Colleen Ebken Email & Phone Number

Worldwide

Recently completed University of San Diego TEFL immersion training to to earn a professional TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certificate. Certified to teach children, youth, and adults English as a Second Language in the United States and worldwide. Trained in use of integrated and differentiated teaching methods and special techniques to rapidly increase students’ proficiency and fluency. Available for private tutoring or formal class sessions.

Quito And Amazona Region Ecuador

Reporting directly to the Executive Director of Yachana with the responsibility for planning, developing and implementing communications plans that includes online activities and initiatives related to education, ecotourism, conservation, and sustainable development in the area. Responsible for developing, conducting and monitoring fundraising programs including the internal funding and granting progress and preparation of internal and external reports.Yachana Foundation is a non-profit organization provides community-based solutions to poverty and environmental conservation in the Amazon rainforest. This organization includes a foundation, educational training center and eco-lodge along the Napo River in Ecuador.

Greater Seattle Area

As A Service Corps Member currently supporting 501 Commons Mission to provide capacity building support for other non-profit organizations. Member of the Deep Dive consulting team. The Deep Dive program was developed between Points of Light Foundation and Google to help assess status of technology transfer in NGOs. Currently lead consultant on a cohort team between 501 Commons and Seattle Tilth to complete a Deep Dive assessment by February 2014.http://www.501commons.org/about-us/service-corps-members

Port Townsend, Wa

Taught beginning, pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate English language classes for 1 – 5 students from various cultural backgrounds. Designed and implemented syllabus and taught weekly language lessons. Facilitated small group activities and created tasks that targeted receptive and productive skills.

San Diego, California

Providing systems engineering and project management support on multiple company projects.

San Diego, California

Responsible for establishing business rhythms and project management for a program between BAE Systems, US Government program offices and commercial vendor partners. Program execution demonstrated a highly successful, unique approach to examining ways to transform workflows and business processes into an environment to provide timely, integrated, efficient and cost-effective solutions. These projects focused on taking manual processing approaches and transforming them to automated web services that were to be integrated in a cloud environment.Developed and implemented multidisciplinary and multi-fidelity engineering approaches, explored complex trade-space, enabled customers, partners and decision makers with the ability to examine a situation, explore possibilities, determines solutions, and effectively action projects to completion.• Responsible for management, coordination, and execution of a pro-bono Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between BAE Systems, multiple US Government stakeholders and over 75 multi-national commercial vendor partners. Results included web services and cloud technology.• Executed over 100 tailored 3-phase workshop visioneering approaches to identify the Hard Problems, Capability Gaps and Challenges necessary to solve, integrate and implement project product definition and assure performance improvement.• Applied proven project definition techniques including Heilmeier Catechism, De Bono Lateral Thinking Techniques and simplified Kaizen and TRIZ analysis in a creative, stimulating and fun workshop series.

San Diego, California

Led Integrated Project within the Center for Geospatial Intelligence that was responsible for developing a new product offering for the government and commercial markets; resulted in technical baselines for new business pursuits.

San Diego California

Managed engineering IRAD efforts and was Principal Investigator for company internal research and development projects.

San Diego, California

Deputy Lead Change Management Team and member of the Systems Engineering and Integration Team for total ship electronics systems integrator for the LPD 17 Amphibious Ship (San Antonio Class) prime contractor to the Navy.

Fairfax, Virginia

Acted as Systems Engineering and Technical Advisor (SETA) to intelligence community customers.

Bachelors Of Science Electrical Engineering, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Master Of Science Electrical Engineering, Biochemical Regulatory Mechanisms And Feedback Control Systems