Adrienne Wheeler Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

Riverside Church, New York, New York

• Delivering Lego Mindstorms and Scratch software instruction for 3rd and 6th grade program participants.• Providing consultation and recruitment for Wellbotics.org pilot study.

New York, New York

• Teaching Financial Modeling, Social Media Technologies in Organizations, Advanced Excel and Introduction to Information Systems courses to graduate and undergraduate students.• Enabling students’ creation of YouTube video analyses for high stakes assessment that they can use outside the classroom to demonstrate their ingenuity and Excel proficiency.• Vigilantly monitoring the data analytics, business intelligence and fintech landscapes to identify and create new lessons that enhance students’ career prospects.• Strengthening students’ X fluency, LinkedIn fluency, and competence as bloggers by compelling them to use these platforms extensively.• Creating course materials that closely replicate real world working experiences based upon consultation with industry experts, online tutorials, YouTube videos, and blogs posted by financial analysts and social media aficionados.• Supporting knowledge building among students by providing a learning environment that fosters experiential learning, hands-on instruction, collaboration, critical thinking and experimentation.• Incentivizing mastery by having students teach lessons from my syllabus.• Introducing talented student lecturers to Fortune 500 mentors.

Greater New York City Area

• Encouraging online Research Methods students to develop their professional networks by finding and interviewing mentors who work with data analytics, visualizations, big data or data science. • Emphasizing research question selection as a means of organizing students' data analytics projects.• Deploying reverse-engineering of Tableau visualizations to introduce data analytics best practices.• Raising students’ awareness of how few women and underrepresented minorities are working with data analytics, visualizations, big data or data science. • Monitoring Google Analytics to gauge how effective well written pieces, X and other social media channels are in driving traffic to online Social Media for Non-Profit Organizations and students’ blogs.• Convincing Non-Profit Organizations to share Google Analytics Reports and descriptions of social media challenges in exchange for help in strengthening their social media presence.• Examining the ethical implications of blog and X paid product endorsements, fundamental differences between blogging versus traditional journalism, video parodies and the evolution of virtual worlds from Second Life to Pokémon Go!• Teaching an online Computer Fundamentals and Applications course for Business, Health Information Management and Nursing undergraduate students.• Facilitating collaborative LinkedIn profile enhancement within a LinkedIn academic group.• Evaluating Excel exercise submissions, MLA formatted compositions and short videos about students’ weekly learning accomplishments.

• Engaged 140 Science School for Exploration and Discovery Middle School 7th and 8th grade students in synthesizing Amplified Science curricula concepts. • Collaborated with an OmniLearn science educator to conduct intricate, intriguing, “messy” science labs. Guided students’ scientific inquiry as they created hypotheses, experimented with materials, analyzed results, and wrote brief reports of their findings. • Used aspects of forensics, stoichiometry, pharmacology, and data analytics presented in the Mixed Reception murder mystery to preview students’ high school course options.• Coached five Bronx District 7 Science Fair Contestants.• Created engaging, supportive learning environment that enabled 8th/9th grade developmentally disabled scholars to direct their own learning of Algebra 1 concepts. • Designed/delivered a Teenage Brain Development curriculum focusing on the physical, social, hormonal, psychological changes experienced during adolescence.• Orchestrated a humorous, memorable forensic chemistry murder mystery skit starring four interdisciplinary instructors to encourage student collaboration and real-world application of chemistry concepts.• Brought the community into our classroom by arranging video conference guest lectures: a Bronx Community College Epidemiologist spoke twice about Covid-19; a Dean of the Binghamton University School of Pharmacy explained the connection between chemistry and pharmacology; the first Black Winter Olympics Medalist - Debi Thomas, described her balance training for figuring skating. • Led a field trip for 35 8th grade students to the Bronx Botanical Gardens for a curated tour of the 2019 Orchid Show.

Bronx, New York

• Taught highly engaged rising 11th, 10th and 9th graders who were nominated by their High Schools to participate in the Summer Gear-Up Program.• Designed and delivered adolescent brain development curriculum emphasizing physical, psychological, emotional and social changes that make teenage years very challenging.• Facilitated production of student generated adolescent brain development videos with hand drawn illustrations and original, poetic scripts.• Created and taught ecology of the NYC area curriculum focusing on the dangers of plastic debris in the ocean, aquatic algae blooms and certain species’ adaptation to urban settings.

• Encouraged Networking Technologies students to pursue opportunities made possible by President Obama’s announcement of the Cybersecurity National Action Plan.• Prompted ongoing research and in-class discussions about developing stories pertaining to security, international affairs and privacy. • Prepared students to make decisions that lead to better networking technology performance.• Illustrated the dominant network architectures and historical development of networking standards and protocols.• Demonstrated how an organization’s information management policies should be informed by ethical and social responsibility considerations.• Guided Web Design students as they incorporated cutting edge features in Non-Profit Organizations’ websites. • Provided opportunities for students to present preliminary and final products to clients.• Introduced students to domain name/web hosting provider selection, effective usability testing and thorough website documentation. • Emphasized ethical business practices such as giving attribution for pictures from photo sharing sites and recognizing that website design decisions may prompt transformative organizational changes.

Greater New York City Area

• Compelled students to iteratively inform and build upon one another’s creative thoughts by writing and depositing copious reflections in an ePortfolio knowledge repository. • Designed learning experiences involving guest lecturers, a semester long software development project and critiques of classmates’ presentations.

Jamaica, Ny

• Incorporated practical and impressive first steps in implementing technology integration to design distance learning pedagogy curriculum.• Demonstrated use of multiple online communication channels to improve faculty-student connectivity so faculty would be persuaded to learn new technologies.• Coached novice faculty as they implemented online course components.• Moderated and participated in online forum discussions to strengthen faculty online course management skills.• Introduced faculty to emergent technologies to enhance their information literacy processes. • Developed and delivered Portable Professor© Courses of 90 minute duration for 15 different applications.• Compiled reports on professors’ Portable Professor© evaluation survey feedback in order to formulate subsequent class improvements.• Conceptualized, disseminated and analyzed data from 39 item instrument that queried 9 comparable universities on student laptop programs, internet based academic systems and internal network infrastructure; partnered with the CIO and other IT managers to design format for 55-page survey findings report.• Created Technology Days Initiative in partnership with Instructional Design teammates to introduce faculty to emerging technologies and latest strategies for strengthening student skill/knowledge acquisition and retention.

New York, New York

• Received business school dean’s commendation for average student evaluation score of 4.52 out of 5.00 by engaging and nurturing students.• Taught 12 credit hours per semester for 2 ½ years.• Devised real life situations in which students practiced and developed Excel, PowerPoint and Data Communications proficiency.• Trained 8 faculty colleagues to administer testing that streamlined process for students to place out of introductory computing courses.• Solicited students’ ideas via online forums, developed those ideas in online and in class discussions to strengthen student engagement.

New York, New York

• Designed and delivered Data Communications and Internet/Intranet Business Applications courses via online and classroom instruction to professionals and certification candidates. • Directed students to websites exemplifying data communication ingenuity to prompt captivating online and in-class discussion.

Bronx, New York

Leveraged in-depth technical acumen to instruct students in Introduction to Local Area Networks and Microsoft Office. Fully engaged students in the learning process by including supplemental projects within course curriculum, as well as using memorable project examples to reinforce subject matter.

Edd, Instructional Technology

M.B.A., Information Systems

B.A., Psychobiology

Activities and Societies: Track Team, Black Ensemble Gospel Choir, Semester Abroad in Tours, France.