✔ Super-Fan & Dedicated Follower✔ Eager Advocate✔ Personal Advisor & Unofficial Chauffeur✔ Photographer & Volunteer -- Sharer of Social Media Posts✔ Local Crew Member -- Trusted to Carry Delicate Stuff✔ Sincere Evangelist & Heart-felt B(r)and AmbassadorCurrent Roster:★ Rachael Sage ★ -- Original compositions, from the heart. Sung & played on piano or guitar. A former dancer, still so graceful & eloquent. I know her since the first of her now 15 CDs. Thanks to Derek Sivers, who introduced us even before he had the idea to found CD Baby, she was the first to put me on her "Street Team," back in the day when there was a lot of stapling paper flyers on telephone poles!rachaelsage.com★ Lil' Bastad ★ -- Bluesy, jazzy, rockin', soulful, R&B, danceable, and always funky for your party. A rotating Rolodex of hired guns, led by dueling guitars. facebook.com/lilbastad Direct: raymond@lilbastad.com★ Ed Palermo Big Band ★ -- 11 horns with a fantastically tight rhythm section. Mash-ups are their specialty. From Frank Sinatra to Frank Zappa, often at the same time. palermobigband.com★ Maritri ★ -- A musicologist who has written many of her own songs, too, after teaching herself piano, cello, and guitar. Formerly in Hue and still also in the Soulfolk Experience, she's bi-coastal. facebook.com/maritri Direct: suggestions.for.maritri@gmail.com★ Acute Inflections ★ -- Elasea (former Broadway singer) & Sadiki (bassist), together, are Acute Inflections. “A velvety mix of Erykah Badu & Billie Holiday paired with the cool grooves of a 007 on bass.” Based in New York, they travel across the country performing for corporate events, weddings, and exclusive soirées. Their diverse repertoire includes Jazz, Top-40, and everything in between. They also work closely with each client to select attire that complements their theme. acuteinflections.comDirect: raymond@acuteinflections.com★ Leonieke Scheuble ★ -- A young old soul: Piano & organ jazz.leoniekescheuble.com

I have been working with this band since long before Facebook. Created and maintain their active presence there. Make the events announcements. Community outreach. Photography, video & audio consultation. Work closely to coordinate with the webmaster/e-mail manager, and venues, too.raymond@lilbastad.com

Already thriving with many successful major corporate events, elegant private soirées, and fabulous wedding parties, etc., under their belts and on their upcoming calendar, this sultry & sassy musical duo is now ready to play out more, in public venues. I help them with (everything, in their tightly-knit operation, and) (focus on) this. I know many musicians, booking agents, video producers, club owners, social media mavens, podcast authors, restaurant chefs, etc. [You, too, can network with me on LinkedIn!]I have much relevant experience and many considered opinions. From my days in technology project management, to the then start-up CD Baby... to my nights in food & beverage PR and then hospitality management, I have garnered many useful skills. Besides this expertise, I have much energy. For something I believe in.Please visit the website: http://bit.ly/RH-AI-5Join the mailing list: http://bit.ly/RH-AI-2raymond@acuteinflections.com

I am currently interviewing restaurant owners and general managers and caterers—waiting to find just the right fit—so that I can sink my teeth into a project in which I believe and for which I can make a difference, by adding my valuable package of skills & attributes. Feel free to contact me for an informational conversation, about how I can both make you (or someone you know) money and help you sleep at night!

Internet-based discussion forum and information archive for career-changers, and those either un- or under-employed. Another volunteer activity, I created (and now maintain) this outlet to serve a larger geographic area than most of the hyper-local in-person support & training associations in the region, after the steering committees of both the Montclair and Maplewood/South Orange groups chose me to manage their LinkedIn Groups. Since then, I have stepped up to produce, manage, secure speakers for, shape, publicize, grow, and moderate the bi-monthly Maplewood in-person meetings.

► Worked closely with the importers & distributors of an international corporation that produces award-winning (at prestigious industry competitions) "Dehesa de la Sabina" brand organic extra virgin olive oil, in Spain.◄♦ Initially: • Networking: facilitated introductions to—and forged (sales or cross-promotional) associations with—my colleagues & connections in the F&B industry in the U.S.♦ Went on to do:• Administrative Assistance• Marketing: Publicity, Public- & Media-Relations• Social Media Strategy & Coordination• Photography• Event Planning & Front of House Management• Conduct Tasting/Demonstration sessions at retail outlets• Writing, Editing, Proofreading• Sales♦ Successes:✔ Introduced importer to chef/owner of MishMish Cafe; he now uses this oil exclusively, in all his Mediterranean-style recipes. Further, he now does retail sales of the product, too.✔ Introduced importer to proprietors of Olive That & More! store; they now keep the product in stock.✔ Introduced importer to partners of Wild Honey Catering; they immediately brought us into a meeting with the owner of The Wine Legend, and we three planned a sold-out event...✔ Conducted photo shoot (both product & people; both posed & candid) at a strategic partner's restaurant (in both kitchen & front of house).✔ Documented the "Meet The Producer" tasting/educational event at a strategic partner's retail store.✔ Photographed the special olive-oil tasting/educational dinner event at a restaurant.✔ Created attractive electronic albums of the proofs and put them up onto the website.✔ Made slide-shows to run on laptop or tablet.✔ Used photos to enhance social media posts and flyers.✔ Created and grew the Instagram account to add to Facebook administrative duties assumed early on.✔ Created the company page on LinkedIn (as we know, the preeminent relational database tool for business networking!)✔ Kept up regular communications with Spain- and U.K.-based team members.Ops moved to U.K.

Volunteered, from day one, for this great not-for-profit organization. My responsibilities (for more & larger events, at many venues--including the Montclair Art Museum, The Manor restaurant, Women's Club of Upper Montclair, Highlawn Pavilion, Montclair Booksellers, and the Wellmont Theatre--increased greatly, to include community outreach, social media publicist, volunteer staff coordination, inventory control, sponsor- and VIP-liaison and front of house manager.The company page on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/montclair-food-&-wine-festival https://montclairfoodandwinefestival.orghttps://www.facebook.com/MontclairFWhttps://twitter.com/MontclairFWThe most recent co-presidents each got further involved with their personal businesses, and we're currently on hiatus...

Online discussion group, for conversations about our town. I started topics and gently (yet firmly) guided the ensuing deluge of responses. For fifteen years--until after the Facebook phenomenon--hundreds of town residents shared news, information and opinions, about dozens of topics, at any time! The predecessor group that I ran, from the year 2000, was the still famous Montclair Watercooler, a trailblazer and template for many.

I supported a highly trained and contagiously passionate Health Coach who works primarily with women 40+ who want to feel "Healthy, Happy and HOT!"

Covered community events both on assignments from editors and as an enterprise journalist. Also creator of “Where in Montclair?” – a popular town-wide pictorial guessing-game column that was long-featured on the Op-Ed page!

I created this site soon after I joined the restaurant management team, and maintained it & updated it as one of the many marketing efforts (e.g. "social networking") that I continued for the owners of Nauna's Bella Casa after I left the daily team-leading functions. Now customers can read descriptions of the restaurant, with information about parties & catering; get driving directions; see photographs of the dining rooms & happy customers; find links to reviews; and be looking at up-to-the-minute menus, when they call to order! Furthermore, our staffers save so much time, each and every day, not having to read—or worse, fax—the menu out to callers, anymore!Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/pages/Naunas-Bella-Casa/115819261771651Follow us on Twitter: @naunasbellacasa

I love food and I love service. I've dined around the world and I know what I like (to have/make happen). So I hopped, skipped & jumped back and forth through two dining rooms, coordinating efficient & caring timing & delivery, as well as preventing & rectifying problems, in the service of hungry people who would like to feel special during their dining experience. I was the "maitre d'" for this busy, casual fine dining restaurant. I trained and led the team. I was also the Marketing guy (always thinking!) and the PR person (all around town!). I was the wine steward. I was the photographer and the website designer, too. I was a working manager and utility player!Did you like to talk? Listen? I could do those, too. Patrons felt truly appreciated.The owner is back in house, again, after some of his side projects were completed; we still have a great relationship.Please check out:www.naunas.com

I worked mainly for two marketing agencies. One was oriented around restaurants, food & beverages, and chefs & cookbook authors. The other specialized in the performing (e.g., music & dance) arts. Cultivating relationships and coordinating the placement of editorial content in print & electronic media outlets, I tenaciously garnered exposure for clients, building awareness of and business for many companies.

I first started in "Data Communications," there -- it was the beginning of the end of the IBM mainframe era. PCs and distributed computing came into heavy business use, and we networked them with Novell Netware, then Windows, etc., to intranets and the Internet.I "touched base, interfaced, and managed expectations;" determined the scopes and budgets of projects; purchased hardware and installed software; assembled teams of appropriate vendors and other necessary players.For a long time catering to the internal trading floor customers, I then transferred to support the developers. The firm's data center was in NJ; that's why I moved to this side of the river.