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Education Consulting and Intervention for families and TK-12 students - Science of Reading, Orton-Gillingham reading intervention, math intervention, writing, executive functioning, self regulation, IEP process support.

Development of brand awareness in the Santa Clara area, including marketing for Huntington educational intervention, subject tutoring, and test preparation services. Responsible for hiring all staff and certified teachers and tutors. Interfaced with franchisor concerning training, marketing, hiring, and funding of the center. Completed three weeks of intensive training in Directorship responsibilities. Purchasing and preparation of center curriculum and tests. Creating and assuring educational plans for students.

2014-2-2015 PE and Health, Small group instruction in reading using Wilson Fundations, and Math2013-2014 PE, Performing Arts teacher (music instruction delivered using the Orff approach) and Small group instruction in reading using Wilson Fundations, math and reading comprehension. 2012-2013 Classroom Support Specialist

August 2010– December 2012: one on one for severely autistic and nonverbal child in a Moderate to Severe classroom. Duties included supporting AAC device and development of materials to assist in delivering curriculum , use of ABA, DTT, and IEP goal data tracking, provided and monitored sensory diet. ProACT training, Project Optimal (Autism) completion.September 2007—June 2010: One on one for behavioral support in mainstream classrooms. Supported student in perspective taking for 3rd, 4th, 5th grade.

Head Coach - Middle School Volleyball for boys and girls teamsAssistant Coach - Middle School Basketball for boys and girls teamsFunctioned as Athletic Director (volunteer position) during start up of middle school sports program.

Provided contract services to Cadence Design Systems maintaining and continuing development of SPW(Signal Processing Worksystem)/MATLAB Interface - allows cosimulation from the SPW environment and data translation/sharing capabilities between SPW and MATLAB. Implementation achieved on UNIX platform using C, Perl, shell scripts, and various Alta scripting languages. Worked on integrating JRS's NetSyn Tool into SPW using C++, Tcl, shell scripts, and Perl.

SENIOR MEMBER OF TECHNICAL STAFFDesigned, implemented, and maintained the SPW(Signal Processing Worksystem)/MATLAB Interface - allows cosimulation from the SPW environment and data translation/sharing capabilities between SPW and MATLAB. Implementation achieved on UNIX platform using C, Perl, shell scripts, and various Alta scripting languages. Worked on integrating JRS's NetSyn Tool into SPW using C++, Tcl, shell scripts, and Perl.

Responsible for finding and developing new leads in the Western Region for Mercury's line of VME based i860 multiprocessing systems. Activities included searching for new areas of business opportunity, handling of all incoming sales leads, organization and staffing of trade shows, organization of technical seminars and presentations, and benchmarking of customer code using Mercury products.

DATA SYSTEMS PROGRAMMER (2.5 yrs.)Developed digital signal processing algorithms and demonstrations for various projects on UNIX based systems (Sun and CRAY) and the PC with C30 target using C and FORTRAN. Signal processing and neural network applications included feature reduction, pattern recognition, and resource allocation. Developed Additive Noise, Multiplicative Noise, and Multipath Noise modules for SASS, a signal simulation system. Performed trade study of hardware and software for parallel processing implementations of neural networks and computationally intensive systems requiring large speed-ups. Trained as a Continuous Quality Improvement Facilitator and Team Leader.CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST (1.5 yrs.) Performed software configuration management on VAX and Micro VAX network (VMS O/S) - including limited software engineering, code reviews and documentation; designed and wrote software audit program; software librarian for the Automated Center for Electronics SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMMING AIDE (4 mo.) Development and maintenance of Product Assurance Software for the Automated Center for Electronics (ACE) - a VAX and Micro VAX network monitoring MLB assembly. Developed software to start, stop, and monitor processes on the ACE manufacturing line; a process monitoring daemon; and a graphical user interface.ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS DEVELOPMENT TECH., ASSOC. (1 yr.)Developed software and setup hardware for PC based data acquisition systems - worked extensively with Opto-22 and The Automation Group's hardware and Basic and Quick Basic languages. Involved in building and troubleshooting electronic prototypes for process monitoring and ESD stations.

Provided customer support for complete product line of PC memory boards and laser printer interfaces. Tested products for compatibility in IBM clone machines. Involved in technical marketing of products.

Field support, installation, and repair of hardware; software installation and support; and data communication maintenance and support - on terminals, personal computers, printers, plotters, modems and data lines.