darkroom Monitor
10/85 to 6/88
University of Tennessee Art Department, Knoxville, TN
- Worked 5-hour weekly shift.
- Mixed chemistry.
- Assisted students with problems.
Production Director
10/84 to 1/88
UT Knoxville Teleproductions Board, Knoxville, TN
Production Director of a volunteer student activites group which
videotaped campus events, guest lectures, and created original
programming for broadcast throughout a campus-wide closed circuit
system for a student activities group of the University of Tennessee
Knoxville (unpaid position).
I learned how to direct, produce, and engineer multi-camera video
shoots, edit programs for broadcast, and became competent in television
video technology.
- Responsible for coordinating productions and maintaining quality
standards.
- Trained directors and members in operation of industrial-grade
video equipment.
- Recommended purchasing.
- Learned/taught use of a switcher, cameras, editing, satellite
downlinking, time base correction, alignment of video projection
system, and set-up of surround sound audio system.
- I have engineered 4 camera set-ups with live tape playback
and character generator, projected and recorded to tape with
minimal equipment.
- Directed/edited/produced over a dozen shows, as well as celebrity
lectures, and campus events.
- Worked camera and crew on many others, including the National
College Television Network and 1986 & '87 Viva Awards for Whittle
Communications.
- Self-taught.
Director / Production Engineer
8/87 to 8/87
1987 Baltimore Science Fiction Convention, Baltimore, Maryland
Senior member of a team to provide the 1987 Baltimore Science
Fiction Convention with news and original programming.
- Set up and maintained a closed-circuit convention TV channel
serving the Baltimore Omni Hotel.
- Directed a live 2-camera shoot of two convention events.
Senior Media Technician
8/86 to 9/86
1986 World Science Fiction Convention, Atlanta, GA
Senior member of a team to provide the 1986 World Science Fiction
Convention with news and original programming to the 6,000 convention
attendees in two adjacent hotels.
I learned how to apply lessons learned from my internship at
WBIR TV-10 in producing and directing live television progamming.
- Produced and directed a daily, half-hour convention activities
show entitled 'Confederation Tonight' for the week of the event.
- Directed interviews of celebrity guests, including Ray Bradbury.
- Set up and maintained production studio and air switcher for
a closed-circuit convention TV channel serving the Marriott
Marquis and Atlanta Hilton hotels, reaching 6,000 attendees.
- Operated camera for the 1986 Hugo Awards ceremony.
Summer Intern
5/86 to 8/86
WBIR TV-10, Knoxville, TN
Operated camera for 6pm and 11pm news, and newsbreaks for a
local television broadcast station. Trained on production switcher,
Chyron, editing systems. Unpaid, no academic credit: applied and
worked on my own initiative.
Became familiar with live news production process and television
station operation. Became competent with television production
tools.
Whirlwind across Europe
8/88 to 10/88
Traveled alone throughout 13 European countries: France, Switzerland,
Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Ireland,
Northern Ireland, Spain, Italy and Luxembourg on $20 a day.
I made lots of friends, visited many museums, and saw a bit of
the world. Highlights include an attempted mugging in Zurich,
exploring abandoned Nazi fortifications and tunnels in Cherbourg,
bar hopping in Belfast, hiking and exploring castles in Germany,
living with street artists near the Spanish Steps in Rome, and
exploring some of the greatest museums in the world.
I pushed the limits of my self-reliance by placing myself prepared,
but alone, on a foreign continent. Funded by savings from jobs
while in college.
Employment
Graphic Arts Technician
6/85 to 8/88
Universal Printing, Knoxville, TN
Performed commercial typesetting and graphic design work for
a small quickprint, copy, and typesetting house serving the University
of Tennessee community. Clients included the University of Tennessee
Graduate Office, the East Tennessee Historical Society, the Knoxville
Zoological Society, and Levi Strauss. Began by using conventional
digital typesetting, cut/paste and graphics camera techniques.
- Became familiar with many Macintosh software packages, image
scanning and document pre-press techniques.
- Oversaw all computer-related operations.
- Led Universal to become the first in the city to offer desktop
publishing services.
Wholesale sales person
10/84 to 6/85
Dataworld Distributing, Knoxville, TN
Sold wholesale computer products and supplies via phone for
a wholesale/retail computer store, specializing in clone-building.
Created fliers, brochures and other marketing materials. Worked
in shipping and receiving.
I learned that I did not enjoy sales work. I preferred to work
in shipping and receiving, and then in marketing materials creation.
Press Shop Worker
5/84 to 10/84
Hi-Tech Printing, Oak Ridge, TN
Operated industrial binding, folding, collating and cutting
machinery for a small, family-owned and operated web press printing
facility and U.S. Government Print Office web press contractor.
Became initially familiar with printing techniques and the printing
process.
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