Alan Lash Email & Phone Number

Irvine, California, United States

Oversee the development and modification of ALEKS math content and input tools for compliance with accessibility needs and requirements.• Mentor and lead math content architects as they adapt content for users with visual impairments.o Provide alternate text to describe figures and algorithms.o Specify form field labels, group labels, headings, and table headers as appropriate, for implementation by programmers.o Test screen-reader interactions.o Apply appropriate colors to text and images, so that they can be seen by a wide audience.• Specify the behaviors of new input tools and improvements to existing tools so that they can be used by individuals with motor and/or visual impairments (via appropriate keyboard and screen-reader interactions), for implementation by software engineers.• Partner with user experience personnel to develop visual elements with sufficient color contrast and readability for individuals with various forms of color blindness.• Consult with both McGraw Hill personnel and external accessibility experts to ensure compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA.• Interact with students, faculty, and support staff to test the efficacy of our methods.Continue to fulfill all of the duties of my last position: Editorial Manager. (See below.)

Irvine, Ca

Fulfilled various managerial duties.• Managed math content architects.• Mentored colleagues in all aspects of content development.• Identified and assessed problems at multiple stages in the development process, and resolved problems through collaboration within and across departments.• Helped to determine the scopes and timelines for product updates.• Recruited department personnel.• Established and maintained consulting relationships with individuals and organizations outside the company.• Educated company personnel, product users, and potential users regarding the ALEKS system, ALEKS content, and the content development process through presentations and by responding to inquiries.Involved in many facets of creating and revising ALEKS course products. Each course product consists of a set of problem types called “items”.• Proposed new items to address missing coverage for textbooks or K-12 standards.• Identified when ALEKS items seemed disconnected from what was done in most textbooks.• Formally reviewed and edited math content so that it was accurate, complete, and accessible.• Performed high-level quality control with regard to content, knowledge structures, and answer processing.• Formally reviewed ALEKS items at various stages of the development process: proposal, prototype, written specification, fully-programmed item.• Documented, filtered, and distributed information regarding items under development.

Irvine, Ca

Involved in many facets of creating and revising ALEKS course products.• Wrote questions and explanations for ALEKS items.• Specified the algorithms for generating examples within those items.• Proposed new items to address missing coverage for textbooks or K-12 standards.• Identified when ALEKS items seemed disconnected from what was done in most textbooks.• Formally reviewed and edited math content so that it was accurate, complete, and accessible.• Integrated textbooks with ALEKS course products.• Assisted with the creation of knowledge structures by determining the prerequisite-postrequisite relationships that should exist between items.• Performed high-level quality control with regard to content, knowledge structures, and answer processing.• Formally reviewed ALEKS items at various stages of the development process: proposal, prototype, written specification, fully-programmed item.• Documented, filtered, and distributed information regarding items under development.• Mentored math content architects.• Initiated the collection of data that is vital to the creation of knowledge structures.• Helped to determine the scopes and timelines for product updates.

Irvine, Ca

Tested algorithmically generated online exercises that were created for the Connect Math homework management system.• Verified the correctness of questions and explanations.• Tested the answer processing.• Checked the overall designs of algorithms.Tested items that were created for the ALEKS assessment and learning system.• Verified the correctness of questions and explanations.• Tested the answer processing.• Checked the overall designs of algorithms.• Verified that the artificial intelligence engine made reasonable inferences.• Tested the user input tools.Tested features of the ALEKS and Connect Math websites.• Verified that features of the student and instructor modules worked as intended.• Checked for issues with the flow, wording, or layout that could impact the user experience.Assisted with the alpha testing of ALEKS course products.• Observed students interacting with the ALEKS system.• Questioned students about their educational backgrounds and their interactions with the ALEKS system.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mathematics