Wallace D. Brindle
Albany, NY

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=&= e m a i l: admin AT gobi-igloo DOT com =&=

(518) 729-4774

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; and some day sail my own 40+ foot Halberg-Rassy yacht 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.

Relevant Experience

[] Designed & developed Web site projects

[] 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)

* 1987-2008 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
Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Visual Basic 6, PowerPoint; Solaris 10 Unix, ftp, ssh/telnet, vi editor, shell programming; The Gimp and Adobe Photoshop computer graphics software, mathematics

Skill Number Years Studied/Used Up To Year
Computer Graphics 4 2008

HTML, [XHTML, DHTML] 8 2008

JSP and Java Servlet 2 2008

XML, CSS, XSL, XSLT 2 2008

Java w/Applets 2 2008

C,C++ 2 2008

Perl, PHP, Python 1 2008

MySQL / MS Access Rel. db 1 2008

Linux & shell programming 2 2008

Tech Writing Editing 3 2008

Ajax 1 2008

Python wrapped C . C++ . Fortran 0.5 2008

Ada (gcc) 0.5 2008

Education

Augsburg College: Computer Science

Columbia University: Classical Studies

University of Minnesota: Music Theory & Performance

Advanced Professional Development at International Music Festivals

Bayreuth Festival, Germany

Edinburgh Festival, Scotland

Aspen Music Festival, Colorado

The Institute for Advanced Musical Studies, Montreux, Switzerland

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