I started as a volunteer and became an employee in 2019. I teach Science in the fields of Adaptations, Ecosystems, Botany, and Nature to elementary, middle, and high school age students. Many of the students reside in the urban setting and have little experience with nature. I lead groups of students in guided interactive explorations of the gardens and surrounding habitats who are visiting on school field trips. Our grade by grade curriculum complies with the Massachusetts Science standard framework and focuses on ecosystems and Plant Biology. I also lead guided nature walks for families and adults. Comment from teacher, Luann Gallagher of Chandler Elementary. “I would love more time with Nate! He was a wealth of knowledge and a joy to listen to! He is very engaging with the children and they had a ball. Several kids hoped to see you again. Thank you, thank you, thank you!"

I started Emerson Learning to focus on something I love, teaching. I tutor elementary, middle, and high school English Language Learning (ELL) students outside the class room. Subjects include: English language, Language arts, and Earth Science.

English and Science tutor for elementary and middle school students. I prepared lessons and tutored students one on one.

On Saturdays I taught a group of advanced fourth grade students over the 2016-2017 school year. Taught Botany, Horticulture, Ecology, and Natural Science to Elementary Students in non-traditional classroom and field settings. Developed workshop curriculums for 1.5 hour sessions.

Carney Sandoe was a recruiter presenting my profile and qualifications on my behalf for open Science teacher positions at elementary and middle independent schools in the New England area.

Taught after-school and vacation STEM classes to Elementary age students; physical science, lego engineering and robotics, and global art. Developed a Natural Science curriculum for Wicked Cool For Kids summer program.

Managed a technical communications team of 7 in India and the US. Re-prioritized workload, focused on priorities, hired writers to supplement existing skill sets, and coached staff. Developed processes to integrate the team with other functional areas, resulting in easier knowledge transfer from subject matter experts to the team and more accurate and complete documentation.As part of a corporate-wide initiative, led team transition in learning the Agile development methodology and developing documentation in collaboration with SCRUM teamsDeveloped a customer feedback strategy and made process changes to obtain feedback about the documentation library. Based on feedback, redesigned, and significantly improved the documentation library providing a comprehensive resource for healthcare industry workers to learn about the Care Advance Enterprise product, health care management software. Over a 2 year period improved the customer documentation survey results by 30%.Determined a strategy, created standards and processes and then migrated 5500 pages of content from traditional documentation to a Wiki providing a collaborative authoring environment for employees and customers to enter content and feedback directly into the documentation.

Researched the clean energy software market.Volunteer, advisor, organizer, and speaker coordinator for the First Massachusetts Green Career Conference held on October 2, 2009. Collaborated with partners to plan and host this conference for 300 attendees, speakers, and exhibitors.For a start-up company wrote content that developed on-demand, green product design software and information services to bring sustainable product design into mainstream product design and manufacturingSpeaker at local networking groups about the clean energy tech space. Attended conferences, seminars, workshops, and networked with Clean Energy and Technology professionals.

As part of Knowledge Services managed a principal-level technical course and documentation development team of 10 in India, Canada, and the US. Developed courses and documentation for the Actional and Sonic product lines, application infrastructure software that allows customers to develop, deploy, integrate, and manage their business applications. Identified clear roles and responsibilities for team members, set unambiguous expectations about deliverables and success criteria, and communicated performance feedback. Hired, negotiated contracts, and coached staff. Also defined priorities, did hands on editing, resolved problems, and rewarded employees.Forecast expected annual expenditures and managed a $1 million plus budget for my team. Met or came under budget each year. Defined customer-facing education business requirements for the Sonic and Actional product lines. Through stakeholder consensus developed the first comprehensive technical course curriculum of 16 courses for the Sonic product line. As part of a cross-functional product development team, defined product requirements with release stakeholders. Planned, scheduled, and updated the 10,000 page documentation set and Eclipse help system for several releases. Audiences included developers, administrators, and deployment specialists. Worked with localization vendors to obtain cost estimates for translating documentation into Japanese.Developed an integrated Wiki with product development to manage documentation development resulting in more efficient engineer-writer collaboration

Promoted to Senior Manager.Managed a global education team of 6 in the US and India and a US technical publications team of 4. To address a need to train customers worldwide, reduce course development and customer costs, and expand Sonic’s US education team, started and managed one of Sonic’s first outsourced teams in India. Hired a team of 5 e-learning developers, managed the India-based team in the US and traveled to India as needed. Determined a strategy for managing time zone differences, cultural differences and establishing long-distance manager-employee relationships. Led the development of Sonic’s first self-paced e-learning courses (WBT) resulting in the completion of 4 courses in the first year. This team was recognized by senior management as one of the best sonic teams. Conducted global team meetings using video conferencing, Webex sessions, and PowerPoint presentations. Posted elearning courses on the Learning Management System. Conducted performance reviews.Conducted training needs analysis with stakeholders. Determined the requirements and planned, scheduled, and managed the development of Sonic's first 4 multiple-day instructor-led (ILT) training courses. Managed the classroom training delivery and instructors and worked closely with technical consultants from professional services. To leverage limited resources, researched and led a trial initiative to develop a single-sourcing method for creating ILT and e-learning (WBT).Planned and implemented Sonic’s first help system for an Eclipse-based development environment to provide the developer audience with easily searchable documentation. Grew the number of help topics from 0 to 5500. Our team, resourced constrained, met deadlines for numerous major and minor software releases for 10 products delivered within date-driven timeframes.Set vision and goals for the team to effectively use limited resources. Put education and documentation development processes in place and selected authoring tools.

Managed a senior-level technical documentation and translation group of 7 in the data management division. Designed, developed, and delivered large-scale documentation sets for Java/C++ developers and end-user audiences. Developed documentation and tutorials for an object-oriented database, J2EE cache manager, XSLT editor, XML application development environment, XML database management system, and business process management toolkit. Wrote topics about security, application performance, and business processes, Java APIs, developing XML applications, creating and administering XML Stores. Determined requirements with marketing and scoped projects with the engineering management team. Developed different documentation development processes to accommodate three software engineering groups using varied product development processes.Implemented a single-source authoring strategy. Integrated multiple documentation sets to create a single access point so that audiences could quickly search and navigate 6700 topics for multiple products. Automated the generation of documentation deliverables in order to rapidly update the documentation frequently and accommodate short software development cycles. Delivered Web Help, HTML Help, PDF, and Print documentation.

Started and managed a technical publications group of 4. Wrote print publications and help systems for a Windows-based application development environment. Wrote topic-base content about planning, developing, and deploying knowledge and rule-based expert systems for the financial services industry.

Developed print documentation and online help systems for Windows NT and UNIX based Data Collection and Warehouse Management software and hardware products for diverse manufacturing audiences. Wrote documents about application development, system administration, configuration, and maintenance. Documented an ODBC-compliant database. Provided usability expertise to product development.

Consultant, project manager, and writer providing documentation expertise to clients 1991-1994Unisys Corp., Aggregate Computing, Information Advantage, and Apertus TechnologiesDeveloped an API reference detailing a library of C programming functions. Planned, designed, and developed a methodology for client/server applications. Wrote a client/server application development guide. Redesigned Windows graphical interface for a 4GL language. Team developed a user interface design style guide for the Unisys System Architecture. Scheduled and coordinated documentation suite and writing team. Designed and wrote help systems. Implemented ISO 9000 compliance for documentation department at Unisys Corp.

Managed and developed multiple technical documentation sets for the IS department. Performed substantive and copy edits of these documents, including user guides, management overviews, quick references, procedure guides, reference manuals, and system development standards. Developed a documentation development methodology and style and formatting standards. Prepared and taught a "Technical Writing” course. Developed user interface design standards for Windows.

Team leader responsible for coordinating training and technical documentation for software, hardware, operating systems, and integrated voice and data products. Wrote original planning, configuration, user, and reference manuals for data communication products using structured outlining and storyboarding techniques. Trained field engineers, technical support personnel, and customers. Planned and set up a desktop-publishing network for a department of 50.

Engineer and environmental planner working with municipalities, companies, and government agencies on environmental impact projects and water and wastewater engineering projects.

Taught fifth and first grade science as a substitute for a teacher on a 1 year leave. Responsible for daily lesson preparation and teaching, classroom management, and student project guidance. Participated in the school’s overnight outdoor education program.

Naturalist giving nightly nature walks to guests staying overnight at the hut. Hut crew member -2 summers. Participated in search and rescue operations.