Experience

Community Music Center of Boston
• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Executive Director

  • Sep 2017 - Present


PRIZM Ensemble

• United States
• Performing Arts

• Executive Director

  • 2009 - Sep 2017

  • Work closely with the board to ensure ongoing local programmatic excellence, program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems • Recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals • Broaden PRIZM’s public image and increase brand awareness for the organization, clearly articulating the mission, vision, programs, and community impact. • Ensure that diversity, as defined by the Board, is a principle and a practice articulated throughout the organization. • Work with the board leadership and financial planners to oversee the budget • Together with the Board, develop and manage the fundraising and financial strategies of the organization including: o Working with the board to develop a fundraising plan (including public, private, and corporate support) and benchmarks for success o Overseeing the management of all funds, consistent with the organization’s accounting system o Cultivate existing donors for ongoing support while seeking new prospects to assure a robust and diversified funding base. o Ensure that the Board of Directors has the necessary information to effectively perform its fiduciary duty. • Manage the development and implementation of the organization’s Strategic Plan and annual action plans in conjunction with the Board. • Identify and maintain strong relationships with key community partners to diversify and expand the organization’s individual, foundation, corporate, and government donor base. • Work with community leaders and PRIZM leadership to ensure that all program values meet the needs of constituents. • Work with the Director of Educational and Artistic Programming to supervise programs and services and ensure that they are consistent with the organization’s mission and strategic plan • Guide marketing, branding, and public relations programs that highlight PRIZM’s impact and local/national/international reputation. • Hire and supervise staff Show less



Memphis Music Initiative

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of in-School Programs

  • Oct 2014 - Aug 2017

  • Recruit, develop, manage, and retain high-quality administrative and leadership staff. o Lead and support a management team of 5 members who manage a team of 33 music fellows. The 33 music fellows work as teaching artists supporting approximately 3300 students in 39 schools and in 65 individual band, orchestra, choir, and general music classes. o Ensure that teaching fellows are adequately diverse in their musician skill sets. This includes in concentration (instrumental, vocal, music industry, etc.) and in genres (classical, jazz, rock, hip-hop, soul, etc.) o Lead efforts to ensure that the diversity of fellows and management team reflect student diversity. • Supervise, support and manage program leadership and staff in all aspects of their work including effective support for fellows in order to maximize student achievement outcomes. • Lead the creation and implementation of a 5-year strategic plan for the expansion of the in-schools programs • Develop and refine strategic goals of all MMI in-school programs with the Executive Director to achieve the mission and vision of the MMI • Oversee the fiscal health of the MMI in-school programs • Assist nonprofit partners who are receiving funding from MMI in order to ensure that they share MMI’s values of diversity and equity as a valuable component of their school programs • Ensure ongoing programmatic excellence of all MMI in-school programs such as program evaluation and management of communications and systems • Establish clear benchmarks and metrics while working with data analysts to oversee the tracking and reporting of qualitative and quantitative data. • Develop and maintain effective and appropriate engagement with diverse stakeholders including the school leadership, in-school programs faculty, staff, students, parents, community members, and other private and public partners. • Serve as the chief spokesperson for the Memphis Music Initiative In-School Programs in the local and national arts community Show less



The University of Memphis

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Professor of Bassoon

  • Aug 2004 - May 2017

  Teach undergraduate, Masters, and Doctoral (DMA) level bassoon students • Teach undergraduate and graduate level reed making • Serve on multiple doctoral committees • Perform as bassoonist of the Memphis Woodwind Quintet • Coach undergraduate and graduate chamber music including the graduate woodwind quintet • Coordinate and teach woodwind pedagogy • Serve on multiple faculty committees including as chairperson of the Promotion and Tenure Committee • Teach woodwind orchestral excerpts course • Teach additional courses as needed (Music Appreciation, Basic Theory, or Music Theory I) • Director of the annual Bassoonapalooza • Served 3 years as woodwind area coordinator Show less



University of Missouri-Columbia

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor of Bassoon

  • 2002 - 2004

  • Taught undergraduate bassoon students • Taught undergraduate reed making • Coached graduate and undergraduate chamber music • Taught bassoon methods to education majors • Taught music appreciation • Performed as bassoonist of the Missouri Woodwind Quintet • Served on faculty committees • Taught undergraduate bassoon students • Taught undergraduate reed making • Coached graduate and undergraduate chamber music • Taught bassoon methods to education majors • Taught music appreciation • Performed as bassoonist of the Missouri Woodwind Quintet • Served on faculty committees