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Founded and launched an online platform and marketplace in 2021 to help teachers sell and rent their educational resources via subscription.Create engaging and level appropriate ESL lessons for A1-B2 level students including vocabulary, phonics, speaking, and reading.Host a weekly podcast focused on inspiring and supporting online educators that has over 5,000 downloads.Organized and led the inaugural Global Teaching Summit in May 2023, bringing together over 500 online educators.

United States

Assembled a team of 11 teachers to develop a complete ESL curriculum with over 600 lessons across six proficiency levels.Led the curriculum’s scope and sequence design to ensure phonics, Cambridge vocabulary, and other metrics were included and level-appropriate. Supervise curriculum writer team to ensure consistency and adherence to scope and sequence as well as template style. To date, I’ve personally created over 170 interactive 25-minute ESL lessons for levels one through six.

Teach and guide children around the word in learning the English languagePrivately teach TEFL students of all skill and English Language Proficiency levels online.Develop rapport with families in China and their students through virtual means.Complete timely and effective feedback after each lesson.Utilize TPR to aid in clarification while teaching.Successfully completed over 7,400 classes.Have taught over 1,775 privately-tutored students.Have a high achievement score for VIPKid teachers. 5 stars out of 5 stars over a length of 3 years.

As the host of Our Offbeat Life podcast, he shares stories and insights from people who have created a life and career out of their passions and interests. The goal of the podcast is to inspire and empower listeners to create their own offbeat life, breaking away from traditional norms and expectations.

Corporate executive responsible for marketing activities in the company. The position reports to the chief executive officer. Leads sales management, product development, distribution channel management, marketing communications, and customer service. Day-to-day tasks include, but are not limited to:Analytical tasks, such as pricing and market researchCreative tasks, such as designing advertising & promotionsInterpersonal tasks, such as coordinating many different style of thinking in a single teamQuickly reacts to changing circumstances in the firm, and shapes the company's understanding of a particular product, sales strategy, or marketing idea. Each of these products comes from a different department, and is a nexus of information: it is a highly receptive role, with involvement in departments such as, but not limited to, production, information technology, corporate communications, documentation, public affairs, legal, human resources, and finance.Is also the Chief Influence Officer of the firm. He brings the company together as one voice.Ultimately, he is responsible for facilitating growth, sales and marketing strategy. He must work towards objectives such as revenue generation, cost reduction, or risk mitigation.

Greater Chicago Area

Foremost Consulting is a professional placement service specializing in the areas of Leadership of Educational Organizations, Business Development, Accounting & Finance, IT and Manufacturing. We believe in offering close, personal attention to our clientele, ensuring that you receive a workforce with exceptional performance to meet your staffing needs. Our goal at Foremost Consulting is to ensure a long and productive business relationship between the candidate and the client. As such, we screen each candidate based on criteria you provide to ensure the best possible placement.Responsibilities:Successfully source and profile candidates by conducting recruiting calls and building relationshipsPartner with Client Managers to fill direct hire positions with our clientsMake placements that successfully match Consultants to the needs of our ClientsNegotiate compensation with candidatesAttend and participate in networking opportunities and industry events to promote The Foremost Consulting brand and develop talent leadsEstablish, develop and maintain long term relationships with Sales and HR teams

United States

• Develop and maintain training presentations as subject matter expert• Conduct up to ten live chat classroom sessions for Computer and Internet Basics Lab• Manage discussion boards, and participate in focus groups and think tanks

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• Conduct live chat classroom sessions twice a week with students • Develop training presentations, based on course curriculum, for use in classroom • Motivate students to do their best and find ways to increase each of their comprehension of the material• Mentor students as needed throughout the week or during weekly office hours• Grade assignments using rubrics twice a week

United States

• Motivates team to work together in the most efficient manner • Hires and trains Inquiry Response Coordinators• Coaches and documents feedback• Manages overall performance of coordinators/Holds team accountable to established metrics• Manages peer qualifiers to effectively limit absenteeism, tardiness, abandon calls, and attrition• Practices actions which are ethical, moral, legal, and performed in a timely, proactive, constructive, and sensitive manner• Service monitors peer qualifiers, provides feedback, and tracks improvement of coordinators

• Responsible for prospecting, advising, starting and retaining students worldwide for an online university.• Selected as one of eight advisors to spearhead and develop processes for an experimental team to assist active Army students.• Use qualitative analysis interview techniques when assessing prospective student interest, desire and motivation to attend school before recommending the most qualified prospective student applications to attend AIU Online.• Lead and train teammates by promoting “open office time” for any other Advisor to shadow me during my conversations with students. I also coach them to play to their personal strengths during student conversations.• Attend Manager Meetings as needed each week to discuss team progress and review flash reports.• Continually meet both enrollment and start expected student population goals having enrolled 197 students and started 104 during my tenure with the company.

• Began as an Account Executive and promoted to Senior Account Executive after four months. • Contacted VP and C-level executives to attend corporate networking events created by the company.• Led organizational methods training session for new hires during Orientation • Promoted again to Wishlist Manager in May 2005. • Contacted Solution Providers for all US and Canadian Summits to obtain wishlists of preferred individuals the sponsors to be invited to the events. These leads increased event quality and total Solution Provider rebooks. • Increased wishlist registrants from 10.89% in June 2005 to 57.04% in September 2005.

• Started employment as temporary sales associate, then promoted to Rover/Trainer after four months• Called all existing American On-Line customers to sell improvements to their current service and DSL upgrades. • Provided customers with explanations regarding how to use their service to the fullest. • Trained all struggling sales representatives on effective sales and customer service techniques. • Won an award for “Representative of the Year” in 2001 while still a temporary employee.

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Instructional Technology, 4.0

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Organizational Psychology And Development, 4.0

Psychology

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega