Adub Studios

Allen Winder (a.k.a. “adub")

“Time to Give Back...” Allen Winder’s Bio Video

Back in the day with Meadowlark Lemon and Wilt Chamberlain

Experience:

Allen has many years of experience in photography, videography and digital art.  His award winning photography and digital art has been featured in several publications.  Allen’s unique style has blended photography, videoagraphy and digital art to produce lasting memories for many business and sports teams - as well as families all over the world.

Passions:

At the top of the list of Allen’s passions is his family.  After that, photography and audio/video productions to help kids to capture their memories and succeed in life…

He has also played the guitar for over 30 years.  He has played and performed in venues ranging in size from parking lots on a flat bed, to auditoriums, to small bars and clubs… Teaching guitar, photography, digital art, recording music and making music videos are a few of his latest passions… Adub Studios was created through a combination of his passions, experiences and business acumen.

Basketball Career:

Allen had an illustrious high school basketball career in Arlington, Texas where he was named Texas 5-A Player of the Year and 1st team All American.  He then went on to play at the University of Houston, where he became a charter member of Phi Slama Jama, and the first freshman in U of H history to start for the varsity team.  At U of H, he led the NCAA in shooting percentage, and was named to the All SWC Team.  He later was recruited by Meadowlark Lemon to become the first white player to play comedian basketball along side Meadowlark, Wilt Chamberlain and Marques Haynes on Meadowlark Lemon’s Bucketeers.  This record still stands today.  During his unique tenure with the Bucketeers, , Bruce Jenner (Keeping Up With the Kardashians on E!) deemed him the “Blue Eyed Soul Brother” on national TV in front of millions!

Also during this time, Allen appeared on a number of talk shows including The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, Good Morning America and Late Night with David Letterman.  He also made several appearances on “Benji” and “Flash Gordon”, as well as Sports World and several other variety shows and specials on HBO and NBC with Wilt Chamberlain, Meadowlark Lemon, David Letterman, Steve Allen, Jose Feliciano, Gallagher, Sid Caesar and Sarah Purcell to name a few.

In January of 2001, Allen was inducted into the Texas Basketball Hall of Fame.

Business/Corporate Career:

Allen has worked in the Information Technology industry since the early eighties in all technical disciplines.  During that time he has crafted automated techniques and methodology critical to workflow enhancement, Business Process Improvement (BPI), and Best Practices Modeling employed in public and private organizations of all sizes (including Fortune 100) and in all industries to this day. 

He has composed numerous published papers, articles, and curriculum addressing Workflow, Best Practices, Financial Administration, Software Selection, Purchasing, Automated Billing and Collection Management, as well as General Office Administration.  He has been a certified instructor for several associations and institutions, and has instructed numerous seminars and symposiums for state and local, as well as national and international associations in several aspects of office automation, statistical modeling, process re-engineering, mergers and acquisitions, management and C-level training, and collaborative commerce over the Internet.  He considers his two greatest business accomplishments, the “Mergers that couldn’t be done”

First - Bringing J.D. Edwards into the services industries, assisting them to growing into a billion dollar corporation.  And two, merging two Silicon Valley corporate cultures into another wildly successful corporation. Taking the lead in both cases for worldwide integration - holding hundreds of employees and hundreds of millions of dollars in his direct P&L.

For these accomplishments and many others his name now appears in the “National Register’s Who’s Who of Executive Leadership” in Washington, D.C.

World Travel:

Allen has held direct line responsibility for several worldwide organizations.  He has also served on several large executive teams for international corporations.  This has afforded him the opportunity to learn and study many cultures around the globe.  He has traveled and studied in most major countries - expanding his advertising, marketing, corporate culture, finance, multi-language and multi-currency expertise.  A few of the countries include, The U.S. of course (all 50 states) - as well as The Virgin Islands, Venezuela, St. Kitts, Mexico, Nevis, Peru, Panama, Haiti, Columbia, Chili, Argentina, Brazil and others in the Americas.  England, France, Italy, Germany, Latvia, Russia, Croatia, Sweden, Spain and others in Europe… Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, The Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Taiwan and others in Asia.  As well as protectorates in the Oceania such as Guam, The Mariana Islands, Palau, and Puerto Rico. 

During the ensuing months after 9/11/2001, Allen was on a team that worked with corporate and government entities in the Middle East just days after the bombing of the World Trade Center.  His travels brought him to Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul and other predominantly Muslim countries and communities; working with the royal families of the Saha and Koch families respectively.

Favorite “Winder-isms”:

• “Speak to that which is not, as though it were, and it will be...”
• “Plan your work and work your plan”
• “If you don’t think you have time to plan, what makes you think you have the time to do it over”
• “Happy cows give better milk...”
• “Do the right job right - the first time...”

Kayla Winder (a.k.a. “kdub")

Experience:

Kayla is a student of the arts, holds a B.S. in Psychology and is currently working on her Masters.  She is an award winning singer, performer and gymnist; as well as a writer, freehand artist and professional photographer.  She has competed and performed in venues of all sizes.

Kayla has worked on both sides of the camera for over 10 years.  First as a model, then as a photographer.  She has shot everything from family portraits, to fashion, to sports - both on location and in the studio.  She is proficient in many aspects of photography and videography; including film, analog and digital; as well as state-of-the-art technology for recording and filming music artists.

Passions:

Kayla’s family, the elderly and kids are at the top of her list of passions… She has spent most of her career in healthcare and elderly care; employed as a nurse and elderly care technician for several institutions in Kansas and Colorado.  After that her passions include writing, music, art… and of course photography!