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Director of Instrumental Studies, Lake Worth Community Middle School, Lake Worth, Florida,
2016-Present
● Led 3 different level ensembles in woodwind, brass and percussion. Established an honor band
ensemble made up of 6th and 7th grade students.
● Led 65 students at Lake Worth Community Middle School to the Music Performance Assessment
and Solo Ensemble hosted by the Florida Bandmaster Association in our local school district to
successful ratings.
● Successfully funded music program receiving $4,499 combine total in grants for the 2017-2018
school year underwriting musical experiences for 109 music students.
Director of Arts Education, Bright Futures Academy Charter School, Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida, 2008-2016
● Led professional development workshops for 70 K-8 educators grades on “Laying the
Foundation for an Arts Integrated Curriculum” as defined by the Kennedy Center’s “Changing
Education Through The Arts.”
● Led team-building activities, for all faculty and administrators, with a focus on “The Orpheus
Method” as defined by the Harvard Business School, increasing productivity by 20%.
● Developed a literacy-spelling curriculum as school-wide project serving 325 students, grades
K-4, where rhythmic units are the anchors to understanding spelling patterns, increasing reading
comprehension by 15%.
● Collaborated with subject-area teachers to write and implement arts-integrated lessons and
techniques to ensure best practices.
● Established the Arts Experience Initiative; a supportive program to the arts-integrated
curriculum, where all 650 students got to participate in the concert-going experience in
partnership with local arts organizations and mentorship programs with artist residencies in
music and visual art.
● Wrote and implemented the music and visual art curriculum with scope and sequence of grades
K-8th using arts integration techniques for all subject areas with a focus on our state and national
standards.
● Collaborated on the curriculum for the EDU-Garden™, an outdoor project for middle school
students, where the main objective is to educate students on the importance of growing food,
animal care, proper nutrition and life cycles.
● Developed and directed for after-school care “The Connection Program,” which served as
community outreach to our students and awarded 15 students a full scholarship to participate in
arts workshops as recruitment campaign, raising enrollment by 20%.
● Collaborated leading wind sectionals for the 2013 East Coast Seminario hosted by Soundscapes
in Newport News VA, which united seven El Sistema-inspired programs and over 80 students
from the eastern seaboard.
Assistant Music Editor, Edwin F. Kalmus Music Publishing Company, Boca Raton,
Florida, 2004-2008
● Coordinated and develop sheet music restoration team, restoring out of print musical sources for
later publication, which later yielded a net profit of 18% to the year’s budget.
● Maintained and managed overseas accounts, analyzed statistical data of projected sales, which
included music dealers, composer royalties and orders.
● Managed the complete acquisition of other publishing company to include 8,000 new
publications.
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Orchestra Experience
● Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, Palm Beach, FL, 2000-2012, Flute/Piccolo Auxiliary
● Flute/Piccolo
Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra, Palm Beach, FL, 2000-2012, 2nd
● Klezmer Company Orchestra, Boca Raton, FL, 2008-2010, Principal Flutist
● Manchester Music Festival Orchestra, Manchester, VT, 2001-2003, Second Flute/Piccolo
● Pablo Casals Music Festival, San Juan, PR, 1998-1999, Principal Flute/Piccolo
● West Coast Symphony Orchestra, Ft Myers, FL, 1999-2000, 3rd Flute, Piccolo, Auxiliary Flute
● Florida Grand Opera, Miami, FL, 2009, 2 Flute, Piccolo
nd
● Atlantic Classical Orchestra, Vero Beach FL, 2010-2012, 2nd Flute, Piccolo
Education
B. A., Lynn University Conservatory of Music (formerly The Harid Conservatory of Music), Boca Raton, FL,
2000-08. Music; flute performance.
Florida State University School of Music, Tallahassee, FL, 1997-1998. Music; flute performance.
New World School of the Arts, Miami FL, 1995-1997. High School Music Division.