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Wheat Williams, III
5345
Pinnacle Peak Lane
Norcross,
Georgia 30071-4914
United
States of America
(770) 448-9734 Voice
Email: wheat@wheatwilliams.com
Skype: wheatwilliams
Objective: Copy Writing and Publicity in the field of Music Technology
Skills
Employment: Music Industry and Copy-Writing
Copy Writer, Jackson & Coker, Atlanta, September 1993 to March 1994. Wrote and edited in-house magazine and direct mail copy for medical recruiting firm. Published with Quark Express. Administered a Macintosh local area network.
Freelance Journalist , Nashville, Tennessee and Atlanta, 1987 to 2001. Wrote for a number of monthly national music business and technical periodicals, and local weekly newspapers. Articles include computer software reviews and interviews with recording recording artists. Please see the attached portfolio.
Freelance Publicist , Nashville, Tennessee, 1990 and 1991. Wrote press releases, press kits and marketing materials for Sony Music and other music industry clients. Please see the attached portfolio.
Employment: Information Technology
Trainer, Insight Global, Atlanta, March and April 2004. Trained users one-on-one in Microsoft Office 2003 and Outlook 2003 at Intercontinental Hotels Group’s world headquarters.
Contractor, Insight Global, Atlanta, Georgia, January and February 2004. Two months at the Atlanta Journal Constitution providing desktop technical support to their eighty-member Marketing and Advertising departments. Carried out hardware and software migration to new platforms for graphic design and newspaper production workflow.
Certified Technical Support Specialist , DeKalb County School System, Georgia, February 2002 to August 2003. Provided technical support, network administration, and some training and technology coordinator functions for an elementary school with 1,200 students and over 75 educators. Coordinated objectives of school system MIS department with local school administration. Maintained Novell Netware servers, FirstClass email and messaging domain, and NorTel telephone system.
Classroom Instructor , Marietta Community School, Marietta, Georgia, February and March, 2002. Taught weekly class in desktop publishing and Microsoft Publisher to adults.
Technical Writer/Consultant (contract), Information Technology Billing Application Development, Nextel, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2000-February 2001. As part of a team, documented lifecycle software development, business analysis, and systems analysis of telecommunications billing systems.
Technical Writer/Consultant (contract), Information Systems department of BellSouth Small Business Services (Customer Markets Business Technology) and Customer Markets Technology--ePrograms, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1999 to August 2000. Documented procedures for Lotus Notes network administration and client support. Designed a departmental Intranet site for program managers to interact with their customers within BellSouth, and wrote its instructional manual. Installed and provided support for Lotus Notes 4.6.4 client software.
Desktop Support Specialist , Management of Information Systems Department, Marconi Aerospace Avionics (formerly GEC-Marconi), Norcross, Georgia, March 1998 to April 1999. Managed the site's migration from a Macintosh to a Windows NT client platform. Installed, configured, and maintained desktop and notebook computers. Provided technical support in person and remotely to 200 users as a member of a nine-person MIS team. Administered Y2K-compliance upgrades. Ran Ethernet network cable and phone cable across plenums and walls and performed maintenance and wiring on Rolm PBX telephone system.
Freelance computer consulting , Atlanta, 1993 to 2006. Wrote the User Guide for a vertical market business management software package by AlterMedia of Marietta, Georgia, 1998. Designed and built a relational database for employee record keeping for MCI's Atlanta office, 1993-1994. Installed and configured Windows and Macintosh systems for small businesses.
Internships
Crawford Communications, Audio Post Production Division , 9/97 to 11/97. Assisted in the recording and editing of audio for broadcast television and multimedia presentation.
Crawford Communications, Multimedia Division , 9/95 to 4/96. With a committee,designed the company Web site. Wrote the HTML code (my work is no longer in place). Assisted in many tasks related to multimedia production.
Computer Information Systems Department, College of Business Administration, Georgia State University , 1995. Created first-ever Web site for the department. My work is no longer in place.
Education
Bachelor of Music (B. Mus.) with concentration in Recording Studio Engineering and Music Business, Georgia State University, College of Arts and Sciences, 1998. Studies at Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee. Principal instrument: Traditional Voice (operatic tenor)
Additional coursework in the GSU School of Business, Computer Information Systems department.
Travel
United States including Alaska, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, Cayman Islands
Citizen of the United States of America with valid passport.
Personal and Community Service
Married to Celeste LeTard Williams, a teacher of English as a second language, French and Spanish in a public school system near Atlanta, Georgia.
Scoutmaster of a Boy Scout troop for Hispanic-Americans and recent immigrants from Central and South America, 2004-2005
Music
Many years as a professional chorister and section leader in churches in Nashville, Tennessee and Atlanta, Georgia. Jazz guitar and bass guitar.
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