Education
1994-1998. Heritage High School, Maryville, TN. Honors Diploma.
1998-2003. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Bachelor of Arts:
Major: Russian Language and Area Studies, Minor: Technical Theatre.
2001-Present. The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Course of Study: Mathematics
for Secondary Education.
Work History
Theatre
Dollywood, Inc. Pigeon Forge, TN. 2006. Entertainment Crew Electrician. Fireside Restaurant and Playhouse. Ft. Atkinson, WI. 2004-2006. Resident Master Electrician and Lighting Console Operator. Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. Louisville, KY. 2003 Summer Season. Master Electrician. Clarence Brown Theatre. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. 2003 production of "Romeo & Juliet". Production Electrician. For class credit. 2003 production of "The Bacchae of Euripides". Production Electrician. For class credit. 2002 production of "Oliver!". Deck Crew. Volunteer. 2002 Lab production of "The Beggar's Opera". Lighting Designer, Light Board Programmer, Master Electrician. Production of All Campus Theatre (ACT). Volunteer. 2002 Lab production of "On the Razzle!". Master Electrician & Light Board Operator/Programmer. UT Theatre Department production. Volunteer. 2002 Georgian State Dance Troup (Sukhishvili). Followspot Operator & Load in/Strike Crew. Through UT Cultural Attractions. 2002 Kenney Garret Quartet. Followspot Operator & Load in/Strike Crew. Through UT Cultural Attractions. 2002 Appalachian Shakespeare Project. "As You Like It". Road Technician. For class credit. 2002 production of "Oklahoma!" Fly rail & deck crew. For class credit. 2001 production of "The Illusion". Followspot operator. For class credit. Various work as carpenter, electrician, and flyman as needed/requested from late August 2000 - 2003. Heritage High School. Maryville, TN. 1995-1997. Various drama class activities including Forensics. Also aided the marketing and choir classes and Heritage's chapter of DECA with technical (light and sound) aid and work on the "variety show."
Retail, Library, Teaching, and Other Work
Blount County School System. Maryville, TN. Phone: +1-865-984-1212 Supervisors: Multiple Description: Substitute teaching for multiple grades and subjects. Jewelry Television. Knoxville, TN. Phone: +1-865-692-1346 Supervisors: Multiple. Description: "Customer Care: Sales" Take incoming sales calls and customer inquiries. Route some phone calls to Customer Service or team leaders. Worked occasionally with Merchant Services when customers had issues with payments. University of Tennessee: Library Systems: Cataloguing and the Webster-Pendegrass Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library, Knoxville, TN. 2001-2002. Phone: +1(865)974-4127 Supervisors: Linda Long (Cataloguing) and Richie Sexton (Ag-Vet Med Lib) Description: (Cataloguing) Matching records from the old card catalog with the computer catalog (Horizon 7 based dB). Aided in the original cataloguing of a couple of Russian videos. (Ag-Vet Med Library) Front desk duties including checking books in and out, helping patrons, etc.; reshelving; computers troubleshooting ("My computer's frozen" etc.); pulling books, periodicals, and bound periodicals for patrons, inter-library services (ILS), etc.; using a scanner for copying articles for ILS use; stripping incoming periodicals (putting magnetized strips into the binding); and other minor tasks. Target Stores, 800 Watkins Rd., Maryville, TN. 2000. Phone: +1(865)982-1590 Supervisor now works at another store. Description: Logistics crew. Moving merchandise from the truck to pallets to the floor and then anything that wouldn't go on the floor to the back-/overstock area. Primerica, 9040 Executive Park Dr., Suite 305, Knoxville, TN 37923. 2000. Phone: +1(865)692-9336 Supervisor/Business Agent: Leslie Mead. Description: Financial Analyst and Assistant Office Manager. F.A.: Life insurance and mortgage sales. A.O.M.: Fancy way of saying "assistant secretary." University of Tennessee: College of Arts & Sciences: Department of Modern Foreign Languages: Language Resource Center, Knoxville, TN. 1999. Phone: +1(865)974-8193 Supervisor: Beth Secrist Description: Patron services and audio/visual library type work. University of Tennessee Book and Supply Store, Knoxville, TN. 1998 Phone: +1(865)974-3361 Supervisor: Lois Description: Janitorial type work after store closing and on the Sunday after football games. H&R Block. 1997-1998. Description: Helped to set up offices in both Sears stores and rented spaces throughout the Knoxville and Maryville areas including assembling furniture and setting up computers. Dollywood, Inc., Pigeon Forge, TN. 1996-1999 Phone: +1(865)428-9415 (Dollywood Personnel) Team Lead: Joyce "Cricket" Sterling Description: Food Service at Red's Diner. Fast food type. Cook, line server, janitorial (no bathrooms), assist customers with selections and information at the park in general and things offered at Red's specifically. Assisted cashiers in counting money, balancing registers, and ringing up customers' orders. Pope's Greenhouse & Nursery, 3308 Old Knoxville Hwy., Maryville, TN 37804. 1992-1993. VOLUNTEER. Volunteer work after school and some weekends moving plants, sorting and stacking empty pallets and moving them, watering plants, cleaning plants and pots, filling pots with soil and other duties asked of me.