Clark Carruth Email and Phone Number

I was enrolled in and graduated from General Assembly's 10-week User Experience Design Immersive course. In this course my classmates and I spent 400+ hours learning UX Design industry best practices for user research, usability testing, user interface design, and numerous other skills.

Fifth House Ensemble is a professional chamber music group based in Chicago that is redefining the effect a classical music group can have on its audience as well as the communities it works with. Fifth House concentrates on three core missions in order to achieve this redefinition: collaborative performance, education, and entrepreneurship.PerformanceCollaboration - worked with artists in non-music fields (graphic novels, stage acting, video, etc.) as well as non-classical musicians to create unique music experiencesLive radio and TV - ten live performances on Chicago’s WFMT 98.7 radio station and three live performances on WGN Channel 9 television channelEducationCross-curricular residencies - conducted numerous six to fifteen week classroom residencies in which we used music to help teach variety of school subjects including poetry, literature, astronomy, and geologyAssemblies - spoke and performed dozens of school assemblies relating classical music and assorted school topics for grades K thru 12 Entrepreneurship fresh inc festival - two week festival designed to not only provide performance opportunities for musicians and composers but to also provide them the business and marketing tools needed to create successful careers for themselves; faculty member for 5 yearsUniversity and conservatory residencies - taught numerous workshops at music conservatories and university music schools to assist students with successfully crafting music careers beyond just playing their instruments at a professional level

Conducted personal private lesson placement interviews with 1,900+ families in order to match 1,600+ new students with best fit among 80+ private music teachersHandled numerous issues for 1,000+ students, their parents, 80+ teachers, and school administration as on-site liaison for client families/faculty/administration Processed and received in confidence aid applications from 100+ families annuallyServed as first level of appeal if family decided their initial aid offer was insufficientOversaw aid budget of around $170,000 annually for entire music school, maintained regular communication with administration and three other campus directors to make sure budget was not exceededCreated annual campus room schedule for 25 teaching studios, four group instruction rooms and one recital hall; created Microsoft Access pivot table to allow for single entry of room data yet allowing for different display methods needed by different school constituents

Provided general support for department Chair’s administrative functions with tasks including preparation of faculty appointment, promotion, and tenure paperwork; produced departmental reports and completed outside surveys; completely updated department’s entry in 2005 American Chemical Society’s Directory of Graduate ResearchConducted three faculty searches by placing advertisements in appropriate publications, and scheduled travel arrangements and interviews for ten final candidates, maintained candidate databases and files, acknowledged receipt of applications, scheduled search committee meetings, filed required university formsCoordinated travel arrangements and appointments for visiting departmental speakers; notified visitors of time and place of seminars, meetings, conferences, etc.Assisted with obtaining grants totaling ~$625,000 annually for both new and existing research projects as well as process annual/final reporting for research projects Assisted with successful publication of new editions for two textbooks by editing chapter manuscripts and updating/editing hundreds of chemical structures, figures, and schemesAssisted with publication of research results in science journals by editing manuscripts, submitting manuscripts to journals, and tracking publication statusPurchased lab hardware and chemicals for research group and prepare monthly accounting of purchases averaging $8,250