Wallace Darwen Brindle
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Memphis, TN 38101
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Immediate Objective:
"Entry Level" Computer Programmer or Web Designer in Excel+Access+Visual
Basic 6, C and C++, Visual C++, Java 2, & Forte For Java, ColdFusion,
JavaBeans, JavaScript, VB Script, Perl, cgi/Perl, XML - Oracle9i, HTML,
DHTML, XHTML, XML; VRML, Java 3D API, Macromedia Dreamweaver, M~ Fireworks,
"The Gimp". Also: Technical Writer, Teaching Assistant, Corporate
Trainer in inter or intra-business communications / outsource for
time-efficient upgrades of computer users' software skills*.
Polymath. Recent and past college work at various solid academic institutions
(please see below) have always protracted to self-directed studies;
continuing courses to satisfy my own levels. As relates to computer programming
and E-commerce, it remains for me to tie things together into competencies
born of on-the-job experience/employment.
Seeking a full-time, 7:00 --[…] opportunity, but I would consider other schedules;
Consulting -- agency arrangement is fine, could discuss an intern
arrangement. Currently working independently yet zealously, optimizing,
insofar as this is possible in a "solo" insular environment, depth,
breadth, and pace. I could start tomorrow developing software development
solutions, under your direction with requisite specifications; or begin on a
more abstract project in terra incognita, starting from, perhaps
occasionally amorphously proposed quest, perhaps bounded only by inchoate
questions. Position might,
though needn't necessarily, draw on one or more aspects of my
broad-based curriculum vitae, as: e.g. Programmer / Technical Writer,
External / Internal Project Communications Liaison, Economic and/or Market
Model Algorithmist / Enterprise Developer, Web site designer or E-commerce
Consultant.
Note: demonstrated affinities for and similar delight in, other functional
symbolic systems, such as music theory and composition; Mathematics; Latin,
Greek, and Sanskrit grammar comparative analysis. Clarifying -- to drop a
rose -- Umberto Eco, the signs and symbols, signification v. communication,
et al., Prof. at the U. of Bologna, and Frege's Math. logic work too, are my "close personal
friends". Champions in the arena of matching thought, world, life, ____
to other media, experimentalists: M. Heidegger, J.L. Borges, W.S. Burroughs,
J. Cage, and the team that translated Joyce's Ulysses into Chinese, bouquet
this point.
[*Comfortable with various professional graphics programs and techniques;
also Microsoft Word, Excel, Access; Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3; Freelance Graphics;
other projects have included ambitious multimedia initiatives and animation.
Quick to learn new and changing technologies. Thinking, in that
process, how I might teach it; with the aim of optimizing time and (a
company's) talent.]
Second Objective Group: Academic and technical writing, and teaching, in
Computer Science, Math, Internet, E.E., and Physics. Targeting the needs
obtaining in the arenas of business, government, education, social services,
or wherever there are didactic lags v. people-technology operations; where,
as such, opportunities for moving forward are underutilized, or perhaps not
always clearly seen.
Professional Background
**** 1987-2002 Creative Writer (On Spec.), short stories,
poetry,
screenplays; commercial copy, print, and
radio advertising.
Occasional 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 did the photography
for
print ads; wrote, produced and directed radio spots;
directed
public relations campaigns and was responsible for PR
releases;
advertising consultant vis-á-vis outside agencies;
executed
effective travel incentive and other successful
promotions to
stimulate outside sales force.
**** 1984-1985 Hotel Manager, Belmarquise Hotel, NJ Shore Area.
This was during super-high volume hot
season.
**** 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;
Paine Webber, St. Paul (4 years). Also
held
insurance and annuities licenses.
Developed
and implemented direct response programs
in-
cluding 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.
**** 1978-1979 Real Estate Rep. Merrill Lynch - Burnet, St. Paul.
**** 1969-1978 Professional 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).
Education
· Currently: Have recently been a Junior in the Computer
Science B.S. sequence
[please refer to note at top] at Audenburg College, Saint Paul;
within a consortium of five excellent private
colleges; with access
to their courses, faculties, libraries.
· 1997-1998 Highly practical, immersion Computer Programming
courses at
Brown Institute and CDI, both tech schools in the
Twin Cities
Area.
· 1989-1991 Nights, ad hoc classes relating to particular
projects or
interests.
· 1985-1987 Columbia University, Classical Studies; and U of
MN. (Cost of
living in Manhattan forced a strategic retreat.)
· Day/Night U of MN, with sabbaticals; credits, special
studies (for which,
please kindly note hereunder) and professional
experience
credit equivalent to, at minimum, a BA in Music
Theory and
Performance, (minor) // Additionally, an Honors
Candidate in Psychology and Classical Studies.
· 1973-1976 (summers) Full scholarship to The Institute for
Advanced
Musical Studies, Montreux, Switzerland; Bayreuth Festival,
Germany; Edinburgh Festival, Scotland; Aspen Music Festival on
a partial scholarship.
Significant Self-taught Areas/Life Experience Photography,
cinematography, visual art and design; theater arts, dance; poetry and prose
writing; comedy writing; original theoretical studies in Psychology, market
theory and analysis, advertising theory and practice; philosophy and math.
Active in chess, sailing, squash, and great books discussion groups. My
default location is the nearest library/rehearsal space/core interest SIG
Groups [with people] --[N.B.:] Integrate well with all colleagues --[N.B.:]
Integrate well with all colleagues -- re. morale; others' emotional
bugs.
Affiliations
**
Joined the American Federation of Musicians, 1964 (current)
** Qualified for and became an active member of Mensa, 1981
(current)
** Elected to membership in the Twin Cities Society of Security
Analysts (F.A.F.), 1982
** Appointed to Publications Committee of the Jersey Shore Builders'
Association, 1987
** Contributing Writer, St. Paul - Nagasaki Sister City Committee
Newsletter, 1989
** Tested in the upper 1/10th of 1% of I.Q. curve through
private testing source*, 1997
** Applying to the International Society for Philosophical
Enquiry (requirement: test
above the 99.9% statistical IQ curve.), 2002.
** Joining the U.S. Chess Federation, 2002. Defeated once this year.
** Competency testing or program examples, writing sampler,
and/or references available.
(Parsimonious Proactive Paragraph Postscript:) I don't walk around babbling in 'Réuméspeak'; but why lay myself into Procrustes' bed here? I am honest; hardworking; dependable; persevering; a creative/original thinker; adaptive; and problem solving -- arts talented -- all of which subtotals to: rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno*. Allegation: I am easy to work with -- modest and self-effacing around others, (outside this somewhat strident CV). Long-term demonstration on request. Somewhat, he says...
*rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno: An extremely rare bird, and very like a black swan (supposed not to exist). The first four words are often used ironically].
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