Really more of a free-flowing pseudo-resume because I don't want to bore you with the same stuffy, formalized document usually attached to job applications.
Green = Do it in my sleepBlue = Feel comfortable doing it wellRed = I've done some, but am still learning
#Musical#Technical#Linguistic#Education#Experience
- Trumpet - Flugelhorn- Cornet - Mellophone/French horn - Piano
- Kevin Çelebi Quartet - Harmonic Sanity (my septet) - The Jazz Phools - The Tomkats Jazz Orchestra - Hot Tonic - Latin Jazz Knights (LJK) - Sarasota Jazz Project - First Brass of Sarasota - Bryan Post Big Band - Big Night Out - ...and of course anyone who hires me as a trumpet mercenary, see performances
- Doc Severinsen - Kenny Drew Jr. - Marcus Belgrave - Rodney Whitaker - Byron Stripling - Bill Watrous - Michelle Amato - Mel Rhyne - Steve Allee - Bob Mintzer - Markus Gottschlich- Frank Stallone
- (for a list of all of my collaborations, see performances)
- Small-group playing/improvisation - Love playing tunes by everyone. John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Garrett, Joe Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, all of them. - Big-band- Lead playing- Sight-reading - Teaching/workshops - Composing - Arranging
- Orchestral/concert - Brass quintet - Liturgical/church
- Funk/party/top 40 (bring your endurance chops!) - Latin - salsa, bossa nova, samba, etc. - Hip-hop/R&B fusion styles
- Released first album, Purge Corruption, in 2017 featuring Kenny Drew Jr. on piano - Featured sideman on other albums (see discography) - Outstanding Soloist Award at 2010 Elmhurst Jazz Festival
- PHP- Python- Scala- Ruby- HTML5 - CSS3- Javascript- jQuery- Ajax
- Drupal - Typo3- Wordpress - Django- Ruby on Rails- Zend- Play - ScalaJS- LESS- SASS (used for this site's mobile views)
- Version control with GitHub & Bitbucket- Automated deployment with Docker and Ansible- Continouous integration using TravisCI
- Understanding of model-view-controller (MVC) architecture, or in Django's case, model-view-template (MVT)- Don't know model-view-view-model (MVVM) yet :( I aspire to learn a framework like Sproutcore.
- Manipulation of images/graphics using the Adobe products Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign. (That's what I use for all of the images on this site)- Perfectionist with positioning layout, fonts, and colors.- Creative background as a musician/composer
- Apache http server, SSL, Tomcat, nginx - Amazon AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Glacier - Unix-like systems: Redhat/Centos, Solaris - Authentication: CAS (central authentication service), LDAP, SAML/Shibboleth, SSO
- Administration of MySQL and OracleDB - CLI or phpMyAdmin - Good understanding of database design (yes, all that stuff we learned in school...normalization, 3NF, key-value...zzz) - SQL
- Canvas by Instructure (I've been to InstructureCon three times...I love it!) - Moodle - Blackboard - Desire2Learn (D2L) - Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)
- Working with faculty/students to create solutions to unique projects and goals - Flipped classrooms/blended learning - Lecture capture - BigBlueButton, Adobe Captivate, Panopto - MOOC (massively open online courses)
- Banner by Ellucian - administration and setup of the menus and interfaces; Employee Profile, AppNavigator, Ellucian Mobile - Powercampus by Ellucian
- eVisions Argos report-writing software- Microsoft Office 2016 - Google Apps administration/configuration
- Hardware troubleshooting (cracking that sucker open and replacing drives, RAM, logic boards, etc) - Software troubleshooting (OS, performance, console/logging, expediency) - Use of Apple-specific software: iCloud apps, Time Machine, imaging - Software development on Mac environments. The text editors, IDE's, CLI, and versioning control software to use
- Hardware troubleshooting of iPhone/iPad devices (see certifications) - Software troubleshooting (OS, performance, backing up, security)
- AWS Certified Developer - Associate (see my certificate!) - AWS Certified Devops Engineer - Professional (see my certificate!) - Apple Certified Macintosh Technician (ACMT), October 2011 - present - Apple iPad Qualification Certification, February 2013 - present
- Zend certified engineer (2017-PHP)
- Supervision/management experience - Budget management/strategic planning experience - Deep experience in troubleshooting theory, processes, and flow - Strong project management and organization skills; ability to work in fast-paced, high-pressured settings - Excellent and enthusiastic penchant for writing - Positive, levelheaded, agreeable attitude and proven ability to communicate articulately and concisely
- English- Korean (7.5 out of 10) 한국어로 말씀해 주세요! It's difficult to find speakers in my area. Let's practice / 의 연습하자!) - Spanish (6 out of 10, 7 if you speak slowly)- Japanese (maybe a 3 out of 10) - Cantonese (just started learning. 3 out of 10)
- I really, really love to write. I'm a perfectionist when it comes to grammar and the overall flow of sentence structure, so I like to consider myself a good writer. - Etymologies. This is a personal hobby of mine, and if you stopped me on the street there's a 60% chance I could give you the etymology of a word from memory. I am the infamous djkcel on wiktionary, where I've contributed to over 6000+ entries.
B.S., DePauw UniversityMajor: computer scienceMinors: jazz studies, English literature
M.S., Indiana-University-Purdue University IndianapolisMajor: music technology (This is a cool major, because it's a joint collaboration between the Indiana University school of music and Purdue school of engineering. So it can be considered a music major, a tech major, or a music technology major!)
- Build and maintain web applications for the college, such as password change apps, course schedulers, database middleware, etc. - Mainly use: Django (Python), Zend (PHP), Play (Scala), and Rails (Ruby), along with standalone custom scripts in various languages (Javascript, PHP, Scala, etc) - Some system/server administration, making this somewhat of a DevOps role (AWS, DB servers) - Work to customize Ellucian Banner and its various applications - Build/maintain a few internal sites, portals, and wikis - Automate application deployment with Ansible and Docker
- Build/maintain websites, help people with other cloud-based solutions. See hire me for more details
- Completely front-end, instructional technology and leadership role. Manage ETS (educational technology services) - Supervise ETS employees and manage the budget - Manage all aspects of the Canvas & Moodle learning management system - Help faculty/students with all their tech needs: create solutions to research/project-based problems involving software - Assist with lecture capture and plan campus AV needs
- This role really evolved. - I started out as the manager of digital checkout system and provided all hardware/software support for faculty MacBooks. - Then, I pivoted to LMS management, taking over Moodle and then Canvas as the college adopted it. - Finally, I took over a webmaster/software developer role, managing both the front-end website and the portal/various web applications - Use frameworks such as Typo3/Drupal (PHP), uPortal (Java), and Django (Python) - Write many custom scripts for authentication and form submissions, mainly in PHP but some were in Perl
- Perform trumpet, compose/arrange music. There's enough info about this all over the site, so no need to expound anymore here.
- Give workshops, lectures, masterclasses, etc. with jazz bands, mainly at the K-12 level - Give private lessons to musicians of all ages, whether it's specifically about trumpet or related to jazz theory/improvisation on other instruments (see teaching)
- When I was at IUPUI, I was one of three graduate assistants in the music department. - I taught two undergraduate music classes: music for the listener (a general music appreciation course) and global music (covering styles all over the world) - Also ran one of the undergraduate jazz combos for a few semesters.