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- Current experience: Management, Sales, Marketing and Purchasing/Inventory Control at the distribution level; managing the website and assisting in business operations for our sister company; building a new related business which sells via Amazon.com;- Sales; Meeting & exceeding sales goals for territories ranging from $600K to $1.2M and above;- Extensive road experience throughout the United States and Canada, including trade shows;- Sales Management and Sales Management Support at the publishing level;- Facilitating communication between Sales/Marketing, Production & IT;- Purchasing and inventory control at the publishing and distribution levels;- Professional writing and copy-writing (using various Microsoft Office programs;)- Creative input into production;- Database management (including Microsoft Navision;)- Managing employees and inventory at the retail level.I have 25+ years experience in print music and bookselling in every music genre, from classical to rock, Broadway, folk/bluegrass, jazz, Celtic, pop, etc.As a solo performer, I am an excellent sight reader in many styles, of piano scores as well as fakebook-style lead sheets; I have considerable experience in accompanying musicians from the high school and college level; playing piano for high school musicals; playing weddings and receptions; and playing background music for gatherings (including Christmas parties.) As a composer/arranger, I have written and performed numerous cabaret songs (see below;) and I have written and arranged music in many genres, as well as being proficient at parody lyrics.One of my passions is music transcription (using both Sibelius and Finale) and my transcriptions have been acknowledged by Mike Keneally and Neal Morse; you can view my Gentle Giant transcriptions at www.blazemonger.com; and a few of my Van DeGraaf Generator transcriptions at http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk.

Listed skills include Strategic Planning, Purchasing, Sales Management, Promotions, and 33 others.