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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

❖ Assisted with identifying user problems.❖ Analyzed usage of existing products to understand how users were utilizing digital tools to achieve their goals.❖ Supported validating product hypotheses with surveys, and usage analytics.❖ Created, tracked, and monitored project plans within Gitbook and Asana for identified small to medium scale partnership projects that were responsive to stakeholder needs in collaboration with the Digital Director and Engineers.❖ Supported editors and reporters with day-to-day publishing needs in WordPress, newsletter CRM,social media platforms, other 3rd party softwares, and some hardware.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

❖ Organized cross-functional teams across time zones over 4 weeks per launch to produce 14+ individual news websites using Wordpress.❖ Managed the migration of over 315,121 constituents and trained 212 editorial staff members on a new CRM system over a 6 month period. ❖ Streamlined departmental management systems (e.g, IKB within Gitbook, Asana; previously Trello) to improve communication and tracking of projects and product backlog.❖ Audited Giving Tuesday fundraising campaigns across 40 outlets that earned over $88,000 for effectiveness and areas of improvement.❖ Supported 212 editors and reporters with day-to-day publishing needs in Wordpress, newsletter CRM, social media platforms, data visualizations, other 3rd party softwares, and hardware. ❖ Managed rollout of over 12 inclusive digital training tutorials and videos on new technologies and website features. ❖ Collaborated with a 3 person team to define network product strategy and vision that increased the audience, engagement and sustainability of digital media products.❖ Monitored and evaluated performance and usage of 24 digital news products to ensure constant product iteration and improvements.❖ Presented at biannual conferences and coached 31 journalists and media professionals from around the country on digital news products.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

❖ Collaborate with founder of Kardiojam to identify key audiences and develop strategies and tactics for reaching and retaining those audiences.❖ Define goals for and track the performance of Kardiojam online presence — including the website and social media accounts — on key metrics of reach, engagement and loyalty.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

❖ Coordinated makeup artists, costume designers, venues, and models in themed photography events. ❖ Anticipated needs of clients and fully understood contract deliverables to ensure high quality photos and customer experience.❖ Utilized Photoshop and Lightroom to edit.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

❖ Handled multiple and changing priorities on 3-4 projects spanning four to five months across a variety of environments, both remote as well as in person.❖ Proactively handled client concerns and resolved unexpected emergencies in a timely manner through consistent, reliable, and clear weekly progress updates and feedback channels.❖ Conducted ongoing gap analysis to prioritize performance issues of 21 team members in order to achieve quarterly benchmarks.❖ Effectively communicated progress with stakeholders to advise on gaps, propose solutions, and mediate risks.❖ Developed new 2nd Grade Social Studies training resources for 10,421 adults in the Wake County School System.❖ Facilitated workshops on NASA STEM curriculum to 20 professionals that enhanced their confidence in the subject matter.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

-Collaborated with subject matter experts (SMEs) to design and develop new, creative, learner-centered 2nd Grade Social Studies training resources for 10,421 adults in the Wake County School System.-Designed and developed course materials across various delivery channels including instructor-led, and virtual and in-person learning. Course materials include instructional design, student and instructor guides, hands-on exercises, assessments, and scripts.-Provided feedback on hundreds of draft lesson plans, provided expert guidance on how to make improvements and adjustments in content, scope, and sequence.-Worked collaboratively with curriculum innovators. Workshopped feedback to create original and effective curriculum.-Leveraged project management templates and tools to manage a medium scope content development project.-Contributed exam materials, including scenarios, student designed assessments, project based learning opportunities, multiple-choice, and other item formats for use in testing knowledge.

San Francisco Bay Area

❖ Facilitated workshops that promoted team work, and grew interpersonal communication of a team of 30 educational professionals.❖ Streamlined systems, assessments, and documentation to optimize work and meet the needs of 20 team members.❖ Presented complex ideas in a diverse range of formats to 20 individuals of varying learning types.

San Francisco Bay Area

❖ Piloted, evaluated, and collaborated on the product design of the Altitude Learning technology platform.❖ Heavily contributed to various cross-functional team projects that supported meeting quarterly and annual key deliverables.❖ Created and implemented project definitions, schedules, budgets, and objectives for two 4 month long projects: developing entrepreneurship among 8-9 year olds, and exploring the history of the people in San Francisco through architecture.

East Providence, Rhode Island

• Applied Banks' dimensions, Rhode Island Professional Teaching Standards (RIPTS), responsive classroom teaching, Common Core standards, and multicultural education practices in lessons taught to a classroom of 13 third grade students.• Collaborated with a Gordon teacher/mentor to revise my understanding and improve implementation of teacher language, differentiation, and chunking/scaffolding material.• Applied and reflected on different forms of assessment (e.g., formative, summative, diagnostic) in a classroom of 15 fourth grade students.• Designed and implemented a 5 day inquiry social studies lesson on power, privilege, and Chinese immigration. Students were able to identify and describe a pattern in American history, and relate it to current events in immigration.• Collaborated with 4th grade team to design and implement an inquiry unit on the Great Migration.

Yilan, Taiwan

• Acted as a cultural ambassador to Taiwan during a year long fellowship sponsored by the United States Department of State.• Co-instructed English as a Foreign Language (EFL) coursework with a Taiwanese Local English Teacher.• Designed, modified, and executed EFL curriculum for grades four, five, and six. • Created cross cultural programs to engage more than 160 Taiwanese students with American culture.• Coached 10 students for English speaking, writing, and reading competitions.• Founded English club for advanced and remedial students.• Designed, modified, and executed curriculum for English Immersion Village, in which I personally instructed and managed between 15 to 30 students.

Valladolid, Spain

• Acted as a cultural ambassador to Spain during a four month teaching abroad experience.• Co-instructed English as a Foreign Language (EFL) with a Spanish Local English Teacher.• Applied TEFL coursework to design, modify, and execute EFL curriculum for grades one through five.• Created cross cultural activities to engage more than 150 Spanish students with American culture.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Developed and executed a detailed strategic plan aimed at finding, building, and inspiring promising future leaders at the University of Central Florida to commit to a post-graduation career in education, including applying to the Teach For America corps.• Planned, organized, and executed marketing efforts (i.e., posters, flyers, tabling, e-mail campaigns, and social media such as Twitter, Linkedin, and Facebook) and presentations for Teach for America to more than 200 student organizations in all disciplines and backgrounds.• Organized, collected, and inputted data to improve efficiency and recruiting efforts.• Assumed responsibility for the success of the campaign at the University of Central Florida by preparing for and actively participating in weekly team meetings with Teach For America supervisor and staff.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

• NSF Funded undergraduate research experience through the University of Minnesota in Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.• Cooperated with a research team of graduate and undergraduate students to contribute to Dr. Richard Lee’s International Adoption and Cultural labs.• Designed original research question and manipulated quantitative data in SPSS to find trends that addressed influences on adoptive parents’ decision to pursue genetic testing for their internationally adopted Korean child.• Wrote and submitted a scientific report, presented at a lecture series, and designed a poster for an undergraduate research conference.

Master'S Degree, Elementary Education, 3.9

The Teacher Residency MAT program is a jointly offered, full time, 12-month immersion program in which graduate students work as Teaching.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Interdisciplinary Studies

Activities and Societies: Burnett Honors College LEAD ScholarsAreas of Concentration: Human Behavioral and Social Sciences Communications.