2022 Watchmen Educational Staff
Design
Marcel Barragon
Front Ensemble Caption Head
Marcel’s past teaching experience includes Martin Luther King High School, La Sierra High School, Moreno Valley High School, West Covina High School, Apple Valley High School, and Jurupa Valley High School. He graduated from Martin Luther King High School, and is the Front Ensemble Caption Head.
After high school, Marcel would perform with the RCC Marching Tigers, Watchmen Drum and Bugle Corps, Watchmen Indoor Percussion, and the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps.…
David Becker
Executive Director (Drum Corps & Indoor Percussion)
David Becker is an active Percussion Instructor and designer based in the Southern California area.
This is David’s 7th year with Watchmen. As one of the co-founders of the organization in 2013 he started out working as the Percussion Caption Head for the Drum Corps from 2013-2015. In 2014 he was also appointed Asst.…
Krystal Hamlin
Movement Specialist
Krystal has served as a color guard caption head, instructor and designer for Chaparral High School for several years and she looks forward to spending her season back with the corps!
Israel Martinez
Visual Caption Head
Israel “Izzy” has been visual caption head with Temescal Canyon High School marching band for 12 years, an alumnus of Santa Clara Vanguard (2005) and Riverside Community College.
John Meehan
Brass Arranger
John works with The Blue Devils organization as Brass Caption Head and Arranger for the 18 time D.C.I. Champion ‘A’ Corps, as well as Music Director and Arranger for the ‘B’ and ‘C’ Corps. Since joining the staff in 1994, John has helped the ‘A’ Corps win 12 D.C.I. Championships and 12 Jim Ott High Brass Awards.…
Ryan H. Turner
Drill Designer
Turner is well known in the marching arts world, having been involved in any number of roles since marching his first parade as a 7th grader in 1978. Since then, he has built for himself a reputation of extreme enthusiasm, humor, and creativity which he brings to the many projects and organizations he has been involved with in his nearly 40 years in the marching arts.…
Caption Head
Marcel Barragon
Front Ensemble Caption Head
Marcel’s past teaching experience includes Martin Luther King High School, La Sierra High School, Moreno Valley High School, West Covina High School, Apple Valley High School, and Jurupa Valley High School. He graduated from Martin Luther King High School, and is the Front Ensemble Caption Head.
After high school, Marcel would perform with the RCC Marching Tigers, Watchmen Drum and Bugle Corps, Watchmen Indoor Percussion, and the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps.…
Israel Martinez
Visual Caption Head
Israel “Izzy” has been visual caption head with Temescal Canyon High School marching band for 12 years, an alumnus of Santa Clara Vanguard (2005) and Riverside Community College.
Brass
Adam Zimmerman
Brass Coach
Adam, San Diego Naitive, is a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of California, Riverside. During the summers of 2017 and 2018, he marched mellophone and eventually aged-out with Pacific Crest Drum and Bugle Corps. Along with being an aspiring engineer, he exercises his passion for education through his involvement in the marching arts.
Percussion
Marcel Barragon
Front Ensemble Caption Head
Marcel’s past teaching experience includes Martin Luther King High School, La Sierra High School, Moreno Valley High School, West Covina High School, Apple Valley High School, and Jurupa Valley High School. He graduated from Martin Luther King High School, and is the Front Ensemble Caption Head.
After high school, Marcel would perform with the RCC Marching Tigers, Watchmen Drum and Bugle Corps, Watchmen Indoor Percussion, and the Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps.…
Nathan VanLul
Bass Coach
Nathan was born and raised in Southern California and went to Ramona High School in Riverside, CA. Nathan first experience as a performer with Watchmen Drum and Bugle Corps as a high school student in 2014-2016, Riverside Community College Fall 2016-17, Vessel Winter Percussion 2017 and finishing his last few years as a performer with The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps in 2018.
Guard
Krystal Hamlin
Movement Specialist
Krystal has served as a color guard caption head, instructor and designer for Chaparral High School for several years and she looks forward to spending her season back with the corps!
Visual
Krystal Hamlin
Movement Specialist
Krystal has served as a color guard caption head, instructor and designer for Chaparral High School for several years and she looks forward to spending her season back with the corps!
Israel Martinez
Visual Caption Head
Israel “Izzy” has been visual caption head with Temescal Canyon High School marching band for 12 years, an alumnus of Santa Clara Vanguard (2005) and Riverside Community College.