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Eagle Strategies, LLCFinancial Advisor
Sep. 2023Consulting with Successful Clients on Strategies to Maximize, Protect, Distribute, and Transfer Wealth
NYLIFE Securities LLCRegistered Representative
Jan. 2017Registered Representative offering securities products and services through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, A Licensed Insurance Agency.
New York Life Insurance CompanyAgent
Jan. 2016Hudson Valley, New YorkAgent licensed to sell insurance through New York Life Insurance Company.
Research Foundation of The City University of New YorkSenior Supervisor Administrative/Technical Specialist
Jan. 2013 - Dec. 2016CUNY Graduate Center, New YorkProduct Development Coordinator for Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale (RILM), global bibliographic database for music literature. End-to-end editorial, technical, and budgetary responsibility for developing the new RILM Abstracts with Full Text:
* Negotiated and signed licenses with 240 periodicals (20% above target) in 27 languages.
* Established contractor relationships for metadata capture and full-text processing, defined standards and documentation, provided partner support and QC feedback, and audited work on site visits to offshore operations.
* Planned, managed, supervised, and evaluated work on licensing, inventory processing, and royalty calculations; coordinated on interchange with bibliographic data stores, as well as on conformity to house style rules. Developed and wrote workflow application to manage and track team work on project.
* Coordinated product development and data delivery schedules with staff at partnering database vendor.
* Consulted on technical and business development of related projects, including XML CMS/editorial platform (hundreds of simultaneous users) to drive continuously-updated public-facing informational publication.
Music Word Media GroupCEO
Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2013Founded media/publishing company presenting music-related titles under three distinct imprints to scholars, children, and music listeners in general. Managed regulatory, contractual, and financial aspects of corporate setup; recruited editorial collaborators and acquired IP for publication; devised review strategies for manuscript development on print and electronic platforms. Established business relationships for IP acquisition; rights management; printing, binding, and distribution; software development (in-house and contracted); social media and website management; employment; and metadata generation and dissemination. Publications included top-quality read-aloud children's books including music, for Apple iBooks and Kobo Vox, using SMIL and HTML5 animation technologies. Technological innovations included adopting and then modifying the Baker Framework and Laker Compendium publication platforms, in which multimedia "books" built in HTML5, CSS, and Javascript can be deployed on tablets, phones, and web browsers. Selected to present on this topic to the Book Industry Study Group at Book Expo America, New York City, June 2012. Financing breakthroughs included a $27,000 Kickstarter campaign to underwrite the catalogue/memoir of a musical instrument collection, published in a pioneering 5-star iPad app as well as in a lavish print edition. Further publications, for iPad and print, presented writings by expert authors on topics as diverse as the US radio play of The Clash, a musical morality play by Hildegard von Bingen, and an ethnography of the Paraguayan Harp.
Pendragon PressDirector of Operations
Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2010Musicology book publisher, since 1972. Devised and implemented data, financial management, personnel, and warehouse strategies leading to a productivity increase of 400% between 2006 and 2009, as well as a consistent 40% annual rate of increase in net revenues through the 2008 recession.
National Endowment for the HumanitiesResearch Fellow
Jul. 1993 - Jun. 1994Washington D.C. Metro AreaFellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (National Endowment for the Humanities). Project title: ‘The Keyed Flute: Technology and Musical Style in the Late Eighteenth Century.’
Independent researcherMusicology, organology, sociology
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 2011Radically interdisciplinary research, applying concepts and methods from the sociologies of culture, technology, and knowledge to music history, with a particular focus on musical performance, instruments, and taste. Critical arguments from a broad humanistic and social-science viewpoint on the current methodologies, scopes, and assumptions of both musicology and organology. Books published by the University Presses of Cambridge (1991), Oxford (Clarendon Press, 1996), and Yale (2005). Sixty articles and scholarly reviews published in academic and specialist journals (1994–2009). National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship 1993–94 on ‘The Keyed Flute: Technology and Musical Style in the Late Eighteenth Century’ included study of 400 instruments in museums and private collections in the US, Europe, and Russia, leading to the publication of The Keyed Flute by Johann George Tromlitz (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996). Nicholas Bessaraboff Prize from the American Musical Instrument Society (2005) for the most distinguished book-length work in English which best furthers the Society's goal "to promote study of the history, design, and use of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods," for The Flute (Yale Musical Instrument Series), (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2002). Reviewed or invited speaker at 21 scholarly and professional conferences. Visiting lecturer at Edinburgh, Indiana, London Metropolitan, Yale Universities, as well as the Longy School of Music and the Royal Conservatory, The Hague. External examiner and thesis advisor at Gothenburg, Leiden, and Cambridge Universities.
Folkers & PowellPresident and CFO
Jan. 1984 - Dec. 2009Manufacturer of historical flute replicas, 1984–2009. With partner Catherine E. Folkers, researched, developed, manufactured, sold, and serviced 1000 instruments in 24 different models for musicians, collectors, and students in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Principal responsibility for communications and marketing strategy and implementation as well as historical research; average of 3 national and international exhibitions per year; mailing list, catalogue, and website development, customer service and engagement, including the foundation (1989) and editorship (to 2009) of a quarterly subscription newsletter with international circulation to leading specialists and university libraries.
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