Thomas Ward McCain
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BORN: Keene Valley, (near Montreal), Adirondack Mountains, New York

ADDRESS: USA:
65-1316 Lihipali Road,
Kamuela, Hawaii, USA 96743

JAPAN ADDRESS/TELEPHONE:
2-20-27 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, Japan 1710031
Home: 81-03-6426-0664 Mobile: 81-080-6767-1950
Email: nipponforest@aol.com

PERSONAL WEBSITE: www.wardmccain.com
(Note: you will find additional personal bio-data on this website).

EDUCATION:
Univesity: Columbia University, NYC and Bennington College, Vermont.
High School: Verde Valley International School, Sedona, Arizona.
Junior High School: Eaglebrook Academy, Massachussetts.
Studied filmaking at University, produced two small films.
Lived and studied in a Buddhist monastery 7 years.

LANGUAGES
English is my native language. Studied French 5 years. partially fluent. Studied Spanish 3 years and partially fluent. Studied Japanese. Read and write katakana and hiragana and speak some.

CAREER WORK/SKILLS:
Landscape Architecture/”Wind Harp” Builder:
Private and commercial landscape design and execution.
Specializing in Japanese-style rock/waterfall gardens.

1994-1999 designed and executed a 7-acre public botanical park in Mauritius in cooperation with the gov’t including co-design of a million-dollar central pavilion using teak, stone and glazed Chinese roof tiles Built largest “wind harp” in the world, 1970, in Vermont, USA. (See photos on website wardmccainartist.net)
New one designed for Nikko, Japan.

Graphics Designer/Portraiture Artist:
15 years graphics design experience--feature story layouts, magazine advertising, website layout design and magazine design and production.

Sample websites:
www.royalcoastthai.com
www.tsunamirelieffundthai.org
www.peggriggs.com
www. wardmccain.com
www.wellnessthroughmovement.com

PORTRAITURE ARTIST: lifetime experience. Examples on my website include portraits of Takako Uehara, Matsuda Seiko and Vera Wang.

Printer: 12 years experience in all phases of printing--layout, paste-up, stripping, printing (Heidelberg KORD and Ryobi presses), cutting and folding machinery.

Teacher/English Language & Editor/Textbook designer:
15 years experience teaching International youth (age 12-25) in philosophy. Designed and crafted many textbooks and teaching syllabuses during this 15-year period.
English teacher in Japan 2004. Currently edit English documents and books written by Japanese and native English writers in Japan.

Journalism:
12 years experience as international journalist. Feature writer and editor. Over 1,000 articles--art, society, human interest, history, politics and religion.

Company Administrator:
In charge of several yoga retreat centers.
Created and directed many yoga retreat programs for youths age 15-25.

Owned/operated health food store two years.

Restauranteur:
I owned and managed the Village Store and Cafe in Kainaliu, Hawaii, for two years. Additionally I worked for five years as waiter, headwaiter and Maitre’de in the finest carte-service restaurants in America, including The Four Seasons, NYC, Doro’s and Julius Castle in SF,

Computer Skills:
Programs: MS Word, Pagemaker, Quark Express, Photoshop, Photodeluxe, Excel, Quicken, Clarish Works, Appleworks.
(PC AND MACINTOSH).

FAMILY: Mother, artist/philanthropist (See website peggriggs.com). Father, (deceased 2004) successful businessman/NYC. Step-father, Asian art collector, investor. Stepmother, housewife, real estate agent. Sister, lawyer. Brother, land developer, real estate broker.

PERSONAL:

General: I am single, live
alone in Hawaii and reside in Japan
for several months each year, Nikko or
Tokyo.

Hobbies: playing flute and Indian veena,
golfing, swimming and hiking.
studying Japanese, photography and
meditation.