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John R. Brumage, artist and teacher.

Projects Wanted:

Design Lighting effects for dance venues. 

Rehearse Bands to improve timing, dynamics, stage presence.

Camera Operator/Lighting/Directing 
$995 per 10 Hour day $495 per 4 hour half day, 
includes SONY HD camera,  tripod, and 50 Van Miles 
Additional Van Miles, $1.
Blank Media, Lighting Equipment Rentals, etc. not included. 

HD or SD video editing, using SONY VEGAS 5, $100/hour

Script Writing. Convert User's manual to shooting script.

Voice over or on-screen talent/actor, especially good with technical subjects.

AV/stage presentation techie, Electronic repairs at component level.

BIOGRAPHY (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 Nursury.

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

1982-1985 ASSISTANT OFFICER Morgan Guaranty Trust Company, New York.
Planning, installation, operation, and maintainence of in-house video studio and remote location package. 
Won two JVC awards for industrial video production.

1978-1982 VICE PRESIDENT of PLANNING and DEVELOPMENT MPCS, New York City.
Design and install video studios. Design and install first independant videotape duplication facility
Day to day operations of studios, editing, and duplication facility.

1975-1978 CUSTOMER SERVICE MANAGER CTL Electronics, Inc. New York City.
Designed, installed, and repaired video equipment. Supervised, trained, and assisted other 
technical personnel. Delivered video equipment and trained customers. In this 
capacity, introduced TWYLA THARP  to her first Video Equipment and discussed
the challenge of making dance work when confined to the little box of a TV screen.

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

SOMEWHERE IN HERE Recording Engineer, Rosebud Studio, New York City.
Designed and Installed new mixing board. Recorded and mixed 
Symphony of Cacophony My only "Serious Work" as defined by the ASCAP

1970-1975 MANAGER CUSTOMER SERVICE Marketing Operations, Inc. New York City.
instruct customers in use of dialup time sharing terminals. Design and supervise coding of
customer applications. Supplied Computer Time Sharing and Workshop Teaching 
to Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Every student coming 
into b-school was required to take this two-week crash course. Side note, the 
Operating system was the original Kimminey and Kurtz 
DARTMOUTH TIME SHARING system, which was the first BASIC. Bill Gates
got his first real experience using the same software and a TTY 33 with a 110 Baud 
dialup connection. It cost $10 an hour plus 10 cents per CPU second to 
hook up to the HUGE computer 

SOMEWHERE IN HERE Production Manager, ESP Disk., New York, they heard 
something i did and invited me to work for them, and let me live in one of their
spare bedrooms and eat at their table till i found an apartment... no small feat 
in new your city. The bedroom across the hall was occupied by Lenny Bruce's 
main squeeze. I don't remember her name, so email me if you know it.

1964-1969 CHIEF ENGINEER Charles Fuller Productions, tampa florida
All aspects of audio and 16MM film production. My mentor Charles Fuller Hunt was an
innovator in film for 30-second TV commercials. Produced and engineered records including
international  gold record hits "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" and "Baby, Let's Wait." Operated acetate 
record cutting lathe,  high speed audio tape duplication equipment. During this time, managed
and traveled with florida show band "Noah's Ark"

1959-1963 PRIVATE United Stated Marine Corps
Aviation electronics operator.

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

1959-1963 Played the role of "Pvt. FuckUp" in the United States Marine Corps.
Operate aviation  ground support electronics, electrician, company clerk-in-training,
newspaper reporter, rifleman, demolitions, operate floor polisher.

1959 Dropped out of HURON HIGH SCHOOL, after taking extra credits each
year in order to graduate in three years. Stupid Bean Counters! This cost me a full ride to 
TULANE which had been offered as a result of being in the 99th percentile in the US
National Merit Scholarship Test. I shoulda sued them, but if i had taken the scholarship,
i would have graduated just in time to get killed in Viet Nam. And i loved my teachers,
all straight out of Mayberry, This was the 50's and you became a teacher because you
felt a calling, not because it paid good and there is a strong union. Mr. Green, who 
coached Billy Joe Armstrong and other Northern Ohio Farm Boys to undefeated 
seasons, also taught chemestry, and traded me access to a FULLY 
EQUIPPED DARKROOM for reading the book, doing the homework, and taking
the tests, he also chose two other students a male and a female to go in the darkroom 
with me and learn Photo Enlarging. A Super Hot (but dykey, somehow) English 
Literature teacher that would draw pictures of sheep on the blackboard, and 
warn us not to be like them. God, i hope the HUAC never got ahold of her!

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.
this job was arranged by my school principal, who blackmailed me into taking Latin II by refusing to
sign my work permit until i relented. If i had gone to tulane, i would have really appreciated
that. And, as it turned out, i enjoyed the hell out of being the MC of the ROMAN TOGA PARTY

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

Born February 14, 1942