Education:

• Berkeley High School, Graduate
• Contra Costa College - AA Degree (Administration of Justice)
• College of Alameda (Music Major)
• Professional Trumpet Player

DUTIES

• Manuel is a very sociable individual who enjoys helping others in the community. His job duties consist of accounting, providing guidance and assistance to the general public, processing claims, computer graphic advertisements, liaison communications and computer operations of the office. He is always relied upon to complete his missions and assignments with speed and accuracy. Manuel Duran possesses bilingual fluency and is an asset to the firm.

BACKGROUND

• Manuel Duran's prior occupational experience consist of working with the Deparment of Corrections Parole Division for the State of California (13 years). He worked for the San Francisco, Oakland and Richmond Parole Units as an Office Assistant and Office Technician.  His musical background consists of being a bandleader for East Bay musical salsa groups such as "Orquesta Radiante" and "Cadencia". He's studied trumpet brass music with the "Bill Bell Orquestra" and "Phillip Hardyman" and the legendary "Carlos Frederico". It was Carlos Frederico that inspired Manuel into the salsa music spectrum.

PERSONAL INFORMATION 

• Manuel Duran, has a wife by the name of Maria-Guadalupe Duran. They live in the city of Hercules.  They have two children, a boy and a girl by the names of Manuel Duran, Jr. (12 yrs. Old) and Karina Duran (9 yrs. Old). His son Manuel Duran, Jr. is also a trumpet player and studies together with his father.