Resume

My Resume John Tunnell (817) 909-1409 www.johntunnell.com John_Tunnell@hotmail.com
My goal in showing you my work history is to show you that I have lots of experience in all kinds of fields. I have owned several companies, led many large projects and brought them to completion on time and on budget. I enjoy a challenge. I enjoy being creative and having to figure out how to do the impossible. If you have a project that you need help on please contact me. I will make time for you.
9/04- present	Freelance work, video, music videos, animation, movies, artwork, etc I have been doing a lot of freelance work for PSAV, AVT, Gemini, Showmasters, Royal, Performance, and other large A/V companies where I have been doing video and camera work, lighting, and some sound for large corporate events, concerts, charities, parties, TV stations, etc.
8/2000- 9/2004	I bought, built, owned, and operated Dreamworld Music Complex. In short, I had a thousand seat venue with concerts 3-6 times a week with over 4,000 bands performing across the four years that I owned it including Cradle Of Filth, Mushroomhead, Ratt, Stryper, Cannibal Corpse, Cary Pierce, Dj Swamp (Beck), Phil Joel of the Newsboys, Living Sacrifice, 12 Stones, Pillar, OC Supertones, The Misfits, Marky Ramone, DI, Dead Kennedy’s. and the list goes on and on. I had a recording studio with ProTools. I had 19 band rehearsal rooms. I made music videos, movies, and cartoons.
	I have made movies, animations, music videos, corporate videos, and commercials including:
	"Gary On The Lake"- I am the Producer of a fishing show that airs nationally on the Sportsman Channel four times a week! Click here to view the website. "KDFI 27 commercials" - I am in about 6 KDFI 27 TVcommercials "Texas Rangers"- I am in ALL the Texas Rangers KDFI 27 print ads for the 2006 season. “Stupid, Stupid People” a full length feature film which I wrote directed, starred in, edited, scored, produced, authored, etc. Click Here to view trailer. “Swing Gig”, an hour long movie I filmed, acted in, and edited. Click here to see stills of the movie. "Among Us", Click here to view trailer. "Captain Obvious" is a 3-D cartoon I made. Click here to see the cartoon. "Don't Watch This: It's A Trap" is a 30 minute cartoon I made. Click here to see the cartoon. "2 Melvins" is yet another cartoon I made. Click here to see the whole cartoon. "Switched" on ABC. Dreamworld was featured on Switched. One of the people from one of our bands switched lives with someone from a mariachi band in LA. "The Misfits video"- they filmed live at my venue and interviewed me as the owner. Apparently, we were featured on that video as well. There were too many of those type things to count. "CWF"- We were also the feature venue for Christian Wrestling Federation and I was interviewed as the owner. “Kangabu”, a 3D animation cartoon pilot episode that I helped develop in its early stage. “The Labora Tree”, another 3D animation pilot episode, which is still under construction. The script is written and some of the animation is done. “Pete the Builder” – a TXU commercial with regional distribution. I was just an extra, but the pay was good and it was a SAG gig. “”Mad, Bad, and Dangerous To Know”- not yet released- A 35 mm film with an actual budget (my favorite!). I am an extra, but I did get a lot of face time on this film. “OM”- a local cable access TV show that was filmed exclusively at Dreamworld Music Complex for a year. “PCW- Professional Championship Wrestling”- I provided many music videos for the show while it was on UPN 21 McGrath video- apparently is on MTV2. I was just an extra on that one. “Blind Corner”- an independent film- I was just an extra in that one too. “Desparation”- I wrote a full length film script with a cool Vanilla Sky, Matrix type twist “Raindrops”- A full-length script which I wrote for York Entertainment. “Sewer Rat”- a full length thriller I wrote for Starling films. "Living And Dying"- Not yet released. I was an extra who got robbed by Michael Madson, Edward Furlong, Bai Ling, and others in this John Keyes movie coming out soon. “A Wretch Like Me”.I wrote a book. Click here to read it. I have produced, filmed, edited, and scored several corporate videos, music videos, commercials, cartoons, and movies.
1993- August 2000	I owned a remodeling company called Affordable Dreams Construction. I ran a very successful company that did more jobs than I care to list. I also bought, fixed, and sold houses for profit, which I still do from time to time. We did about $15,000 a week in gross profit. We did everything you can do to a house including all the specialty stuff like waterfalls, porch covers, decks, room additions, kitchens, bathrooms, hardwood floors, ceramic tile, sun rooms, storm shelters, roofs, paint, pretty much everything. For 6 months I also ran a concrete block factory for Southwest Erosion Control. We also did retaining walls, riverbeds, lakes, Tri-lock blocks, Rip Rap, Gabian walls, bag walls, etc. I can operate ALL heavy machinery including backhoe, track hoe, forklift, bulldozer, loader, trencher, scissor lift, skyjack,cherry pickers, blah, blah, blah…
Dec 1992- Fall 1993-	I worked as a roofer for Aluminum Roofing Specialists
Fall of 1992-	I worked in North Carolina doing high rise standing seam roofs.
Fall of 1991- Summer of 1992	I went to Northwest Nazarene College as a Religion major. I got an award for the highest GPA in my class and department. I dropped out due to lack of funds (I was poor). I did home study for the next few years and obtained a local pastor’s license. I was a Youth Pastor at East Park Church of the Nazarene for one year. )
Summer 1991- Fall of 1992	Vaughan Brothers Sawmill in Republic, WA. I got to learn every job in the sawmill including all heavy machinery, forklift, stacker, planer, edger, grader, trimmer man, etc.
Spring 1991- Summer of 1991	Echo Bay Mining Co. I was a geologist assistant for a goldmine. I learned how to do surveying, soil samples, core samples, gold location, etc.
July 1990- Spring of 1991	I built a log cabin for myself and my family when I was seventeen years old. While I was doing this and for a while after I did various odd jobs and construction. I built a chiropractic clinic and a bank with a multi-level parking garage, I bucked bails of hay, I built a corral, I built a two story garage. did logging, chopped firewood, Etc.
Jan 1990- July 1990	Applebee’s Bar and Grill in North Carolina. I was a dishwasher and general maintenance man. I was Employee of the Month and I got an award for substituting more shifts than anyone else.
Fall 1989	Jesus People USA. I volunteered at a homeless shelter in Chicago. I fed homeless people, did kitchen work, some art and music, and commercial roofing.
Summer 1988	Chapps Hamburgers. I was a cook/ dishwasher/ whatever they needed. You know food service. What fun!
Spring 1988	Showbiz Pizza. I was a kitchen worker, but I also dressed up as Chuck E. Cheese and some of the other characters when they needed me to. This was my first job. I was fifteen.

I enjoy working. I enjoy creating. I enjoy getting to make something or make someone happier. If you have a project you need a hired gun for don’t hesitate to ask me. I am versatile as you see and I love a challenge, especially if someone has said it is impossible. I don’t believe in impossible. Impossible is a lazy man’s excuse not to try. So, contact me. Whatever project you have I would be glad to help. John_Tunnell@hotmail.com or call me (817) 909-1409. If you click here your cell phone will call my cell phone. It is pretty cool. Try it.

Oh yeah, what is a resume without a headshot? Although this website is full of pictures and videos of me here are a few more.

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So there you have it. More pictures of me. Yee-ha!