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A Whole Piñata-Full of Auxiliary Capacities
I have explored many, many different disciplines, and have solid competence in everything listed here.
Active
- Automation Design
- I create intricate, bespoke networks of technology that involve relays, sensors, motors, rails, pumps, transformers, delay modules, valves, and other such delights. The clients who can afford these services are few and far between.
- Copy Editing
- This is a perfect garden for the flourishing of my perfectionism. I have polished writing across a wide array of styles, from financial documentation to personal correspondence to screenplays to poetry.
- Video Editing
- Final Cut Pro and I get along very well. I keep my projects meticulously organized, I'm fast, and I work to consistently high standards. I have edited advertising for television broadcast, short films, and documentation of theatre for publicity and submission to major foundations.
- Graphic Design
- Most of my work in this area falls under the rubric of web development, but over the years I have also produced a consistent stream of business cards, letterheads, envelopes, invitations, flyers, postcards, and posters.
- Electrical
- I have performed a wide variety of permanent electrical work in homes and institutions, as well as working for many years as a lighting technician in the entertainment and events industry.
- Plumbing
- I have performed a number of total kitchen and bath replacements, and can handle any repair or replacement of common plumbing fixtures, including sinks, faucets, toilets, showers, baths, dishwashers, washer/dryers, inline or under-cabinet water filters, icemakers, stoves, and refrigerators.
- Carpentry
- I began building theatrical scenery at the age of fourteen, and continued in that industry for over a decade. Lately I have turned my woodworking to raw space build-outs, custom built-in furniture, and conventional domestic remodeling.
- Networking
- I am adept at installing and configuring both wired and wireless LANs. I keep hundreds of feet of cat5e organized, terminate and test it, deploy routers and switches, and keep wireless networks secure and humming.
- Metalwork
- I have experience in steel fabrication with standard structural shapes as well as with found materials. My primary metalworking strengths are in traditional blacksmithing and MIG welding.
Despite having spent years as a carpenter, I prefer to work with metal.
Dormant
- Theatre
- I earned a BFA in Independent Theatre Studies from Boston University, and started my own theatre company soon after graduation. From 2001 to 2005 I produced a series of new works in Boston and New York, in venues ranging from Boston's underground Pan 9 to downtown Manhattan's Here. Our most significant production, Hunger Dreams, premiered September 2002 in the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts under their Spotlight Program, and at the Brooklyn Lyceum in New York. I wrote, directed, produced, and designed all of our productions. We were a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.