** I designed and continue to webmaster a website for Oregon and Washington musicians and venues, listing over 5600 musicians and 1500 venues and festivals in the region. Got the attention of some investors in the dot-com highlife days of 1999--almost landed $10 million in funding for an online talent booking system before the bottom dropped out of the market. (indieavenue.com) The site was begun in 1995 from the databases I had developed from the Portland Live Music Guide (now defunct).

** Designed the first five years of websites for the Waterfront Blues Festival in Portland. This was a sizeable project required constant and timely updates, and diverse communications for the four months prior to the festival, including executive-level communications with the Oregon Food Bank and the festival sponsors. (www.waterfrontbluesfest.com) The years were 1996-2001.

** Was the music writer for a Portland weekly for 10 years, occasionally sitting in as Asst. Editor. (The Downtowner, then Our Town until 2000 when it was absorbed by a Portland newspaper, the Portland Tribune) (1990-2000)

** Accomplished a complete redesign and re-functioning of an online health products company website after they suffered a network-marketing meltdown. The site had to be converted to a retail site with new shopping cart and new product photos and presentations. (pureenergyrx.com) (2001-present)

** Designed and produced a monthly newsletter in Adobe Pagemaker for a health products company, writing creatively and picking out call-outs from several doctor's conference calls that I also transcribed. (www.energytoolsint.com - the newsletters are here: mysticbroadcast.net/energytools/) (Oct., Nov. 2003)

** Originated, designed, wrote for, and administrated a monthly online newsletter for an alternative health products company. This included promoting for subscribers, maintaining all correspondence, and creating approximately 3,000 words of content in each issue. (Quantum Health Newsletter) (from Aug. 2002)

** Designed and completed a 120-slide PowerPoint presentation for an Albuquerque, NM, dentist (George Keanna, DMD) who was going to speak at a national conference. I condensed approximately 300-pages of notes, organized them into a coherent media presentation under a stiff deadline. (July 2003)

** Provide content for the Waterfront Blues Festival website (2001-present).

MY BEST FEATURES:
¨ Good listener, team player and brainstormer.
¨ Great at coming up with new approaches and thinking "outside the box."
¨ Self-starting and self-motivated. Once I take on a job, I enthusiastically persist until completely done.
¨ Has definite opinions based on perceptive evaluations, but is not judgmental. Very tolerant of opposing or differing views. Enjoys diversity and the interplay of relationships.
¨ Very positive "thinker," believing there are no obstacles, only opportunities.