ACTING

* also Lighting Designer

BACKSTAGE

* included participation in the show with actors and audience

MISCELLANEOUS

TRAINING

B.A., Temple University, School of Communications and Theater, Philadelphia, PA

• SamEric Theater
  When I was nineteen, I went to the downtown movie theater to get a job as an usher. Two weeks later, I was made assistant manager. Although it was a fairly easy job, there was a lot of responsibility. The SamEric was the largest movie auditorium in the city of Philadelphia (1200 people). Also, my lack of social skills made it difficult for me at times. Yet, I am proud to say I worked at the largest movie theater in Philly.
• Camp Saginaw
  While working at the SamEric and going to Temple University, I attended a job fair at school. This let to my getting a job as a camp counselor at Camp Saginaw in Oxford, PA. The first year I worked there, I helped with the shows the campers did. During the second year, I also taught Model Rocketry.
• Archdiocese of Philadelphia
  After a failure in trying to join the Air Force, I thought I would try teaching (something I always wanted to do, but thought I was too temperamental). Between 1984 and 1991, I taught at three Archdiocese schools: Holy Name of Jesus in Fishtown, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in South Philadelphia, and St. Cecilia in Foxchase. I did feel somewhat the hypocrite, since I was already an atheist by this time, but I did teach Religion, along with all the usual elementary curriculum. I did enjoy it, but I was not well suited to handling 30 kids at a time day after day.
• Tracey Tours
  I think I worked for them in the summer of 1987. I gave 2 and one-half hour tours of the historic area of Philadelphia. Most of the tour was on a bus and we drove past City Hall, down Pine St., and through the Historic District. The visitors and I got off at the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, and we also stopped at the Betsy Ross House. This was a really fun job which allowed me to combine my love of Philadelphia history and teaching.
• Sesame Place
  During the summers of 1989 – 1991, I worked with the Muppets. I began as an Entertainment Tech and ran a show called The Wild Duckie Chase, where kids would act and be inserted into a video with Bert, Ernie, and Super Grover. I was able to become Area Supervisor of the Technical Services Department in 1990. I was then able to work on all the shows in the park, plus the exhibits, video games, and computers.
• Busch Gardens Africa
  Working at Sesame Place allowed me to move to Florida and work at another park owned by Busch Entertainment. From 1991 through 1995, and again in 1998, I worked at the Moroccan Palace Theater. The shows at that time were ice shows, so not only was I doing real professional theater work, I was also helping to maintain an ice rink. The two shows I worked on was Around the World on Ice and Hollywood Live on Ice. This was one of the jobs I really enjoyed.
• VerticalNet
  I moved back to Philadelphia for two years from 1995 to 1997. While I tried to establish a business on the Internet for myself, I began working for a net company in Horsham, PA called VerticalNet. It specialized in websites for specific industries (vertical markets). I learned a lot about coding and graphics while working there. The company has been sold and reorganized a couple of times. It was never really profitable, but I didn’t know the Internet bubble was coming. I also didn’t know that the man who became CEO while I was there, Mark Walsh, was such a big player on the web. I decided office work was not for me and I missed Florida. I left the company after only 10 months.
• LBI.net
  I have worked with computers since 1981, and I build my first webpage in 1994. When I decided to move back to Philly for a bit in 1995 and create a neighborhood website for Fairmount, my friend Paul Neal decided to build one for Long Beach Island, NJ. I’ve been working with him on LBI.net ever since.
• Yesindeedy
  I always wanted to work for myself and own my own business. I seem more suited to that than working for someone else. I tried many businesses through the years, but in 1998, I officially began a web-based company called R-JEM Enterprises (a name I had thought of years before). Later, I decided no one would recognize or remember that name, so I changed it to Yesindeedy Software, and then simply, Yesindeedy. This reflects my hope of a happy future and positive outlook on life. While I still continue to work on the Internet, I’m hoping that Yesindeedy expands into Real Estate and Show Business in the future.