1989-current    
Marketing Manager for political campaigns. Write, design and produce advertising materials, radio and television commercials, speeches, budgets and timelines, etc. for candidates including: Ken Pruitt (FL State Rep. – now Senate); “Doc” Myers (FL Senate); Diamond Litty (Public Defender, 19th Judicial Circuit); Laurel Kelly (Martin County Property Appraiser); Mayor Dannahower (Fort Pierce); Judge Kenney (19th Judicial Circuit).

1997-2003       
President/CEO — School of the Arts Foundation (SOAFI). Served the Foundation as its first administrator. Responsible for all financials, budgeting, business administration, staff supervision plus created donor database and website. Progressed through stages of Executive Director, Vice-President and ultimately in charge of development as President/CEO of this fund-raising not-for-profit corporation in support of the Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FL.

2000-2004       
Treasurer/Board of Directors, Bob Carter’s Actors Workshop and Repertory Company. Launching a new resident, professional theatre company in Downtown West Palm Beach with the encouragement and support of the Downtown Development Authority and the Mayor’s office. Maintained bookkeeping on QuickBooks Pro.

1995-2005   
Research Resources Corporation. Seminar coordinator and lecturer for this New York based company. Conduct 3-day seminars on Public Records Research at the Embassy Suites, Palm Beach Gardens, Luxor Hotel, Las Vegas and Norwegian Cruise Lines, New York.

2000-current    
Director/Producer, Sterling-Miller Publishing. Producing: “Camp David Diaries” series of plays and books by Pamela K. Thorson.

1995-1997                   
Administrator, Unity of Martin County. Responsible for all management functions of the church, including financial record keeping, relocation of the church to a new site, leading Sunday services and conducting a minister search (during these years the church was without a minister).

1973-1998       
Typographer/Graphics Designer: Andreson Typography (Los Angeles), Ogilvy & Mather (New York), and Fat Cat Creative Services (Florida – my own company) in producing collateral and advertising materials including everything from AT&T, AMEX advertising layouts to the New Testament in Spanish.





“My faith is in the unknown, in all that we do not understand by reason; I believe that what is beyond our comprehension is a simple fact in other dimensions, and that in the realm of the unknown there is an infinite power for good.”     — My Autobiography; Charles Chaplin [p211]
 


The problem with education is it wants to answer questions that I haven’t asked.    
—John van Dalen (circa 1968)
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