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• Review and edit mathematical lessons and assessments for Eureka Math--including student edition, teacher edition, digital product, and more--across grades 5-12. Ensure mathematical accuracy, consistency with style.
• Lead various content auditing projects for the Eureka Math editorial team, with a focus on addressing challenges with converting the product from print to digital.
• Lead teams ranging from 10-60 individuals, often rotating onto projects as they have bandwidth. Structure projects to successfully meet objectives and deadlines amid rotating staffing support through scalable.
• Convert auditing/editorial challenges into solutions. Create teachable, solutions-based processes for teams to leverage to meet the project goals, and continuously look around corners to assess impact and mitigate risk.
• Leverage basic HTML and train others on coding skills to standardize our online digital product.
• Make additions and changes to style guides as needed, and help build the first iteration of the digital style guide.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Liaison between Eureka Math content teams and other departments such as Art Production and Assets and Permissions.
• Manage data log to track the creation and use of all images and assets.

Sterling Heights, MI

• Translate technical information into simple, readable content.
• Maintain daily communication with Nissan contacts across North America. Utilize video conferencing to run meetings and collaborate remotely.
• Lead the onboarding team. Facilitate the training of new hires, revamped the onboarding curriculum and associated content, and developed an ancillary, company-wide training course to fill knowledge gaps.
• Analyze data related to department workload and make recommendations for more efficient distribution.
• Wrote programs using Microsoft Visual Basic to organize data, automate processes, and improve inefficiencies across multiple departments.
• Participated in a cross-departmental pilot program with the data analyst team to learn the programming language Python.

Macomb County, Michigan

• Taught 165 junior and senior students per day. Courses included Algebra 2 and Accelerated Algebra 1.
• Designed and taught summer courses aimed at increasing foundational math skills for incoming 9th graders targeted as at-risk.
• Organized collaborative meetings to help synchronize the Algebra teaching team.
• Founded and led a New Hire Orientation Committee to increase support for new hires.
• Served on the Faculty Administration Committee focused on improving employee morale and school efficiency.
• Adapted teaching style to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards for Math.

Gwinnett County, Georgia

• Served as Course Leader for both Algebra 1 and 2. Managed curriculum development and supervised implementation and assessment across two teams of teachers. Note: Algebra 1 test scores following first year as Course.
• Collected and analyzed student data to inform classroom management and lesson planning decisions.
• Enhanced student comprehension and engagement by reorganizing units to include more group work, student-led discussions and applied technology.
• Worked with a diverse group of students within a large socioeconomic range.
• Member of School Advisement Committee who created an interest-based weekly advisement period to help students foster a sense of belonging and develop positive relationships in a stress-free, non-graded environment.
• Member of Principal Advisory Committee where I helped reshape our teacher observation process to have more subject based feedback.

Lawrenceville, Georgia

Created an interest-based weekly advisement period to help students foster a sense of belonging and develop positive relationships in a stress-free, non-graded environment.

Suwanee, Georgia

• One of five teachers country-wide selected to develop daily lesson plans and assessments for distribution to Algebra 1 teachers across 17 high schools.
• Helped lead a top-down redesign of the Algebra 1 curriculum to enhance student comprehension. Incorporated data-collecting touchpoints to aid teacher’s decision making in their classrooms.

Michigan State University

-Wrote inaugural curriculum and lesson plans for Introductory Calculus and Introductory Physics courses.-Taught Introductory Calculus, Introductory Physics, and ACT preparation courses.

Secondary Teaching Certificate, Mathematics (Ex) And Physics (De)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics