Description: Profile, Claude Rallins, media producer, advocate, innovator, owner-operator Rallins.com
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A few years out of high school, Rallins opened the first video resume company, VESS Inc., and introduced "Smooth Jazz" radio with Windwalk Cafe aka The Wind , on KRCL public radio in 1979. Other highlights include producing and hosting The Job Channel on Chicago broadcast TV, The International Black Gents on Chicago Cable TV in the '80's. Greenpeace Live TV, and U.N. Radio Chicago, in the 1990's.
Claude co-created Greenpeace ActionLine, an impactful local-global phone-casting to voice-action tool, featuring Action Alerts recorded in his studio. A Greens Party Environmentalist of The Year winner. And, EPA 'Citizens Chair' Honoree. He went online in '99 with Sonic Sanctuary -a pioneering audio website. Claude also once owned and operated a mountain top B&B for hikers. In 2009, Rallins introduced and operated the first streaming in-room hotel TV channel service, L.A. LIVELY, for Sheraton.
Prior to becoming an independent media producer Rallins enjoyed a variety of job titles; Hilton Hotel bartender, U.S. Marine, R&D Chemistry Lab Technician, Art Gallery Administrator. And, Claude fondly remembers his first (real) job bagging groceries after he walked-out of the orphanage he was raised at from the age of four.