Resume

PERSONAL PROJECTS 2019 (ongoing)

EDUCATION:

  • 2013
    • TESL Professional Certificate, TEFL Institute, Chicago, Il
  • 1979
    • B.A. Classical Studies (Ancient Latin & Greek) University of California at Santa Cruz, CA

EMPLOYMENT:

  • 2006 -2008
    • Independent DRE Licensed Mortgage Planner (2008)
    • Independent CDI Licensed Life Insurance Agent (2008)
    • DRE Licensed Loan Officer, Mortgage 1 Lending (2007)
    • Loan Officer, Boardwalk Funding (2006)
    • Loan Officer, Midway Financial (2006)
  • 2004-2005
    • Home Depot, Kitchen Design, part time

SELF-EMPLOYED:

  • 2008-2012
    • Founder & President of Jon Warren Lentz, Inc.
    • Founder & President of Uncom.com, a 501-3c
    • Founder & President of Lentz Group Global
    • Founder & President of Beyond Green IT
    • Author|GreenBusiness & Sustainability Consultant
  • 2001-2005
    • Web Host, JonWarrenLentz.com Server
    • Director, d3.UNcom: Distributed Design & Development
    • Clients Included:
      • Verizon
      • ABC7
      • AHS
    • Web & Tech Consultant
    • Interior & Exterior Design & Fabrication
  • 1996-2001
    • Author (see PUBLISHING HISTORY, below)
  • 1979-1989
    • GlassSculptor

TEACHING:

  • 1998-2001
    • Adjunct Faculty, Photoshop & Flash, Palomar College, SanMarcos, CA
  • 1996
    • Instructor, Photoshop 3.0.x, PhotoMetro, San Francisco, CA
    • Instructor, Photoshop 3.0.x, Electronic Art Center, San Francisco, CA
  • 1995
    • Director & Instructor of SeminarSeries,  “Still In the Darkroom About Digital?”, Adolph Gasser, Inc., San Francisco, CA
    • Instructor, Photoshop 3.0.x, Electronic Art Center, San Francisco, CA

VOLUNTEER POSITIONS:

  • 2008:
    Vice President, Board of Sea Cliff Homeowner Association, Carlsbad, CA
  • 2003-2005:
    Director, San Diego Macromedia User Group
  • 2000-2003:
    Secretary, Board of Rancho Carrillo Homeowner Association, Carlsbad, CA
  • 1997-1999:
    Board Member, Board of Tiburon Carlsbad Homeowner Association, Carlsbad, CA
  • 1990-1992:
    Board Member/President, Board of Vernon View Homeowner Association. Oakland, CA

PUBLISHING HISTORY:

BOOKS-written by Jon Warren Lentz:

  • Sleep or Die, 2012, Create Space, ISBN 1463685300
  • Flash: the Future, 2002, No Starch Press, ISBN 1886411964
  • Macromedia Flash & Dr eamweaver Bible, 2000, HungryMinds (Wiley), ISBN0764548646
  • Macromedia Flash 5 Bible, 2000, HungryMinds, (Wiley), ISBN0764535153
  • Macromedia Flash 4 Bible,1999, IDG World Wide, (Wiley), ISBN 0764533568
  • <deconstructing web graphics.2> 1998, NewRidersPublishers, (MacMillan) ISBN1562058592

MAGAZINE ARTICLES-written  by Jon Warren Lentz:

  • Mac Art & Design (Sweden), Monthly Column “Sites on Art”,  & Reviews 1998-2002.
  • Agosto (Japan), Monthly Column “Sites on Art”,  & Reviews 2001-2002.
  • Photo District News ‘PIX, excerpts” Deconstructing Web Graphics”, Volume 4, October/November 1998
  • Micro Publishing News , author of regular column, “Pics, Clicks and Bits”, 1997
  • San Diego Union Tribune COMPUTERLINK: Bi-monthly Column October 1996 – 1999
  • Photo Metro Magazine: January 1996- May 1996, author of series of articles, “Still In the Darkroom”, on digital aesthetics.

ART CAREER:

GRANTS & AWARDS:

  • 1989
    • Arts Recovery Fund
    • National Endowment for the Arts
    • Northern California Grantmakers

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

  • 1996
    • “Actaeon Variations, Photodigital Abstraction,” Micro Tek Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1995
    • “Current Work” Micro Tek Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    • “Actaeon Variations, Photodigital Abstraction, “Asimakopoulos Cafe, San Francisco, CA
    • “Actaeon Variations, Photodigital Abstraction,” Beyond Expectations, San Francisco, CA
  • 1991
    • “Paintings, Mixed Media & Assemblage,” Festoon, Berkeley, CA
    • “Phoenix,” Oakland, CA
  • 1982
    • McHenry Library, University of California at Santa Cruz, CA
  • 1981
    • World Savings Gallery, Del Monte Center, Monterey, CA
  • 1980
    • World Savings Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • 1998
    • “Laura Knott Gallery”, Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts.
  • 1995
    • “Micro Publishing News Digital Art Gallery”, Seybold San Francisco, CA
    • “Photoshop Conference”, Sheraton Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
  • 1994
    • “Micro Publishing News Digital Art Gallery”, Seybold San Francisco, CA
  • 1991
    • “Boxes”, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
    • “West Coast Glass”, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
  • 1990
    • “Omnia Ad Majorem Dei Gloria”, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA
    • “Furniture: Benchmark for the Nineties”, Gallery Fair, Mendocino, CA
    • “Furniture: Benchmark for the Nineties”, Stary Sheets Gallery, Irvine, CA
  • 1989
    • “Hearts for the Arts”, Cultural Council Santa Cruz Co., Santa Cruz, CA
    • “Bay Area Reflections”, Syntex Corporation, Palo Alto, CA
    • “FallShow”, 3COM Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
  • 1988
    • “New Membership Exhibition”, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA”
    • Juried Show”, Santa Cruz Arts League, Santa Cruz, CA
    • “Hearts for the Arts”, Cultural Council Santa Cruz Co., Santa Cruz, CA”
    • Open Studio Santa Cruz County”, Santa Cruz, CA
  • 1987
    • “Aids Benefit Auction”, Cooper House Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
    • “Open Studio Santa Cruz County”, Santa Cruz, CA

EVENTS/ENGAGEMENTS:

  • 1998
    • Visiting Artist,  Bradford College, Bradford, Massachusetts, November
    • Speaker, Web Animation & Image Handling -Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference, Monterey, January
  • 1997
    • Instructor, Introduction to Multimedia for the Web – The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME, August
    • Instructor, Web Design – The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, ME, July
  • 1996
    • Juror: 1996 Raydream Studio Competition: “CHARACTER of IMAGINATION” San Francisco, August
    • Panelist, THE DIGITAL IMAGING REVOLUTION AND THE ARTIST, VISCOMM San Francisco, June 22
  • 1995
    • Featured Speaker, MAPP (MARIN ASSOCIATION OF PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHERS) 1995 DIGITAL EVENT, November 09

CORPORATE  COLLECTIONS

  • Robert P. Kahn, Atherton, CA

PRIVATE  COLLECTIONS:

  • William Rush, San Francisco, CA
  • Leo Steinberg, NY, NY
  • Norman & Nora Stone, San Francisco, CA
  • Dr. Laurence Susnow, Solana Beach, CA
  • Zoltan & Irene De Haydu, Aptos ,CA
  • Sharon Rhodes, Potomac, Md.
  • Finis & Julie Conner, Pebble Beach, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY – articles about Jon Warren Lentz:

  •                    – Mac Art & Design, “Open Art Gallery”, Volume5, Edition #23, Summer 1998.
  • -RosalindSmith – Shutterbug, “The Fine Art of Distinction”, July 1998.
  •                    -Mac Art & Design, “Open Art Gallery”, Volume5, Edition #21, Winter 1998.
  • -AndersF.Ronnblom- Mac Art & Design, “PhotographicSpecial”, Volume 5, Edition #20, Autumn 1997.
  •                    – COMPUTER ARTIST / COLOR PUBLISHING, August 1995
  •                    – IdN- INTERNATIONAL DESIGNERS NETWORK MAGAZINE”, Digital Master”, Vol2/no5, September/October 1995
  •                    – MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS”, Local Artist Open Photodigital Show in San Francisco”, August 1995
  • -LesCowan- MICRO PUBLISHING NEWS”, Accident Inspires San Francisco Artist to Explore Digital Technology”,July1994
  • -ShawnWaggoner – GLASSART, “Showcase”,  September/October1991
  • -ShawnWaggoner – GLASSART, “When The Walls Come Tumbling Down”, March/April 1990
  • -LesKrantz(Ed.) – THE CALIFORNIA ART REVIEW, Second Edition, American References, Chicago, 1989
  • -MarkMarinovich- SPOTLIGHT / SANTA CRUZ  SENTINEL, “It’s A Blast”, September 25, 1987
  • -PattyMorton- HOMELIFE, “Art Glass”, Fall 1985
  • -MarkMarinovich- SPOTLIGHT / SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL, “A Touch Of Glass”, June 22,1984
  • -CandaceAtkins- WATSONVILLE REGISTER-PAJARONIAN, “Looking  Glass”, March 9, 1984
  • -SheilaE.Toner – THE MONTEREY WEEKLY, “A Lens On The Lentz”, May 27, 1982
  • -TomO’Leary- THE U.C.S.C. REVIEW, “Alumni”, March/April 1982
  • -RalphGray- THES ANTA CRUZ WEEKLY, “No Comfort”, November 10, 1981

ART COMMISSIONS:

  • 1995
    • David L. Bailey, San Leandro, Ca.
    • Robert Hughes, Triton Digital Imaging, Solana Beach, Ca.
  • 1989
    • David Wright, San Francisco, Ca.
    • Jack & Sandy Yearwood, Scotts Valley, Ca.
    • Pat Larin, Los Altos, Ca.
    • Robert Daugherty, Fleur Du Lac, Tahoe, Ca.
    • Audres Blake Johnson, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Bill Brooks, Pasatiempo, Ca.
    • T & J Properties, Gilroy, Ca.
    • Jacqueline Sadow, Carmel, Ca.
    • Bill Thurman, Gilroy, Ca.
    • Charles Perry, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • William Rush, San Francisco, Ca.
  • 1988
    • Riviera Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada
    • Leola Lapides, Aptos, Ca.
    • Sharon Rhodes, Potomac, Md.
    • Robert P. Kahn, Atherton, Ca.
    • Michael & Lore Morse, Aptos, Ca.
    • Villa Los Arboles, Atherton, Ca.
    • Hospice of Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, Ca.
    • Alex & Jacqueline Groswird, Boulder Creek, Ca.
    • Jerry Bulfin, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Bud’s Pub, Carmel, Ca.
    • Mary Ann Dreisbach, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Donna & Jes Rodrigues, La Selva Beach, Ca.
    • Ted & Helen Seymour, Seascape, Ca.
    • Cypress Chiropractic, Soquel, Ca.
    • Wu-Lieh & Tsai-Luan Ho, Cupertino, Ca.
    • Linda Floyd, San Francisco, Ca.
    • Poly McArthur, Seattle, Washington
    • Melissa Thompson, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Mel & Diana Haas, Lafayette, Ca.
  • 1987
    • Larry & Ann Silva, Aptos, Ca.
    • Circa Inc., San Francisco, Ca.
    • Temple Beth Israel, Carmel, Ca.
    • John Firmin, San Francisco, Ca.
    • Forbes Mill, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • James & Peggy Crocker, Aptos, Ca.
    • Bay Photo, Aptos, Ca.
    • Norman & Nora Stone, San Francisco, Ca.
    • Perry & Jones, Saratoga, Ca.
    • Steve & Leslie Sachs, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Dennis Lillis, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Dynasty Homes, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • George & Kaye Viscovich, Pajaro Dunes, Ca.
    • Ron & Lois Gerdes, Mount Hermon, Ca.
    • Ken & Beverly Haughton, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Richard Shaeffer, Watsonville, Ca.
    • Charles & Sherry Perry, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Ralph Moceo, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Fred & Maggie Wilhelm, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Chaminade Conference Center, Santa Cruz, Ca.
  • 1986
    • Pat Itatani, Coyote, Ca.
    • Dianne Himan, Campbell, Ca.
    • Finis & Julie Conner, Pebble Beach, Ca.
    • Harlands Restaurant, Fresno, Ca.
    • Fleur Du Lac, Homewood, South Lake Tahoe, Ca.
    • Erwin & Dorie Sprengel, Apple Valley, Ca.
    • Robert Bethke, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Woodstove & Sun, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Bay Photo, Aptos, Ca.
    • Kathy Swanson, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Phyllis Berry, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Rocky & Linda Taylor, Soquel, Ca.
    • Bob Griffin, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • John MacDougal, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Jim & Micki Symons, Morgan Hill, Ca.
    • Louise Gratten, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Billie Luther, Aptos, Ca.
    • Bobby Severini, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • MIchael & Cathy Tantraphol, Cupertino, Ca.
    • Tamara & Keith Butler, Aptos, Ca.
    • Dr. Laurence Susnow, Aptos, Ca.
    • Quality Inn, Freemont, Ca.
    • Rittenhouse, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Drew Arvay, Cupertino, Ca.
    • Finis & Julie Conner, Pebble Beach, Ca.
  • 1985
    • Virginia Harries, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Dr. Laurence Susnow, Aptos, Ca.
    • Jim & Micki Symons, Morgan Hill, Ca.
    • Kings Table, Sunnyvale, Ca.
    • Ron & Lois Gerdes, Mount Hermon, Ca.
    • Shells Restaurant, Watsonville, Ca.
    • Russ & Bonjo Ichimaru, Monterey, Ca.
    • Hospice of Monterey Peninsula, Monterey, Ca.
    • Ivan & Nancy Joffer, Soquel, Ca.
    • Chaminade Conference Center, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Leroy Thomas, Watsonville, Ca.
    • Marilyn Petrich, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Madden, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Marsha Allen, Watsonville, Ca.
    • Shari Reichmuth, Morgan Hill, Ca.
    • Dr. Peter Fung, Los Altos, Ca.
    • Villa Rosa, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Priscilla Schleich, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Rick & Tammie Donnely, Aptos, Ca.
    • Margie Reber, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Reg & Judy Rowan, Scotts Valley, Ca.
    • Verne & Carol Bowie, Watsonville, Ca.
    • Jeanne Baker, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • John DuMont, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Dr. Nicholas Niven, Capitola, Ca.
  • 1984
    • Rick Simms & Wendy Phoenix, Scotts Valley, Ca.
    • Wayne & Sue Hansen, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Overland Enterprises, Losts #3 & #9, Cupertino, Ca.
    • Marilyn Kaiser, Seascape, Ca.
    • Dr. Laurence Susnow, Aptos, Ca.
    • Mike & Kathy Kernan, Scotts Valley, Ca.
    • O.B.’s Pub, Truckee, Ca.
    • Commercial Pacific S & L, Santa Cruz, Ca.
  • 1983
    • Donald Campion, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Mrs. Gomez, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Michelle West, Aptos, Ca.
    • Harry & Mary Borreson, Scotts Valley, Ca.
    • Bly, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Nicholas Trowbridge, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Ron Streeter, Pasatiempo, Ca.
    • Tokiko Hamamura, Honolulu, Hawaii
    • Sharon Roblyn, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • The Carriage House Restaurant, Capitola, Ca.
    • Howard Mitchell, Santa  Cruz, Ca.
    • Lindsay D’s Ice Cream Parlour, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Overland Enterprises, Lot #12, Cupertino, Ca.
    • Bill Brooks, Pasatiempo, Ca.
    • Pearlmutter, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Robby Jaffee, Santa Cruz, Ca.
  • 1982
    • T. Cocciardi, La Selva Beach, Ca.
    • Stefee, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Robert Evans, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Keven Brehm Esq., Atlanta, Georgia
    • Mrs. Hannah, Honolulu, Hawaii
    • Bonnie Stewart, Charlottesville, Virginia
    • Dr. Robert & Sue Matiasevich, Santa Cruz, Ca.
  • 1981
    • Jack & Fern Tomlinson, Aptos, Ca.
    • Guthrie & Betty Swartz, Los Gatos, Ca.
    • Ron & Cathy May, Capitola, Ca.
    • Mrs. Mattson, Capitola,  Ca.
    • Doreene Gilmore, Woodside, Ca.
    • Jerry & Mary Ann Ratch, Berkeley, Ca.
  • 1980
    • John E. Lentz, Cardiff, Ca.
    • Dr. Peter Fediay, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Mark Miller, Aptos, Ca.
    • Hans & Joan Ostermann, San Jose, Ca.
    • Dr. Peter Fediay,  Aptos, Ca.
    • Rick Hoffman, Ben Lomond, Ca.
    • Mark DuBois, Santa Cruz, Ca.
    • Michael & Bonnie Post, Coeur D’Alene, Idaho

… Art . Integrates . Life ™