Stephen Fellingham

EDUCATION AND WORK

Stephen graduated in September, 2008 from Ohio University with a bachelor's in History and an English minor. During his college years Stephen was involved in ACRN (All Campus Radio Network) in which he spent 4 years as a mobile DJ and played for cancer walks, student organizational functions, formals, football pregames, dining halls, and house parties. He also took part in many intramural sports such as softball, football, basketball, and soccer. Throughout college Stephen worked as part of the stage crew for the Blackburn Auditorium and helped set up the different shows, concerts, and events that came through Ohio University and the OU Events program. Stephen also worked part time at Nelson Dining Hall for the last year of school. Brick City Djs which was a company Stephen and two other friends put together that provided Dj services for student and even faculty functions. Stephen has also taken part in a 3 week Dale Carnagie motivational and leadership class in Atlanta Georgia.

Stephen has been involved with direct sales and marketing on behalf of AT&T where he trained jr consultants sales techniques. Stephen skills from direct sales  includes sales, sales training, interviewing, motivational and leadership speaking, creating customer relationships, and team buidling.

Stephen worked for Sprint Nextel in the BTSA division. He managed trouble tickets, researched long distance issues, and worked on customer service projects for businesses such as Fedex, UPS, Bank of America, Us Customer, and Pacific Railroad. Stephen also worked with Local Exchange Carriers such as AT@T, Verizon, and Qwest. He recieved extensive training about the technology of data transfer, and how to interact with international and domestic clients. Stephen accelerated through Voice over IP traning and utilized troubleshooting skills for testing NIU and CSU/DSU circuits for hard wired business lines. He is skilled in working with TRS, FMS, CIS, Compass, and Focus programs which navigate through circuit snapshots, customer information systems, account management systems, and escalation processes. Stephen has maintained skills of multitasking while navigating through Microsoft programs and interacting with customer's questions, requests, and concerns.

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Stephen had been playing music ever since he was eleven years old. He has studied and written percussion pieces. He has learned to play drumset, timpanies, xylophone, jambai and bongo drums, as well as steel drums. Since a sophmore in high school Stephen has taught himself guitar and has performed at places such as the Boom Boom Room in Canton Ohio, Red Brick in Athens Ohio, and The Cabaret in Atlanta Georgia where he recently recorded with Modern Drummers own Mike Haid.