Skill Set

 Music & Teaching

  • Played and practiced guitar for over fifteen years

  • Understands and teaches rhythm, harmony, pitch, and sight reading

  • Instructs jazz, classical, and rock guitar

  • Experienced in multiple musical environments (composition, teaching, performance)

  • Well rounded technique (plectrum/fingers/hybrid/alternate/economy picking)

  • Able to explain proper handling of musical instruments, as well as instrument care

  • Thorough understanding of the CAGED system

  • Quickly identifies and improves students in troubled areas

  • Coordinates student groups, encouraging group performances and recitals

 Audio Production

  • Has a firm grasp of industry standard DAWs, such as Cubase Pro, Pro Tools, and Logic Pro X

  • Has completed several courses at Berklee College of Music in Audio Production (Pro Tools 101, Producing Music with Cubase, Composing and Producing Electronic Music, the Art of Mixing)

  • Has completed many projects (see releases) single handedly from pre-production, through tracking, to being mixed and mastered

Education

Germanna Community College

  • Fall 2013 – Spring 2016 - Associates in General Education

 

Virginia Commonwealth University

  • Fall 2016 – Spring 2018 - Bachelors in Music Performance w/ discipline in Classical Guitar

 

Berklee College of Music

  • Fall 2018 – Spring 2021 - Bachelors in Composition for Film & Video Games

(2010 – Present) - Guitar Instructor – Self Employed

  • Educates students anywhere from beginners to advanced players

  • Teaches in-person and online lessons via Skype

  • Motivated and encouraged creativity through well organized, hands-on lesson plans

 

(Fall 2014 – Summer 2015) - Music Society President -Germanna Community College

  • Established the first ever music society at Germanna Community College

  • Operated a free lesson program at Germanna Community College

  • Organized over a dozen college student to collaborate and develop a group repertoire

 

(Fall 2016 – Present) – Band Development Director & Mentor –Passion Academy

  • Taught private and group lessons for band, guitar, bass, ukulele, music production, and composition

  • Directed and managed the Band Development Program at Passion Academy, including audio production/engineering for the band program

  • Worked with over hundreds of students between the age of 4 and 75

(Summer 2019 – Present) – Composer/Audio Engineer –Shattered Glass Studio

  • Created commissioned works of music and audio processing (ex. voice over and SFX) based on a clienteles needs for unique audio, typically used in advertising media

  • Utilized industry standard Digital Audio Workstations such as Cubase Pro, Pro Tools, and Logic Pro X

  • Single handedly completed the entirety of commissioned projects from conception, to tracking, to full mixing and mastering

Employment