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)