Scott Gehman Community College 1060 W. Parkway N 713-718-2354 [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

August 2015 – Present Program Coordinator, Music Business, Houston Community College • Developed on-line curriculum and Canvas content for all Music Business courses • Teaching assignments include MUSC 1335 Computer Music Software, MUSC 1331 MIDI I, MUSB 2301, Music Marketing and Merchandizing, MUSB 2305, Music Publishing, MUSB 2309, The Record Industry, MUSB 2345, Live Music and Talent Management.

September 2011 – July 2015. Professor of Music, Community College of Qatar. • Successfully developed the curricula and partnerships for Qatar’s first Theater Arts Associates of Applied Arts program. The program, which begins September 2015, is sponsored by Qatar Ministry of Culture and provides students with full scholarships and living support. Over the next 4 years, the program will train 160 Theater students in four tracks of study: Acting, Production, Arts Management and Arts Criticism. • Developing partnership with Aljazeera Television and CCQ to train news talent, production crew and journalists (in process) • Music enrollments average 300 Qatari students per year for 12 sections. • Music classes are required for both English and Arabic Track students • Adjusted the courses’ content, perspective and structure to accommodate Middle Eastern music and philosophy. • Created a website hosting to supplement instruction. • CCQ’s music classes (and the classes taught at TAMU) are the first and only college level music courses ever offered in Qatar.

Adjunct Instructor of Music, A&M at Qatar. • Enrollment for World Music (MUS 324) is at capacity each Fall, Spring and Summer. • Adjusted the content, perspective and structure to accommodate the differences between Western and Middle Eastern music and philosophy.

May, 2010-August 2011 Associate Dean of Instruction, the Community College of Qatar (CCQ). • Established Qatar’s first and only community college: the first campus on September 25, 2010; the second campus on January 8, 2011. • Developed, supervised and directed the academic and workforce education for opening year at CCQ. • Planned and scheduled classes for an enrollment of over 450 students. (College enrollment exceeds 3000 now) • Recruited and relocated over 35 faculty from the US to teach lower division and college foundation classes. • Managed instructional administrative details to support over 250 sections of

classes during three semesters. • Developed AA, AS and AAS degree programs for college transfer and workforce development. • Customized curricula for two Qatar governmental agencies: the Telecommunications division of the Ministry of the Interior and the Customs Inspection for the Ministry of Economy and Finance. • Developed CCQ’s articulation agreement with Qatar University (approved in 2011.)

1993 – May 2010 Department Chair, Audio Recording and Filmmaking, HCC. • Directed workforce and economic development programming for media fields. • Supervised a faculty of 24 and a lab staff of 15. • Achieved a graduate employment placement of over 90%. • Developed student and program recruitment strategies that increased student enrollment 500% (2000 annual enrollments) • Managed instructional budgets of $1.2 million. • Increased departmental profits ten-fold to $1 million through growth in contact hour and tuition revenues and cost-limiting strategies. • Established four training locations in HCC campuses across Houston. • Offered classes from 8 AM to 2 AM, weekdays and weekends. • Program consistently ranked as Exemplary by the THECB. • Educational partnerships with the University of Saint Thomas, Stephen F. Austin University, Texas Southern University, University of Phoenix, Spring Branch ISD, Katy ISD and Houston ISD. • Partnerships with Alesis, Tascam and Dobbs-Stanford Corporations. • Awarded grants from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, LeRoy and Lucile Melcher Fund, Fox Sports Television, , and Mark of the Unicorn software developer.

ECONOMIC AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

September - December 2009 Special Assistant to the President, Coleman College for Health Careers. • Prepared strategies to expand HCC’s Nursing and Allied Health education across the Area to reach thousands of prospective students not served by HCC’s current facilities in the . • Researched nursing and Allied Health workforce training needs throughout the Greater Houston area. • Surveyed demographics, access, schedule and career preferences of Coleman College students. • Recommended new satellite campuses for nursing and Allied Healthcare training in West Houston/Katy and East Houston, expanded operation hours of the Texas Medical Center facility and a pilot partnership with Phonoscope to use its Tele-Medicine technology as clinical experience for nursing students.

October 2007 – June 2008 Special Assistant to the President, HCC-NW. (Critical needs assignment) • Prepared strategies to expand and customize workforce training programs for Houston’s Energy Corridor, Westchase Business Districts and Katy Business Districts. • Identified emerging industries and economies in the region, determined

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appropriate educational requirements for new workforce personnel, proposed alternative delivery methods for training. • Created 10-year economic forecast and action plan for new and redesigned campuses offering programs in healthcare, engineering, finance, business development, law and administration resulting in HCC- NW Center for Entrepreneurship.

MUSIC COMPOSITIONS

• 2015 The Boat People. A bilingual (Vietnamese and English) musical dramatizing the experiences of Vietnam War refuges on their perilous journey to America. Production slated for late 2015.

• 2014 Kung Fu Hero. A bilingual (Mandarin and English) Broadway style musical highlighting Fong Sai Yuk, a famous Chinese Kung Fu master of the late Qing Dynasty. Produced through a partnership with the Chinese Embassy of Houston and performed at Miller Theater September 2014.

• 2012 Metropolis. (Commissioned by the City of Shenzhen, China) A bilingual (Mandarin and English) Broadway style music about the dramatic economic rise of Shenzhen, China. Shenzhen was a small fishing village of a few thousand people until 1979, when it was chosen to be China’s first Special Economic Zone. Due to its proximity to Hong Kong and the success of China’s experiments with capitalism, Shenzhen’s population now exceeds 10 million and is the world’s leader in electronic manufacturing. The musical recounts the early years of Shenzhen, its path to prosperity and the challenges it faced along the way. The Economic Ministry of Shenzhen will use performances of Metropolis to promote the city’s reputation and economy worldwide. Performances include the premiere in Shenzhen and a world tour to the Tribeca Performing Arts Center (New York City) and Miller Theater (Houston). Metropolis will serve as the closing event for the Cultural Exchange Year between China and Qatar in late 2016.

• 2010 The Tale of Kieu. A bilingual (Vietnamese and English) musical based on the epic poem of the same name by Vietnamese poet Nguyen Du. The Tale of Kieu premiered at Houston’s Miller Theater in September 2010.

• 2006 The Legend of Yin and Yang. A bilingual (Mandarin and English) musical promoting peaceful East-West relations commission by the Peoples Republic of China and several US foundations, The Legend of Yin & Yang was documented in PBS’s The Making of a Legend. A reprise production of The Legend of Yin & Yang toured Houston and Shenzhen, China in 2009.

• 2005 Neighbors. A cross-cultural musical about peaceful Israeli/Palestinian relations commissioned by the Players Theater, Sarasota Florida. Performed March 31 – April 10, 2005.

• 2002 Red Wedding. A musical about the 1989 uprising and political protests in China’s Tiananmen Square. Commission by the Players Theater, Sarasota Florida. Performed March 15 – 21, 2002

• 1999 The Sorcerer’s Apprentice. A Broadway musical adaption of Dukas’ work of the same name. Commission by Express Theater and the City of Houston, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice toured the US and China as part of the Sister City Celebrations between Houston, Texas USA and Beijing, China.

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POST-DOCTORATE LEADERSHIP AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

• Leadership Excellence Institute, HCC and University of Texas • Leadership Houston • West Houston Leadership Institute • Economic Development Courses, Texas Economic Development Corporation

COMMUNITY AND INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE

• Elder and Worship Leader, Grace Fellowship Church, Doha, Qatar • Chair, SACS Comprehensive Standard 3.11.3 sub-committee • Chair, Chancellor’s Resource Development sub-committee • Chair, Economic Development Star Award Ceremony, West Houston Chamber of Commerce • Chair, Student Recruitment and Retention Strategies, HCC • Chair, Industry Advisory Committee, Digital Filmmaking, SBISD • Chair, Northwest College Faculty Senate Delegation, HCC • Chair, Clay Road YMCA Identity and Visibility Committee • Member, Strategic planning committees for HCC annexation elections of Alief, Spring Branch and North Forest Independent School Districts • Mentor, Spring Branch Business Plan Competition • Board Member, Katy Visual and Performing Arts Center • Board Member, Clay Road YMCA • Board Member, Worldwide Stage • Member, West Houston Chamber of Commerce Economic Development Committee • Member, Education Committee, Katy Chamber of Commerce • Member, Asian Chamber of Commerce • Member, Katy Chamber of Commerce • Member, Katy Economic Development Corporation • Member, Texas Economic and Demographic Association • Member, Women in Film and Television • Member, Guthrie Center Campus Improvement Team • Member, Industry Advisory Committee, Audio Production, KISD

AWARDS • Chancellor’s Medallion, Houston Community College • NISOD Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas • West Houston Chamber of Commerce Volunteer Award

EDUCATION • BM, MM, DMA. Music Composition, , Houston TX • Lifetime All-Levels Teaching Certificate in music, State of Texas

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