Rush Evans Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Austin, Texas Area

Attending over thirty Veterans Treatment Courts (VTC) throughout Texas, publicly addressing the justice-involved veterans in attendance, educating them of our no-cost legal assistance on a wide array of civil matters• Developing relationships with court staff and other service providers as provider of legal services for veteran participants• Attending VTC staffing meetings with court coordinators, judges, defense counsel, probation, VA, and other veteran service providers in order to identify unique legal needs of veterans court participants• Meeting with veterans and summarizing clients’ civil situations into coherent legal questions for our legal staff, thus providing the framework for the delivery of legal advice• Researching individual military discharge upgrade cases for veterans seeking a discharge upgrade• Reading and analyzing military personnel and medical records of individual veterans seeking a discharge upgrade• Preparing briefs for appropriate military branches and Veterans Administration for consideration of military discharge upgrades and character of service determinations• Responsible for marketing and promotional activity of non-profit telephone-based legal services program, including promotional materials• Conducting intake for VTC participant clients for TLSC’s internal record-keeping, crucial to furthering the mission of the organization and procuring future grants

Austin, Texas Area

Programmer and volunteer at community radio station, KOOP FM, host and creator of Off the Beatle Path and The Singer and the Song. Interviewer and booker of live acts weekly on The Singer and the Song.

▪ Authored over 100 feature articles and reviews published in national music magazines, interviewing musicians such as Ringo Starr, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Willie Nelson, Solomon Burke, J. Geils, Little Steven Van Zandt, The Flatlanders, and many others.▪ Work has appeared in Goldmine Magazine, Discoveries Magazine, The Good Life Magazine, and the Austin American Statesman.▪ Authored liner notes for over 20 CDs by artists such as Doug Kershaw, Ralph Stanley, Bob Wills, Sir Douglas Quintet, and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils.

Austin, Texas Area

▪ Responsible for marketing and promotional activity of non-profit telephone-based legal services program, including promotional materials▪ Responsible for finding and attending veteran-oriented events throughout Texas, representing program at those events, communicating with individual veterans, developing relationships with other veteran service providers, also serving as speaker at events ▪ Answering and processing all inbound calls daily▪ Providing clients and the general public with information about the services of TLSC, a non-profit organization providing free legal assistance for Texans▪ Summarizing clients’ civil situations into coherent legal questions for our legal staff, thus providing the framework for the delivery of legal advice▪ Sharing resources with clients about benefits unique to military service veterans▪ Sharing local and state-wide resources for callers who do not meet the program’s eligibility requirements, thus ensuring that their legal needs are still met▪ Determining caller eligibility for other TLSC programs and distributing them within the organization accordingly▪ Acquiring information from callers necessary for TLSC’s internal record-keeping, crucial to furthering the mission of the organization and procuring future grants

▪ Coached and developed team of Cancer Information Specialists to inform constituents on prevention, detection, treatment, and survival of cancer.▪ Analyzed statistical reports to ensure team success in all areas of performance, which resulted in team exceeding performance goal by 10%.▪ Created and presented PowerPoint presentation, highlighting for call-taking specialists the benefits of well-developed calls.▪ Delivered presentation 25 times in one year, reaching over 200 specialists, resulting in measurably increased customer satisfaction.▪ Awarded Employee of the Month for Empowerment as a result of the presentations delivered.

▪ Answered and processed 100+ inbound calls weekly.▪ Provided patients, their families, and the general public with information for prevention and early detection of cancer, which enabled informed treatment decisions.▪ Identified and located community resources for constituents, such as low-cost cancer screenings, support groups, and financial assistance.

▪ Managed Texas-wide radio syndication project, working with 300 radio stations on distribution of feature series, providing stations with series, tracking their usage and on-air value, and selling the features to new radio station partners.

▪ Coordinated all on-air content, creating and distributing the master programming schedule that guided the activities of team members in ten departments.▪ Solely responsible for providing contingency programming when on-air schedules were disrupted by extended sporting events or news coverage.▪ Planned station’s long-term programming objectives and worked with General Manager, corporate programming department, and syndication sales companies to fulfill station's programming needs, and to achieve goals for financial status and Nielsen programming involvement.▪ Maintained detailed operational records required by regulatory guidelines, programming contract terms, and ratings agencies such as Nielsen Media Research.

• Hosted mid-day radio program on oldies format station. • Provided live traffic reports during drive time by air-to-ground radio. • Created and hosted all-request weekend oldies show. • Created and edited commercial spots and station promos. • Represented radio stations at public events.