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John R. Brumage, "zeke", Inventor, artist, and teacher.
Phone (702) 733-9353 [SEE-ZEKE]
Email John@Brumage.com      BIOGRAPHY

Seeking opportunity to invent, innovate, and help others use communication technology.

SKILLS:
Prepare scripts, shoot, and edit video training materials.
Video editing with SONY VEGAS.
Teach live classes on any technical subject.
Customer contact, technical sales
Field and Bench level troubleshooting of video, computer, and other media equipment.
Branding and Marketing.

AVAILABLE NOW for freelance (1099), or permanent part time employment in the Las Vegas area.

Work History (dates approximate) Title, Employer/Client,  Job Description, accomplishments, awards.

1994-present day Internet Provider. Connect people to Internet.

1993-97 Gardener,  Zeke's General Store, Central, AZ., Surveyed, Erected, and Operated
Greenhouse and Plant Nursery.

1985-present day freelance still photography, video production and technical services. 

SAME PERIOD:  TEACHER, Suffolk County Schools. Taught Adult Education classes
in BASIC computer language, using COMMODORE 64 computers.

1982-1985 ASSISTANT OFFICER Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York.
Planning, installation, operation, and maintenance of in-house video studio and remote location package.
During this period, the bank completed major upgrades and won awards for training videos.
At the time, Morgan Guaranty was considered the top bank in the world, and my choice of
employment was driven by my desire to learn about finance. 

1978-1982 VICE PRESIDENT of PLANNING and TECHNOLOGY,  MPCS, New York City.
Design and install in-house and customer video studios. Design and install first independent videotape
duplication facility. Oversee day to day operations of studios, editing, and duplication facility. Specify
and install first computer adjusted television cameras. Technical supervision of many firsts, including
first music videos for emerging artists including Deborah Harry (Blondie) and Queen Latifa.

1974-1978 CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER CTL Electronics, Inc. New York City.
Designed, installed, and repaired video equipment. Designed and built "The Egg Store" an early
Helical editing studio. Trained, and assisted staff and customers in use of the new video technology. 
technical personnel. To present day, with Mr. C. T. LUI, and continue to book through CTL for all
1099 projects. You may contact Mr. LUI at (pronounced Louie) at (212) 233-0754.
"Lord of the Universe," Produced by Michael Shamberg's TVTV, was Edited in CTL's Egg Store facility.
This ground breaking production won the 1974 "Alfred I. du Pont/Columbia University Award in
Broadcast Journalism. "

THIS PERIOD Freelance. GLOBAL VILLIAGE, New York City, Design, fabricate,
and repair electronic art.

SAME PERIOD Freelance Recording Engineer, Rosebud Studio, New York City.
Designed and Installed new mixing board. 

1970-1974 MANAGER CUSTOMER SERVICE Marketing Operations, Inc. New York City.
instruct and assist customers in use of dialup time sharing terminals. Design and supervise coding of
customer applications. Wrote the first known TAROT card reading program, and supervised
development of BUDGET*** possibly the first electronic spreadsheets.

SAME PERIOD: Production Manager, ESP Disk., New York City
Coordinate production of phonograph records, 4-color printing, jacket lamination, shrink wrapping.

1964-1969 CHIEF ENGINEER Charles Fuller Productions, Tampa Florida
All aspects of radio, phonograph, and 16MM film production. My mentor, Charles Fuller
Hunt, was an innovator in film for 30-second TV commercials. During my employment
there, CFP won several awards including an ADDY award for "Strawberries and Cream
Ice Cream." Produced and engineered over 100 "garage band" records, including "Snoopy
vs. the Red Baron," a multi million selling novelty single.

1959-1963 PRIVATE United Stated Marine Corps
Aviation electronics operator. Radar, TTY, voice radio, plotting.

1954-1956 SALES ASSOCIATE Woolworth's Sandusky Ohio.
operate nut cooker, hawk product to customers in store.

1958-1959 MANAGER Cedar Point Amusement Park. Sandusky, Ohio (summers weekends)
Operated Photo Concession, all aspects, photography, customer interface, making change, reconciliation.

1957-1958 PIN JUMPER, FOOD SERVER Bowling Alley Huron Ohio. (after school, weekends)
Technical Reset pins, un-jammed AMF pinsetters. Worked snack bar made world's best Milkshakes.

1956-1957 RIDE OPERATOR Kiddyland Amusement Park, Huron, Ohio.
operated amusement rides.

Education:

1994-1995 Eastern Arizona College, attended, did not graduate. 4.0 GPA
The professors at this community college are there to teach. It was here that
I first sat at a live terminal on the Internet brand network of networks.

1973 Columbia University audited ONE class, assisted in teaching graduate computer workshop. 
This was during my employment at Mark Ops, inc.

1963 Business University of Tampa. Data Processing Award.

1959 HURON HIGH SCHOOL, Huron, Ohio. Highest score, National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.
Smart, caring, firebrand teachers. Managed Stage lighting and projection. Yearbook Sports Photos.
Used and taught others to use existing photographic darkroom for enlargements.
Loaded extra credits to finish in three years. 

 

Born February 14, 1942