This position works closely with TLM faculty, assisting with the development of classes and research. The Graduate Assistant (GA) will work on materials for TRLM courses. Research projects that the Graduate Assistant may contribute to.The GA must have an excellent attention to detail and excellent time management skills. The GA must have strong research abilities, and they must possess excellent communication skills. The GA must be able to work independently, as well as under the direction of a supervisor. They must have a strong quality management mindset and be comfortable iterating on work products multiple times to arrive at a quality product.

Give program-specific tours to visitors as well as attend program breakout sessions to offer their student perspective on the program during Campus Preview Days, and give campus tours to visitors taking place Monday-Friday 1-2pm and follow-up with an email when tours are requested.Host webinars and/or Hangouts for prospective and admitted students, assist with off-campus recruiting events, call/write to newly admitted students to congratulate them, and answer their pre-arrival questions including answering Institute-wide FAQ’s for interested students. Create social media content for MIcommunity and external platforms, work closely with the Enrollment team to determine when questions should be forwarded elsewhere, and provide feedback on student conversations when appropriate.Front-line correspondence through email, phone, and online chat with prospective students. The objective is to answer questions and facilitate the introduction of promising prospects to the appropriate Assistant Director of Global Recruiting.Salesforce Customer Relationship Management and prospect/lead processing and data.

What I do: Wordpress management, internal knowledge base building, etc.What I learned: Project management skills, leadership building, etc

Localization and globalization for videos, images, and websites;Proficient in WPML, Phrase TMS, Trados and MemoQ;Proficiency in adding subtitles to videos using subtitle software such as Arctime Pro;Proficiency in Photoshop for DTPs;

Cumulatively developed 20+ web-based widgets;Ability to use Ubuntu Server and deploy common services using Docker;Some level of understanding of basic JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Python, and Java;Built and maintained several WordPress websites, including a forum, two personal blogs, a shopping site, and other informational sites;Built and maintained a Wiki, and a personal cloud drive.Self-taught how to set up a web environment, and self-taught the use of WordPress-related ways;Built several port forwarding services, proxy servers, and reverse proxy servers;Built and maintained several Minecraft servers;

Self-taught how to use a DSLR camera and volunteered to document photos of activities for my high school classes;More than ten winning photos from high school photography exhibitions;Hundreds of photos posted on the Patreon platform;Volunteered to take photos of undergraduate foreign language faculty events and class activities to wide acclaim;

Volunteered to solve computer problems for high school teachers and classmates;Volunteered to create posters for dozens of high school clubs:Assist others in assembling or selecting computer/server hardware;Assisted as a technical advisor to the high school's media creation editing group and worked together to learn non-linear editing software;Assisted as a technical advisor to the Undergraduate School of Foreign Languages‘ media creation editing team and directed the release of videos;Worked as a Teaching Assistant during graduate school to provide faculty and students with solutions and ideas for technical problems;Volunteer to provide technical assistance to others on software and hardware, including but not limited to Microsoft Office, Sony Vegas Pro, Adobe After Effects, WordPress, and other software or platforms;Volunteered to provide technical help to others in the Minecraft gaming community with modules, servers, and live streams, built a help group of over 200 people maximum during COVID;Provide technical support in undergraduate faculty teaching projects, including but not limited to cropping videos, creating slides, reviewing and optimizing courseware, etc.

Content Creating, Consulting, Internationalization, Localization, Translation, etc.

Volunteered and published countless photographs for high schools, colleges, and graduate schools;Accumulated more than 400 videos on Bilibili (affected by force majeure, some archived), Youtube, and other major platforms, with the highest number of views for a single video exceeding 1,200,000;Self-taught in Vegas Pro with more than 10 years of cumulative use;Self-taught Adobe After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop and a range of other Adobe Creative Cloud software for video editing and production.

Publications: Zhang.X.M.＆Zhao,K.W.(2022).“On the Interactive Teaching Design of An English Introduction to the Chinese Culture,” Education Science (ISSN 1671-5551) . 260-262.https://wwwv3.cqvip.com/doc/journal/3224304033

Assist and instruct with photography, video editing, poster design and copywriting.Worked with other students to edit, create, and render clips for the school’s official usage.Provide photographs for the college media department and the class’s WeChat official accounts.

Member, referee, and president assistant of English Debate and Speech Club of Shanghai University of Electric Power. Familiar with British Parliamentary Debate, it's roles and rules.

Volunteered to help faculty collect students' health data.Purchasing and distributing food and supplies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Assisted in community operations, including student troubleshooting and announcement promotion.Collected quotation data and competitive product information to investigate the school-enterprise cooperation market.Participated in poster production, PPT design and optimization, and questionnaire production for activity publicity.

Assisted in correcting students’ homework, answering questions, and supervising their self-study.Recorded high-frequency errors in students ’work and provided resolution and feedback for subsequent classroom teaching and troubleshooting.

Organized and prepared the course outline for the Analects of Confucius and Confucius ThoughtsListed the core ideas of each lesson and edited the length of the videos based on teaching purpose and contents.

Assisted in School Media Service, including troubleshooting the media center, and device management.Worked with other students to edit, create, and render clips using Adobe AU, AE, PR, and Sony Vegas for school official usage.Made 40+ designs during 3 years of study time, including posters and brochures for both official and clubs.Photographing for the School's Media Department & students photography club