Sets of Skills

This is a list of my skill sets, each with a colorful explanation:

The following lists are broken down in the basic general categories to give them order:

Artistic tools
Fine Arts:
I’m a fine arts major fluent in oil painting on canvas, illustration in all mediums, Abstract and realistic for most 2d applications.

Photography:
 Studied basic photography in highschool and college.  I worked as a fuji micro film lab tech for a number of years in the 90’s.  I owned the first handheld kodak digital camera and designed a means to switch the archiving of large format documents from 35mm microfilm to digital scanning using digital cameras rather than scanners.  THis prcess was then later stolen from me by my boss when he company went under in order to land him a new job.  This company uses my idea to this day for archive storage. I have run portrait digital photography studios and specialize in glamor photography, portrait photography as well as nature and action shoots.

Computer Graphics:
I’m 100% self taught in all computer graphics and computers themselves.  I am proficient in all of the following.

Illustrator

Photoshop

Dreamweaver

Lightwave 3D

Fireworks

After Effects

sound booth

All Microsoft office products

Music
At 14 I took bass guitar lessons from Bill Halley.  I have been schooled in private guitar lessons for 5 years following. I’ve studied classical acoustic guitar and music theory.  I have perfect pitch and can learn any song on the bass, guitar, and or keyboards in under 5 minutes.  I understand sound studio recording, multi track recording, instrument and vocal recording, live stage and sound set ups, amplifiers and PA systems.  

Mechanical
Auto: basic engine repair and diagnostic work
Watercraft:  Can work on 2 cycle engines, basic hull and fiberglass work and repair.
3D design:  Design and layout of any object in a 3D computer environment using lightwave 3D
Household:  repair of most all appliances, structures and parts of a house.

Sports and Active
Inline skating:
In 1992 I started using inline skates as a means of transportation. For two years I used it as a means to get to work, skating 5 to 10 miles per day plus 10 miles race training each day on a 1 mile track. I invented urban downhill slalom skating on asphalt without brakes.  I have taught roughly 300 people how to skate and have used it as an effective cross training program for everything from weight loss and diet to cross training dancers and fighters.
Martial Arts:  In 1997  I started training in Pai Lum Kung fu. ( White dragon northern style boxing)  While it took a while, I hold my 1st degree black belt in Pai Lum and am well versed in hand to hand combat, weapons combat and fighting strategy.

Construction
Carpentry:  framing, from scratch construction.
Plumbing:  all home water supply, waste and general pipe work
Electrical:  basic outlet and home lighting wiring
Interiors:  color design, layout and planning, painting and surface prep inside and out.
roofing:  shingles, gutters and repairs
Flooring:  tiles and vynal
general contracting:  site prep and contractor coordination.

Computer related
Image Archive and storage.
Image correction, color correction
Web Server administration, design and setup (I do not Code!)
Site design
ECommerce:  setup, shipping, and sales flow
Printing large format, Photo Realistic

Universal skills, Unique Skills

• Worked as a bodyguard/driver for 3 Washington DC dancers for 4 months one summer.
• Bought my first house stocking beer and ejecting large drunk men from bars working as a bouncer then head floor manager for 8 years in a downtown bar.
• Can pull a jet ski engine and rebuild it and the jet pump from scratch
• Can build an entire swimming pool water filter system from scratch
• Can take apart a Houston Fearless  Hollywood film processor and rebuild it and repair as needed.
• Have an automatic and instant BS detector for, salesmen, teenagers, mechanics, doctors, production engineers, artists, waiters, cooks and computer coders.
• I can hurt people twice my size very badly
• I can make any 2 or 4 cycle engine run that is mechanically able to do so by simply being near it.
• I study quantum mechanics as a hobby and find the forces of atoms and gravity and everything we do not understand about them highly interesting.  I also believe that based on these ideas, murphy’s law and others like it are in fact real and can have a large bearing on how the world deals out seemingly random actions.
• have been the captain of a small boat and or PWC
• Owned the first smartphone in the harrisburg area  in 2000, and paid dearly for being ahead of the curve.
• Was able to navigate 3 miles of the inland shore ways for 2 hours on a single jet ski alone with nothing more than a pizza shop map of the area which was not water proof and mainly pointed out places to eat on the island.
• Have worked in the sewers.  Literally, my first job out o f high school was working for my grandparents sewer maintenance and repair company.  I worked my way up to crew chief and learned how to drive large double clutch trucks and operate all the vacuum and water equipment.

• Producer:  In general I can produce anything from a Saturday morning car wash to a short film about paving highways.  As a producer , depending on the job at hand, this skill could be called also "general contractor " or project manager.  The role is the same in all.  The ability to coordinate various talents, people, locations, equipments, make them work and fit together to "produce" something from nothing.  This role requires that I can learn on the fly, have an understanding of vast amounts of things not related to each other, yet not be a master of any while flowing to and from each as needed.

I’m still working on this list........ :)