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Garden City, Michigan, United States

Second-grade classroom teacher instructing all subjects. Constant communication with parents keeps everyone informed on what we are working on and student's current behavior. I also keep students/parents updated with links for practice, reading books to students via video online, and other activities to enhance relationships with our families.I believe that reading is crucial to student growth, and I am striving to foster a love of reading among all students. Knowing that some of my students do not have access to books outside of school, I collect contributions (friends, family, & strangers) to purchase new books for students so that they may build a library of their own at home. This project allows me to send one or two titles home each month and also allows our classroom to have a variety of "raffles" to add even more books to their home libraries; to be clear, "raffle" means ANY excuse to give them more books to have and keep at home!

Metro Detroit

Guest teaching in all grades with a focus on elementary and early childhood (GSRP) classrooms. Over five-hundred days of experiences in all grades (generally lower elementary) including multiple long-term positions of three to six weeks ranging from three-year-olds in ECDD (Early Childhood Developmentally Delayed) through second-grade.

Michigan Shifting Gears (MiSG) is a career-transition program for experienced mid- and late-career professional talent going through, or preparing to go through, a career transition scenario. MiSG provides game-changing value through an experience unique to each individual participant including an internship with small businesses in Michigan.

Ann Arbor, Mi

Design and create training modules for clients to more effective use LinkedIn. Promote live events with live blogging and promoting attendees to also share and utilize hash tags and keywords. Utilize Constant Contact to help clients communicate more effectively with their customers.

Hamtramck, Mi

Trained students in the elementary school computer lab or provided training in third through fifth-grade classrooms through a one-to-one technology initiative. Responsible for assisting building principal, teaching staff and curriculum director in increasing student achievement in core areas by training staff and integrating new technologies into the curriculum. Integrate new equipment into the current curriculum while making sure it is compatible with current district hardware. Maintained web server for managing student start pages.

Instruct 'Leadership in Technology' and 'Instructional Design & Multimedia', which are graduate-level classes taken by educators for the Michigan Educational-Technology teaching certificate endorsement. In addition to technology leadership, teachers successfully wrote award-winning grants. Teachers and students were also trained to create a content management system for use in their classrooms. This position was part-time and as needed for spring/summer sessions.

Direct Technology Support and Student Data Center staff. Plan and maintain the instructional technology budget, district technology plan, acceptable use policy, related documents, and related policies. Manage student information system, district web servers, content filtering, and phone systems. Manage a $3,250,000 technology bond budget while overseeing design and installation. Coordinate network upgrades, technology plans, planning, lab design and wiring for building renovations. Provide staff with tools, knowledge, and motivation to integrate technology into their teaching and workday. Provide training to the community through presentations to the public and PTO.

Allen Park, Mi

Provide staff with the tools and knowledge to integrate technology into their teaching methods and their workday. Direct Network Administrator and Technology Support Specialists. Coordinate between tech staff, media centers, staff, and teachers. Manage IT department overseeing student information systems, servers, update and maintain district web server. Internet connectivity for all desktops and creation of internet e-mail accounts for staff and teachers. Creation of a district website with information on programs, departments, teachers, media centers and student projects. Provide presentations to the community via Adult Enrichment and PTA.

East Lansing, Mi

Plan, design and coordinate online curriculum and lesson plans for high school students as part of a U.S. Department of Education Technology Innovation Challenge Grant. Provide training and presentations internally, conferences throughout Michigan and at annual sessions for the U.S. Department of Education. Projects created from “primary source” materials from the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village to be placed online. Responsibilities include designing, implementing and maintaining their presence on the World-Wide Web.

Lansing, Mi

Provide technical support and training throughout the department and state government by using newsletters, computer classes and lunchtime "brown bag" sessions. Provide outreach to schools and organizations with presentations and technical assistance. Design and implement training on using computer systems, software and the Internet. Set up, manage and support the MDE World-Wide Web and Gopher Servers designed to provide electronic educational resources worldwide. These Internet servers were the first public servers for the State of Michigan Government, which resulted in a unique information technology leadership role for me throughout the state. I was also the State of Michigan liaison with MACUL (the Michigan Association for Computer-related technology Users in Learning) in which I worked with the MACUL board on the state of educational technology in Michigan.

East Lansing, Mi

Train professors and students how to use computers for a wide range of uses including word processing, electronic mail, accessing the Internet. Working with technological community outreach programs with elementary students connecting them to the Internet to use electronic mail, and the world-wide web. One project was the Grand River 5th Graders WWW site. This project put the world's first fifth graders onto the World-Wide Web and allowed them to communicate with adults and students around the world. Design interactive videos in cooperation with a graduate level college class.

Instructing eighth graders on computer use and Chaos and Fractal theory by integrating software with computers and access to online related resources

East Lansing, Michigan, United States

Design instructional software for use at the Kresge Art Museum for the interpretation and understanding of paintings. Set up, manage and support local networks (Mac/PC/NeXT) and maintain connections to the Internet. Increase professors' awareness of the Internet for educational and research purposes through one-on-one training and handouts.

Training and support of students and staff in use of computers, software, and electronic communications. Setup and maintenance of Macintosh labs. System administration of UNIX server including the design and implementation of World-Wide Web, electronic mail servers.

Taught computer basics and model rocketry to 5-16 year olds at a nine-week summer camp. In addition, I was a cabin counselor for the five and six year olds who stayed for either three, six or nine weeks.

Design and program Statistical Process Control software for the U.S. Navy and Automotive Industry. Provide technical support to customers and provide training for staff and system maintenance.

Teach introductory and advanced computer programming classes to children and adults. Sales of computer systems.

Developed educational software for Scott, Foresman, Inc. and Walt Disney for home computers.

Designed and programmed video game cartridges for the Atari home computer systems. Provided training for staff and contract programmers.

Master'S Degree In Education, Instructional Design / Educational Technology

Activities and Societies: Listening Ear Crisis Center. Council Against Domestic Assault.

Elementary Education And Teaching

Bs, Computer Science - Lyman Briggs

Activities and Societies: Coalition on Deaf Awareness.

4 Associates:, Tv Production, Communications, Liberal Arts, General Studies

Computer Programming

Education record

Activities and Societies: Science Club, Yearbook, International Club, Ski Club.