cclarry
That's who I was speaking of...not Cakewalk, but, in
his capacity at Gibson, who owns Cakewalk, he worked
primarily as a Cakewalk representative
Actually that is not at all true. I did a lot of CW stuff on weekends and evenings...kind of a hobby.
I fulfilled many tasks at Gibson...
- Lots of videos for KRK, including the marquee one on the V-Series speakers.
- Ad copy for KRK and Cerwin-Vega, as well as Cerwin-Vega videos for the P-series speakers.
- Representing Gibson on various industry executive boards.
- Was heavily involved in four mergers and acquisitions, including Cakewalk.
- The sample library that's being shipped with 2017.10...I put together that deal.
- Assisted Henry in some negotiations with the Chinese government re manufacturing facilities.
- Helped bring Harmony Central back from the dead after GC almost killed it. It's grown 29% over last year, the newsletter has gone from 24,000 to 91,000 opt-in subscribers, and the site manages over $40K of digital advertising.
- I developed the transient suppressor circuit for the Les Paul Standard, and the switchable wiring in the control cavity was my idea.
- I assigned two patents to Gibson, one with telecommunications applications.
- Wrote press releases, and a lot of content about the guitars.
- Did owner's manuals for the automatic tuning.
- Provided the sales people with key selling points for various products.
- Put together the slide shows that looped in the background at trade shows.
That's the tip of the iceberg, but you get the idea. I also worked on licensing and ran Entertainment Relations for six months.
So basically you can think of what I did as being the corporate equivalent of a utility infielder. I was stretched pretty thin. Gibson wants to get a full-time infield, which makes me more or less superfluous.
There are no hard feelings, I'm on the top of the list of people they'd like to re-hire someday in a different capacity, and there's already talk of my doing some consulting.