Thanks for stopping by The Moon Above. This site features ebooks, artwork, videos, commercial design and photographs. I hope you enjoy your time spent here. Watch this message line for future special announcements. Cheers, Randall      Thanks for stopping by The Moon Above. This site features ebooks, artwork, videos, commercial design and photographs. I hope you enjoy your time spent here. Watch this message line for future special announcements. Cheers, Randall

About the author

Creativity has always been Randall Coleman’s hallmark. Growing up in Michigan, exploring the shores of Lake Michigan and Muskegon Lake, the Tom Sawyer-like childhood triggered his wonder of life at an early age. He began to draw and paint before he could write his name. He was a natural leader in high school and college and was elected student government president while attending Muskegon Community College, Michigan.

 

 

 

He started a professional creative career in the early 70’s in Toronto with Rogers Cable TV, now the largest telecommunications company in Canada. Then, what was called cable TV, became his professional creative palette. There, he pioneered local cable TV programs. He created the first music VJ format and cable’s first music videos, well before MTV, when he produced the award winning show, “You Can’t Do That On Television.” Continuing as a creative music video producer and cable TV maverick, he pioneered digital effects in music videos and national Cable TV satellite feeds with stereo sound. At the same time, he began writing songs. In 1978, he was the first cable TV producer featured on the cover of the cable industry magazine, Cable Communications, for his breakthrough documentary, “A Point of No Return.”

 

In the 80’s, his creativity moved from television programming to cable franchise development in the U.S. where cable was about to be unleashed. There, along with fellow Rogers colleagues, and later with Continental Cablevision, he developed cable franchise proposals that became the templates for today’s high tech cable networks, conceiving “blue sky” concepts that today are proving visionary.

 

He spent the 90’s applying his creativity to building and operating cable systems from the ground up in North America and Asia. These businesses were leaders in creative management and received the highest national awards and honors in customer service, marketing, programming and branding. In 1994, Continental Cablevision of St. Paul, the cable system he led in Minnesota, was selected by CIO Magazine as one of the top 20 customer service organizations in the world in the category in which it was judged, “Serving the Customer.” That same year, his accomplishments in St. Paul were acknowledged when then mayor, Norm Coleman, (no relation) declared August 26 as “Randall Coleman Day.” Also, in 1994, he was awarded the “Outstanding Service Award,” by the Minnesota Cable Communications Association.

 

In 1994, while a vice president with Continental Cablevision, he became the first non-Asian CEO of an Asian media corporation, Singapore Cablevision, (SCV, now StarHub), and pioneered the development of cable TV in Asia. He has been a featured speaker and telecom panelist from Beijing to Boston. Randall has penned several books, including THE HANDBOOK ON WORLD CLASS CUSTOMER SERVICE, 2nd Edition, THE ADVENTURES OF THE PASPORTO MAN, THE ZEN CLUB, THE DREAMERS, THE LITTLE BLUE BOOK ON LIFE, THE STORM PROJECT, A BOOK OF SONG LYRICS and KING OF THE WORLD. Several more manuscripts are in the works.

 

In 1997, he returned to the Twin Cities for two more years and helped oversee the merger of several Minneapolis and Saint Paul cable systems. In 1999 he returned to Asia, and following his love of golf, became a director of one of Asia’s most respected golf course construction companies.

 

In 2012, he founded The Moon Above Pte. Ltd., a Singapore publishing company. His books and artwork can be found at www.themoonabove.com.

 

 

Randall is an avid golfer and spends his time writing, painting and creating music and new visions for the future.