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Salem, Oregon, United States

Provide technical writing, research, copyediting, grant writing, and proposal support for corporate headquarters of specialized water resources engineering firm.

Palo Alto, Ca And Salem, Or

While caregiving for chronically ill parent, provided freelance writing, partnership development, training, knowledge management, and research consulting services. *Clients included the Department of the Interior and Bureau of Indian Education, CustomWare technology startup, the American Association of Community Colleges, and various scholars.

Scotts Valley, Ca

Associate Director, National Service Resources and Training (October 2009 – June 2011)Program Manager, National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (September 2006 – September 2009)Hired to manage daily operations of 8 FTE/$850,000 federal training contract supporting non-profits, K-16 educators, and others focused on hands-on learning. After securing 3-year, $6 million federal grant, promoted to Associate Director of the merged 17 FTE project.*Increased website stability, funder confidence, and user satisfaction by overseeing move to new content management system, growing audience by .5 million page views per year.*Oversaw content and knowledge management teams, including supervision of professional staff in website redesign and restructuring, enhancing content quality and website usability. *Under tight deadline, developed new domain knowledge to help win 3-year, $4.5 million grant.*Stimulated innovation and increased field-wide marketing by facilitating a partnership between the federal funder, Microsoft, the Smithsonian Institution, and a local gaming start-up.

La Jolla, Ca

Managed weekend operations, including supervising student staff, overseeing circulation, providing reference services, patron problem resolution, stack maintenance, and security. *Consulted with faculty to design and present targeted library instruction sessions.*Assisted in training employees and providing feedback on their performance.

San Diego, Ca

Managed paraprofessional and student circulation services staff of busy urban library.*Reduced costs with significant business process changes, including creation of customer database quality control program, formalized cross-training, and policy and procedure documentation.

While completing Ph.D. and MLIS, taught at the University of California, San Diego; Southern Connecticut State University; and Quinnipiac University, receiving high evaluations and resulting in promotion to teacher leader for composition and ESL programs*Subjects included ethnic and gender studies, composition, research methods, literature, and ESL.*Designed syllabi and developed course materials for students of different ages and abilities.

M.L.I.S., Library And Information Science

Developed deep understanding of best practices and client needs in web-based community management, training, and knowledge transfer.

Ph.D., Literature - Cultural Studies

Research treated the optimizing and scaling of collaborations between individuals, especially in cross-cultural and interdisciplinary.

Ba, English & Latin American Area Studies

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