Stephen Shooster

Stephen Shooster
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Florida College of the Arts
Occupation Painter, Author, and Businessman
Parent(s) Herman Shooster (father)
Relatives Frank Shooster (brother)
Website Shoosty Fine Art Gallery

Stephen Shooster is an American business executive, painter, and author.

Early life

Stephen Shooster graduated from the University of Florida College of the Arts in 1982.[1]

Business career

In the 1990s Shooster was President and Chief Information Officer of Communications Service Center, a call center company founded in 1974 under the name of the Ding-A-Ling Answering Service.[2] While working for the company Shooster invented and patented the world's first "Web Call Center", a service with clients that included Time Warner, the Florida Marlins baseball club and Bausch & Lomb.[3] Shooster then became the President of Global Response,[4] an international call center company[5] founded by his father.[6] As Co-CEO, Chief Technology Officer,[7] and co-owner[8] of the company, Shooster has worked with clients including The Art Institute of Chicago, National Geographic, Charming Shoppes, Mead Paper, S.E. Toyota, Ally Bank, Mindware Studios, Think Geek, the Museum of Modern Art, as well as several major museums, fashion designers, and fashion retailers.[9]

Hello Friends, painting by Stephen Shooster on display at the University of North Florida

Artistic career

He is a painter, working under the artist's name of "Shoosty", whose works are exhibited at Shoosty Fine Art gallery in Margate, Florida.[10] His work has been featured in the Marquis Who's Who in American Art[11][12] and The Miami Herald.[13]

The Horse Adjutant

Then in 2011 Shooster self-published the book The Horse Adjutant: A Boy's Life in the Holocaust,[14] the story of Leon Schagrin's survival of Nazi death camps during the Second World War. The book led to a national news when it was discovered that Schagrin's first cousin and only other member of his family to survive the Holocaust, Leo Adler, had spent nearly seven decades searching for Schagrin—a search that ended with Adler reading Schagrin's book and realizing he was the same survivor Adler had been looking for his entire life.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Stephen Shooster". Retrieved June 20, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Company History". Retrieved November 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ Thom Weidlich (July 1, 1998). "Introducing the Web Call Center". Chief Marketer. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
  4. ↑ CIO Magazine (September 6, 2009). "Networking 2.0: Driving Networking". Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  5. ↑ Johanne Torres (August 16, 2006). "Global Response to Deploy AT&T Technology in Michigan Call Center". Technology Marketing Corporation. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  6. ↑ "Global Response history". Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  7. ↑ Margie Plunkett (July 8, 2012). "Global Response call center broadens vision". Miami Herald. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  8. ↑ "Global Response opens Sawyer call center". The Mining Journal (Marquette, MI). November 28, 2008. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  9. ↑ "Global Response client list". Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  10. ↑ "Shoosty Fine Art". Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  11. ↑ "Stephen Shooster's artwork". Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  12. ↑ Marquis (2010). Who's Who in American Art. Marquis.
  13. ↑ Carl Juste (July 8, 2012). "Global Response call center broadens vision". Miami Herald. Retrieved November 6, 2012.
  14. ↑ Stephen Shooster (2011). The Horse Adjutant: A Boy's Life in the Holocaust. Shooster Publishing.
  15. ↑ Associated Press (March 17, 2012). "Cousins who survived Holocaust reunite in Florida". FoxNews. Retrieved November 7, 2012.

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