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
*Skill / Years Studied or Used / Most Recent Year
Education Augsburg
College: Computer Science Columbia
University: Classical Studies University
of Minnesota: Music Theory & Performance Bayreuth
Festival, Germany / Edinburgh Festival, Scotland / Aspen
Music Festival, Colorado / Institut des Hautes Études Musicales, Montreux, Switzerland
(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
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
Adv
Professional Development:
International
Music Festivals
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