Dan Meyer

OBJECTIVE

EXPERIENCE

• Negotiate copyright clearance licenses with General accounts (colleges/universities, hotels, resorts, casinos, restaurants, nightclubs, cruise ships, auditoriums, stadiums, coliseums, festivals, health clubs, etc.) through correspondence and direct telephone contact, often at the corporate level
  
• Created and developed SESAC Internet License, speak on Internet licensing panels around the US
  
• Handle all aspects of account development, administration, marketing, sales, and collections
  
• Consistently recognized as top licensing rep
  

• Handled radio and TV broadcast and general account relations, administration, and collections of delinquent accounts, often at the corporate level
  
• Top national collector each quarter for reducing largest amount of outstanding receivables
  

TriEngel Records Nashville, TN, Council Bluffs, IA, and Phoenix, AZ (1995-present)
President, Internet and International Marketing

• Handle A&R for acquiring Nashville and International artists
  
• Create and develop Web pages in conjunction with artists
  
• Handle international consumer marketing and direct marketing of retail record products
  
• Requires knowledge of music industry, computers, Internet, HTML, and international marketing
  

Spindel WebWeavers International Nashville, TN and Helsingborg, Sweden (1995-present)
President, Internet and International Marketing

• Create and develop marketing of Web pages to clients' specifications with partner in Sweden
  
• Includes registering and marketing of Web pages on various search engines
  
• Requires knowledge of HTML, Internet, Swedish, and international marketing
  

Nashville Music Connection/Country OnLine/SESAC OnLine Nashville, TN (1993-1995)
Co-Sysop, Music Industry and International Marketing

• Created and developed music industry online service to become worldwide Internet service
  
• Handle music industry and consumer marketing, development of music industry and general file libraries, World Wide Web page development for businesses, artists, fan clubs, etc., and all aspects of running a full service Internet online service
  
• Requires broad knowledge of music industry, computers, Internet, and international marketing
  

STIM Performing Rights Society, Stockholm, Sweden (1991)
International Liaison between SESAC and STIM

• Developed and executed special training project in International Distribution, Documentation, and Licensing to improve international relations between foreign societies
  
• Conducted international research at STIM (Stockholm), TEOSTO (Helsinki), GEMA (Munich), BUMA/STEMRA (Amsterdam), TONO (Oslo), KODA and NCB (Copenhagen), as well as with various publishers and other music organizations throughout Europe and Scandinavia
  
• Project included comprehensive report on international music operations
  

LITTLE STIRRUP CAY RESORT, Berry Islands, Bahamas (1985-87)
Manager/Department Head, Island Activities, Eastern/Admiral Cruise Lines, Miami, FL

• Developed and managed island and activities concession on Little Stirrup Cay and S/S Emerald Seas cruise ship
  
• Doubled projected income to 1/2 million dollars annually by implementing new activities and improving existing programs
  
• Responsibilities included business management, purchasing, marketing, advertising, sales, administration, and personnel management
  
• Instructed and supervised over 52,000 passengers in skin diving - required training in scuba, life saving, first aid and CPR, and knowledge of marine life
  
• Increased passenger participation 8% (from 25 to 33% average)
  
• Island consistently rated #1 port of call by passengers due to exciting programs, directly increasing cruise line's rating to #2 in Carribean
  
• Cruise Director and Purser's Office regularly complimented "Diver Dan" for receiving highest number of positive comment cards from passengers
  
• Also performed as entertainer on ship - guitar and bass with show band, guitar with solo jazz act, keyboards with reggae band and pop and rock bands
  

BILL GAITHER'S PINEBROOK RECORDING STUDIOS, Alexandria, IN (1983-85)
Recording Studio Engineer and Record Producer

• Engineered small ensemble to full orchestra custom and label album projects, publisher demos, radio and TV jingles and soundtracks
  
• Worked as independent producer and engineer in other studios
  
• Taught music industry courses (Songwriting, Publishing and Studio Engineering) at Anderson College
  

SAM GOODY MUSIC AND VIDEO, Nashville, TN (1987-88)
Assistant Manager

• Promoted within two months of employment to open and manage new store (6th largest of 622 locations)
  
• Responsibilities included managing, supervising and training personnel in retail music sales and customer service
  

LANTERN LIGHT RECORDS, Chillicothe, OH (1981)
Record Promotions

• Promoted Joe Water's single "Livin' in the Light of Her Love" to #86 on Billboard charts through mailings, telephone follow-up and direct meetings with radio and TV stations throughout the U.S.
  

EDUCATION

• Principal instrument: harp; played guitar with stage orchestra and ISU Jazz Ensemble
  

POST GRADUATE COURSES, Belmont University, Nashville, TN (1987)

• Music Business, Publishing, Copyright Law, Performance and Mechanical Licensing

• Graduated #1 in a class of over 120 international students - achieved top score of 99.2
  

ASSOCIATE OF ARTS DEGREE, Waldorf College, Forest City, IA (1975-1977)
Music Business/Music Theory and Composition major

• Graduated CUM LAUDE
  

PERSONAL

• Enjoy meeting different challenges and solving problems with imaginative solutions
  
• Enjoy setting goals and accomplishing them
  
• Work best when learning and when keeping busy - Am most fulfilled when working with music
  
  • Enjoy writing and producing songs - was #1 winner of national Christian Artists Songwriting Competition, Estes Park, CO, for "If It Wasn't For Your Love" (1983)
    
  • Wrote, produced, directed and engineered the song and video "Merry Christmas, Doll", recorded by High Heel and the Sneekers - song and video (1 Meg .MOV) received regular national airplay during Gulf War on CMT, TNN and FOX Network, and subsequent Christmases (Christmas 1990 - 1995)
    
  • Represented SESAC at FTS Music Awards Convention, Stockholm, Sweden (1989)
    
  • Enjoy listening to international music and collecting musical instruments from around the world

• Enjoy international travel, studying foreign languages, and cooking
  
  • Enjoyed performing and touring as short term missionary for several months in India with LYE (Lutheran Youth Encounter) - learned to ride elephants and read and write three Indian languages
    
  • Travel regularly in Scandinavia, Europe, and Latin America
    
  • Speak English, Swedish, Norwegian and German - Currently studying Russian, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Afrikaans, Icelandic, and ancient Viking/Norse Runic
    
  • Member of International Advisory Board of Belmont University, Nashville, TN
    
  • Was Vice President of International Gourmet Import Company - imported gourmet foods from Norway, Sweden, France and Russia to distributors, caterers, hotels, restaurants and cruise lines
    
  • Member of NEARA (New England Antiquities Research Association) - studying ancient Viking Runescript with Norse Runic experts in Scandinavia and the U.S.
    
  • Member of Tre Kronor Swedish club in Nashville, and Sons Of Norway International of Minneapolis
    
  • Currently researching and writing filmscript "The Other Side of the Coin" on the life of Leif Eiriksson and the Norse discovery of America in 1000AD

• Enjoy working closely with people and keeping them in a good mood
  
  • Work as professional clown, Juggler, fire-eater, fire-breather, and sword swallower for Circuses, TV, music videos, and international documentaries
    
  • Taught classes in "FUNdamentals of Circus Clowning" at Indiana State University
    
  • Organizer of Nashville Juggler's Association/Music City Jugglers, member of IJA (International Juggler's Association), COA (Clowns of America), WFA (World Footbag Association), and Cumberland Grotto Cavers

• Executive Director of Sword Swallowers Association Int'l (SSAI)
• Organizer of three annual Sword Swallowers Conventions which set the Guinness World Record
• Enjoy outdoor sports: parachuting, hot air ballooning, canoeing, sailing, scuba diving, skiing, hiking, mountain climbing, spelunking (caving) and camping
  
  • Certified PADI Open Water Scuba Diver and SSI Scuba Instructor
    
  • Enjoy raising parrots, cutting stained glass, brewing Viking Mead, and throwing darts in my spare time (when I have it!)

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