Resumé : Bill Powell

Bill Powell is Wineskin Media.

A book is not a package, but a craft.

You know what you want to say. Let’s say it. I will write, edit, proofread, lay out, typeset, illustrate, design a web site—whatever it takes.

• My work has appeared in Bibliophilos, Listen, The Arlington Catholic Herald, and The Troubador, as well as abcteach.com and speroforum.com.
• Advised revisions for portions of The Tarrant Chronicles (Tarrant Books, 2002), by Dr. Warren Carroll.
• My one-act comedy Can Someone Who Knows He Exists Go Call the Police? was produced in April 2003.

Note that many of these projects have also included editorial work.

• Currently compiling and laying out the Social Justice Engagement Calendar 2009, forthcoming from IHS Press.
• Typeset and designed cover for Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, forthcoming from Christendom Press.
• Typeset Distributist Perspectives II, forthcoming from IHS Press.
• Redesigned typesetting and redesigned cover for new edition of This Is My Body, Mark Shea, Christendom Press.
• Completed cover for The Founding of Christendom, Dr. Warren Carroll, Christendom Press.
• Typeset the academic journal Faith & Reason:
  • vol. 31, no. 2
  • vol. 31, no. 3 (forthcoming)
• Wrote content for, edited, designed, typeset, and drew illustrations for numerous educational workbooks published by Seton Press.
• Did layout for five weekly planners published by Holy Family Gifts Press.
• Designed ads for Immaculate Heart of Mary Conference, 2002.
• Designed logos, letterheads, flyers, catalogues and ads for Holy Family Gifts, Inc.

I have designed, constructed, and installed the base software for several web sites.

• Shopping cart site for The Upper Room, www.upperoom.us (oscommerce, PHP).
• Brochure web site for CA Media Pro, camediapro.com (WordPress, PHP).
• Brochure web site for Immaculate Heart of Mary Conference, 2002.
• Shopping cart site for Holy Family Gifts, Inc (Javascript).
• This portfolio site, wineskinmedia.com (WordPress, PHP).
• My personal site, billpowellisalive.com (WordPress, PHP).

Up to several years experience with:

• Vim editor, OpenOffice
• LaTeX typesetting language
• Scribus, a professional open source DTP
• The Gimp graphic editing suite
• HTML, MySQL, PHP
• osCommerce, WordPress, DokuWiki

• Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop, CorelDraw, CorelPhotoPaint
• Microsoft Office (Word, Access, Excel)
• Microsoft Visual Basic, Javascript
• Session 8, Studio Vision Pro, Pro Tools audio editing software

• Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof (Fall 2002)
• Assistant director of Can Someone Who Knows He Exists Go Call the Police? (April 2003).
• Finalist, Fourteenth Annual Christopher Video Contest for College Students. Submisson: One Foot Can Make A Difference.
• Production Intern at EWTN Studios, Birmingham, AL, Fall 2000.
• Scripted, directed, edited, and produced several half-hour television shows for the Franciscan University Austrian Program. Used both an S-VHS toaster and an Avid editing system.
• Crew member for EWTN television series, “Franciscan University Presents.”
• Scripted, performed, and produced several radio comedies for WFRS 88.3 FM.
• DJ for WFRS 88.3 FM, three semesters.
• Audio Engineer in independent production, My Confession to my God.

• Married to amazingly beautiful woman and currently father of two.
• Co-founder and Coordinator for “The Apprentices of St. Joseph,” a student organization at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH.
• Completed Leadership Project Weekend.

• Completed Catholic Homesteading Week at the Catholic Homesteading Movement, Norwich, NY (May 2005).
• Attended Natural Building Fundamentals at the Ecovillage Training Center, TN (March 2005).
• Farm Intern for 2004 growing season at a small organic farm (references available upon request). Responsibilities included horse care, seeding, weeding, harvesting, CSA, farmer’s market.

• National Merit Scholarship Finalist
• SAT score: 1560
• Graduated summa cum laude from the Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, May 2001.
• B.A. in Philosophy, B.A. in Communication Arts (Radio/TV Concentration)
• Member, Honors Program at Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Member, Alpha Chi