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Brooklyn, New York

Throughout the past year, working at Unity Preparatory Charter school, I have worked in four different domains. I worked as a sixth grade history teacher, a reading interventionist, and as a member of the sixth grade Support Services team.In my work in the history classroom, I worked as the ICT teacher that worked to differentiate lessons and work in small groups with specific students that needed extra support to complete their classwork. I also work with my co-teacher to create new curriculum, from Columbus through the U.S. Constitution, that was culturally relevant, was multi-modal, and used a significant amount of primary source materials. In this capacity, I was responsible for grading classwork and assignments, and logging it daily. My work as a reading interventionist involved teaching multiple small groups of students, grades 6-8, that needed extra reading support to get their skills to grade level. Fountas and Pinnell is the reading system that I used in these small groups. Using this program, I was able to help students improve both their reading accuracy and comprehension of a text. In addition, I was able to daily reinforce reading a writing mechanics, such as adding prefixes and suffixes, identifying long versus short vowel sounds, and breaking words into syllables. Each trimester each of my students was able to grow at least one grade level closer to their goal. As a member of the Support Services team, I was responsible for meeting weekly with the other ICT teachers from different classes, as well as the administration, in order to discuss how to most effectively meet the needs of students with IEPs and other students with extra needs. In addition to these meetings, I was required to frequently assemble IEP drafts for students before their yearly IEP meetings, as well as attend the meetings as one of the representatives from the school to advise on any changes to the existing legal mandates.

2850 Broadway, New York City

As a senior bartender, my goal is to maintain a fun and safe restaurant environment to ensure that every customer has a positive experience. I am also responsible for having an extensive knowledge of the beverages and food that we serve. This knowledge is directly related to knowing the regional differences, method production, and ingredients of the product. I market our craft beer club, The Brew Crew, to all customers in order to increase customer retention and brand loyalty to the restaurant. I assist management in recording inventory and tracking consumption trends. In addition, I train new hires on the rules and protocol that we have in place at Mel’s. I make recommendations to management about changes that I feel will be beneficial to the restaurant based on my experience, customer queries, and suggestions.

Bronx, New York

In my semester teaching at Bronx Theatre High School, I was able to work with a veteran teacher to build a 12th grade economics curriculum that was designed to teach them basic economic principles by looking at real world situations and applications. I was able to build a mini-unit on the topic of Game Theory that was able to teach students ideas such as the Nash Equilibrium, Zero-Sum games, and the Prisoner's Dilemma by applying these topics to games and concepts that were familiar to the students.

Greater New York City Area

In my time at the Center School, I worked with several veteran teachers to build an exciting, culturally relevant social studies curriculum that focused on the Civil Rights movement in the United States from 1865 until present day for students grades 5-8. Through this unit, the students were able to work with different types of media, and primary and secondary source articles in order to explore the events that occurred leading up to and during the Civil Rights movement. In addition, I was able to work helping to facilitate an essay writing workshop, in which students in grades 5-8 were taught the the fundamentals of essay writing, step by step.

West Village, Nyc

As an Account Executive with S.K.I. Beer Distributor, I was responsible for directly managing and servicing each account within my designated sales area. In addition, I was responsible for prospecting potential new accounts to grow sales. I accomplished both of these objectives by maintaining strong customer and supplier relationships, coordinating special events and staff trainings, and increasing my product knowledge. During my tenure I was able to realize significant growth in my sale territory.

New York, New York

As a market maker on the Ecommerce team, my responsibilities were to maintain competitive pricing of ticket inventory, search for new venues and markets in which to sell tickets, search for new shows for which to sell tickets, communicate effectively with the support team at The Ticket Network to resolve point of sale, and mapping malfunctions. In addition to these primary responsibilities, I was also called upon to field calls from customers and find solutions to any problem that arose with their orders.

New York, New York

As an event specialist I was responsible for selling event tickets on the secondary market to online and phone customers. I used cold calling, as well as calling customers who had purchased from us in the past, to win a departmental sales competition two months straight. In addition to telephone sales, I was also responsible for providing exceptional service to customer calls and emails.

Newark, Delaware

At Caffe Gelato I was responsible for coordinating, setting up, running, and supervising many onsite catering events, such as baby and bridal showers, birthday parties, and weddings. I also was responsible for many offsite catering orders, such corporate picnics, business luncheons, and charity galas. When I was not coordinating events, I worked as a bartender or senior server on the floor of the restaurant. In this capacity, I educated customers on our Mediterranean cuisine and recommended items that would pair well together.

Vineland, New Jersey

At DSM Construction, I started working as a laborer and, during my time there, worked my way up to being at onsite supervisor, responsible for a crew of up to seven workmen. DSM specializes in commercial and residential insulation services, as well as general residential construction. As such, I became familiar with the proper uses of many different types of insulation and construction materials to use for different applications. I also learned the local residential and commercial building codes, how to estimate material and labor cost of potential jobs, and how to problem solve in order to finish difficult projects.

Master Of Arts In Social Studies Education, Social Sciences

Bachelor Of Arts, Economics