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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Board President, December 2018 - December 2020Board Vice President, December 2017 - December 2018Strategic planning• Establish, assess, and align district goals and standards with district policies and directions to ensure equitable outcomes for all students.• Adopt and oversee $390M district budget and $1.3B in bond projects. Approve all purchases and contracts.Stakeholder engagement• Develop collaborative relationships with all district stakeholders to improve student inclusion, engagement, and achievement.• Organized and led campaign with more than 50 volunteers that defeated incumbent board president by a 12% margin of victory. Campaign focused on positive issues of improving equity and inclusion, increasing student achievement, and responding to community concerns. People management• Lead superintendent search process. Hire and evaluate superintendent. • Review personnel issues and confirm all employee appointments.• Manage the collective bargaining process with all district unions and employee organizations.• Improved superintendent evaluation process by developing a comprehensive evaluation template to review superintendent’s performance.

Milpitas, California, Us

HomeFirst is a leading provider of services, shelter, and housing opportunities to the homeless and those at risk of homelessness in Santa Clara County. I serve on the Board and on the Governance Committee.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Built, launched, and managed new rotational development program for entry-level software engineers.• Built strategic partnerships with internal stakeholders across GapTech to develop and deliver a high-impact learning experience for early career talent.• Coached and mentored program participants and team managers to ensure entry-level engineers will successfully complete the program as full-stack engineers and future leaders in GapTech.• Utilized talent development expertise to analyze and share insights on program’s effectiveness and recommend strategies to support the program participants and the organization.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Worked independently with internal subject matter experts and others to develop training materials for technology product training for internal audiences.• Engaged and collaborated with internal stakeholders to identify learning and development needs.• Applied instructional design and adult learning theories, practices, and methods to instructor-led and self-study courses and other training materials.• Collaborated with colleagues across the product division to launch diversity, equity, and inclusion initiative.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

• Worked independently with internal subject matter experts and others to develop training curriculum pathways for 150+ internal job roles impacting 14,000+ employees.• Designed framework to map internal course catalog to enable employees to identify courses needed for professional growth.• Engaged and collaborated with internal stakeholders to identify strategic learning and development needs throughout the company.• Reviewed training evaluations, communicated results, and made recommendations for improvements.• Applied learning and development best practices to create and improve training initiatives and projects.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Managed day-to-day operations for 13-member instructional design team. Mentored and coached team members. Reduced team turnover and increased team satisfaction.• Collaborated with subject matter experts, client stakeholders, and vendor team members to ensure training deliverables exceed expectations.• Created and implemented onboarding process for new instructional design team members that provided new team members an improved understanding of roles, responsibilities, and processes.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

• Applied instructional design and adult learning theories, practices, and methods to instructor-led, online, and blended courses.• Managed multiple projects with tight deadlines and changing scope, content, and timelines.

• Reviewed school wide assessment data and recommend strategies for improvement.• Collaborated with superintendent, principal, and teachers to develop and implement annual teacher professional development plans.• Conferred with teachers regarding instructional practices, including implementation of Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards, and provided support to teachers to implement recommendations.

• Directed relocation and reopening of entire school on short time line. Ensured facilities were ready for students by the first day of school.• Supervised and evaluated teaching staff. Coordinated teacher induction program and professional development. Mentored and coached teachers.• Advised students and parents on academic issues and developed resolutions to address concerns.• Ensured compliance with local, state, and federal regulations. Submitted required reports accurately and on time.

• Supervised and evaluated teaching staff. Coordinated teacher induction program and professional development.• Advised students and parents on academic issues and developed resolutions to address concerns.• Lead teacher preparation for and implementation of Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards and integration of blended learning initiative. • Ensured compliance with local, state, and federal regulations. Submitted required reports accurately and on time.

• Designed, developed, and presented mathematics problem solving enrichment course for 2nd and 3rd grade students.• Identified students’ individual learning needs and adapted curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of all learners.• Developed students’ ability to analyze their mathematical thinking and to communicate it to peers, teachers, and others.• Course enrollment grew 50% in the second year.

• Designed, developed, and presented standards-based curriculum for 8th Grade U.S. History course. Created engaging units of study to promote conceptual understanding and critical thinking skills. • Coordinated all benchmark and standardized testing at school site. Communicated with teachers, administrators, and district staff to ensure testing was completed according to district and state standards.• Collaborated on district-wide key planners committee tasked with making recommendations regarding curriculum, instruction, school climate, and strategic planning. Served as school site representative to district GATE committee.

• Designed, developed, and presented standards-based curriculum for five different courses, including remedial and grade-level classes. Differentiated instruction to meet the needs of all learners. • Defined learning objectives and measured achievement of learning goals. Modified and revised curriculum to improve achievement.• Developed technology-based lessons. Contributed to school-wide efforts to integrate technology into curriculum.• Collaborated with grade-level and subject-area colleagues and other stakeholders to improve teaching and learning and to increase student engagement.• Received national fellowship for new science teachers.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Lecturer: Writing 1: Composition and RhetoricTeaching Fellow: Writing 1: Composition and RhetoricProvosts’ Fellow in Teaching: Cowell College Freshmen Seminar Instructor: Introductory Seminar in Family HistoryTeaching Assistant: Various Courses including Asian American Experience, Early Modern Europe, Slavery and the Old South, Making of Modern Africa, History of Greece, Aging and Society

Master Of Business Administration, Executive Mba

Ma, Phd, History

Ba, International Studies

School Business Management

Ma, History