Daniel McAvinchey
LEGO Artist at Mack da Vinci Creative, LLC
- Role
- Owner Founder at Guitar Nine
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Daniel McAvinchey
Raleigh-based LEGO artist Dan McAvinchey wears a number of creative hats: software developer, guitarist, composer, and writer. Towards the end 40-year career in IT (culminating in an 8-year stint at UNC-Chapel Hill\'s School of Government), McAvinchey took an unexpected leap into the art world in 2018, and began creating large works with the family\'s LEGO bricks. Since then he has completed over 500 pieces, with subjects including fine art (Van Gogh, Michelangelo, da Vinci, Robert Indiana), pop culture (Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson, John Lennon, Scarlet Johansson, Batman), guitar (Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix), contemporary art (works by Karl Bang, LeRoy Neimen, Amina Lei, Roy Lichtenstein), sports (Michael Jordan, Joe Namath, Kobe Bryant, team logos) and animals (elephants, big cats, gorillas, horses, birds). Instagram:@guitarnine\"I am hoping to encourage professionals of all ages to follow their creative dreams.”
Experience
Owner Founder
Jun 1996 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US
I founded Guitar Nine Records, an independent Internet-based company to market and sell music by over independent labels and bands. From 1997 through 2012, Guitar Nine operated a full-blown e-commerce site and record label selling instrumental and guitar-oriented CDs to a worldwide customer base, resulting in millions of dollars of sales in an underserved niche market. The web site regularly features guest columnists whose ideas help guitarists at all levels of ability, as well as a section devoted to introducing visitors to undiscovered guitar players around the world.
Education
Lyons Township HIgh School
High School Diploma, Accounting, German, Computers, Business, Creative Writing, Tons O' History
1974 — 1978
St. Francis Xavier School
Readin', Writin', 'rithmatic
1966 — 1974
DePaul University
B.S., Computer Science
1978 — 1981
Skills
- Web 2.0
- Entrepreneurship
- Php
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- Cobol
- Multimedia
- Perl
- Feature Articles
- Wordpress
- Adult Education
- Java
- Spanish
- Unix
- Music
- Windows
- Guitar Playing
- Programming
- Website Development
- Leadership
- Web Applications
- Xhtml
- Mysql
- Web Development
- Recording
- Continuing Education
- Project Management
- Social Media
- Javascript
- Drupal
- Sql
- E-Learning
- Os X
- Mac Os X
- Microsoft Excel
- Netsuite
- Css
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