• Mentored 14-year-old autistic boy one-on-one for 4 years, empowering him to gain maturity and graduate from high school while also working with his family. Young man is now 18 years old and has been accepted to college.• Enabled three frustrated special needs students who were acting out and unable to thrive in a large population study hall to get back on track both academically and behaviorally by moving them to a more peaceful environment in the library where they were not… Show more • Mentored 14-year-old autistic boy one-on-one for 4 years, empowering him to gain maturity and graduate from high school while also working with his family. Young man is now 18 years old and has been accepted to college.• Enabled three frustrated special needs students who were acting out and unable to thrive in a large population study hall to get back on track both academically and behaviorally by moving them to a more peaceful environment in the library where they were not distracted by other students. Show less

• Assist school district and parents create appropriate IEP for disabled children, utilizing extensive experience working with parents, schools, teachers and children. Advocate for parents when dealing with school district for the benefit of their child.

Assist a 37 year old man with moderstely severe Cerebral Palsy in day to day activities. This includes job hunting as well as personal care.

• Stepped in and assumed leadership of a failing project to transform a storage room into a student study hall. Identified and cleared the bottleneck which had caused the project to be behind schedule and over budget. Restored order to student group assigned to the task which was experiencing interpersonal conflicts, conducted team building training, and succeeded in getting project completed on time. • Restored appropriate learning environment to classrooms by eliminating noise… Show more • Stepped in and assumed leadership of a failing project to transform a storage room into a student study hall. Identified and cleared the bottleneck which had caused the project to be behind schedule and over budget. Restored order to student group assigned to the task which was experiencing interpersonal conflicts, conducted team building training, and succeeded in getting project completed on time. • Restored appropriate learning environment to classrooms by eliminating noise pollution of videos and loud music emanating from the Alternative Students computer room by working with the technical department to disconnect external speakers on the computers of offending students.• Created homeroom class order by modifying loud, physical student roughhousing which had become commonplace and had scared female students and disrupted other classes. Rechanneled attention and energy by posting to the blackboard a new quote each day. Result: students became engaged, initiated discussions, and began to research and bring in their own quotes for discussion. Due to the success of this activity all quotes are maintained in a notebook, with the better ones recycled from year to year.• Enabled school district to measure IEP deliverables with greater accuracy, and reduced student complaints and controversy regarding unevenly dispensed classroom discipline. Obtained teacher’s consent to track all arrival and departure times, swearing occurrences, academic scores for every student in the classroom. Demonstrated that teacher was utilizing highly subjective grounds for discipline, thereby confirming validity of many of the student complaints. Result: when discipline was applied with greater consistency the level of complaints dropped and classroom effectiveness increased. Show less

• Aided teacher manage a 5 year old, non-verbal, autistic student who refused to obey any transitioning requests to achieve IEP goals by recognizing student’s need to feel ownership for his own actions and then creating a mechanism for student to relate to a flipping task list controlled by himself with teacher supervision. Result: student made great strides in transitioning from one activity to the next, and the teacher was able to fulfill IEP goals. • Maintained integrity of… Show more • Aided teacher manage a 5 year old, non-verbal, autistic student who refused to obey any transitioning requests to achieve IEP goals by recognizing student’s need to feel ownership for his own actions and then creating a mechanism for student to relate to a flipping task list controlled by himself with teacher supervision. Result: student made great strides in transitioning from one activity to the next, and the teacher was able to fulfill IEP goals. • Maintained integrity of school, and mitigated against parent’s history of suing multiple other schools for their treatment of her Down Syndrome 14 year old son who physically and emotionally acted out multiple times on a daily basis. Documented every instance of misbehavior, with approximately 100 complaints against the child in 18 months. Utilized Crisis Prevention Intervention Training to keep other students safe from his outbursts. Mother ultimately removed child from school without filing suit against school district. Show less

• Analyzed, deciphered, and resolved a multitude of computer problems and programs

• Directed team of programmers combining 3 -5 separate but related computer systems into a single unified database with coordinated production schedule.• Primary Trouble Shooter for un-anticipated production aborts of daily, weekly, and monthly procurement, manufacturing and assembly systems.

• Awarded Basis Military Training Honor graduate ribbon.• Granted Federal Top Secret SIA/SIO security clearance.