High School Manager

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Fountain Valley, CA ***08

Phone: 561-***-****

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MUSIC TEACHING AND MUSIC MINISTRY

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS AND STRENGTHS

Extensive years of ministry experience including ten years in full-time pastoral positions as worship pastor for congregations ranging from 1600 to 10,000 and eleven years experience as a full-time worship/singles pastor for a congregation of over 600.

Accomplished preacher, teacher, songwriter, soloist, pianist and organist. Bilingual (Spanish and English).

Experienced in providing pastoral oversight, managing and supervising worship and arts volunteers numbering up to 800, casting vision, leading, mentoring, equipping, counseling, encouraging, and training individuals and group in church ministry.

Supervised a fully remunerated staff including music assistant, pianist, organist, band director, music secretary, and also an orchestra music arranger.

Managed and administered budget and finances for music department in seven churches.

Created and developed several praise and worship vocal teams and bands to rotate for multiple services in congregations with a weekly attendance of hundreds to 10,000. Experienced in building a cross-generational music ministry.

Able to challenge all age groups to discover their giftedness, train them up, and release them to perform and move into ministry.

Twenty-one years experience traveling as a full-time Christian recording artist and evangelist ministering in 49 states and 13 countries.

Seek to encourage strong worship by demonstrating Christ’s love, grace, and mercy to today’s world through discipleship, mentoring, relationship building, and relevance.

A deep desire for worship over performance. A strong ability to help others express their heart for God. Sensitive in allowing the Holy Spirit freedom to move in and transform lives.

Accomplished pianist, sight-reader of sheet music, chord charts. Skilled in improvisation.

Possess studio-quality vocal skills. Experienced recording artist.

Skilled in a diversity of musical styles including contemporary, jazz, country, folk, black gospel, rock, and southern gospel to traditional and classical. Jesus Culture, Vineyard, Planetshakers, Hillsong, Soul Survivor

Endeavor always to fulfill the scriptural qualifications for church leadership.

Continually seeking cutting edge technologies to integrate with the worship arts i.e. lighting, audio, musical instruments graphics/computers, video, writing, and theater (drama and dance).

Adept in Media Shout, Song Show Plus, Power Point, Finale, Roland. Kurtzwell Keyboards & Yamaha Motif ES8 electronic keyboard. A working knowledge of Mac systems and adept in all Microsoft programs including Excel, Word, Power Point, and Outlook.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

Created, composed, and directed inspirational productions and authored 14 songs (cast of 150 with a 35 piece orchestra). Coordinated, choreographed and produced 15 drama and music productions/ musicals for holidays and other events

Directed and conducted 26 musical productions such as “Jesus, Son of God”, “Believe”, “ Forever Triumph”, “In Christ Alone”, “Noel, Jesus Is Born”, “Praise Noels”, “Let Freedom Ring” . Strong choral traditions from directing contemporary praise teams to a choir with 300 voices.

Rendered voice and piano lessons as well as conducted classes on praise and worship. Teaching children, teenagers, and adults.

Led weekly worship and arts ministry meetings, rehearsals, and church services. Conducted worship for four youth camps with 150 junior high and 200 high school students.

Administrated, coordinated, and organized worship and arts ministry with a budget of $150,000.00 per year.

Crossed denominational barriers singing and ministering in over 40 different denominational churches.

Performed as soloist for the Metropolitan Chorale at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Singing the tenor solos for the “Messiah” and the “Elijah.

Spent eighteen years scheduling an average of 15 services per month, totaling 180 church services per year. Including forty states, Mexico and Guatemala, also forty denominations in both Spanish and English.

Served as road manager and a lead soloist for “TRUTH”, a professional gospel-singing group ministering nationally and internationally. Traveling to 49 states and 13 countries.

Guest/Interim worship pastor and musical director in the past five years for Mid-Cities Baptist Church, Yorba Linda Friends Spanish Church Amigos, Community Presbyterian Church of San Juan Capistrano, El Calvario Church, Shoreline Baptist Church, and Life Church.

RELATED MINISTRY AND MISSIONS WORK

Born on the mission field in Vera Cruz, Mexico, where parents were missionaries and then they served for three years in Paraguay, South America.

While attending Azusa Pacific University, became the director and coordinator of 700 high school and college youth on a ten-day mission trip to Mexico called ‘Mexicali Outreach’.

Held crusades in Guatemala and El Salvador evangelizing and ministering to local pastors and Bible schools.

As Road Manager and a lead vocalist of the gospel group, ‘ Roger Breland and Truth’. Ministered through music in Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Jamaica, Canada, and Mexico.

Ministered in Spanish annually at the Fred Jordan Rescue Mission in skid row in Los Angeles, California, during large events of 10,000 people (Christmas and Easter) as a special guest soloist.

Engineered, organized, and directed meal distribution with the Red Cross to hundreds of Guatemalan people of Lake Worth, Florida, in the after-math of the devastating Hurricane Wilma.

Authored monthly articles with a spiritually encouraging emphasis.

Served as producer and editor of weekly Christian television program for four years.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

July 2011 – Musical Director for Musical Theater of Orange County – Performing ‘The Wizard of Oz’ at the Nechita Center for the Performing Arts in Orange California. Musical director for the last two weeks where there were seven performances and over 2200 in attendance.

September 2006 – present – Self Employed Vocal and Piano Teacher – currently teaching 10 elementary, junior high, and high school students. I am teaching voice and piano in their homes and a studio.

September 2010 – present - Homeschool Family Ministries, Huntington Beach, CA Teaching junior high and high school students’ piano at Calvary Baptist Church. 12 students this past school year and anticipating tripling the attendance by adding an elementary age piano class as well as a praise and worship band class.

August 2010 – May 2011 – Shoreline Academy of the Arts, Fountain Valley, CA I am one of the founders of this academy at Shoreline Baptist School. Teaching voice, children’s choir, piano, and drama for elementary and junior high school students. Performed “Narnia” the musical. During this year I have taught 45 students music, voice, music theory and piano.

April 2010 – present- Virtuosos Russian Music Academy, Fountain Valley, CA

Teaching 45-55 students each week both Piano and Voice. Ages range from 4 years to adults. Most students are from Vietnam, including the founder and director.

September 2008 – present – Arts and Learning Conservatory, Orange County, CA

Music / Vocal Director, Pianist and Drama Director. Teaching at Vanguard University. A non-profit organization dedicated to premier arts instruction for ages 6-18 years. Music / Vocal Director and Piano Teacher. Directed Performances of “Narnia”, “Spring Camp Rock”, “Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back”.” The Return of the Jedi”, “You’re Good Man Charlie Brown”, “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”, “Aladdin”, “The Wizard of Oz”, and “Alice In Wonderland”. Also, After school Programs teaching Theater, Drama, and Voice. I have been teaching in over twenty (20) public and private schools throughout Northern Orange County. I have had classes as small as nine (9) students to eighty (80) teaching music, and voice for their plays.

August 2007 – January 2009 - Shine 4 Him, Westminster, CA

Small business. Self-Employed. President.

December 2007-June 2008 – Community Presbyterian Church, San Juan Capistrano, CA

Church Administrator and Music Director. Playing pipe organ and directing a classical choir. Director of music for the Traditional and contemporary worship style with a seven piece rhythm band.

September 2006 – present – Art Ortiz Ministries, Westminster, CA

Evangelist/President. Preaching, ministering in song, and teaching the Word in both English and Spanish in various denominational outreaches. Helping churches during their interim period to present a strong musical program for Christmas and Easter. Choirs, small vocal ensembles, orchestras, bands and leading in worship.

February 2004 – August 2006 – First Baptist Church, Lake Worth, FL (Southern Baptist 500 members

Executive / Pastor of Worship and Singles. Directed nine musicals including a three story cross with 70 adult voices that stand in the aluminum cross. 12 piece orchestra with a cast of 125 in each performance in the drama.

December 2001 – February 2004 – Church On the Rock, Palmetto, FL (Nondenominational 800 in attendance.)

Executive/ Pastor of Worship and Singles. Contemporary worship style. Supervised 10 part-time and full-time paid staff and 200 plus volunteers. Wrote for 40 piece orchestra, and a cast of 75, original script, and original songs for the play entitled, “Embrace the Anointed One”.

1984 – 2001 – Art Ortiz Ministries

Evangelist/President. Ministering in song, preaching and teaching the Word in forty-one states of the U.S. and forty different denominations in both English and Spanish. Ministered in song in over 5,000 services in 40 states and 40 different denominations. Also ministered in Guatemala and Mexico. Recorded ten gospel recordings, six in English and 4 in Spanish.

1982 – 1984 – Melodyland Christian Center, Anaheim, CA. (Nondenominational. 10,000 attendance)

Pastor of Worship. Supervised seven paid staff and over 800 volunteers. Organized and directed 300 voice choir, forty-five piece orchestra, and 150 cast members in musicals and dramas. Directing special guest such as Della Reese, Dino Kartsonakis, and Andre Crouch.

1979 – 1982 – Sunnyside Temple, Waterloo, IA (Wesleyan – 1600 weekly attendance)

Pastor of Worship / Singles. Supervised paid staff and 200 volunteers. Directed and produced a weekly TV Sunday morning program of each service that aired throughout the state of Iowa.

1978 – 1979 – PTL Club- Christian Television Network, Charlotte, NC

Spanish Administrative Assistant and TV Soloist. Christian Television Network called Club PTL (Para Todo Latino) aired in twenty-one (21) Latin American and Spanish speaking countries.

1975 – 1978 – Truth – Professional contemporary gospel group

Road manager and lead soloist for Roger Breland and Truth from Moblie, Alabama. Performed 1200 concerts with eighteen professional musicians. These performances were in 13 countries and 49 states in the USA in Universities, Colleges, High Schools, Churches, Church Denomination Conventions, Six Flags America, and Military Bases.(The John F. Kennedy Aircraft Carrier). 1977 Dove Awards band and back up singers for each artist nominated such as B. J. Thomas, and Gray S. Paxton.

EDUCATION AND ORDINATIONS

Bachelor of Arts Degree - Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California – With Double Majors in Music Education and Vocal Performance. Also, a Minor in Bible Literature

1982 - Ordination - Melodyland Christian Center, Anaheim, California

2002 - Ordination - Church On The Rock, Palmetto, Florida

High School Diploma - Ontario Christian High School, Ontario, California

Certified in CPR, Child CPR, and AED, Heartsavers First Aid and Child Abuse Prevention

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