Wallace D. Brindle
Albany, NY    USA
analyst.developer [at] gobi-igloo [dot] com

www.linkedin.com/in/wdbrindle (LinkedIn.com professional network listing)

(518) upon request


Proud to be a dues-paying and active member of: American Mensa


Personal Summary
Enthusiastic, creative, detail-oriented, goal-driven, able to follow directions; work well independently or as part of a team, flexible problem solver, time cost efficient, enjoy learning and acquiring new skill sets. Peripheral goals: Obtain membership in a good yacht club soon; some day sail my own 40+ foot Hallberg-Rassy yacht, ID intended for its transom: "
Sang-Froid", into the harbor of my father's U.S. Army posting (during all of the '30s), Shanghai, stopping off in Cardiff, Wales and Liverpool, England to revisit his native country, and my relatives in both, as well as those I can discover in Germany — and whose language I continue studying to numerous scholarly and career purposes.

Relevant Experience

[] Designed & developed Web projects / Enterprise Consult.

[] Collaborated extensively with businesses to develop
strong,
problem solving relationships

[] Researched, collected, analyzed and compiled information
to
assess an individual's investment potential

[] Wrote and produced radio commercials

[] Planned, organized and managed public relations events

[] Coordinated, edited, wrote and photographed for sales
newsletter

[] Appraised real estate, advised customers on preparing for
most lucrative sale

Professional Background Outline

[] Voltaire U. & Gobi-Igloo.com, Webmaster/Programmer/Sole Prop.; & Proofreader: Proj. Gutenberg. Albany, NY

[] Various Office Temp Services, Administrative Assistant. St. Paul & NYC

[] Vannote Lumber, Merchandising Manager. Pt. Pleasant Beach & Toms River, NJ

[] Belmarquise, Hotel Manager. Belmar, NJ

[] Paine Webber, Stockbroker & Commodities Broker, also licensed in insurance – backed instruments. St. Paul, MN

[] Merril Lynch, Stockbroker. New Nork City

[] Burnett Merril Lynch, Realtor. St. Paul, MN

[] University of Minnesota, Music Instructor. Mpls, MN

[] Rymer Music, Music Instructor. St. Paul, MN

[] Minnesota Opera, Trombonist. Mpls, MN

Professional Background (Expanded)

* 1987-2009 Creative Writer (On Spec.) short stories, poetry, screenplays; commercial copy, print, and radio advertising. Periodic supplemental income from temp jobbing as Admin. Assist. specializing in suite of (any/all) MS Word/ Excel/ Access/ Visual Basic 6.

* 1986-1987 Direct Sales Specialist Rivertown Trading and Damark, Intl. Top production, trainer and researcher.

* 1985-1986 Merchandising Manager Vannote Lumber Co., New Jersey Shore Area. Wrote copy and effected commercial photographic solutions for print ads; wrote, produced and directed radio spots; directed public relations campaigns and was responsible for PR releases; advertising consultant vis-à-vis outside agencies; executed effective travel incentive and other successful promotions to stimulate our field sales force.

* 1984-1985 Hotel Manager Belmarquise Hotel, NJ Shore Area. This was during the very high volume summers.

* 1979-1984 Registered Representative (Insisted my customers buy equity and sell large bond positions when the DOW was at 800.) Stockbroker series 7 and Blue Sky, and Commodities broker series 3 at E. F. Hutton, St. Paul; Merrill Lynch, NYC; UBS Paine Webber, St. Paul (4 years). Also held insurance and annuities licenses. Developed and implemented direct response programs including direct mail, in-person canvas, and seminar programs. Managed personal portfolios and accounts in municipals, equities, options strategies, mutual funds, commodities vehicles, derivatives, tax-incentive investments, and insurance-based products. Recipient of Top Achievement Award from Paine Webber [now of UBS].

* 1978-1979 Real Estate Rep. Merrill Lynch-Burnet, St. Paul.

* 1969-1978 Professional Musician symphonic/operatic brass player and teacher, taught at MacPhail Center (U of MN), Rymer School of Music, Cadenza Music Center, and privately. Performed with Minnesota Opera, Minnesota Orchestra (summer season), Plymouth Music Series, as well as a wide variety of free-lance chamber music; pop, radio, TV, and studio work. Trombone student of [#1 World Wide brass/voice/wind pedagogue] Arnold Jacobs (Chicago Symphony), Steven Zellmer (Minnesota Orchestra), Per Brevig (Metropolitan Opera), and John Swallow (New York Brass Quintet).

Technical Skills
(all listed are perpetually updated and/or reinforced) Linux redhat, Solaris 10 Unix, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Visual Basic 6, PowerPoint; OpenOffice suite incl. the Database Development utility, StarOffice suite, ftp, ssh/telnet, vi & vim editor, Usenet, gopher, UNIX shell scripting; programming*; The Gimp and Adobe Photoshop computer graphics software, discrete mathematics and calculus

*Skill / Years Studied or Used / Most Recent Year

Computer Graphics                 6                 2009
HTML, [XHTML, DHTML]             10                 2009
XML, CSS, XSL, XSLT               2                 2009
Java w/Applets                    2                 2009
JSP and Java Servlet              2                 2009
C,C++                             2                 2009
PHP, Python                       2                 2009
MySQL / MS Access                 2                 2009
Linux Adm. & shell programming    2                 2009
Tech Writing Editing              3                 2009
Ajax & LAMP                       2                 2009
Python wrapped C, C++, Fortran    1                 2009
Ada (gcc)                         1                 2009

Education

Augsburg College: Computer Science

Columbia University: Classical Studies

University of Minnesota: Music Theory & Performance
Adv Professional Development: International Music Festivals

Bayreuth Festival, Germany / Edinburgh Festival, Scotland /

Aspen Music Festival, Colorado / Institut des Hautes Études Musicales, Montreux, Switzerland


=-::-> One Strong Current Focus Area:
financial services programming resource