Austin, Jourdan-Bachmann Pioneer Farms                                       

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Austin, TX 78758Mike Ward, Chairman (512) 632-9561 mward@statesman.com  Board Member/ Director Heritage Artisans history programs

Authentic Reproductions, Austin, TX
co-owner 9/1993-12/2002
Historic Science and Technology specialist, Co-founder, organization to locate, fabricate and rent early technological historic props to motion pictures. Design and execute period architectural sets, interiors. Construction design, lead and manager for outside contracted specialties. Oversee design and construction projects
Website design, print research and editing.
http://skinnervillage.eshire.net
Historic Foodways advisor, agricultural lifeways specialist and consultant in period produce, cooking, recipes, present historic food ways demonstrations and lectures, Native American, Shaker, Frontier and historic cooking/food production.

Native Nations Intertribal Registry, Austin, TX
Board Member/ Educational Outreach Director 1/1994-Present/2002
Board member in charge of educational outreach, director of educational programs and training.
Deals with grant writing, education, budgeting volunteer programs and training staff. Demonstrations and lectures in historic lifeways , cooking and food production. Worked with admissions and educational programs with several colleges to encourage recruitment and programs encouraging native and minority enrollment.

University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Housing and Food Supervisor 9/1994-10/1999
Manage staff desks for three dorms, training, computer training, check in and check out, key and administrative work for state university. Conference desk supervisor in summers, Hotel duties, customer service and advisor in historic lifeways and foods for specialty dinners and ethnic presentations. training and counseling as a volunteer and peer advisor. Volunteer in Counseling with diversity and minority issues.

Third Coast Interiors, Austin, TX
Warehouse Manager 2/1993-3/1995
Supervised 36,000 sq ft warehouse for design firm with 14 interior designers which decorated sales and upscale home sales units. Managed receiving, storage, and delivery of anywhere from 6-8 entire custom homes per week. Supervised crew of five, knowledge of furniture, design, antiques, architectural structure, design and antiques, receiving, scheduling, planning storage and stocking and hiring. Quit position as company was faltering and went out of business 4 months after I left. Required two people to perform my position after leaving, one for receiving, and one for shipping.

Shivers Cancer Center, Austin, TX
Shop Supervisor, Shieldings 5/1992-3/1996
Supervise radiation shieldings production and train/evaluate students in production. Designed teaching curriculum for students in technology-based shieldings production for radiation Tech Students.

Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN
Hospital Police/Surgical Assistant/ ER Tech. 12/1988-10/1991
Served as Security
Police Officer (1988-1991) until trained as First responder with Shelby County Sheriff's Department for supervisory position within Telecommunications in ER at Hospital, Night operator and supervisor until department closed, placed in surgery as surgical assistant in cardiac, orthopedic and thoracic surgery until left organization in 1991.
Volunteer personal trainer Baptist health center, 1989-1991.

University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Counselor, Non-Traditional Graduate Students 2/1990-11/1991
Worked with Dean of Graduate Students Office in Counseling Non-Traditional Students in class advisement, diversity, and scheduling conflicts. Arranged lectures and scheduled speakers Student Advisory Board. Career and counseling lead in Graduate Student Association.

Skinner Farm Museum, Perrysville, IN
Assistant curator, facilities conservator and volunteer trainer 9/1985-3/1988
Conservator of technological, architectural and Native American cultural arts. Volunteer trainer and folklife historian, teaching about historic agriculture, food production and historic cooking presentations/classes. Timberframe, log and blacksmithing demonstrations. Facility and construction manager and lead preservationist. Technical trainer for lifeways, homewares, timberframing, construction, field and garden specialist.
Oversee and design both construction and building move projects.


Education


Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Bachelor of Arts - history of science and technology , December 1985
Student legal aid volunteer counselor, 1984-1985. Studied anthropology, history of science and technology, engineering. Worked in building renovation and historical construction techniques with a museum, and log cabin renovation company.

University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Master of Arts - history
Degree incomplete, served as work-study counslor for non-traditional students with Dean of Students Office in resolution conflict, handicapped access and investigations .

Officer Candidate School, USARNG, Franklin, IN
Other - Military Management, Infantry
Graduated academy, served 0-1 officer with 2-293rd Indfantry and 106th Avn as section leader. Training officer and educational counselor, studied Counter terrorism and small arms, language specialty in Russian.

Served as Second Lt. in both the Indiana USARNG 2/293rd Infantry, and Illinois USARNG 106th Aviation Battalion. 1984-1992


Skills


In the past, have worked in antiques, historical preservation and development of cultural programming and education. Teaching including historic restoration and historic technology.

My management training includes Infantry Officer School and position as both infantry platoon leader and aviation section leader for a helicopter unit, Telecommunications experience as a supervisor at an emergency room, and managing a warehouse of supplies for upscale designer homes.

Managed handling and storage of military equipment and museum artifacts worth in excess of million dollars, held top secret security clearance, and been entrusted with counseling and confidential information at three major Universities.

My expertise in antiques and in locating and identifying prop and period furnishings can be attested to a number of persons, including Byron Scott Thomas, of Austin, who generally works in properties management and art direction, and is listed in Texas Film Commission Catalog, and also by Patrick Nickerson, second generation woodworker and supplier of artifacts and Native American props. I have also worked with Moody Anderson and others in the prop industry here in Austin.

Robert Swim