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Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

General Services Administration, IT Category – Strategic Communications • Supporting the co-authoring and updating of ITC's internal communication models for agency customers and vendor partners. General Services Administration, IT Category – Organization-wide Employee Training• Leading strategy on the employee training of the ITC Value Proposition Initiative and off-set training modules.• Supporting the content development and delivery of the ITC solutions-level messaging workshops - a series of five workshops with varying IT solutions teams to help identify success stories and opportunities for better communication with agency customers.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

General Services Administration, IT Category – Strategic Communications • Providing internal communications support to the Office of Enterprise Outreach through the drafting of organization-wide employee announcements and speeches. • Providing background support through the creation, testing, and validation of key stakeholder messaging surrounding the value proposition initiative. General Services Administration, IT Category – Curriculum Design • Designed introductory content for the value proposition initiative for the New Hire Orientation team within the IT Category. This content was successfully implemented into mandatory onboarding for all newly hired ITC employees, beginning December 2022. • Supported the design and implementation of the value proposition training programs, including higher SES-level offsite workshops and mandatory virtual value proposition training to all 600+ ITC employees.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Assisted Directors and Managing Directors with client and project management, identifyingstrong funding opportunities that fit each institutions unique needs, and maintaining organizedand accurate records, materials, and memos• Conducted substantive issue/topic area research related to trends, interests, and priorities ofhigher education institutions, analysis of federal budgets, and appropriations, as well as relatedlegislative and federal policy matters• Synthesized and summarized relevant information for staff and client briefings• Created organizational profiles for business development purposes• Performed data and narrative analysis to determine federal agency trends in selected grantcompetitions and awards, as well as best practices in grant preparation• Coordinated monthly, quarterly, and annual client workshops and webinar coordination, including the scheduling, organizing, and hosting support necessary for the specific event.

Frisco, Texas

• Independently Taught gen-ed and immersion sections of pre-AP English II, on-level English III, and on-level English IV.• Collaborated with fellow teachers in professional learning communities.• Completed additional hours of professional development geared towards restorative practices, project-based learning, standards-based grading, future ready learning, etc. • Mastered and effectively applied multiple digital teaching tools, including: MasteryConnect, Nearpod, Canvas LMS, Google Suite, FlipGrid, etc.• Mentored student organizations as a faculty sponsor.• Coached UIL Academics for the "Current Issues and Events" team.

Frisco, Tx

• Taught on-level English III and IV, as well as Original Credit/Credit Recovery online courses.• Worked on two PLC teams to build lesson plans centered on Frisco ISD standards and curriculum.• Hosted workshops on life after graduation for juniors and seniors to attend; this included topics such as, "Perfecting the Humble Brag in Interviews/Personal Statements," "The Truth About College Housing," "Building the Perfect Grocery List After You Move Out," "Dolla' Dolla' Bills: Finding the Perfect Scholarship," and "What's Majorly Awesome About College: Selecting a Major and Minor."

Frisco, Texas, United States

The guiding purpose of this committee is to provide more diverse text choices for students in the following courses: 6th-8th ILA, 11th-12th ELAR, College Readiness, and AP Lit. In this position, I:• Collaborated with secondary teachers to review and discuss texts for literature circle recommendation. • Suggested individual texts and read variety of texts to determine value as a teaching tool for student literacy.• Analyzed benefits of said texts for the purpose of defending their recommendation.• Wrote skills-based rationales to justify their inclusion in standardized curriculum.

Frisco, Texas, United States

• Selected from applicants across ten campuses to collaborate on a standard curriculum for junior-level English.• Analyzed data from standards-based assessments and district benchmarks for the purpose of identifying student needs.• Deconstructed state standards to best address student learning.• Write skills-based assessments designed to increase student choice and future ready learning.

Denton, Texas

• Assisted in grading and curriculum planning for an advanced literary theory course. • Dictated notes on lectures.• Lectured on variety of topics on behalf of professor when he was out of the country. • Tutored and assisted students in coursework.

Denton, Texas

• Built and maintain schedules for employees. • Managed product orders based on needs of the English department. • Assisted faculty with course materials for any courses within the English, Linguistics, and Technical Communication departments at the University of North Texas. • Established relationships with staff and faculty across the three departments through consistently dependable service and understanding of administrative needs within each department.

Denton, Texas

• Planned and facilitated cultural and research events on UNT campus for visiting faculty and scholars from the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) in Islamabad, Pakistan. • Traveled to NUML campus in Islamabad, Pakistan to present at UNT-NUML Culminating Conference. • Maintained official records with Department of State in accordance with the Department of State Grant for Public Diplomacy Partnerships in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English/Language Arts Teacher Education, Junior

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta Freshman Honors Society, College.

Dual Credit Program

Education record

Activities and Societies: Interact Club, UIL Athletics, Excalibur Yearbook, Professional Studies Ambassador, National Honor Society