Biography
Jeannine Patané
As an explorer and bricoleur, Jeannine Patané´s life gestures an unconventional approach to traditional career courses. Her relaxed and free-spirited path is paradoxical to her US Corps of Engineers Construction Quality Management training, and her PRINCE2™ Practitioner certification in Project Management.
For the passion of world travel, Patané makes her way by several forms of transportation. At the beginning of 2007 she gained STCW-95 certification, which led to international motor yacht deliveries and a construction management term on an oceanfront estate by the year´s end.
Chasing Potoroos around a restricted-access island with a researcher was part of Patané´s 2005-2006 dispatches in Western Australia. As a volunteer, she made strides in several government divisions including historical building restoration, national park interpretation with consideration to additional state capital funding and DNA collection for Montane Threatened Ecological Communities.
During 2001-2002, she provided consultation and design for Skyline Lodge and Kantishna Air Taxi facilities in Denali National Park, working in partnership with the U.S. National Park Service. After the initial planning and construction of the Kantishna facilities, Patané managed start-up operations and oversaw marketing.
Making tracks as production manager for Stellar Communications in Ester, Alaska, Patané facilitated all prepress layout for the international magazine of dog-powered sports, Mushing. Her position ran from 1999-2001, and a few years later she returned through her business, Alaska HandyWoman, to construct an addition onto the building.
Patané´s organized, artistic vision has been influenced through four years of stage managing Tuma Theater, along with production managing Northern Inua/World Eskimo-Indian Olympics at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks Museum. She developed an environmental awareness by working with indigenous cultures.
A 1997 magna cum laude BA graduate from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Patané studied Theatre Management with a Minor degree in Alaska Native Studies. Upon graduating, she took six months to venture solo on an Australian circum-continental bike trek before returning to Alaska to design/build her house.
Patané grew up in New York and was a 1985 Ambassador for Hugh O´Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY). She moved to Alaska after a 1987 US cross-country bicycle trip. She now lives a nomadic lifestyle, embracing extraordinary environments, great clients and diverse locations.
