RESUME MICHAEL SOLOMON BOEKSTAL
LINCOLN, NE 68510
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cell: 402-***-****
Legal status:
US-citizen as of September 15, 2006
Education:
Mesifta Adas Wolkowisk/The Rabbinical Academy of Woodmere, NY, ordination May 2006
Audited classes in History, Philosophy, Comparative Religion, Psychology and Jewish studies at the University of Amsterdam
Graphic Design College, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, graduation 1979
HUC Cincinnati, Para Rabbinics, 2001
URJ Kallah, Educators track, 2001
URJ Kallah, Educators Track, 2003
Great Books Basic Leader Training Course, 2003
Work experience:
2006 – current, (long distance) B’nai Mitzvah Tutor, free lance life cycle officiant, social worker/care provider for mentally challenged adults
2000 – 2006, Education and Program Director at The New Reform Temple in Kansas City
2005 – 2006, Teacher Notre Dame de Sion, 11th grade Jewish Theology
2005 – 2006, Teacher Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, 10th grade Jewish History
2004 – 2005, Teacher Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy, 8th grade Tanach
1996 – 1999, Freelance marketing/management consultant for commercial and non-profit clients organizations. Providing advice, development and execution of internal and external communication as strategic and tactical management instrument.
1992 – 1996, Creative Director/Managing Partner Mandate, a corporate recruitment/communications agency, providing management and communication consulting and services regarding management and corporate strategy, mission statement development and implementation, mergers and co-operations for the commercial and non-profit sector. Specific responsibility for the creative department
with a budget of $35 million, co responsible for the general/financial management of the overall agency with a total turn over of $60 million.
1988 – 1992, Creative Director Lintas, Amsterdam/London, responsible as executive manager for the $20 million international Philips electronics account.
1984 – 1988, Copywriter Young & Rubicam, Amsterdam
1979 – 1983, Copywriter J Walter Thompson, Amsterdam
Languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Hebrew, Yiddish