Kurt Loeffler Email & Phone Number

Greater Chicago Area

El Sistema is an extraordinary cultural, educational, and social program that pursues the goals of social engagement and youth empowerment through ensemble music education. Founded in Venezuela in 1975 by the visionary musician and economist José Antonio Abreu, El Sistema has been growing for decades in the form of “núcleos,” or music learning centers, where children living in impoverished or otherwise challenged circumstances gather daily to play and sing together in orchestral and choral ensembles. Unlike other youth music programs, El Sistema’s mission is fundamentally social in nature: at its core is Abreu’s conviction that the experience of immersive, ambitious and joyful music-making together can help young people develop not only musical mastery but also self-esteem, mutual respect and cooperative skills, qualities that can change their lives and the lives of their families and communities.

Chicago, Evanston, Skokie And Surrounding Suburbs

I teach students from grade school through high school. My teaching method incorporates working with students on the primary percussion instrument of their choice, whether it be marimba, drum set, rudimental technique, marching band drum line or orchestral percussion. Once that is established, I introduce them to other areas of musicianship skills. For example, basic music theory, aural training and keyboard skills in order to introduce them to a fully rounded music education. I also try to integrate other academic areas (Mathematics, English) in order to help students realize how studying and practicing music can and will benefit their disciplinary skills in many other areas of academia and life.

Wilmette, Il

Private Percussion Instructor in Drum Set, Keyboard Percussion (Marimba, Vibraphone, Xylophone), Timpani, etc.

Evanston High School

Percussion Section Coach/Instructor for the Evanston High School Marching Band and Private Instructor in Percussion (Drum Set, Keyboard Percussion, etc.) for Evanston High School students.

Greater Chicago Area

Infrastructure Project Management and Network Assessment and DesignWork Projects IncludeDesign corporate wide LAN/WAN physical and logical networksDirect client interface skills to assess network architectures and align with business objectivesDiscovery of all current state network devices, circuits, layer two and three protocolsAssess the networks infrastructure and weigh its risk mitigation capabilities.Assess the networks design and define deficient network components.Identify prioritized projects notably PCI mitigation and risk reduction.Manage and coordinate telecommunications competition for future state network towards a single carrier, single mesh network (MPLS/IPVPN).Negotiate current state of disparate circuits and mitigate Early Termination Fees (ETFs), to ease transition to future state single carrier network.Negotiate with Value Add Reseller (VAR) for new network equipment (Routers, Switches, Firewalls)Design physical and logical infrastructure of future state data center, business offices, restaurant retail and managed services remote client platformsDesign Cisco Build of Materials (BOMs) in CCW (Cisco Commerce Workspace)Prepare detailed Visio diagrams of physical and logical network architecturesDesign IP address schemes, VLAN segments, routing protocols, hardware, rack layout, switch port and cabling schemes.

Member of network engineering team supporting four large hospitals and seventy-five remote healthcare facilities classified as a stage seven (highest) facility by HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Managements Society) for completely incorporating EMR (Electronic Medical Records) in a centralized network and database.Work Streams includedSupport, Integration and Implementation of layer two and layer three networkSonet Ring OC-12 physical/logical backbone infrastructureAvaya layer two and three switches Ethernet Routing SwitchesCisco layer three switches and Cisco layer three routersSupport, Integration and Implementation of WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network)WAPs (Wireless Access Points) and WLC in an 802.11a/b/g enterprise-class networkSupport, administer and configure Checkpoint firewallConfigure and implement security based rules, NAT policies and VPNs with external vendors Support and Administration of F5 Load BalancerLoad balance internal and external DNS entries

Member of small team of Network Engineers tasked with project managing, implementing and installing GE’s Ultrasound (mini-PAC’s) server in Hospital and Healthcare IT environmentsWork streams includedInstall Image Vault™ Server and SAN (Storage Area Network) or NAS (Network Attached Storage) for long term storage and HIPAA compliance in Healthcare IT environments.Assist local based Field Engineers with network related issuesTechnical advisor to GE sales team and clientsInstall, Implement Ultrasound/Radiological equipment utilizing TCP/IP and DICOM protocol

Member of small team of network engineers specializing in multi-homing corporate networks with BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) and implementing Internaps FCP™ (Flow Control Platform).Work Projects includedTechnical advisor to sales team in direct client facing meetingsProject manage, design, implement and install customer based multi-homed BGP network solutionImplement, install and configure Internaps FCP™ route optimization productNetwork assessment utilizing Internap’s FCP™ and FCX™ (Flow Control Accelerator)

Member of AT&T Global backbone infrastructure network engineering team Work streams includedAdministrating, implementing and supporting with full “enable” read, write, execute access to all network devices in the AT&T Global NetworkDeliver full fault resolution to backbone infrastructure utilizing BGP, OSPF and MPLSManage immediate resolution of all network issues with the application of ACL’s (access-lists), route redistribution, AS path-prepending and bandwidth costing.Regular consultations with Cisco TAC and Juniper JTAC to mitigate IOS and Junos vulnerabilities and RMA faulty hardware.Regularly liaise with AT&T laboratories for weekly maintenance window MOPs (Method of Procedure)Life Cycle ManagementResponsible for Project Management and weekly maintenance windows in Europe, Latin and North America and Asia.Execute and implement hardware and logical routing, switching configurations in the European, Asia Pacific, Latin and North America maintenance windows on a weekly basis.

Bachelor’S Degree, Music Performance, Percussion

Bachelors Degree in Music, Percussion Performance. Principal Instructors included Michael Udow and Charles Owen (Orchestral Percussion).

Master'S Certification, Arranging

Activities and Societies: Winner of Mark Mothersbaugh Scholarship in Arranging.An in-depth sequence of Arranging and Production courses.

M.M. Master Of Music, Jazz/Jazz Studies

Activities and Societies: Principal Instructors - Joel Spencer and Larry Gray.Master's degree in Jazz Drum Set.