Drew Knapp

A Greater Town

A Greater Town

A Home Page for Every Town™

• Startup type: Company
• Status: Active
• Stage: Beta

Practicing artist, http://www.drewknapp.com/ , widely collected, trained at Cooper Union, NY (BFA) and Villa Schifanoia, Italy (MA) Rotary Fellow, fluent in English and Italian, 30 years real estate experience, owns and manages properties in NJ, NY, Tuscany, experienced in sales, marketing, branding, trade shows, licensed educator, licensed realtor, passionate chef, loyal friend, out of box thinker, networker, biz dev extraordinaire, visionary, Founder & CEO of goodideazs, LLC, dreamer of A Greater Town.

Employer:	goodideazs, LLC; www.AGreaterTown.com
Position:	Founder and CEO
Time period:	January 2007 - Present
Description:	- Founder & CEO, goodideazs, LLC - Secured initial round of funding, created, designed and implemented www.AGreaterTown.com - A Home Page for Every Town™. A Greater Town is a community-centric marketing site for the promotion of art, culture, business and real estate, with a homepage for every town. Locations and categories interconnect to form a larger entity, hence the name. - Directed team of developers, designers, attorneys and accountants in creation of site and company. - Duties include extensive business development - have secured important working relations with OpenHouse.com, Enterprise.com, Restaurant.com, Hotels.com, Psychology Today, SuperPages.com, ActiveRain.com, ArtistSites.org, Topix.com, NCI.com, MassMarketing, Inc., Point2.com, Avvo.com, CareerTV.com. In promising discussions with other major concerns.

Employer:	Century 21 Cedarcrest Realty
Position:	Associate
Time period:	January 2007 - Present

Employer:	Century 21 Teran Realty LLC
Position:	Associate
Time period:	January 2006 - Present

Employer:	Ronald Ridgeway Inc.
Position:	Associate
Time period:	January 2002 - December 2003
Description:	Strategic Marketing and Design Consultancy. Sales, web project management and quality assurance for Ronald Ridgeway, Inc., Montclair, NJ.

Employer:	The Montclair Kimberley Academy
Position:	Instructor of Art
Time period:	January 1986 - December 1994

Employer:	Chancellor Avenue School
Position:	Instructor of Art
Time period:	January 1985 - December 1986

Employer:	St. Benedict's Preparatory School
Position:	Instructor of Language Arts
Time period:	January 1984 - December 1985
Description:	Taught Fine Arts primarily, Language Arts secondarily for seventeen years at levels from elementary to graduate school including Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Literature, Creative Writing and English. NJ certification Art, K-12. Worked in public and private environments, including: Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts - Newark, NJ Studio Art Centers International - Florence, Italy St. Benedict's Preparatory School - Newark, NJ Chancellor Avenue Elementary School - Newark, NJ Montclair Kimberley Academy - Montclair, NJ Gibbs College, Department of Visual Communications - Montclair, NJ

Employer:	Studio Art Centers International
Position:	Instructor of Painting, Drawing, and Intaglio
Time period:	January 1982 - December 1984

Employer:	Organizzazione Vittorio Caselli, S.r.l.
Position:	Associate
Time period:	January 1979 - December 1982
Description:	Sales and promotions, Organizzazione Vittorio Caselli in Florence, Italy, specializing in international trade shows, including Neocon, Chicago and the International Gold Fair, Arezzo.

Employer:	City Without Walls
Position:	Visual Arts Coordinator
Time period:	January 1975 - December 1976
Description:	Key team member in launch of City Without Walls, An Urban Artists' Collective, Newark, NJ.

University:	Dominican University
Time period:	1978 - 1979
Degree:	Painting, MA

University:	Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The
Time period:	1971 - 1975
Degree:	BFA, Fine Arts, BA

Articles:

"Stefano Cusumano, A Teaching Artist", The American Artist (1975)

Hobbies:

I’m passionate about the culinary arts, photography, music, film, historic preservation and world languages