Resume

• 2010

  BSEd

  MSED

  MM

  Elementary Education

  Reading and Literacy Education

  Music Theory & Composition

  Staff Arranger

  NIU Jazz Ensemble

  DMA

  Music Composition

  Co-founder of the UK Contemporary Music Ensemble

  University of Kentucky

  Florida Educator Certificate

  Florida Department of Education

  Illinois State Board of Education

  Professional Educator License

• The VCO is a string ensemble that provides seniors and others in the community an opportunity to learn to play (or brush up on) violin

  viola

  cello and bass. Our concerts help to support the Venice chapter of the Salvation Army and local church-sponsored food pantries.

  Venice (FL) Community Orchestra

  Tutoring

  Ensemble

  Music Performance

  Teaching

  Orchestral Music

  College Teaching

  Composition

  University Teaching

  Research

  Curriculum Design

  Music Education

  Classical

  Piano

  Music Theory

  Music

  Curriculum Development

  Higher Education

  Instructional Design

  Chamber Music

  Public Speaking

  O'Fallon

  David

  Illinois Valley Community College

  Waubonsee Community College

  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

  Frost School of Music UM

  Bradley University

  College of DuPage

  (independent)

  Moraine Valley Community College

  University of Kentucky

  Jamaican Breeze

  greater Chicagoland and southwest Florida

  Composer

  Arranger

  Percussionist and Educator

  (independent)

  While pursuing the doctorate in Composition at UK I taught the complete undergraduate Music Theory/Aural Skills sequence

  Instrumentation-Orchestration

  tutored in Music Theory and Music History

  and co-founded the UK Contemporary Music Ensemble.

  Graduate Teaching Assistant

  University of Kentucky

  After touring for one month with the Glenn Miller Orchestra

  playing concerts and dances throughout the Midwest

  I completed two contracts for Royal Caribbean as drummer with the ship's orchestra on the Enchantment of the Seas and the Legend of the Seas. During the summers of 2012 and 2013

  I performed with the RKO Jazz Quartet

  the house band at the Jazz on Four venue on Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas.

  Touring Drummer

  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

  Peoria

  IL

  I covered undergraduate theory and ear training classes for Dr. Stephen Heinemann while he was on sabbatical.

  Affiliate Instructor of Music Theory and Aural Skills

  Bradley University

  Oglesby

  IL

  I taught Music Appreciation

  Percussion Studio

  created the Percussion Ensemble

  and I developed the Intro to American Music (F1 904) class.

  Adjunct Instructor of Percussion and Music Appreciation

  Illinois Valley Community College

  Sugar Grove

  Illinois

  I taught two levels of Steel Band

  Introduction to World Music

  Percussion Studio and created the Percussion Ensemble.

  Adjunct Instructor

  Waubonsee Community College

  Greater Chicago Area

  Jamaican Breeze performed for public and private events throughout the greater Chicagoland area. In addition

  I have performed on steel pan as an orchestral musician with the Chicago Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra as parts for steel pan have turned up in newer scores.

  Steel Pannist and Leader

  Jamaican Breeze

  Glen Ellyn

  IL

  I did some part-time college teaching in Illinois (2013-2015) while I was ABD at the University of Kentucky.

  Adjunct Instructor of Music Theory & Aural Skills

  College of DuPage

  Palos Hills

  IL

  This was a one-semester teaching assignment covering MUS 206 - History and Literature of Music 1.

  Adjunct Instructor of Music History

  Moraine Valley Community College

  Coral Gables

  FL

  I taught classes in Music Theory

  Aural Skills and Orchestration to fill in for a professor on sabbatical leave.

  Lecturer

  Department of Music Theory & Composition

  Frost School of Music UM

  Society for Music Theory

  American Composers Forum

  American Federation of Musicians

  Society for the Study of Sound in Games

  Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States

  International Literacy Association

  BMI Affiliate Composer

  Percussive Arts Society