Songwriter, Producer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Engineer; Everybody’s Invited
November 11th, 2008
43 minutes, stereo, CD and MP3. Debut album from The Offhand Band, released by Potluck Creative Arts.
Listen at theoffhandband.com.
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Launched theoffhandband.com
November 11th, 2008
Launched theoffhandband.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Founder, Webmaster; The Offhand Band
November 11th, 2008
- Founded this music act to create satisfying songs that are cool for kids, fun for families and great for the grown on their own.
- Webmaster for theoffhandband.com.
Licensed Simply Music Teacher
October 14th, 2008
Completed the training process to become a licensed as a teacher of Simply Music, a revolutionary, Australian-developed piano learning method that offers a breakthrough in music education. This remarkable approach has students of all ages playing great-sounding contemporary, classical, gospel, blues and accompaniment pieces — immediately — from their very first lessons.
Simply Music
Launched potluckcreativearts.com
September 13th, 2007
- Launched potluckcreativearts.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
- Launched multiple podcasts, plus Resources section to help visitors learn about creativity and how to express themselves through their own lives.
Developed new music, arts and creativity services
July 1st, 2007
Developed innovative Songwriting Workshops, Singalong Workshops, Creativity Coaching service and custom songwriting/composition/writing services, most using Appreciative Inquiry to foster collaborative creativity.
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Editor, A Life Worth Living
May 27th, 2007
Non-fiction book by William F. Giruzzi that explores the possibility of creating a new way of life where good things happen naturally for people.
Relaunched potluck.com using WordPress
September 23rd, 2006
Relaunched potluck.com, using WordPress publishing platform and customized programming with PHP, HTML and plugins.
Relaunched arts.potluck.com
September 15th, 2006
Relaunched arts.potluck.com, adding services including composition, lyric-writing, musical arrangements and production, as well as writing and directing for motion pictures and theatre.
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Creative Arts
September 5th, 2006
Potluck Creative Arts, Red Hook, NY
- Promoting my activities as a musician, songwriter, composer, lyricist, arranger, music producer, pianist/keyboardist, music/arts/creativity educator/facilitator and writer/director for motion pictures and theatre.
- Services offered include Songwriting Workshops; Singalong Workshops; Custom Songs; Custom Instrumentals; Custom Writing; Creativity Coaching; Music Lessons; Piano/Keyboard Performance; Musical Arrangements and Production; Directing for Motion Pictures and Theatre.
- Webmaster for potluckcreativearts.com.
Obtained D/B/A for Potluck Creative Arts
September 5th, 2006
Obtained Certificate of Doing Business Under Assumed Name (”D/B/A”) from Dutchess County Clerk’s Office to do business under the name Potluck Creative Arts.
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Presenter; Gold In, Gold Out: Some Examples of How Doctors Without Borders Crafts Marketing Information Upstream So That What Flows Downstream Has the Potential to Enhance Segmentation and Analysis… and, Of Course, Income
April 10th, 2006
- Invited presentation in panel discussion on “Driving Team Approach - A Strategic Road Map.” Organizer: Ami Fish.
- Team Approach User Forum 2006, Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, April 9-12, 2006.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Team Approach
Music/Piano Teacher, Alfred methods
October 21st, 2005
Using Alfred piano methods including the Basic Piano Course, Prep Course for the Younger Beginner, and Music for Little Mozarts.
Learn more at potluckcreativearts.com.
Alfred Piano Methods
Founder, Principal, Webmaster; Potluck Arts
July 8th, 2005
- Created this business to promote my arts performances and educational efforts, including concerts, singalongs and music lessons.
- Webmaster for arts.potluck.com, using custom HTML programming.
Co-Presenter; Emergent Associates, LLC: Trailblazing Tribalizing
May 28th, 2005
- Invited presentation describing how Emergent Associates’ approach can foster a positive change revolution rooted in human-scale social structures. Co-presented by Dr. Howard Ditkoff.
- IshCon Spring 2005, Quaker Hill Conference Center, Richmond, IN, May 27-30, 2005.
Emergent Associates incorporates
February 10th, 2005
Emergent Associates incorporates as a Michigan Limited Liability Company.
Learn more at potluck.com.
Emergent Associates, LLC
Co-Founder, Research and Development Advisor; Emergent Associates, LLC
November 22nd, 2004
Emergent Associates, LLC, Oak Park, MI
- Co-founded this coaching, consulting and training company which uses Appreciative Inquiry and positive psychology as a framework for integrating best practices and knowledge from organizational development, developmental/evolutionary psychology and systems-related disciplines to create practical tools which mutually foster empowerment and community for individuals and groups.
- Co-created proprietary rapid coaching techniques, integrating AI and developmental psychology and able to produce “eureka” results in as little as 10 minutes.
- Co-developer of a set of proprietary communication tools to foster positive change, informed by AI along with several established effective communication techniques, relationship models and personality typologies.
- Co-created a dynamic model of psychological development informed by complexity science, positive psychology, personality typologies and several universal models of human development.
Founder, Principal Contributor, Webmaster; Potluck
May 27th, 2004
- Founded this web site to present original works, including many that explore familiar topics from a systems perspective.
- Webmaster for potluck.com.
Author, Viewpoint on Food and Population, for Mother Earth News
March 3rd, 2004
Contracted by Mother Earth News to write this piece exploring the relationship between food supply and population size. Unpublished.
Read at potluck.com.
Mother Earth News
Pianist, Lara Spencer’s wedding dance, Good Morning America
September 1st, 2000
I was invited to provide live, original accompaniment for Lara Spencer and her dance instructor as part of her series documenting the planning of her wedding.
Listen and see photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Business Consultant
January 6th, 2000
Business consulting specializing in Microsoft Excel, creation of databases and other information management tools, project management, data analysis, forecasting, quality control, research, and both technical and academic writing.
Learn more.
Pianist, Chukwu septuplets’ first birthday, Good Morning America
December 14th, 1999
I was invited to perform “Happy Birthday” on the piano for the Chukwu septuplet’s first birthday celebration.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Pianist, Rosie’s Christmas Carol Challenge, Good Morning America
December 1st, 1999
Rosie O’Donnell played “name that tune” with me performing snippets of Christmas songs and Rosie having to guess as many as she could in one minute.
See photos at potluck.com.
Good Morning America
Presenter, Doctors Without Borders USA internet fundraising
June 25th, 1999
- Invited presentation describing Doctors Without Borders USA’s efforts at fundraising via the internet.
- 1999 MSF International Fundraisers Conference, Médecins Sans Frontières Paris offices, Paris, France, June 24-25, 1999.
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