Solarizing small flat-roof buildings in Manhattan & Queens. Message me with info re interesting buildings.

Learning never ends, and recently I began to draw pension in order to begin a new chapter - following a passion for information services and technology, especially as they facilitate the wide cultural adoption of solar energy in our society. BMCC has been a great launching pad especially as I contributed and learned with BMCC Sustainability Committee students, faculty, and staff. BMCC now has rooftop solarThanks also to friends and colleagues in the BMCC Department of Academic… Show more Learning never ends, and recently I began to draw pension in order to begin a new chapter - following a passion for information services and technology, especially as they facilitate the wide cultural adoption of solar energy in our society. BMCC has been a great launching pad especially as I contributed and learned with BMCC Sustainability Committee students, faculty, and staff. BMCC now has rooftop solarThanks also to friends and colleagues in the BMCC Department of Academic Literacy and linguistics - everything said below is true in the past, and perhaps future tense too:I take the greatest pride each semester in assisting a wide variety of amazing early college freshmen from across New York City and the world. Each comes to our department with a desire to advance college skills, for pleasure, power, and academic success.The A.L.L. courses use many college-level materials to help students practice, master and apply a full range of critical thinking and reading strategies, to heighten comprehension, vocabulary awareness, academic and creative writing, and study skills.Classes form learning communities, and students grow together in the reading skills and strategies required to navigate the BMCC college environment, and continue on to the associate degree or beyond in any of the college's 40 majors. Show less

A 6-week CUNY summer program providing college readiness experiences for NYC public high school students, including college level classes accompanied by a variety of field trips, arts and sciences.

This position with the Teachers College New Teacher Institute, later named New Teacher Academy, was instrumental to my re-entry into teaching; I earned my M.A. in Communication & Education while working at the college. Besides work and class I also read much of the amazing curriculum written for new teachers in concert with the TC department of Curriculum and Teaching.The position entailed: • Support for the director, staff, graduate assistants, and facilitators of the New Teacher… Show more This position with the Teachers College New Teacher Institute, later named New Teacher Academy, was instrumental to my re-entry into teaching; I earned my M.A. in Communication & Education while working at the college. Besides work and class I also read much of the amazing curriculum written for new teachers in concert with the TC department of Curriculum and Teaching.The position entailed: • Support for the director, staff, graduate assistants, and facilitators of the New Teacher Institute, later re-named the New Teacher Academy, a curriculum authoring and professional development program that also provided in-school professional development for cohorts of early career teachers in NYC Districts 5 and 32 (Harlem & Bushwick), plus school districts in Stamford CT, Philadelphia PA, Dallas TX, Jackson MS, Moss Point MS, and the Philippines.• Project management, scheduling, print production, accounting, event planning for opening and year-end celebrations, plus mid-year Conference Days on Conflict Resolution.• Project management, production, and participation in 3 week-long professional development intensives for program facilitators that prepared TC and district-based staff to work with in-school cohorts of new teachers. • Maintenance and updates for information folders with program summaries and press materials.• Outlook database maintenance of RSVP lists, program attendance of new teachers and alumni, and contact info for principals and district office personnel, staff, funding sources, colleagues, and vendors. Show less

Coordinated data flow for sales and relationship-oriented senior vice president and numerous account executives at this large-cap non-bank financial company - record profits for each of 12 years. Began in client accounting, promoted to the national sales team for large accounts, including Norton McNaughton, Dan River, Jessica McClintock, and Calvin Klein Jeanswear. As part of the company's Community Involvement Team, I coordinated employee participation in up to seven events per year, such as… Show more Coordinated data flow for sales and relationship-oriented senior vice president and numerous account executives at this large-cap non-bank financial company - record profits for each of 12 years. Began in client accounting, promoted to the national sales team for large accounts, including Norton McNaughton, Dan River, Jessica McClintock, and Calvin Klein Jeanswear. As part of the company's Community Involvement Team, I coordinated employee participation in up to seven events per year, such as Junior Achievement Project Business, Dress for Success and Cancer Care Sports Challenge. Show less

Events & Arts Production, 1975-1987Wrote grant proposals, developed budgets, produced events, coordinated with funding agencies and corporate donors, moderated meetings, managed graphics production, and prepared reports including 990 Federal returns, for visual arts, dance, and music organizations. Notable achievements:Created graphics and package designs, art-directed, and produced performance events in poetry, music, and sound art, managed accounting and publicity for "New… Show more Events & Arts Production, 1975-1987Wrote grant proposals, developed budgets, produced events, coordinated with funding agencies and corporate donors, moderated meetings, managed graphics production, and prepared reports including 990 Federal returns, for visual arts, dance, and music organizations. Notable achievements:Created graphics and package designs, art-directed, and produced performance events in poetry, music, and sound art, managed accounting and publicity for "New Wilderness Events & Audiographics,” a series of 23 cross-cultural language and sound works on tape, based on performance art and multimedia events in association with Charles Morrow Productions, and the New Wilderness Foundation Inc.As mosaic coordinator for Cityarts Workshop Inc., taught and supervised 18 youth workers and college interns, and fabricated a 250 square-foot outdoor Venetian glass mosaic mural with an ecological theme, public art on view for 20 years at the Rockaway Park Boardwalk, Beach 116th Street, NYC.Facilitated interactions between architect, development company, and community organization (Cooper Square Community Development Committee) to choose artists, commission, and fabricate four major works of public art for Lower East Side affordable housing at Ten Stanton Street. Documented architecturally significant NYC mosaics.Clients included Cooper Square Community Development Committee, Citiarts Workshop, Inc., Karin Bacon Events Inc., The New Wilderness Foundation Inc., and Empire Artists’ Materials Inc. Funders included NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, NYC Dept. of Parks & Recreation, NY State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, corporate sponsors, foundations, and individual donors. Show less

Part time position that included a seat on the organization's steering committee. I worked with community representatives, and arts administrator, architect, and developer to successfully incorporate commissioned works of art into the public spaces of a new affordable housing development at 10 Stanton Street on the Lower East Side of NYC.