John Haring Email & Phone Number

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Crush Worldwide, Inc. is a Nashville-based artist management, career counseling and concert production firm.

Nashville, Tn

The Inspire America Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit. Current projects include an inner-city children, family and senior outreach, led by Pastor Marc Hewlett, who recently spent three years in some of the worst neighborhoods in Atlanta; 'Keep the Music Alive', dedicated to providing musical instruments to needy children; and a number of other causes supporting children, homeless, storm recovery, inner-city, seniors and military family projects. Their Advisory Board includes prominent members of the business community, media and music business executives, performers and others. More information is available at www.theinspireamericafoundation.org.

Music Business Services Company. RMG executive produces a number of radio shows including "The Guitar Show with Andy Ellis" which is in the process of being prepared for syndication. RMG is also involved in career counseling, artist management, collateral materials production, Internet music marketing services, music business training, audio and video production and other songwriter/artist-related services.

ProMusicU is an intensive weekend of courses and workshops, given around the country, for aspiring artists and music business professionals. Our instructors are committed educators with years of experience in their field and our Advisory Board includes university professors, independent artists, professional songwriters, print and radio professionals, performing rights organizations and music publishers, among others.

Guitar-centered weekly radio show. In each program, we venture off the beaten path to explore inspiring sounds from great guitarists, past and present. We play exclusive, previously unheard interviews with some of the greats of the guitar world. The music encompasses a wide variety of styles and includes new releases as well as rare tracks from deep in the vault, spotlighting guitarists from around the world. The goal is provide an eclectic, adventurous and musically satisfying listening experience. Visit www.theguitarshow.com for stations and times as well as our archive of interviews with the world's great guitarists.

• Manage a Nashville (Brentwood), Tennessee-based IT firm with a national client base specializing in web-based technologies, infrastructure consulting and design, office automation and various other IT-related products and services.• Direct and supervise in-house technology staff, contract programmers and designers and sales staff.• Design, write and present detailed proposals and plans for contract and in-house projects and products.• Provide sales support to sales staff.

• Provided oversight and direction for the entire IS and telecommunications function of the College.• Directed and supervised administrative computing, academic computing, network operations, help desk, telecommunications systems, media services, television services and access card administration staffs.• “Visionary” role. Researched, recommended, planned and carried out the IS and telecommunications plans of the College.• Brought the College from virtually no technology to a place in the Yahoo! Internet Life Top 100 Wired Colleges list (Baccalaureate II – Small College List) within two years.• Winner of the ACUTA (Association of College and University Telecommunications Administrators) 2001 Technical Excellence in Telecommunications Award.• Enterprise-wide technology buyer. Responsible for RFQ/RFP generation and negotiation. Direct responsibility for selecting and communicating with all vendors.• Administered $1M+ budget.• Responsible for periodically addressing the College President, the Board of Trustees, the Executive Administrative Council and the Faculty on the state of campus computing.• Headed campus-wide Y2K committee.• Prepared state, federal and private-sector grant requests for technology areas.• Participated in the College’s Executive Administrative Council.• Member of the College’s 5-Year Strategic Plan Steering Committee.• Member of the College’s website design team.• Faculty status.

• Headed the day-to-day operations of a 14-employee, 3-city computer and management consulting shop which included all financial aspects, project management, task assignment, working with the sales and marketing staff, proposal presentation, personnel issues and heavy client contact and consulting.• Because of my accounting and management background, I was also directly responsible for all accounting system and management consulting and helping the clients migrate to their new computerized accounting system after purchase including designing accounting and management processes and procedures and interfacing with staff and/or contract accounting professionals.• Involved in program design, development and modification in various computer languages and database systems in both single- and multi-user environments.• Supervisory and direct involvement in various LAN/WAN installation, modification, administration and troubleshooting.• Involved in installation, use and training of many popular software packages.

Instructor and Lecturer for various microcomputer-related courses. Replaced a professor for one semester who fell ill before the Spring 1998 semester began.