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Michael Drapkin Resume
Michael Drapkin Resume
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2010 - Present FOUNDER AND DEAN, The Drapkin Institute for Music Entrepreneurship. Founder of the first institute for
higher learning dedicated solely to music entrepreneurship in the United States. The Drapkin Institute will offer
an immersive one-year distance learning program with a groundbreaking curriculum. www.drapkininstitute.org
2012 - Present PRINCIPAL, Drapkin Technology Corp. Enterprise risk management and specialist in running very large scale
technology initiatives (program management) on Wall Street. Regulatory, compliance and OFAC initiatives for
State Street Bank in Boston; trade processing, clearing and settlement migration for Citigroup in New York City.
www.linkedin.com/in/drapkin
2008 - Present CHAIR, Committee on Careers Outside the Academy (2011 – Present); Committee on Career Development and
Entrepreneurship (2008 – 2009), The College Music Society. Chair of the College Music Society committees
tasked with the career development of college music faculty and students, as well as the promotion and teaching
of entrepreneurship programs. Presented a pre-conference workshop at the National Conference of the College
Music Society in 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. Also spearheaded related career development and entrepreneurship
content for the College Music Society website and numerous committee conference presentations. Board
Member for Music Business for the College Music Society South Central Chapter (2008 – Present).
2010 - 2011 DATA INTEGRITY PROJECT MANAGER, Department of Family and Protective Services (State of Texas).
Conceived a usability redesign of their caseworker system that identified $50 million in recovered productivity;
approved for $50 million by Texas Legislature. Identified $31 million in Medicare overpayments. Participated
in the RFP technical review team for the State of Texas $1 billion data center migration. Identified $2.5 million
in cost avoidance by restructuring the software development lifecycle. Proposed a $1.4 million Texas legislation
allocation request for a person warning system to help mitigate case risk. Numerous projects that improved the
quality of service for caseworkers and clients.
2010 – 2011 PRESENTER, Classical Crossover Showcases, South by Southwest Music Festival. Presented showcases at
one of the largest music festivals in the world, featuring classically-trained musicians and groups that have taken
their virtuosity into the mainstream. www.drapkininstitute.org/?page_id=586
2008 - Present BANDLEADER AND CLARINETIST, Yiddish Cowboys. Klezmer band performing Eastern European
Jewish wedding music in Central Texas; monthly gig at the only kosher deli in Austin.
www.yiddishcowboys.com
2005 - 2008 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship (www.bcome.org). Founder of the
first national conference on entrepreneurship in music. Think tank with key speakers held on July 16-17, 2005;
full conferences in 2006 and 2008; at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Raised over $100,000 in
grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in their first music entrepreneurship grant and the IDT
Foundation. Sponsorship by the College Music Society, Music Entertainment Industry Educator’s Association,
Executive Council of NY, others. Keynote speakers include Bill Ivey, Chairman of the National Endowment for
the Arts under President Clinton and Robert Freeman former Dean at Eastman and the University of Texas at
Austin. BCOME one-day seminars held at CalArts, University of South Carolina and Northwestern University.
www.bcome.org
1999 – 2009 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, Drapkin Technology Corp. Provided senior-level business, technology and
management expertise to enable profitable business and commerce for medium and large size corporations as
well as entrepreneurial ventures and startups. Services included: business assessment and triage, project
management and organization, vendor management and contract negotiation, market analysis, technology,
design and application development, administration and infrastructure.
Selected projects:
• MCY Music, Inc. Took over and put back on track a $14 million web development project while saving the
firm $3.5 million. Developed business, web and technology strategies and partnerships. Recruited senior staff
and brought in funding partners.
• Whole Foods Markets. Revamped project plans and statements of work for a new product workflow system.
• Best Buy. Conceived, proposed and ran a pilot project for developing a model for applying Best Buy’s Geek
Squad technology services to the small/medium enterprise business market.
• Gateway.com. Planned, architected and managed the technology consolidation of four offices of Gateway
Internet across the US into La Jolla, CA. Provided system administration resources for the day to day system
operations in La Jolla and Gateway’s production web site at Exodus in New Jersey. Architected the integration
of their legacy AS/400 sales tax system into their web site.
• Sector, Inc. Helped a subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange to bring a proprietary market data product
to market via the web.
• J. Walter Thompson. Provided subject matter expertise and strategy for their Brouillard Communications
division. Assisted them with client Informix, providing expertise on the subject matter. Also defined the
strategy and idea for their major ad campaign with Informix.
• iVillage.com. Responsible for overall project management of a move to a new brick and mortar warehouse,
including a new supply chain management system and infrastructure for order fulfillment at their iBaby unit in
La Jolla, CA.
• Frankfurt Balkind. Managed the firm's technology on an outsource basis for this New York City ad agency
and new media practice. Oversaw technology for new media, traditional ad agency and infrastructure.
• Internet Shopping Network. Helped a client close a million dollar ECommerce project for web design and
development.
• Tiffany and Co. Helped a client close a million-dollar ECommerce project.
• iClips.com. Put together a steaming video relationship with Akamai for the distribution of individual video
clips. Helped negotiate the deal and established a partnership.
• Sony Music. Put together a plan for the distribution of CD tracks to Sony offices.
• Wineshopper.com. Sourced on-site resources to bring part of Wineshopper.com's infrastructure back online
in San Francisco. Provided onsite support until internal staff was able to take over production.
• Nickelodeon Online. Management of metatags and search engines to increase search engine hit rates.
2007 – 2008 FOUNDER AND CLARINETIST, The Austin Clarinet Trio (austinclarinettrio.com), a trio consisting of two
clarinets and bass clarinet, with members from the Austin Lyric Opera and the University of Texas.
Performances in the Austin, Texas area.
2004 – 2006 VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC PROJECTS, IDT Corporation. In charge of business intelligence for a
$2.5 billion telecom firm. Part of an intrapreneurial business strategy group for a large telecom firm with
mandate to look anywhere in the firm to either save or make the firm money. Developed a business services
division, coordinated large efforts spanning multiple business units and projects, including the MasterCard Point
of Sale Activation (POSA) system, Alaska routing, Toll-Free NPA-NXX routing, and the integration of Sonus
Softswitch as a core carrier switch. Two patents applied for on Point-Of-Sale Activation of Products.
2003 – 2005 FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, The Foundation for Entrepreneurialism in the Arts
(TheFEA.org), a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to addressing the oversupply of arts graduates by teaching
performers how to become entrepreneurs and create demand for their talent through adoption of FEA’s
Performance Entrepreneurialism Program (PEP) curriculum at music conservatories and arts schools; Supported
by Merrill-Lynch’s Planned Giving practice.
2001 – 2005 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND SOLO CLARINETIST, Music Amici. Rockland County, New York’s
oldest professional chamber music group. Regular performances in Rockland County, the Madison Avenue
Presbyterian Church in New York City, and Carnegie Hall in New York City; recordings on labels Angel/EMI
and New World Records; radio broadcasts on WQXR, WNYC and NPR. Members included violinist Marti
Sweet, of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and pianist Christopher Oldfather, soloist with the New York
Philharmonic. Obtained Ensemble in Residency with the Suffern Lafayette Theatre, and declaration of “Music
Amici Day” on the day of the Gala installation on January 30, 2005 by the Rockland County Legislature.
1998 – 1999 CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER, Dispatch Management Services Corp. Led technology for a quarter
billion dollar global publicly traded firm providing on demand, same day bike-messenger delivery services in the
U.S., England, Scotland, New Zealand and Australia. Built the infrastructure for basic technology services
ranging from wireless Palm Pilots for couriers, global frame relay networks and T1 lines to mobile phones and
PC support/system administration. Headed up the technological reengineering of software and telephony, as
well as management of office moves/consolidations in both New York and London. Managed staff across two
continents; ran multiple projects ranging from software development and system administration to infrastructure
architecture; negotiated global vendor technology contracts.
1997 – 1998 DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, Avalanche Solutions, Inc. Supervised all web development, programming,
Q/A, system administration and technology infrastructure for this pioneering Silicon Alley web design and web-
based application development firm. Managed major multi-million dollar projects and represented technology
both to clients and to sister company Razorfish’s large corporate customers. Managed the firm’s largest clients
including Carnegie Hall, Guardian Life and Casio.
1997 – 2006 BANDLEADER, Mishulem’s Klezmer Band. Eastern European Jewish wedding music for concerts and gigs in
the New York City area.
1993 – 1997 VICE PRESIDENT, Lehman Brothers Inc. Managed web development and site design for the technology
architecture group, Fixed Income and Equity Derivatives. Managed group web site for documentation delivery;
implemented web server infrastructure and designed a department-wide web repository.
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT. Project manager for the PC side of Lehman’s enterprise system engineering
group. Led network and enterprise management technology, including software development for company-wide
infrastructure and network utilities, product evaluation, and vendor management.
PROJECT MANAGER. Was responsible for client/server technology within Lehman Brothers' retail brokerage
practice. Led software development and built infrastructure. Implemented Lehman’s first data warehouse and
Decision Support System, and ran it in production. Developed a Lead Prospecting System using high net worth
prospects for retail brokers saving $800,000/year. Awarded a letter of commendation.
1986 – 1993 DIRECTOR OF TECHNOLOGY, Lodestar Software Development Inc/Susan Levy Consulting, Ltd.,
Supervised business development, sales and marketing, consulting and technology. Performed project
management, management consulting, business analysis, and software development. Clients included Reader’s
Digest, Banker’s Trust, IBM Canada Ltd., Dun and Bradstreet, United Parcel Service, IBM Baltimore, Reuters
Information Services, Prodigy, Waldenbooks, American Express, Coopers & Lybrand, A & W Brands, others.
1984 – 1985 PRINCIPAL CLARINETIST, The Lake George Opera Festival. Glens Falls, New York
1981 PRINCIPAL CLARINETIST, The New York City Opera Touring Company. Toured throughout the South
performing Verdi’s La Traviata with the late tenor Jerry Hadley.
1979 – 1986 TECHNOLOGIST, Various Firms. Engaged in software development, product and technology development.
1979 – 1980 FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT, The Musical Entertainment Company of New York, an artist management firm
specializing in booking musicians.
1979 – 1985 FREELANCE CLARINETIST, New York City area. Performances with New York City Ballet, New Jersey
Symphony, Long Island Philharmonic, New York Lyric Opera, Chamber Opera Theatre of New York, Brooklyn
Philharmonic, Virginia Opera, The Goldman Memorial Band, many others.
Chair of ECommerce Management, Columbia University in New York City. Executive Information Technology
Management program, 1999-2002. Founded an Ecommerce-oriented program to train senior technology managers to
become executives. Designed all course syllabi, hired the instructional staff, including MBAs from Harvard and NYU
Stern, and brought in top industry executives as guest lecturers.
Adjunct Instructor, Columbia University. Computers, Technology and Applications program, 1999
Guest Lectures, Seminars and Master Classes at the Eastman School of Music, The Juilliard School of Music, Citibank
in New York City and Florida, University of Texas at Austin (keynote speech), University of Nebraska at Lincoln
(keynote speech), University of Florida at Gainesville (keynote speech), New York University Stern College of Business,
Northwestern University, University of South Carolina, CalArts, Oklahoma University (keynote speech), Puerto Rico
Conservatory of Music (keynote speech) and others.
Finalist for Best Non-Profit CEO, The Ten Awards. The "Academy Awards of New York Business," an annual
selection of ten companies and individuals in the greater New York business community that display extraordinary
leadership and innovation to improve their business – for the Brevard Conference on Music Entrepreneurship, 2006
Finalist for Dean of Music Position, DePauw University, 2006
Finalist for Dean of Musicians Position, New World Symphony, 2006
Finalist for Dean of Music Position, North Carolina School of the Arts, 2004
Author, Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume 2. Roncorp, Inc., 2004. Volume 2 of the bass
clarinet orchestral excerpt book series, with works of Barber, Bartok, Copland, Dvorak, Grofé, Mahler,
Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Walton. Released at the ICA
ClarinetFest at University of Maryland on July 21, 2004 with sponsorship from Yamaha.
Author, Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume 3. Roncorp, Inc., 2006. Volume 3 of the bass
clarinet orchestral excerpt book series, with works of Barber, Bartok, Bloch, Copland, Dvorak, Franck, Holst,
Janacek, Mahler, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Respighi, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Strauss, Stravinsky and
Webern.
Author, Symphonic Repertoire for the Bass Clarinet, Volume 4: Transposed Parts for the Bass Clarinet.
Northeastern Music Publications, Inc., (in progress). Book of important performance-ready and annotated parts
transposed from Bass Clarinet in A and bass clef into standard Bb treble clef notation. Parts “play tested” in
performance by 38 major symphony bass clarinetists worldwide. Currently in production.
Lead Author, Three Clicks Away: Advice from the Trenches of ECommerce. John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
ECommerce strategy, organization and project management, with a foreword by Dr. Pehong Chen - CEO and
founder of BroadVision. Reached #20 for New York City on Amazon.
Contributing Author, "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2008". Happy About; 2008. Contributing
article to a book on predictions for 2008 by executives and experts
Contributing Author, "Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2006". Happy About; 2005. Contributing
article to a book on predictions for 2006 by executives and experts.
Contributing Author, "Are We Ready for a Female and/or African American President?" Happy About; 2008.
Contributing Author, OS/2 2.X Notebook. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993. Contributing article in a compilation
of technical articles from OS/2 Developer Magazine.
Interviewed for Book, Connect Effect: Building Strong Personal, Professional and Virtual Networks by
Michael Dulworth. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007
Drapkin: Dowland Suite for Band, Premiered by the Manhattan Wind Ensemble, 2013
Drapkin: Hurray for IDT March, Premiered by the Rockland County Concert Band, 2006
Drapkin: Suite of Old Yiddish Melodies, Premiered by the North Carolina School of the Arts Wind Ensemble, 2008
Gershwin: Walking the Dog for Clarinet Solo and Concert Band, Premiered by the Rockland County Concert Band, 2004
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Introduction
Arrangements of opera, symphonic, concert band and Renaissance pieces. Two collections of 50 arrangements total published by
Northeastern Music Publications. Expected publication, Summer 2014
CLARINET SOLO
Dinicu: Tempest Hora (Co-arranged with Ron Combes), Premiered by the Spirit of America Silver Cornet Band, 2002
Tarras: Dovid’l Bazetst Di Kallah (doina and chosid’l) (Co-arranged with Ron Combes), Premiered by the Teaneck
Community Band, 2002
SONGS
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Prelude. Premiered in the Main Hall at the Eastman School of Music, 1978
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben Prelude. Commission by Cleveland Orchestra bassoonist Jonathan Sherwin
CLARINET CHOIR
FLUTE SOLO
WORLD OF WARCRAFT ARRANGEMENTS FOR SXSW (licensed for performance at SxSW from Blizzard Entertainment)
Grizzly Hills Introduction; Performance at the South by Southwest Music Festival, 2010
Grizzly Hills; Performance at the South by Southwest Music Festival, 2010
Lament of the Highborne; Performance at the South by Southwest Music Festival, 2010
Sunstrider March; Performance at the South by Southwest Music Festival, 2010
Lion’s Pride; Performance at the South by Southwest Music Festival, 2010
Clinician, United States Scholastic Band Association, 2002 - 2003. Adjudicated spring concert music in the USSBA’s
Concert Band Festival in New London, Connecticut.
Music Judge, Cavalcade of Bands, 2003 – 2006. Adjudicator for high school marching band contests in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
Clinician, Classic Festivals and Tours, 2003 – 2006. Adjudicator and clinician for concert bands, jazz bands and string
orchestras in Philadelphia and Boston.
Music Judge, Musical Arts Conference, 2003 – 2004. Adjudicatory for fall high school marching band contests in New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut, including championships.
Festival Judge, Hawaii Music Festival, 1983. Judged clarinetists in the State of Hawaii solo and ensemble festival.
PERFORMANCES
CONCERTI: Solo clarinet appearances with the following ensembles:
ENSEMBLES: Anime Winds, Austin Clarinet Ensemble, Music Amici, New Jersey Symphony, New York City Ballet,
Brooklyn Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic, The Goldman Band, Rochester Philharmonic, Norwalk
Symphony, Ballet Hawaii Orchestra, Aspen Chamber Symphony, Virginia Opera Theatre, Berkshire Music
Center Orchestra, Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Westfield Symphony, Chamber Opera Theatre of
New York, Village Light Opera Group, Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra, New York Lyric Opera, Steve
Reich Ensemble, others.
QUOTES: New York Times “Behind Kozmo's Demise: Thin Profit Margins” Jayson Blair
College Music Society Newsletter Judith Coe: Performance
Smart Money Magazine “Small Wonders” Quote and Photo.
Chicago Tribune “Why start-ups fail”
Fortune Magazine “Broadband - A Revolution in Communication Technology”
Wired “Babes Dominate, Virtually”
Fox Sports “Survivor's Pregame Show: Super Bowl ratings, ad sales not Survivor-like”
CNBC.com “Getting Back Into the Mainstream Can Mean Navigating Rough Water”
Philadelphia Inquirer “Suburban grandmother keeps the beat as klezmer drummer”
Fortune Small Business “Management Spy: Creative problem solving”
Internet Week Online “Need for Speed Drives Outsourcing”
Westchester County Business Journal “Business before Technology: Application developer grows by
focusing on results for client”
The Journal News “Market observers offer mixed view of response”
Entrepreneur Magazine “Easy, e's: Experts debate whether it's time for e-words to take a breather.”
News.com “E-tailers switch to B2B to keep investor interest”
AtNewYork/Internet.com “NET Guard Dying Quietly”
AtNewYork/Internet.com “National IT Guard Idea Will Take Time”
AtNewYork/Internet.com “Senator Calls for National IT Guard”
ZDNet eWeek “Keeping e-carts moving”
CTO Source/InfoWorld “In Tight Times, Contributing To Profitability Is Even More Critical”
AtNewYork/Internet.com “ANALYSIS: Kozmo's $150 Million Distribution Deal Goes Sour”
EDUCATION
B.M., A.Mu. (Clarinet), The Eastman School of Music, 1979. Clarinet study with D. Stanley Hasty, toured Japan with
the Eastman Wind Ensemble under Donald Hunsberger, and played Principal Clarinet with the Eastman Philharmonia
under David Effron.
Tanglewood Margaret Boyer Fellowship, Berkshire Music Center of the Boston Symphony, 1978
Aspen Music Festival Special Scholarship, 1980. Also attended and participated in 1975 and 1978. Winner of the
Aspen Philharmonia principal clarinet audition in 1978.
Private clarinet study with Gary Gray and Charles Bay in Los Angeles.
REFERENCES
Dr. Robert Freeman, former Dean of the Eastman School of Music, President of the New England Conservatory of Music
and Dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.
Baruch Plagman, Partner at PriceWaterhouse Coopers (retired) and Founder and Chairman of TechPar Group