Experience

Independent Musician

• Musicians
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Music Composer

  • Sep 2013 - Present

  Greater New York City Area I play guitar and bass for musicians all over NYC, compose my own work, score short films, write podcast themes, and produce for artists! As a freelance live musician I: - Perform at venues such as 54 Below, Green Room 42 and the Duplex for musical theater/cabaret gigs - Music direct and plays guitar for The She Show at the restaurant Balaboosta - Read music and can arrange for guitar or bass from a piano/vocal chart As a freelance recording musician, I: - Record and… Show more I play guitar and bass for musicians all over NYC, compose my own work, score short films, write podcast themes, and produce for artists! As a freelance live musician I: - Perform at venues such as 54 Below, Green Room 42 and the Duplex for musical theater/cabaret gigs - Music direct and plays guitar for The She Show at the restaurant Balaboosta - Read music and can arrange for guitar or bass from a piano/vocal chart As a freelance recording musician, I: - Record and produce guitar, bass, keys, vocals, and program drums from my home studio (recording gear: Apollo Twin, Rode NT1, various dynamic Shure mics. recording software: Ableton, Pro Tools, Native Instruments) - Confident session player at other studios as well I also write music and lyrics for musical theater, and have written two full length shows so far: - "The Regulars: A Folk Musical", which was most recently performed as a concert at Hope Mill Theater in Manchester, UK - "Addy & Dahlia: A Fairytale Musical", which was most recently performed as a concert at The Secret Theater in Long Island City - Co-writing "REIGN: A Rock Opera" with fellow composer Anessa Marie I have written scores and themes, including: - Score for "Birth of a Beautiful Butch", a short film featured at Outfest and Newfest - Theme for the podcast "Love and Light Confessionals" - Theme for "Queer Wellness Podcast" - Score for the play "Endless Air, Endless Water" for New York Musical Theater Festival I also write and produce my own music, streaming on all platforms under the name "Will Shish" - "Reimagine: I" EP being released 9/30/22 - Singles "Moonlight" (2020) and "Limit's the Sky" (2021) - "Steps" LP (2017) - "To the Corner and Back" EP (2015, only at willshish.bandcamp.com) Show less



Prep Sound

• United States
• Entertainment

• Head of Music Production

  • Sep 2014 - Present

  Greater New York City Area - Manages team of freelance session musicians to produce and record clients’ projects - Writes, arranges, and records songs based on lyrics and melodies that clients want to develop - Session musician on guitar, bass, keyboard, trumpet, vocals - Uses Pro Tools, Ableton, Maschine software



The Guitar Center Company

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Dec 2018 - Jul 2021

  Queens, NY

• Operations Lead

  • Oct 2013 - Dec 2018

  Queens, NY - Worked in sales for pro audio equipment from October 2013-May 2014 - June 2014, moved to the operations department and quickly learned and mastered a myriad of operational tasks - February 2016 promoted to Operations Lead, helping manage a small team to perform a variety of operational procedures, including organizing the warehouse, stocking the sales floor, maintaining inventory accuracy, insuring gear is safely shipped and received, training associates on operations and sales skills,… Show more - Worked in sales for pro audio equipment from October 2013-May 2014 - June 2014, moved to the operations department and quickly learned and mastered a myriad of operational tasks - February 2016 promoted to Operations Lead, helping manage a small team to perform a variety of operational procedures, including organizing the warehouse, stocking the sales floor, maintaining inventory accuracy, insuring gear is safely shipped and received, training associates on operations and sales skills, managing price integrity, and maintaining used gear representation online for sale and police records - February-April 2018 acted as Interim Operations Manger while Operations Manager was on family leave, while also maintaining Lead Operations responsibilities, and managing a team of 3 part time operations associates



Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager

  • Apr 2016 - Jan 2019

  Greater New York City Area - Created project budget and schedule, facilitates musician payments, schedules recording sessions and rehearsals, books musicians, writes and distributes music, runs rehearsals, creates social media - Oversaw production of 4-song demo album, assisted audio engineering, and recorded guitar, bass, and trumpet parts on the album, as well as ran rehearsals for all of the songs. - Independently updating score and parts from original production written in 2012 at Ithaca College



Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes

• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance Writer

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  Ithaca, New York, United States Wrote a bi-weekly column for Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes "Out for Health" program about living as a transgender man. The columns are available online under the title "William Wednesdays" and booklets were printed and given out at Planned Parenthoods in the Souther Finger Lakes region.



Ithaca College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Electroacoustic Music Lab Assistant

  • Jan 2012 - Apr 2013

  Whalen School of Music - Helped students on the program Digital Performer for the Intro to Electroacoustic Music course in the Whalen School of Music - Helped set u/break down audio for class recitals for the Digital Sound Production and Digital Recording and Engineering classes



Sears

• United States
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sales Associate

  • Jun 2012 - Dec 2012

  Ithaca, New York Area