THE LIVING BIOGRAPHY; A BRIEF PROFILE - It was 1955 when I came into the world of mankind as a baby child born to Essel and Venishie Cole in Houston, Texas. I began my sojourn with the usual formalities of the social, religious, political, educational system processes for conditioning, conforming, growing and developing my mind, body and soul concepts to become an American prototype. The accepted normalcy of societies fragmented approaches towards cultivating my personality enabling me to choose a future career and/or occupation worthy of citizenship. I went from kindergarten through sixth grade at Mabel B. Wesley Elementary School, then to M.C. Williams Jr. & Sr. High School in Acres Home, an all Negro subdivision in Houston, nicknamed 'Acres Shakers' one of a few designated plantations for colored people.
The world of chaos and confusion bombarded every nuance of my human capacity to graduate in 1974 from High School and to have earned a full scholarship to have attended Carnegie-Mellon University, Theatre Department - School of Performing Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, where I continued my institutional education for four intensive, demanding and challenging years. This is where the extraordinarily complicated reality of societies complexities affected my psychological, emotional, intellectual and physical self evoking a full fledge determination to embrace truth, honesty, character an integrity in life. I was trained and prepared in various ways to become a professional actor in a very competitive show business arena where guarantees and/or promises for gainful employment towards achieving, "The American Dream", was not a consideration for a success story.
Upon completion of all academic requirements for graduation with outstanding merit, I continued my sojourn to New York City in 1978, 'The Big Apple', where through many opportunities I immediately became acclimated to the extreme methods of survival until I finally obtained membership as a professional working actor in the performing arts unions: "The Actors' Equity Association", "The American Federation of Television and Radio Artist" and "The Screen Actors Guild". Of course, expectations for greater accomplishments through my motivation to succeed in this occupation were intensely met with the standardized resistances by the guardians of privilege. The road wasn't paved with gold but cobble stones and muddy streets, which I have grown to appreciate as I proceeded to unfold my life's intent and purpose. In the 1980's I parlayed my theatrical endeavors with personal computer interests during that growth decade's material and financial successes.
The great opportunities I encountered led me to becoming an entrepreneur by 1983 with the advent of my first corporation for personal career and business management for professional actors called, Harco Mgmt., Inc. (HMI). Then the proliferation of the Apple Macintosh in the Corporate World, especially with computer graphics, enticed HMI in 1987 to create a subsidiary company called, MacTemp, Inc., to produce and work with high-end professional Macintosh Computer Consultants/Operators for the Macintosh Computer Temporary Employment Market. These successes inspired acquiring and forming other subsidiary companies: MacTemp II, Inc., Creative Innovations, Inc. both in Pittsburgh, PA and MacTemp New Jersey, Inc. to cover the neighboring state market's supply and demand. As a Principal Owner I held offices of Chairman, EVP & VP, employing and managing approximately 500 employees and independent contractors serving a corporate client base of 200+ companies including many of the Fortune 500. Within 3 years the collective revenues from these corporations went from barely over 100 thousand dollars in 1987 to well exceed 3 million dollars in 1989 before the deep recession resulting from the 1989 market crash that overtook the corporate world and forced major changes and dissolution to occur within the service industry at large early in 1990.
Like all great climbs ascending up the ladder to the top of the heap, decline was an inevitability especially for entrepreneurial cash intensive, independently supportive businesses during the trickled down economic recession/depression of the Reagan era. I closed doors, dissolved all ties with corporate America, suffered the consequences and changed direction 180 degrees in 1991. I took a rather lengthy sabbatical to recap, recoup and regroup my created reality by traveling throughout the global worlds. It was during that time I decided to advance toward my creative initiatives, acting, directing, producing, writing, singing, dancing, modeling, etc., since then life's 2007 has brought my Human Being to... NOW!
I am curently residing in Columbia, Maryland, as well as, living and working in Los Angeles, California and New York City, with my new business venture, "Colveyco Communications Productions, Inc.", in cultivation of producing, exhibiting and promoting the ArtWorks and Poetry by a reknowned creator and kindred spirit, JV Harvey, 'The Evolutionary Expressionism of Life Energy'; working with professional and business career management organizations; various educational institutions; dealing with various training programs for people entering into and experiencing the multidimensional realities of the world illunsions; orchestrating and conducting inspirational, self-esteem/motivational outlets, non-workshops; non-seminars incorporating creative career choices, enhancing personality growth and developmental techniques, approaches and material freedom; while compiling, assimulating, formulating and writing poetic and artistic books of lifetime observations, perspectives and perceptions regarding every evolutionary nuance of Being 'Human.'
I am in earnest to transcend all constructed limitations of the Human Being with a continuing vivaciousness to unlearn what has been learned via new application, exploration, investigation, discovery and evolve as many of the kindred spirits have done upon this life's sojourn. I am a visitor, here and now, inevitably passing through this time and space continuum... into oblivion!
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