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Oak Park, California, United States

Camarillo, Ca

To support and provide opportunities for teachers and administrators to access instructional technology materials. Plan, organize, and direct technology training for teachers and administrators, including Media Literacy, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Provide overall direction and technical expertise, information and assistance to school districts regarding instructional technology materials and pedagogical methods and strategies.

Moorpark, California

Provide educational and administrative leadership within the Career Education Center as well as 35+ partner high schools and charter schools.Interview, hire, train, supervise and evaluate assigned classified and certificated staff.Direct and monitor support activities to assure proper implementation of educational programs.Monitor, review, and approve budget expenditure requests according to established procedures and school-wide action plan.Work with district maintenance and outside vendors to maintain an efficient, safe and clean facility and provide/inventory assigned equipment. Support new teachers and CTE credential candidates through Instructional Coaching and online learning training.

Cec-Moorpark

Plan, organize, and implement new technology purchases in support of our school-wide action plan.Monitor, inventory, troubleshoot existing hardware and software as well as coordinate onsite tech support with the VCOE Technology Services team. Train teachers and support staff on the use of various technology platforms in order to implement within the classroom as well as the within the office functions in support of our school-wide action plan.Work with 3rd party vendors to implement online tools in support of CEC programs, including online class registration, website update and maintenance, online testing, Google Apps for Education, student compliance, online learning, online resources.Create and distribute resources for staff on use of Outlook, Canvas, Google Classroom, GoSignMeUp, Network logins, student email and network logins,

Westlake Village, Ca

Provide student support for part-time, blended and full-time online students, including students taking courses for remediation or graduation credit; monitor student engagement and participation; assist in student course selection; counsel students with academic problems or needs for course adjustments; develop plans of engagement for struggling students; liaison between students and instructors for additional support; communication with parents and outside student support; maintain student data.Online teacher oversight and support. Interview potential online instructors; work with HR to complete hiring process; provide new teacher training and support; create and implement online teacher professional development; lead bi-monthly teacher meetings; provide weekly informational newsletters; conduct semi-yearly reviews and evaluations; conduct teacher synchronous session reviews.Additional educational/program support: Coordinate in person science lab days (twice per semester); coordinate in person and virtual exam proctoring programs; participate in planning of graduation events and other school-wide events; oversee student advisors; coordinate and participate in student study teams; work with Accommodations Advisor to support students with individualized needs; evaluate, create, and implement online school policies.

Moorpark, Ca

CTE Program Coordinator, 2015 - 2016 Part-time District Coordinator for new pathways at MHS and VC Innovates; Lead Teacher of the Game Design Pathway; Coordinator of the Moorpark Business Academy (CA Pathways Academy and VC Innovates Business Sector Pathway); Curriculum development with VC Innovates; Articulation of Pathway capstone courses with Community Colleges; Organized promotional events for the new pathways at Moorpark High School and Community High School; Organized career focused field trips and events for students; Liaison with Moorpark community business leaders; Coordinate VC Innovates programs in MUSD among the high school and middle schools; Work with grant budgets (Perkins, VC Innovates, CA Career Pathways Trust). Technology Teacher, 2013 - 2016 Instructor of the MBA Senior Capstone course including Virtual Enterprise Int.; Graphic Arts & Web Site Design (Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML/CSS, Fireworks); Computer Applications (including Google Apps for Education); Digital Yearbook; Digital Media Productions; Computer Repair (via the Aries LMS platform); Wrote curriculum as part of the VC Innovates Grant to implement and teach a Digital Game Design pathway in phase 1.

Instructor of the Web Development courses (Dreamweaver, Flash, HTML/CSS, Fireworks); Microsoft Office Suite; Google Apps; Computer Training Center Lab Instructor. Developed level 2 courses for HTML/CSS and Google Apps. Developed a night certificate program pilot for Excel 2010.

Simi Valley, California

District Testing Coordinator, 2011-2013 Coordinated the STAR, CAHSEE, PFT state standardized tests for our 11 virtual charter schools in California, grades 2-11; Compiled data from state testing results; Completed demographic changes for testing with the state.

Virtual

Technology Teacher, 2008-2011 Computer Literacy 1; Web Design; Digital Video Production; Digital Photography and Graphics; Digital Arts I. Conejo Valley Unified School District, Westlake High School Westlake Informational Technology (W.I.T.) Academy Teacher & Lead Teacher, 2000-2005 Web Design; Computer Applications; CISCO Networking; Digital Graphics; Capstone course.

Westlake Village, Ca

Westlake Informational Technology (W.I.T.) Academy Teacher & Lead TeacherWeb Design; Computer Applications; CISCO Networking; Digital Graphics; Capstone course.

Masters Of Arts, Public School Administration, With Honors

Bachelor Of Arts, Music Education