Earned Continuing Contract

Accomplishments

Promoted to Associate Professor

Living the Dream Award 2005 Recipient

2005 Latin Grammy Nomination

Performing and arranging a tribute to the Mambo for the 2005 Latin Grammy Awards

Selected member of NARAS arranging and composition selection committee

Bibliography

Completed 9 doctoral credits with a 4.0 average

Created a Frequently Asked Questions document and webpage

New original compositions

New original arrangements

Toured Canada, Europe and the U.S. as a featured soloist with Arturo Sandoval

Recorded CD with the Miami Sax Quartet

Recordings with other artists

Lost more than 50 lbs. through diet and exercise

Developed and updated new materials for

Created a special webpage on containing sheet music and recordings of material for the Arturo Sandoval band

Recorded a faculty jazz ensemble CD with professors Dr. Mike Di Llido, Jim Gasior, Rick Dahl and George Mazzeo.

Arranged, produced, engineered and performed a vocal solo and saxophone work on the audio recording and video of the Katrina relief song “The Motherland of Jazz” composed by Arturo Sandoval

Appeared in the Nuevo Herald

Appeared in the Miami Herald

Appeared on Deco Drive

Appeared on numerous local news shows

Purchased a new 17” Apple Titanium laptop for use at MDC and doctoral studies

Updated studio software and hardware at One-Take Studios

Arranged, engineered and recorded all of the brass section work for the new American Idol Cast CD at One-Take Studios

Created streaming audio and video content for student use and recruiting purposes on

Developed a webpage dedicated to simplifying the advising and registration process for MDC Music Business and Production majors

Met with music chair Dr. Vernon Smith to discuss and address serious performance gaps and collegiality issues negatively affecting MDC music business students

Improved Music Business graduation rates

Performed with the Commercial Music Ensemble at:

Performed as a clinician, eminent scholar and featured artist at:

Invited to perform as guest clinician for the Dade-County Public Schools Honor’s Jazz Band

Community service – Katrina, Brecker, Clinics page, harmony page

Instrument purchases – Yamaha tenor, Yamaha piccolo, microphones, Reason refills, Pro Tools upgrades

Software – SnapPro X, Studio 8, Finale 2006, Sibelius 4, Pro Tools 6.7, MOTU 4.5, iTunes, iLife, iPod Shuffle

WebCT – Illuminate, new content

Developed competencies for all courses taught at MDC as Word files and webpages. All are available to students and staff at

Recording multiplication tables with sound recording students

Provided music for SACS

Recruited at Hialeah High School, Southwest High School, Killian High School, Palmetto High School and various other schools

Performed for the MDCPS principals meeting led by Dr. Rudy Crew

Transferred files across Internet instead of sending by mail

Developed a webpage containing photographs and descriptions of the music business and production facilities at MDC’s Kendall and North campuses

Featured soloist with the Las Olas Studio Orchestra

Appeared as a featured soloist on the 2005 Latin Grammy nominated CD “Piano/Drums/Bass” with Negroni’s Trio

Recorded interviews for MDC InFocus and the radio station

Appeared at Jazz at the Gray (Governor’s scholarship)

MSQ appeared on the national jazz charts

Recorded new Jaco CD with Peter Erskine

Garnered endorsements from Jody Jazz mouthpieces and Gonzalez reeds

Created podcasts

National anthem for Miami Heat

Appeared with Jon Secada live

Visited Washington D.C. with my son and spent time learning and teaching American History during the trip

Developed relationships with E.M.T. professors at M.I.T.

Visited Harvard while performing for one week at the Regatta Bar in Boston

Transcribed and posted on the website numerous new arrangements for the CME

Donated music converted in AAC or mp3 format for use on the iTunes applications on the servers at M-335 and 8213. Selections include jazz, classical, pop, Latin and Latin jazz.

Posted a series of websites containing family pictures and pertinent musical performance images for archival purposes

Researching the possible correlation between hurricanes and sound in an effort to create a theory for use in the weakening or elimination of hurricanes

Researching the costs of hurricane damages over the last 15 years and comparing them to the costs associated with the rebuilding of infrastructure such as underground wiring, backup power sources, survival resource bunkers and evacuation routes

Developed, practiced and applied new harmonic and saxophone oriented techniques related to jazz improvisation, composition and arranging including derivative modes and pentatonic scales of major, melodic minor, harmonic minor, diminished, augmented and harmonic major scales.

Continued working on a book entitled “Vertical and Horizontal Derivatives: A Mathematical Approach to Improvisation”

GOALS

Update course competencies for all music business and production courses.
Asses, update, improve and standardize the music business program curriculum. The new and improved curriculum must continue to be in compliance with the State of Florida educational objectives.

Focus of Assessment

SERVICE TO STUDENTS

CME expanded to two ensembles at Kendall and North.
Purchased, learned and adopted new teaching techniques using new software such as Apple’s Quicktime, Quicktime Broadcaster, MakeRefMovie X, iTunes Podcasts, iPod Shuffle, Pages, and Keynote, Ambrosia’s Snapz Pro X, Palm Treo 650 software, Rogue Amoeba Software Nicecast, Boingo Wireless and Kodak EasyShare, WebCT Illuminate.
Updated and upgraded software including MOTU Digital Performer 4.5 and Mach5, Digidesign Pro Tools 6.7 LE, Make Music Finale 2006, Sibelius 4, Macromedia Studio 8, TechTool Pro 4.0.6, Mac OS X 10.4.2 and others.
With input from my departmental colleagues Dr. Richard Rose, Steve Roitstein, department chair William Kreitner and former school director Randall DeWitt, a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) webpage was developed and posted on the Internet for use by new and returning students. This FAQ, designed to improve customer service and departmental efficiency, is especially useful during the advising and registration process allowing students to access important information prepared to help them achieve a more satisfactory advisement, registration and educational experience while allowing the department faculty and administrators to concentrate on growth, curriculum development and providing an improved educational experience.

The newly created music business and production department FAQ webpage contains degree tracks, course descriptions, course competencies, pictures of the Kendall and North campus facilities, offers students two-year suggested schedules designed to help them complete their degrees in an effective and timely manner and even includes Quicktime video streaming movies of professors describing the courses and their respective requirements and learning outcomes. This FAQ webpage, designed to become a template for use by MDC’s advising and registration departments, is part of a Human Performance Improvement course paper presented to the Doctor of Higher Education Leadership in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education at Nova Southeastern University and can be accessed at

Implemented new teaching strategies including but not limited to:
Encouraging students to design group-generated multimedia enhanced presentations of business plans in MUM 2702.
Asking students to create a diverse musical variety of beats serving as an accompaniment for spoken word or rap-based recordings of the multiplication tables in English, Spanish and Creole. Students are currently recording the vocal segments of the project and will present the final product to the college leadership/ It is our sincere hope that the product will benefit Dade-County Public School students and teachers with the challenges associated in teaching mathematics. By creating a creative and fun way to teach math, MDC Sound Recording students are learning the fundamentals of sound recording while simultaneously serving the next generation of college students. We hope to create a product worthy of use by the school system and hope to garner a grant in order to improve the recording facilities at MDC.
Music Business 1 (MUM 2700) students now turn in all assignments and take all tests using WebCT. In the case of many students who struggle with the rigors of copyright law and the mathematical computations required when computing mechanical royalties and other royalty oriented earnings, WebCT allows students to be tested more than once in order to improve their scores. Each version of the test changes slightly in order to foster critical thinking and learning. One MUM 2700 student afflicted with a form of autism called Azperger’s Syndrome scored the highest grade in their respective section of the course due to the ability of WebCT enhanced instruction to harness concentration, improve focus and provide immediate feedback. In this professor’s opinion, any student who needs help focusing on the task at hand is well served by the information and education delivery power of WebCT.

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