Elsabet Fisseha (Administrative Assistant) graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2002 with degrees in Music and Psychology. She started working for the UNC Bands as a student in August, 2000 and joined the full-time staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in April, 2004.

She currently serves as the Administrative Assistant for the UNC Bands, working closely with all aspects of the band program and the Department of Music Scholarship Committee. Fisseha is an honorary member of the Mu chapter of Mu Beta Psi.

 
Matt Savage (Marching Percussion Instructor) graduate of the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY and The University of Southern California, has taught at every level of public education from elementary to the college level. Matt also has twenty-five years of playing and teaching experience in the marching percussion field.
His marching percussion experience includes playing snare drum with the legendary Bayonne Bridgemen and serving as percussion director and arranger for drum and bugle corps such as the Anaheim Velvet Knights, The Dutchboy of Kitchener, Ontario and the Canton Bluecoats. At the collegiate level, Matt has served as percussion instructor for the USC Trojan Marching Band and is currently director of marching percussion at The University of North Carolina where he has also in the past, served as Assistant Director of University Bands. He is heavily involved with the indoor percussion activity as an adjudicator for WGI.

Matt has recently delved into the art of drumstick and mallet design for the Pro-Mark drumstick company creating a signature line of sticks. His most recent publication is “Savage Rudimental Workshop”, a state of the art rudiment development book with 2 CD accompaniment published by Warner Bros. Music. Along with being a marching percussion specialist, Matt is a Remo hand drum artist and drum circle facilitator leading drum circles for a variety of both local and national events. He is a clinician for Pro-Mark Drumsticks, Yamaha Percussion, Sabian Cymbals, and Remo Inc.
Dwayne Barnes (Guard Instructor) graduated from Atlantic Christian College with a BS in Communications. He started drum corps at the age of 9 in a Cadet corps on Long Island, NY. Aging out after 11 summers in drum corps, the list of corps that he marched include, LI Kingsmen, 27th Lancers and the Sky Ryders. He also spent one season with the Pride of Cincinnati. The experience of winter guard motivated him to start his own group and for the past 22 years, he has been the Founder and Executive Director of Carolina Visual Productions. He is also the current Executive Director of Carolina Gold, an all age drum and bugle corps, where he has expanded his experiences by not only marching guard, but marched 2 season playing soprano, served as a backfield conductor and has filled other various positions (including baritone, timpani, color guard, and contra) as needed. He is currently working with another UNC system school with the University Honors Program. Outside of work, he enjoys teaching marching and visuals and for the past 14 years he has worked with East Wake HS and has assisted many other programs in North Carolina.
   
Doyle Edwards (Drill Designer) began writing marching drill for the UNC Marching Tar Heels in the fall of 2000. He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Missouri State University in 1987 and immediately began teaching instrumental music in Oregon, Missouri.
Prior to that, he performed as a member of the powerful Madison Scouts horn line from 1982 through 1985, as a member of the Olympic Band for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, California and as a member of the Western Missouri British Brass Band. After teaching high school and middle school instrumental music for 10 years in Missouri, Edwards completed a Master of Business Administration degree from Webster University in St. Louis.

He now resides in Rolla, Missouri with his wife Micheline and 5 children where he is responsible for the marketing communications efforts at Brewer Science. Mr. Edwards has been writing drill professionally since the summer of 1986 and continues to be in demand as a marching band show designer, clinician and adjudicator.
   
Mark Manring (Staff Photographer) has been a photographer since age 15 when he developed black and white prints in his basement. As a high school photo editor and through college photography coursework, he has maintained a love for image making that eventually led to his creation of a full time business, Mark Manring Recording, Inc. (www.manring.net).
Combining his skills as a recording engineer with photography, he records and photographs performing groups to produce music CDs that include photo slide shows. As a freelance photographer he has served symphonies, bands, community choirs, churches, high schools, universities, as well as individual portraiture. He specializes in event photography covering things as varied as athletic events, church services, concerts, community outreach, political campaigns and weddings.

Mark is very happily married and has two daughters (one of which is a 2001 Carolina graduate). When not recording or shooting photos, he enjoys singing, all things computer related and meeting new people.
Chuck Williams (Videographer) graduated from UNC in 1972 with a degree in Industrial Relations. He was a french horn player for the marching and concert bands and was held leadership positions. Chuck's father and his son, Charles, both graduated from UNC and were involved in the marching and concert bands while at Carolina.
Chuck has been the videographer for the UNC Marching Band for the past 23 years. He has recently retired after 34 years in the criminal justice field; the last 26 years he served with the federal court system in the Easten District of North Carolina. Chuck now resides in the picturesque Asheville area with his wife, Jo Anne, a UNC graduate who was also involved in the band program and was the bell tower ringer. Chuck enjoys hiking, working out at the gym, and participating in many church and cultural arts events.
Evan Carroll (Webmaster) is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Information Science from the UNC-Chapel Hill where he graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in Information Science and a minor in Music. As an undergraduate, Evan participated in the Marching Tar Heels, University and Symphony Bands.

While in the Marching Tar Heels, Evan served three years as Online Producer, two as Section Captain (Trumpet) and one as Pep Band Conductor.  During the day, Evan is a User Experience Designer at Capstrat, a strategic communications firm in Raleigh.  There he puts his analytical and diagnostic skills to work developing web strategies, architectures and interfaces as well as performing user research and usability testing.  He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia (Alpha Rho) and the Triangle Usability Professionals Association.