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 Gilbert!, Bibliophilos, Listen, and the Arlington Catholic Herald, as well as insidecatholic.com, abcteach.com, and speroforum.com.
• Assistant editor for the new Catholic kids' magazine, St. Mary's Messenger.
• 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.

Many of these projects have also included editorial work.

• Typeset, edited and designed 2009 Easter issue of St. Mary's Messenger. Sample pages (21MB).
• Proofread, typeset, and designed the cover for the American edition of Jobs of Our Own by Race Matthews, from the Distributist Review Press.
• Regularly typeset the academic journal Faith & Reason.
• Compiling and designing the 2010 Social Justice Engagement Calendar, coming this fall from the Distributist Review Press.
• Typeset text and designed the cover for Sanctifying the World: The Augustinian Life and Mind of Christopher Dawson, from Christendom 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.
• 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.

• Migration of over 700 pages and a large mailing list to a new platform, with several custom extensions, for the Population Research Institute (Joomla!, DadaMail, PHP, Javascript).
• Brochure site for Mirandum Pictures production studio (Joomla!, DadaMail).
• Magazine site for St. Mary's Messenger (Joomla!, DadaMail).
• Shopping cart site for The Upper Room (oscommerce, PHP).
• Brochure web site for CA Media Pro (WordPress, PHP).
• Brochure web site for Immaculate Heart of Mary Conference, 2002.
• This portfolio site, wineskinmedia.com (DokuWiki).
• The Fabricated Press, a news satire site (PHP).
• My personal site, billpowellisalive.com (pyblosxom, python).

Up to several years experience with:

• Vim editor, OpenOffice
• Typesetting: LaTeX typesetting language, Scribus DTP
• Graphic design: Gimp, Inkscape
• Web development: HTML, MySQL, PHP, Javascript
• Mailing lists: DadaMail, GNU Mailman
• Shopping cart: osCommerce
• Content management: Joomla!, DokuWiki, WordPress
• Scripts: Perl, Python, and naturally Bash (grep, sed, awk!)

• 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 three.
• Co-founder and Coordinator for “The Apprentices of St. Joseph,” a student organization at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH.
• Completed (and directed faux movie preview in free time during) 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

Last updated: 2009 Feb 05