Woody Berner is an unconventional thinker with unique experience in music. Woody has an undergraduate degree in Jazz Performance from the University of North Texas, where he played with the world-famous One O’clock Lab Band. Noteworthy appearances include performances with the Supremes, Drifters, Platters, “Big Joe” Williams (Count Basie Orchestra), Norah Jones, Lou Marini (Blues Brothers), and Tom “Bones” Malone (David Letterman Band and Blues Brothers), and the Disney All-American College Show Band. Woody has appeared on over 25 recordings. Mr. Berner is an avid listener and continues to perform regularly.
Woody also happens to be a telecommunications consultant with subject matter expertise in Operations, IT, and Business and Operational Support Systems (B/OSS). Mr. Berner has spent the last 9 years in the telecom industry, most recently as a Consulting Manager with Amdocs Consulting. At Amdocs, Woody heads up the Customer Centric Service Assurance and Tiered Billing practices. Prior to his role at Amdocs, Woody worked directly for one of the major telecom service providers in the US and in the telecom supplier industry. Woody obtained an MBA from the University of Texas and remains an active alumnus and Longhorn fan. Woody can be reached at wberner@gmail.com
Wed, Jan 14, 2009
The New York Times reported that 2008 saw the decrease of CD and full album download sales dropping 14%, making the total drop in album sales a full 45% from the peak in the year 2000. iTunes captured the majority of the download business, which saw over a billion downloads of singles in 2008 (a 27% increase over 2007). The King is Dead. Long live the King.
Mon, Mar 23, 2009
In the old days (all of 10 years ago), aspiring professional musicians followed a well-established formula. To become a working musician, it made sense to go to a music school at the college level. Does the tried-and-true method hold water today; or is formal music education just another way of playing the lottery. What are the odds that the old paths leads to the same places in the Digital Age?
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