Vinson Valega Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny

Design Squarespace websites for top-tier arts professionals, academics, non-profits, and small businesses.• Consult with clients to copy-edit website content, including image and video placement.• Utilize extensive knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and custom coding.• Produce and edit videos for visual artists, musicians, non-profits, and seniors (legacy videos),creating profiles through creative storytelling.• Extensive knowledge of Final Cut X.www.vinsonvalega.com

Greater New York City Area

• Provide live jazz ensembles for corporate events, private parties, weddings, and fundraising benefits throughout the New York Metropolitan area and across the United States.• Consult on all aspects of event with client, including scheduling, sound systems, repertoire, instrumentation, and size of band, ranging from solo guitar to vocal quartet to big band, etc.• Created and manage website: JustJazzMusic.com.www.justjazzmusic.com

New York, Ny

• Submit RFQs (Request for Qualifications) for public art proposals by visual artist, Sharon Louden.• Produce all aspects leading up to installation of public art projects, including budgeting, preparation, materials research & acquisition, hiring & managing all labor.• Install temporary and permanent large scale sculptures in museums and public buildings, utilizing budgets between $50,000 - $450,000.• Consult on and write grants multiple times per year, ranging from $5,000 to $50,000.• Process and manage all images relating to work that appears online and in print.• Co-produced two extensive conversational book tours featuring Louden publications, totaling162 stops across the United States and abroad (2013-18).• Created and manage two websites: SharonLouden.com & LiveSustain.org.www.sharonlouden.com

Greater New York City Area

• Converted jazz record label into a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization devoted to increasing civic engagement through live jazz and activism.• Produced “Consilience Awareness Concert Series” that combined live jazz performances with presentations by other non-profits, such as Solar One, Coalition for the Homeless, Sustainable Flatbush, The $10 Club, Common Cause, Citizen Action, etc.• Achieved marked increase in volunteer participation to support programming around environmental, good governance, poverty alleviation, and other social issues.• Authored four concurrent blogs from 2003-2016 resulting in over 1,000 entries devoted to current issues in the following topics: Music, Democracy, Earth, & Money.• Produced and distributed four CD recordings as a leader (jazz drummer / composer) and co- produced another for a women-led latin-jazz group.• Organized multiple tours of the Vinson Valega Group across America and abroad, including jazz festivals and clubs.• Designed and manage website: CSLProductions.org.www.cslproductions.org

Greater New York City Area

• Manage educational workshops for children that teach sustainability by utilizing recycled material and trash objects to build fantastical towns that glow in the dark.• Consult on all aspects of collaborations with museums, arts centers, libraries, and local schools across the country, including budgeting, writing grants, logistical support, materials acquisition, etc.• Produced and volunteered time and services for ten workshops in one week in Greensburg, KS, helping the community recover from the devastation of an F5 tornado.• Achieved school-wide involvement with over 200 students between 3rd and 12th grade in Greensburg, KS, exhibiting the final 150 square-foot “Glowtown” at the Kansas State Fair.• Designed and manage website: Glowtown.org.https://www.glowtown.org

Greater New York City Area

• Perform, tour, and record as sideman and leader (jazz clubs, festivals, new recordings, etc).• Recorded four CDs as leader which are distributed through Consilience Productions on alldownloading and streaming services (Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Pandora, etc).• Received approximately 20 reviews of recordings in top jazz publications.• Teach students of all ages and experience levels, including as staff member of the Stanford JazzWorskhop, Palo Alto, CA.www.vinsonvalega.com

New York, Ny

• Traded Cotton Options and Futures in open outcry bid-offer strategies at proprietary trading firm on New York Board of Trade (NYBOT) & International Commodity Exchange (ICE).• Implemented daily risk analysis plans based on macro economic developments and daily movement of futures to arbitrage volatility levels between dozens of monthly options series.• Leveraged vast knowledge of statistical modeling, technical analysis of historical resistance & support levels, and preternatural trading instincts to drive profitability during regular floor trading hours and after-hours electronic trading.• Initiated & cultivated profitable relationships with major international brokerage houses.• Exploited deep knowledge of regulatory environments impacting futures & options markets.• Trained assistants to become floor traders.• Ranked as one of top traders by volume and profit.

Philadelphia, Pa

• Traded Oil Options and Futures in open outcry bid-offer strategies at proprietary trading firm on New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). September 1988 - September 1992.• Traded Currency Options and Futures in open outcry bid-offer strategies for Cooper Neff proprietary firm on Philadelphia Stock Exchange (PHLX). June 1988 - September 1988.• Assisted senior traders in support role which included data collection, coordinating delivery of trading sheets, computing risk analysis reports, and executing trading instructions. June 1987 - June 1988.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Economics

Activities and Societies: UPENN Jazz Ensemble; school newspaperStudied liberal arts, played drums in the UPENN Jazz Ensemble and other.

Certificate Of Advanced Multimedia Storytelling, Video Journalism

Comprehensive Video Journalism Course

Diploma In Jazz Performance, Jazz, A+

Studied full-time: composition, ear training, jazz theory, music history, jazz ensemble, Latin-jazz Big Band, etc.

Education record