Offering adaptive chair yoga classes to community members. Classes include meditation, chanting, and movement to help improve coordination, improved mental wellness, and facilitating students' experience of a mind/ body connection. Postures done in chairs, with occasional options for standing posters with chair support.

Instructor of Beginner's Yoga classes offered twice weekly at Yoga Shala of Portland. Offering instruction in postures, breathing, and meditation as well as use of props to support practice and poses as expressed in different styles.

Instructor for Hatha and Restorative Yoga classes on site at technology businesses in the Portland Metro area. Offering students special instruction in use of props, Yoga anatomy, postures, breath techniques, and meditation.

Instructor for the Lloyd Athletic Club, offering Gentle Flow Yoga instruction and a regular substitute for Silver Sneakers Yoga; both classes specialize in Adaptive Yoga for senior citizens.

Currently offering two Restorative Yoga classes per week to club clients on Monday and Wednesday evenings. Substitute for Vinyasa and Fundamentals classes as needed.

I teach both Classical Hatha and Restorative Yoga to students of all levels; both private and group instruction. I specialize in working with beginners, people with chronic illness/injury, and people who don't think they would be able to do yoga. I love demytifying poses and assisting students in correct use of props to allow them to enjoy a practice that is appropriate for them. I also have special experience in presenting accessible yoga at large events, particularly technology conferences and team meetings.

Teaching beginning and all-levels, Hatha style yoga two classes a week at a community center in inner North Portland, Oregon. Providing long-term support to City community centers, specializing in offering Chair Yoga instruction.

Offering weekly instruction in Classical Hatha Yoga, "Strength & Balance" with instruction in postures, breathing, and meditation. Providing substitute instruction for Restorative and Gentle Yoga classes, as needed. All instruction offers students additional support in using props and/or modifying postures to support practice.

Specialized in providing instruction in Gentle Hatha Yoga with Loving-Kindness (Metta) meditation. Also offered private sessions in Restorative Yoga and Thai Yoga.

Chair (March 2011 - present)• Partner with planning team to manage event from start to a final post-mortum.• Manage relationship with vendors for venue, lighting equipment, and video services.• Facilitate team meetings, gather action items, and track completion.• Assist with proposal selection and curation of selected proposals.• Oversee technical rehearsal, both in preparation ahead of time and ensure smooth progress during.• Maintain constant contact with team leads and vendors during event to ensure everything runs soothly.• Ensure that leased equipment is packed and returned.Speaker/Proposal Coordinator (May-September 2010)• Manage process of gathering proposals from prospective speakers using social media tools like Twitter and WordPress.• Organize proposal selection meeting and curate the final list of selected talks for speaker order.• Communicate to prospective speakers who did not have their proposal selected; encourage them to try at a future event. Secure speaker confirmations and contact waiting-list speakers in the event a speaker has to cancel.• Collect all speaker slides, reivew for initial content, resolve any content questions, and refer slides to technical production lead.• Ensure all speakers for each half are present and ready to speak.

Offering instruction in classical Hatha style Yoga to beginning and intermediate students. Careful attention is given to alignment and the breath. Currently an on-call sub for Body Renew teachers.

Offering instruction in classical Hatha style Yoga to beginning and intermediate students. Careful attention is given to alignment, use of props to support proper postures, and the breath.Currently adding special quarterly classes that are a little longer than regular classes; blending Hatha and Restorative yoga. Substitute as needed for Basic Hatha classes.

• Partner with planning team to manage event logistics from start to a final post-mortum. • Manage relationship with vendors for venue, A/V equipment, video services, and negotiate catering contracts. • Oversee and approve spending for a large budget, as it relates to all Logistics expenditures. Maintain relationship with vendor regarding quotes, deposits, final payments, and any invoicing.• Act as primary venue contact for vendors and coordinate any pre-event infrastructure issues, organize site visits, etc. to ensure all vendors are working well together. • Point person during event for any issues that arise with venue, A/V, catering, etc.• Assist and help direct volunteers for all other logistics needs for Hacker Lounge, off-site parties, etc.• Maintain constant contact with team leads during event to ensure everything runs smoothly. • Ensure that event load-in and break-down runs smoothly and on schedule, clearly alerting affected teams when issues arise.

• IT Business Systems Analyst and Lead BusinessObjects Administrator for Enterprise Software Solutions, as part of the Business Intelligence (BI) Team. • Technical lead for BI projects; address issues and drive solutions across several •organizations, and third-party integration partners, spanning multiple geographic locations.• Partner with BI team and customers to create use cases, business requirements, process models, and functional specs. Recommend architecture for creating data solutions, including extraction, transformation, and federation of multiple data sources to provide a coherent business layer for reporting and data analysis via several tools.• Define and document data universes/semantic layers, including related metadata, data security management, and access provisioning process. • Community management for BI user community, including coordinating town hall-style events 3 times per year. Create user community tools, including giving training presentations and building web portals offering self-service tools. • Provide test coordination and release/implementation planning for development projects from system validation to user acceptance testing, and successful release.• Responsible for 12 servers with over 2500 user accounts. Manage all user issues related to the BusinessObjects application stack.• Manage provisioning, upgrade schedules, assist users with report development & distribution. • Direct monitoring, tuning, and upgrading of our Business Intelligence reporting environment. • Perform Windows and Unix server administration tasks related to the BusinessObjects application suite and Apache web servers.

Offering instruction in classical Hatha style Yoga to beginning and intermediate students. Careful attention is given to alignment, use of props to support proper postures, and the breath.

• Responsible for 4 servers running the full suite of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence software for 1800 users. Plan and implement major and minor releases. Manage access and provisioning issues. • Assist team and customers with business and technical requirements. • Implement processes and tools to enrich the user community experience with tools and Business Intelligence team. • Perform Windows server administration tasks including installing and configuring systems software. • Direct support to customers and internal team for questions related to report and universe development.

• Facilitated business customer and engineering teams on collaborative projects that spanned over 14 states and 2 offshore workgroups. • Team lead for project to design, implement and manage an internally defined process for Development, Change Control and Release Management. • Prepared and presented both business and technical presentations to customer and engineering teams. Defined concise, complete business and functional requirements for technical projects. Wrote end user and technical documentation to support release management and customer teams. • Organized multi-organization events to promote team building.• Subject Matter Expert for all BusinessObjects software; coordinated upgrades, data connectivity changes, and performed report development from varied data sources. • Coached team members and customers on Unix systems, BusinessObjects software, HP Quality Center, and Microsoft systems/applications. • Created web applications to automate manual processes, improve metrics for processes and perform backup & recovery using Apache, Samba, shell scripts, Perl/CGI and HTML.

• Created technical documentation for customers using Sleuth Fraud Management System. • Performed direct, in-person management of customer systems as well as supported corporate presence & systems at conferences and user groups. • Responsible for installation and implementation of Crystal Reports Enterprise & web server applications for customers. • Direct support to customers for Sun/Solaris systems administration issues including mail server updates, managing disk partitions, configuring multiple types of network connectivity, and creating Korn & Bourne shell scripts to automate simple tasks. • Facilitated Oracle upgrades.

• Configured systems hardware at new call centers as well as managed server upgrades for existing call centers. • Maintained and improved service on corporate mail server. • Created technical documentation for Network Operations Center team. • Supervised, including hiring for, Network Operations Center team.