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For Membean: develop and curate vocabulary content, including text items and video examples; for Nth Lib: consult on marketing materials and documentation for a developer tool to build and deploy iOS apps; developed print and digital materials for various clients, including McGraw-Hill Education, Cenveo, Lumina Datamatics, Reading A–Z, Triumph Learning, and Reading Plus; specific achievements include creating content for adaptive instructional design courses, writing/editing writing workshops and assessment items, reviewing/consulting for online music theory assets, and developing prototype teachers' edition lessons.

Editor for Pearson’s Silver Burdett Interactive Music, part of a creative development team, crafting and producing online materials for a newly generated platform.

Wrote reading passages on a variety of topics at specific Lexile levels in the 230L–400L range.

Project Manager for career education curriculums, overseeing the revision of health science titles and supervising the development of teacher materials for automotive textbooks.

Sales Consultant (Independent Contractor) for Spotlight on Music, contributing to various sales strategies and in-service technology training sessions.

Senior Supervising Editor for Spotlight on Music, managing, researching and developing, and producing of pupil/teacher editions and supplemental content.

Wrote Grade 4 math word problems for a leveled-problem supplemental ancillary to accompany McGraw-Hill Mathematics.

Project Manager, overseeing literature, writing, and grammar content for student materials and teacher’s editions for various projects.

Wrote student and teacher supplemental materials for K–8 grammar program.

Wrote standardized test preparation materials for Holt Rinehart and Winston Literature Anthology Series. Generated original reading passages and practice questions for Grade 10, simulating the format of various standardized tests, including SAT, TAAS, MAT, and Stanford.

Edited teacher edition materials for the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill middle-school math program (©2001).

Managed teacher editions for Prentice Hall Middle School Literature Anthologies: adapted series’ teaching format/design; developed literature/social studies cross-curriculum lessons; hired and directed writers, editors, and assistants; interacted with production staff.

Assisted with revision of teacher and pupil editions of Secondary Literature Anthologies. Wrote test questions for Michigan assessment preparation; helped with selection of replacement literature selections, edited; directed writers for new apparatus.

Managed projects: Middle School Mathematics Handbook; Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Middle School Literature and ESL; Scott Foresman Middle School Science/Social studies ESL; Scholastic novel guides. Interacted with clients; hired and directed staff; developed prototypes; edited; interacted with production staff. Wrote and edited teacher materials for Houghton Mifflin reading program (Grades 3 and 6).

Developed materials for Macmillan's Elementary Music Program. For each grade level’s holiday section: worked with authors/consultants to select songs/recordings; wrote and edited student and teacher text; worked with design teams on page layout; supervised assistants; prepared music manuscript for printing.

Researched, wrote, and edited pupil and teacher materials for Glencoe/Macmillan's Secondary Literature Anthologies (Grade 6) and World Literature (Grades 10/12; produced lessons plans, novel guides, and test generators.

Substitute taught in all subject areas at all grade levels.

Led groups of students (K-12) in creative dramatic workshops; performed in touring children’s productions.

Taught Grade 4 and Grade 6 fulltime in self-contained classrooms.