Resume
Experience
2020 – present:
Board Member • Secretary, Center for Art in Wood
2017-Present
Nakashima Foundation for Peace • New Hope, PA • Secretary Treasurer
2008-Present
George Nakashima Woodworker, SA • New Hope, PA • General Manager, Officer
2006-2008
Agati, Inc • Chicago, IL • Regional Sales Manager, Mid Atlantic Region
2004-2006
Superior Woodcraft • Doylestown, PA • Operations Officer
1988-2004
Thos. Moser Cabinetmakers • Auburn, ME • Contract Sales/Project Manager • Product Development Manager
1994-1996
Maine College of Art • Portland, ME • Adjunct Faculty, Continuing Education – Woodworking
1986-1988
Woodrite, Inc. • Willow Grove, PA • Product Engineer/Project Manager
1984-1986
Hardwood House • Rochester, NY • Product Engineer, Model Maker1983-1986
R.I.T • Rochester, NY • Adjunct Faculty, Continuing Education – Woodworking
Summer 1984
Penland School of Craft • Penland, NC• Introduction to Woodworking
Education
2020
Certificate In Nonprofit • Lasalle Center For Non-Profit
2019
Certificate Non-Profit Management, The nonprofit Center at LaSalle University, Philadelphia, PA
1986-88
Graduate Program—Financial Accounting • Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1984
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY • BFA • Woodworking and Furniture Design, School of American Craftsman
1983
Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
1979
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Patents/Awards:
- 2018 Jurors Award-Craft Forms, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
- 2018 Wingate Fine Woodworking Award – Bucks County Community College
- 2016 Jurors Award –Craft Forms, Wayne Arts Center, Wayne, PA
- 2015 Wingate Fine Woodworking Award – Bucks County Community College
- 1993 Modular Carrel, Design Patent
- 1992 IBD, Silver Award, Health Care Chair
- 1984 International Woodworking Fair, Design Award
- 1984 Merit Award Award “Woodworking 1984”, Stifel Fine Arts Center, Wheeling, W.VA
- 1984 Furniture Design Competition, International Woodworking Fair, Atlanta, GA
- 1983 Scholarship, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
- 1981,1982,1983 RIT Student Honors Show, Rochester, NY,
Committees/Lectures/Memberships:
- 2015,2016,2017,2019Echo Lake Artist Collaborative, Buck County, PA
- 2015 – Present Bucks County Community College – Furniture and Cabinetry Certificate Program Advisory Committee
- 2015 – Present The Furniture Society
- 2013- 2015 Buckingham Friends School – Advanced Planning Committee
- 1995-2002 American Library Association, LAMA Committee Member
- 1992-1995 Lecturer, Institute of Business Designers Continuing Education Program –Specifying Solid Wood Furniture
- 1994 APICS Education Society or Recourse Management
- 1992-1994 Lecturer, American Library Association Conference
- 1991 Lecturer Designers Saturday – Designing Custom Furniture
Exhibitions of Personal Work
Publications
- 11/1984 Furniture Design and Manufacturing, Magazine Student Designers… Creating Furniture for the 80’s
- 4/84 The Briton-Pittsford Post, Newspaper, Rochester NY “Four Senior Woodworkers at RIT Exhibit their Craft”
- 4/1984 “The Masters of the Craft” Democrat and Chronicle, Newspaper, Rocherst, NY
- 4/1984 Artist Interview Feature WHEC TV 10, Rochester, NY
- 5/1983 Associated Press Release,” New York School in Harvard for Crafts”
- 1982, 1983 RIT College of Fine and Applied Arts, View Book, Rochester, NY