Paul J. Soychak 174 Maple Street Apartment 8 Burlington, VT 05401 (802) 4974109

 

paul@paulsoychak.com

Experience:

Producer/Director/Actor/Combat Choreographer.  (see other resumes)

Substitute Teacher. 2002-present. South Burlington School District. Substitute taught all grades (k-12) including physical education, social studies, computer class, human relations, drama, Mathematics, among others.

Summer Discovery Instructor.  1996-present. Summer Discovery Program.  Taught Acting to Middle and High School programs, including Mask, Movement, Combat Choreography, Scene Work, and performance.

Burlington Parks and Recreation. Summer Drama Project.  2001-present. Coordinated, integrated and directed Developmentally Disabled Actors with their same-age counterparts in a very successful final presentation at 242 Main, Burlington, Vermont.

Instructional Analyst/Web Site Developer.  2000-2002. Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tuft's University. Train and Support Faculty, Students and Staff for the Inaugural Global Master of Arts program in utilizing distance learning methods. Software included high end use of power point 2003 to create interactive course cds for the students, training Faculty and Students in FTP, Netscape Messenger for Newsgroups and Mail, and Microsoft Word and Excel 2003 including the equation editor. Designing and maintained the secured website where the courses are presented online.

Producer/Director. 1998. Very Special Arts Vermont/HHDIME.  Directed Disabled Actor Henry Holden in One Act play called “For Want of a Hero” at St. Michael’s Playhouse for a NYC workshop.

IT Consultant. 1995-present.

Training Products: Microsoft Office through 2003, including Front Page, Access and Outlook, Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, 95, 98 and NT Workstation for Champlain College, Laser Image/ Market Makers, Computerland. Onsite: Pizzagalli Construction, Bank North, Clarion Hotel (Gary Farrell), St. John Vianney Church; Groupwise and Corel Word Perfect for Wilson, Powell and Lange and The State of Vermont and HTML for Musiker International Summer Programs.

Help Desk: Supporting students of all ages and skill-levels days, evenings and weekends via interactive classroom, telephone, newsgroups and email (on call) including Microsoft Office 97, 2000, 2003, Front Page 97/98/2000/2003, Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0/95/98; for CIBC Wood Gundy for Marketing and Communications, Goldman Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch, Violy, Byorum & Partners, Oppenheimer Financial, Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., Lifetime Cable, Jordan, McGrath, Case & Taylor, Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, Equitable Real Estate, Ketchum Communications, Peregrine Outfitters, Wyeth Nutritionals

Web Page Design. 1996-present. Designed Online Intranet Benefits Binder for CIBC Wood Gundy, and participated on the web Site development team utilizing Front Page 97 and HTML. Designed sites personally for Acme Bar & Grill, St. John Vianney Church, and Balaganchik Productions, and participated in Internet and Intranet Development teams at Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Jordan McGrath, Case & Taylor, Violy, Byorum and Partners, Business Review Systems, and the Intel Music Festival in New York City among others.

Instructor. 1994-95. Taught undergraduate students at Carnegie Mellon University and The Moscow Art Theater School in Movement and Acting.

Private Tutor. 1989-present. Instructed from ages 8-50 students in: Personal Computing, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Anatomy & Physiology, Immunology, Calculus, SAT Preparation, MCAT preparation and others for The Learning Cooperative, Princeton Review and Privately.

Laboratory Technician. 1992-94. University of Vermont Department of Biochemistry Researched Megakaryocyte Growth Promoting Activity in collaboration with the Genetics Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Performed experiments, interpreted and expressed data using Harvard Graphics and Quattro Pro, participated in research publications for Dr. Barbara Grant, solicited bone marrow donors and organized laboratory.

Technician. 1989-92. Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. Performed stability, friability and dissolution testing on pharmaceuticals.

Line Robotics Technician. 1986-88. International Business Machines. Ran and troubleshot robotics chemical development wet stations for silicon semiconductors.

Education:

Carnegie Mellon University/Moscow Art Theatre School Master of Fine Arts Degree in Acting/Movement. 1995

University of Vermont Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry/Theatre with a minor in Computer Science. Magna Cum Laude (GPA 3.98) 1992.

Skills: Tutoring and Teaching all subjects, Training and Support for the following software: Outlook 2003 implementation in both Dial-up and LAN environments, Microsoft FrontPage 2003, HTML Editing, FTP, MapThis! Windows  XP, 2000, 95, 98, NT 4.0, and NT Server, Exchange Server 5.5, Netscape Composer for Communicator and Netscape Gold, Microsoft Office Suite 2003 (including HTML conversion), Adobe Photoshop, PageMaker & Illustrator, QuarkXPress 4.0, UNIX, DOS, Microsoft Publisher, Eudora, Lotus Freelance and cc-mail, PaintShopPro, Corel Draw, QuattroPro, Word Perfect & new software with ease. Acting, Directing, Producing, Web Site Development, Laboratory Test, Research, Presentation and experimentation using human cells

Awards: Who’s Who among Students at American Colleges and Universities, Biochemistry Scholastic Achievement Award, CRC Chemist of the Year, National Honor Student, Magna Cum Laude, Presidential Academic Fitness Award, Scholastic Achievement Awards in Life Sciences, Service, and French, CMU Student Teacher of the Year Award.

 

References for Paul J. Soychak

Paul Schnabel The Off Center

(802) 862-5395 paulschnabel@juno.com Robin Fawcett Acting Teacher—CVU

(802) 658-8927 birdbone@together.net

 

Marc Awodey MFA Director, Rhombus Gallery/Artspace marcawodey@mac.com

Mladen Kiselov Acting, Directing Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

(412) 268-5069 mkiselov@andrew.cmu.edu 

Peter Jack Tkatch Professor of Theater—UVM

(802) 656-0086 Peter-Jack.Tkatch@uvm.edu 

Kevin Quinlivan Vice President, Goldman Sachs and Company, NYC Kevin.Quinlivan@ny.email.gs.com

Professor Jeswald Salacuse The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tuft's University

(617) 627-3633 jeswald.salacuse@tufts.edu

Carsten Kowalczyk Associate Professor of International Economics The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 Telephone: 617.627.5603 carsten.kowalczyk@tufts.edu http://fletcher.tufts.edu/ckowalczyk/ 

Allyson Eychaner Merrill Lynch, Global Asset Finance, 250 Vesey Street World Financial Center North Tower, 22nd Floor New York, NYC 10281

(212) 449-8756 AEychaner@exchange.ml.com

Stephen Wollman Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Informational Technologist

 (646) 489-3929

Pat O’Rourke

P.O. Box 1391, Waitsfield, VT patio@accessvt.com

(802) 496-3306

Christopher Wells University Hall B1C, Harvard University FAS Administrative Computing cjwells@fas.harvard.edu

(617) 495-7983

Julia Ely—Actress Julia3ly@aol.com

(Additional references upon request)