Vic Spadaro (D-WI-Senate)

Vic Spadaro (D-WI-Senate)

Vittorio Spadaro

Vic Spadaro Senatorial Candidate for Wisconsin

Biography of Vic Spadaro via email.

RESUME

OBJECTIVE

My goal is to benefit the organization I’m working for, using my intelligence, life experience, skills, and talents acquired from my prior coursework and work history.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Dates Employed

  • Job Title
  • Company Name
  • City     State

03/2010 – Present

  • CEO/Acoustical Engineer
  • Professional Audio Consumes LLC
  • Lomira  WI
    • Sound Reinforcement Company – Company provides audio hardware and manpower for concerts, shows, performances, and other functions where quality sound reproduction is required. Customer rents hardware and either provides personal for mixing consoles or pays an additional fee to company for providing manpower for engagement. Better to explain in person at interview.

3/2008 – 03/2010

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Reliv of Southern Wisconsin, Inc.
  • Beaver Dam  WI
    • A nutritional supplements firm marketing proprietary 21st century Reliv nutritional products. A Home Health Care Agency. Duties included coordinating staff members responsibilities and appointments. Maintaining profit/loss evaluations.

01/2003 -12/2005

  • Actor
  • Paramount Pictures
  • Burbank       CA
    • Firefighter #3 in World Trade Center. Position Included reading scripts, speaking lines, performing part with firefighter in mind.

8/1994 – 12/2003

  • Chief Executive Officer
  • JDV Enterprises, Inc.
  • Clinton          IA
    • Chief Executive Officer of this service industry business. Some of their primary products were:
      • 1. The Sound System branch and its business model, offered top quality audio for small to medium sized venues, while providing 20% of the company’s revenue. Renting of small to medium venue Concert Sound Systems to Major Acts.  Quiet Riot, The Bullet Boys, Cheap Trick, The Outfield, Ace Frehley, Badfinger, Ratt, featuring Stephen O. Pearcy, Warrant, and others.
      • 2. A Lounge Karaoke System Rental branch provided 15% of the Company’s revenue. Multi-Year Contract w/Major Hotel
      • 3. An Internet Service Provider branch. The ISP portion, jdv.net, started with 0 users, and $15,000 cash, in 8/94 and provided 65% of the company’s revenue. It used 6 iMacs as workstations, 2 Macintosh 8100′s w/PPC 601 Processors as servers, custom compiled and running MkLinux DR 2 for user authentication, web, mail, usenet newsgroups, shadow password protection, and other processes. In addition, the ISP used 4 Computone 64 port terminal servers and 4 ISPorte chassis’s populated originally with 8/33.6 modems on a card, then later upgraded to microcom modems with Rockwell 56k KFlex  chips and then to microcom modems with a Rockwell 56k chip with V.90, when the protocol was finalized. The Microcom Modems were then replaced with an Assured Access X1000 in 1998, Additional equipment included Adtrans CSU/DSU’s, Cisco 2501 Routers w/ver 10.x software with 2 remote pops. When the company was sold to Midwest communications in Dubuque, IA in 1999, it had 20 employees, 1000 users, and fetched 1.018 mil in a population area of 30,000 persons.

10/1998 – 12/1999

  • Beta  Tester
  • The Microcom industries Beta tested  Fly II Flight simulator software for the Macintosh platform which has sold over 1 million copies.

12/1990 – 2/1994

  • Chief Audio Engineer
  • Dakota Sioux Casino
  • Watertown    SD
    • Supervised 10 man crew 16hrs a day. Designed, Built, Maintained, and  Operated, from the FOH position, sound system for professional  recording acts who performed concerts at the casino on a daily or weekly basis. Artists such as: The Association, Tom T. Hall, Janie Fricke,  Moe Bandy, Eddie Raven, Jeannie C. Riley, Jack Greene, Tommy Roe,  Bobby Vee, Hank Thompson, Marvin Rainwater, and others. As well as  smaller fill in acts. Other responsibilities included hiring and firing of persons for the monitor console. I was recognized for my achievements in the Peavey Monitor Magazine for this.

01/1986 – 09/1986

  • Adversary Pilot
  • U.S. Navy
  • Washington/DC
    • Performed in the beginning off the movie Top Gun as an Adversary Aircraft Pilot flying a U.S. Air Force F5E Fighter Aircraft purchased for the U.S. Navy Adversary Squadron VF-126 Bandits.  Performed 45 minutes of actual flying time during the movie. Filming took place off the coast of California near Miramar Naval Air Station which is where VF 126 wa codes based.

9/1983 – 5/1990

  • Naval Aviator
  • U.S. Navy
  • Washington/DC
    • Attained the pay grade of O3. Assigned to VF111 Sundowners, VF101 Grim Reapers, VF41 Black Aces -F14 Pilot, Aviation Maintenance Officer, Aviation Ordinance Division Officer NATTC Millington, Exxon Valdez Disaster -Valdez Duty Officer In Charge

5/1978 – 10/1984

  • Audio Engineer
  • DB Sound
  • Chicago        IL
    • Performed FOH and Monitor duties for sound company. Some of  the acts  involved were: REO Speedwagon, Kansas, Heart, Prince, Stray Cats, Cindy  Lauper, The Outfield, Kiss, 1984 Summer Olympics in LA, Waylon  Jennings and  Willy Nelson, and others. See http://www.dbsound.com/

03/1974 – 2/1978

  • Infantryman
  • U.S. Marine Corps
  • Washington DC
    • 0311 Simple Infantryman

05/1967 – 07/1967

  • Actor
  • Boys Club
  • Chicago       IL
    • Played the lead role in the production of Oliver had to sing many songs  and say many lines while performing in front of hundreds.

05/1968 – 07/1968

  • Actor
  • Boys Club
  • Chicago       IL
    • Played the lead role in the production of  “You’re a good Man Charlie Brown” had to sing many songs  and say many lines while performing in front of hundreds.

EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION

Dates Attended

  • School
  • Degree
  • Location

1/2007 – Present

  • Abraham Lincoln School of Law
  • Juris Doctorate
  • Los Angeles, CA

9/2003 – 10/2005

  • Richmond’s University
  • Master’s Degree in Business Administration
  • London, UK

9/1994 – 5/1997

  • Almeda University
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering Technology
  • Boise, ID

9/1979 – 5/1983

  • Rockland’s University
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
  • London, UK

9/1979 – 5/1983

  • Rockland’s University
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Acoustical Engineering
  • London, UK

SKILLS

Skill Name

  • Skill Level
  • Last Used
  • Experience

Project Management Experience

  • Expert
  • Last Used 2003
  • 27 years

WAN Network Equipment Experience

  • Expert
  • Last Used 1999
  • 15 years

LAN Network Equipment Experience

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 15 years

ISP Equipment Experience

  • Expert
  • Last Used 1999
  • 15 years

Assured Access X1000 Experience

  • Normal
  • Last Used 1999
  • 2 years

Macintosh Computer Experience

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 22 years

Unix/Linux/BSDi Software Experience

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 27 years

Microsoft Windows

  • Normal
  • Currently Used
  • 27 years
  • 286/386/3.0/3.1/3.11/95/98/98SE/NT 4.0/2000/XP Service Pack 2

Small Venue Sound Systems

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 27 years

Medium Venue Sound Systems

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 27 years

Large Venue Sound Systems

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 27 years

Mixing Console Experience

  • Expert
  • Currently Used
  • 27 years

POLITICAL EXPERIENCE

  • Wisconsin State Assembly, 39th District  – 2004

RECOGNITION OF ACHIEVEMENT

Affiliations

Dates – Affiliated – Organization – Role

10/05 Completed WAIS 3.0 test with percentile score of 99.7 142 IQ

11/2005 – Present – American MENSA High IQ Society – Member  and Technical SIG Coordinator must have a WAIS 3.0 percentile score of 98 and an IQ of 132 to join.

http://www.wi.us.mensa.org/sigs.html

11/2000 – Present – Intertel-IQ – Ultra High IQ Society – Member – must have a WAIS 3.0 percentile score of 99 and an IQ of 137 to join.

http://www.intertel-iq.org/directory2.php

11/2000 – Present – The Cerebrals Genius IQ Society – Member – must have a WAIS 3.0 percentile score of 99.7 and an IQ of 142 to join.

11/2004 – Present – Trinity United Methodist Church – Member, and Sound Technician

1/2005 – Present – Beaver Dam Chamber of Commerce – Member and Business Owner

8/1994 – 12/1999 – Clinton Iowa Chamber of Commerce – Member and Business Owner

4/1978 – 3/2006 – Amvets, Department of Iowa – Life Member, Department of Iowa Inspector General, 8th District Commander, Post 28 Adjutant, Judge Advocate, Chaplin

3/2006 – Present – Amvets, Department of Wisconsin – Life Member and Department of Wisconsin Inspector General, Post 33 Commander

6/1986 – Present – VFW – Life Member

2/1997 – 1/1998 – Compaq/Microcom – ISPorte 56k V.90 Beta Team

Awards

Certificate of Achievement – AMVETS, Department of Iowa – 1994, 1995, 1996

Certificate of Achievement – AMVETS, Iowa Post 28 – 1994, 1995, 1996

Cum Laude with Distinction – GPA 3.35 – Rockland’s University – 1983

Cum Laude with Distinction – GPA 3.32 – Richmond’s University – 2005

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