Alex V. Cook - Author, Journalist, Critic, Teacher

ALEX V. COOK

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BATON ROUGE, LA70802

Email: abp10l@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 225-***-****

http://alexvcook.com

PUBLICATIONS

(forthcoming) Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking For a Good Time in South Louisiana’s Juke Joints, Honky Tonks and Dance Halls. LSU Press, 2012

Darkness, Racket & Twang: Essential Listening from the Fringes of Popular and Unpopular Music. SideCartel Press, 2006

(with others) The First Annual outsideLeft Hardy Annual. SideCartel Press, 2006

MAGAZINE/INTERNET PUBLICATIONS

The Oxford American. Conway, AR

225 Magazine. Baton Rouge, LA

Country Roads Magazine. Baton Rouge, LA

OffBeat. New Orleans, LA

The Believer. San Francisco, CA

WIRE. London, UK

DownBeat. Chicago, IL

Baton Rouge Parents. Baton Rouge, LA

PasteMagazine.com. Decatur, GA

The Front Porch. San Marcos, TX

WEBSITES/BLOGS

The Record Crate, sole contributor, http://225batonrouge.com/blogs/record-crate, 2006-Present

Alex V. Cook, sole contributor, http://alexvcook.com, 2005 Present

outsideLeft, Music Editor, http://outsideleft.com, 2007 Present

Chicken Fried (archived), sole contributor, http://chickenfried-old.blogspot.com/, 2006 2007

GeoCities website (deleted), solo contributor, 1995 2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

LSU Manship School of Mass Communications

Adjunct Professor, 2011 – Present

Co-teaching MC 4971 (#DigitalBranding)

LSU Honors College

Guest Lecturer, 2011

LSU Continuing Education, Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Instructor, 2/2006 – Present

Conducted Microsoft Office training classes for a variety of business professionals ranging from office professionals to factory and manufacturing personnel, both on-site and at LSU.

Tailored course materials to fit the needs of general students and corporate clients.

Offered real-life examples of software usage and issues.

Received a consistent good/excellent rating on all student evaluations.

Developed and taught a week-long video game design camp for high school students to create their own games using Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio (the technology behind Windows Phone and XBOX software design)

Baton Rouge Community College, Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Instructor, 2006 2007

Conducted Microsoft Office training classes for a variety of business professionals ranging from office professionals to factory and manufacturing personnel, both on-site and at LSU.

Tailored course materials to fit the needs of general students and corporate clients.

Offered real-life examples of software usage and issues.

Received a consistent good/excellent rating on all student evaluations.

BROADCAST EXPERIENCE

WNYC, New York City, NY

On-Air Guest, 2010 Present

Recurring guest on WNYC's Soundcheck, hosted by John Schaefer

WRKF, Baton Rouge, LA

Guest Host, 2009 Present

Frequent guest on TheJim Engster Show

Produced and perform segments for All Things Considered

KBRH, Baton Rouge, LA

Announcer, 1997 1999

Produced and performed a weekly specialty show The Happy Hour

KLSU, Baton Rouge, LA

Announcer, 1987 1992

Produced and performed weekly radio shows.

Produced and performed Something Else, a specialty show that was continued on WLUW in Chicago from 1992 2011

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

LSU Continuing Education, Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Information Technology Coordinator 10/2008 – Present

Designed and implemented streamlined solutions for correspondence courses

Consolidated disparate database services throughout the division

Consolidated reporting solutions throughout the department

Mentored employees on current software technologies

Implemented a user-maintained website solution to empower department units to manage their own content

Implemented and utilized the MediaSite video capture service to

Investigated mobile and tablet based implementations of LSU CE’s education content

Served as lead developer and team supervisor on numerous enterprise projects

Greater Baton Rouge Association of REALTORS®, Baton Rouge, LA

Contract Software Developer, 2/2006 – Present

Designed, coordinated and developed the revamped association web portal using Microsoft .NET 2005

Maintained and improved existing GBRAR applications.

Provided database management and support for the association.

Lamar Advertising (contractor employed byStrategic Staffing Solutions), Baton Rouge, LA

Software Developer 11/2004 – 1/2006

Designed, developed, implemented and maintained .NET application for an enterprise-wide tracking system for the vinyl billboard production plant, utilizing smart-client, framework-based web service technologies.

Designed, developed, implemented and maintained enterprise-wide queuing system to be used by multiple applications.

Implemented testing modules and mentored QA technicians on automated testing procedures.

Maintained internal smart-client based accounts/payable system.

Public Systems Associates, Baton Rouge, LA

Senior Developer 3/2004 - 11/2004

Gathered business requirements and modeled system architecture for a legislative tracking system using .NET Framework and VisualStudio Enterprise Architect.

Designed, developed, implemented and maintained .NET application for a legislative tracking system with ASP.NET front end and VB.NET object-oriented business tier.

Developed ActiveReports.NET based reporting solution for this system.

Responsible for taking business requirements for legacy ASP application and porting them to a new system built on the .NET Framework

Mentored small team of junior and senior programmers (6 developers) and testers in the successful on-time implementation of this application using the .NET framework and ASP.NET.

Designed and developed Oracle 9 database and stored procedures for the data tier of this application.

Created detailed test scripts and assisted test engineer in developing a test plan for this application.

lock\line, Prairie Village, KS

Lead Application Developer 3/2000 - 3/2004

Designed (using Rational Rose Enterprise Suite), developed and implemented an N-tier, web-based customer service application capable of taking enrollments, processing claims and researching customer information from a variety of data sources using ASP.NET front end and C# and VB.NET business tiers.

Developed SQL 2000 stored procedures and packages for this system and served as a backup DBA for the system.

Developed and maintained the company website using ASP.NET, ASP and a VB.NET business tier.

Developed a number of web-based client extranet applications built on the .NET Framework with C# and VB.NET business tiers.

Developed .NET development standards on enterprise-wide projects for the entire IT staff (60+ developers.)

Developed a flexible, user-managed, XML-based corporate intranet.

Initiated and led the IT initiative to convert from client/server architecture to N-tier.

Was hired as the company's first full-time web developer and was promoted to lead developer over all new development in under a year.

Microsoft (contractor employed by Volt Services), Redmond, WA

Software Engineer in Test 5/1999 - 3/2000

Designed and implemented test plans for SQL 7.0 and SQL 2000.

Developed backup system for MSNBC/Dateline viewer voting process.

Designed and implemented test plans for MSN International web sites.

Designed and implemented test plans for new MSN International sites and the content development software.

United Companies Financial Corporation, Baton Rouge, LA

Intranet Application Programmer/Analyst 5/1997 - 5/1999

Designed and developed web sites for United Companies and subsidiary companies.

Designed the web-based Intranet credit scoring system, using ASP, Visual InterDev, and MS SQL Server.

Designed and developed web sites for enterprise wide management ad-hoc reports.

Trained a staff of web developers in HTML, DHTML, Active Server Pages, SQL, Visual InterDev, and Visual Basic.

Developed software for data analysis and ad hoc reporting using Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Visual Basic and Crystal Reports.

Designed and developed an ActiveX interface to deliver Crystal Reports over the web.

Provided Technical support for all Internet/Intranet applications.

Set up Company Intranets for training and testing purposes.

Louisiana Department of Revenue, Baton Rouge, LA

Application Programmer/Analyst 5/1995 - 5/1997

Designed and developed re-factored core business system of the department

Managed a small team of developers to maintain severance tax information for the department.

Designed and developed first public website for the department.

Louisiana Division of Administration, Baton Rouge, LA

Application Programmer/Analyst 8/1991 - 5/1995

Designed and developed state employee payroll and information system

Designed and developed auditing reports of employee payroll and information

Designed and developed US Census reports for the State of Louisiana.

EDUCATION

LouisianaStateUniversity

B.S in Computer Science (minors in Philosophy and English)

Graduated 8/1991, 3.2 GPA, full academic scholarship all 4 years

REFERENCES

Wendy Overton

LSU Continuing Education, Assistant Executive Director

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Tom Guarisco

225 Magazine, Editor

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James Fox-Smith

Country Roads Magazine, Executive Editor

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Marc Smirnoff

The Oxford American, Editor

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Alex V. Cook

Author of Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking For a Good Time In South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky Tonks, and Dance Halls

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Louisiana Saturday Night

Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time in South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Honky Tonks and Dance Halls

My guidebook to those places, published by LSU Press, is in stores. More info can be found .

Gas Station Boudin

I'm working on Gas Station Boudin: Where to Eat and What to Get in South Louisiana, a guide to the region's unique culinary landscape.

If you know of a place that I need to check out, drop me a line and I will!

Coming soon, 2014-ish, from LSU Press.

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Alex V. Cook

Louisiana Saturday Night: Looking for a Good Time In South Louisiana's Juke Joints, Hony-Tonks and Dance Halls

(LSU, 2012), paperback, 256pp

$24.95

Alex V. Cook

Darkness, Racket and Twang: Essential Listening from the Fringes of Popular and Unpopular Music

(SideCartel, 2006), paperback, 200pp

$14.95

Kindle edition, $5.99

Cook, Ambrose, Alarcon, Lake et al

The First Annual outsideLeft Hardy Annual

(SideCartel, 2006), paperback, 200pp

$14.95

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