Experience

Wolf Creek Academy

• United States
• Mental Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Arts and Nutrition TEAM Director

  • Feb 2016 - Present

  Currently serve as Director of Arts and Arts Therapy programming as well as Nutrition, Culinary and Meal preparation for Wolf Creek Academy - a private therapeutic boarding school for troubled teens. Duties include purchasing, auditing, forecasting, ordering, and preparation of all goods relative to culinary services. I currently partner to oversee the budget and expenditures. Additionally, I work within this non-profit to facilitate other non-profits and appropriate their services. My other focus is on developing, applying, and teaching creative Therapy Arts programs to help crisis and crisis management in teen aged children utilizing my 40 years of fine arts and graphics capabilities. Show less



Henderson County Public Schools

• Henderson County, NC

• Guest Teacher - Artist In Residence Coordinator

  • Feb 2013 - Apr 2017

  Currently performing the task of Guest Teacher in all locations and all class descriptions for Henderson County Public Schools. Additionally, I coordinate with students and Art Instructors in Artist in Residence grant programs. I look forward to having my own High School Art Instruction program in Public Education with emphasis on traditional art education practices facilitated by a lateral entry program if and when one becomes available. Currently performing the task of Guest Teacher in all locations and all class descriptions for Henderson County Public Schools. Additionally, I coordinate with students and Art Instructors in Artist in Residence grant programs. I look forward to having my own High School Art Instruction program in Public Education with emphasis on traditional art education practices facilitated by a lateral entry program if and when one becomes available.



Garment Guys (www.garmentguys.com)

• Hendersonville, NC

• Senior Art Designer

  • Jun 2012 - Oct 2013

  All aspects of Senior Designing and Creative Consulting including configuring client images with graphic enhancements, pre-press for CMYK printing, image identity packaging, and ground floor traditional and digital art creation for the textile decorating model - notably full and spot color screen printing and heat transfer industries. All aspects of Senior Designing and Creative Consulting including configuring client images with graphic enhancements, pre-press for CMYK printing, image identity packaging, and ground floor traditional and digital art creation for the textile decorating model - notably full and spot color screen printing and heat transfer industries.



You Teez Me. Com

• Hendersonville, North Carolina - Central Florida

• Senior Designer, Lead - Artist, Creative Consultant

  • Jan 2006 - Oct 2012

  You Teez Me (www.youteezme.com) specialized in selling specific art and ideas to the retail online international community. Additionally, we fulfilled services such as brand development and custom, niche, small production runs are offered to fill the needs of small business owners, schools and educators, event coordinators, festivals, artist's, entrepreneurs, free speech activists, politicians, and others. Categories for retail designs varied from Humor, Artsy, Martial Arts, Politics, Zen, Bikers, Religion, to Hunting and Fishing, and others. I functioned as Senior Designer for retail art, Lead Artist for custom and niche art marketing, and Creative Director for web sales and marketing. I've also been acting manager-owner of the Hendersonville, NC test market storefront, and was involved in the FOC authoring and business plan footprint development. Show less



Roast House Ventures, Inc.

• Hendersonville, NC

• Owner - Developer

  • Apr 2001 - Jul 2006

  Developed The Smokies Roast House, Piki Grill, Potlatch Tribal Eatery, 3 Sons Eatery, 24/7 Cafe's, and The Bill Dance Fish Camp Restaurant models for FOC franchising as a marketing base to promote healthy, natural alternatives to fast food franchises in the fast-casual dining genre. Because the concepts were revolutionary, everything was developed from the ground up including recipes, food item manufacture, component and bottling control, inventory calculations, commissary provisions, POS and POP development and retail assignments, concept and internet and social media marketing, advertising campaigns, packaging design, capitalization and funding data, demography and stats for planning and franchising, architecture design and footprints, nouveau cooking and food cost procedures, and several business plan constructs; all facets of ground floor concept franchise restaurant development were employed - from fundamental menu design and work flow to FOC and trademark work, capitalization, and test marketing. Show less



Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

• Hospitality
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive Chef - Food and Beverage Management

  • Apr 1977 - Mar 1997

  Culmination of nearly 20 years (on and off) in the Food Service and Hospitality industries - spanning venues like the Tropicana Resort and Casino in Las Vegas and The Sheraton International in Orlando - with many venues in Denver, Co. I served in many capacities - from Executive Chef to Front Dining Room Manager. Everything from exacting numbers on monthly food costs, annual expenditures, P&L, overhead, inventory control, creating original menus, recipes, overseeing banquet operations, catering and private functions - to creating ice sculptures and custom airbrushed cake decorations. Show less



Oro-Tech Industries, Inc.

• Las Vegas, Nevada

• Marketing Director

  • Jan 1981 - Jan 1987

  Created and implemented various art and marketing needs for Oro-Tech Industries, Inc., an innovative R&D production facility founded to exploit the technologies of black powder alternatives and products for primitive arms enthusiast's. Duties included trade show booth designs, shareholder memos, OFC authoring, SEC understandings, show displays, story boards, logo designs, copy writing, and original art for advertisements. Considered partly responsible for helping to create "Cowboy Action" tournament shooting, participating in many events, and featured in Guns Magazine - 1984, Guns and Ammo - 1987, and Shooting Times - 1984. Show less