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Buford, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Senior leader for education initiatives, executing key strategy to manage, enhance, and deliver classroom, platform-based instruction across a variety of programming languages to students ages 5-15 (Scratch, block coding, Javascript, Python, C#, Unity game engine)- Leading execution and delivery of new skills training and knowledge building for 2000+ teachers, ~400 franchise owners, ~400 center directors, and home office staff.- Primary PR spokesperson for marketing initiatives.===About Code Ninjas===Code Ninja's mission is to empower tomorrow's innovators to thrive in a digital future through fun, immersive environments. We foster creativity and curiosity to help create the problem-solvers of tomorrow. We are the accessible and engaging Coding Dojo that provides your child with the tools and resources necessary to feel empowered to accomplish their dreams.Our immersive environments are accessible and inclusive, ensuring all our students have access to our high-quality coding education. We believe in utilizing cutting-edge technology to break down education barriers in order to provide opportunities for all our students to learn and succeed.Our nearly 400 Global Dojos in the US, Canada, and the UK are staples in the community, fostering collaboration and support among students, educators, and parents.

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Strategic and technical consulting for senior leadership. Interim education and training leader. Directing and executing related growth needs in education. operations, HR, IT/systems, and team development/learning.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Transferred to operations from headquarter roles as part of my own career development by managing the Chicago district and addressing major challenges.--Stabilized staffing and re-established internal promotions, restoring staffing levels, filling 40 roles and promoting 2 new hires.--Instituted stricter KPI expectations and practices: average ticket increased 10%, student/tutor ratio increased 66%, hours consumed per student increased 26%.--Established simpler and weekly reporting to improve accountability for student outcomes. 9 unit managers and 70 tutors coordinated weekly for student tracking and goal achievement.--Instituted new training exercises for new hires to elevate average tutor skillset in STEM-specific subjects. Enabled 12 full-time tutors to provide side-by-side coaching to 60 new hires over 12 months.

Duluth, Georgia, United States

Prior role expanded to lead urgent, cross-functional changes for remote and blended learning, addressing urgent pandemic effects. Added critical leadership responsibilities with tutor workforce management.--Transformed student learning from in-person to remote learning within 4 weeks to counter pandemic challenges to enable ongoing business. Championed expanded partnership with Adobe solutions. Trained 1700 employees and migrated 12,000 students in March 2020 with 50 trainers, 3 teams.--Consolidated tutor workforce to 600 tutors for 4 months during COVID, then expanded to 1100 tutors in 8 months to support growing scale of remote and blended learning. Initiated first-ever tutor career path called C2 Faculty, elevating 63 tutors into 5 new field engagement roles. Average tutor tenure increased from 6 months to 1 year.--Directed senior leadership team on key educational benefits/risks for CRM and SMS, SaaS vs. non-SaaS solutions, establishing critical education requirements for Salesforce piloting in 2022-2023.

Greater Atlanta Area

Established a new department, the Office of Education Excellence (OEE), to address service and content needs for growth. Restructured all education-related services and products under the OEE, including pedagogy/training, curriculum, operations, marketing support, and B2B education partnerships.--Led a top-to-bottom transformational cultural shift to re-balance focus on both sales and education. Within 18 months, company bookings grew 20%, and EBITDA increased 300%.--Transformed access and utilization of curriculum and assessments through new B2B partnerships, digitally transforming 150,000 curriculum items, 78 assessments, and 10 training courses. Led training model for 180 center managers and 1500 tutors across 2 years.--Significantly reduced assessment grading time from 3 days to 10 minutes, developing new protocols and technology to scale testing and grading online with instant grading. Improved support speed and reduced operational costs.--Enhanced students’ college admissions profiles by instituting new partnerships with volunteer organizations. Led training with 20 District Managers and 52 college admissions tutors to address volunteering needs on student applications.

Duluth, Ga

Drove company pedagogy, curriculum, and tutor training to support scaling business from 100 centers to 175 centers.--Spearheaded new content development and training for 126 subjects to address volatility introduced by new K-12 Common Core Standards. Led training for 1100 tutors, 6 regional trainers, and established C2's initial curriculum database containing 150,000 assets.--Deployed new suites of diagnostic tools/assessments across K-12 products to expand lead engagement and overall services. Increased company's array of assessments from 20 to 76.--Partnered with HR and Operations leaders to develop and execute new sales tools/training for enrollment conversion.--Led change management and new product creation to prepare for the redesigned SAT (2015). Leveraged 102 C2 tutors to create first-to-market SAT content (4 months ahead of competitors).--Decreased costs through joint initiative with IT team to build/scale test grading system.

Duluth, Georgia, United States

Team Leader for curriculum writers on support teams, bolstering growth needs in evolving segments for SAT Subject and AP Programs, and partnering with various field manager roles to assess/create new K12 products.--Restructured curriculum support team of 12 writers, 2 editors, and 24 tutors for design and QA.--Delivered new curriculum for subject-specific needs (SAT, AP), generating new student growth.

Johns Creek, Ga

Lead tutor for three center locations as primary SME for STEM and Humanities. Led efforts to add new curriculum to founding content (1999). Deployed new pedagogy/training across 20 NJ/NY and GA centers.--Successfully guided 822 out of 932 students to perfect scores on SAT, ACT, AP, and SAT Subject Tests; 1245 out of 1556 accepted to top 25 colleges with estimated $5m in merit-based awards.

Greater Atlanta Area

Teen Ink, a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing, art, photos, and forums. For over 25 years, Teen Ink has offered teens the opportunity to publish their creative work and opinions on issues that affect their lives – everything from love and family to school, current events, and self-esteem. Hundreds of thousands of students, aged 13 -19, have submitted their work to us and we have published more than 55,000 teens since 1989.Distributed through classrooms by English and Art teachers, and available in libraries nationwide, Teen Ink magazine offers some of the most thoughtful and creative work generated by teens today. We have no staff writers or artists; we depend completely on submissions from teenagers around the world for our content. Teen Ink has the largest distribution of any publication of its kind.Teen Ink is devoted to helping teens share their own voices, while developing reading, writing, creative and critical-thinking skills. All proceeds from the print magazine, website and Teen Ink books are used for educational purposes to further our goals.