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Newton, Massachusetts, United States

• Manage 20+ families simultaneously, including their expectations for scores and higher education, logistics for tutoring and proctored practice tests, and student learning plans and individualized curricula
• Advise parents on the ACT vs. SAT, score reports, test dates, score targets, and tutoring goals
• Tutor grammar, reading, science, and math subjects for standardized tests such as the Digital SAT, Middle Level ISEE, Upper Level SSAT, the ACT, the PSAT, and the Paper SAT
• Instruct with and individualize a variety of curricula from official sources (e.g. College Board, ERB), industry standards (e.g. Tutorverse, TestInnovators), and Advantage Testing’s tutor-created materials
• Spearhead proposals to implement bootcamps for reading enrichment, essay writing, and college-app essays
• Develop curriculum materials for all Verbal question types for Advantage Testing’s new online digital-SAT curriculum

Greater Boston

• Motivate and instruct students of high school age in SAT-level reading comprehension, English, grammar, geometry, algebra, algebra II, trigonometry, coordinate geometry, and topics in precalculus
• Cooperate with program directors and parents to host recurring sessions in students’ homes
• Tutor with StudyPoint’s top-tier curriculum, a combination of online and printed materials individually and statistically tailored to each student
• Implement and uphold StudyPoint’s guarantee of a predetermined score increase by way of aiding learners, advising parents, and managing family expectations

Newton, Massachusetts, United States

• Collaborate with the TTS Team to design, implement, and refine new tutoring products or management systems simultaneously, and then train the relevant department(s) on these deliverables
• Propose new projects to increase revenue and efficiency, oversee the deliverable throughout the project’s lifecycle, and supervise employees or departments on the workflow as needed
• Jointly manage and seasonally evaluate a 260+-strong Tutor Base with a custom software platform and moderate time-sensitive communications to maintain the company’s 90+ NPS rating
• Interview, assess, and fully onboard MA tutoring candidates, serve as back-up for daylong orientations, coach new tutors on best practices and company values, and perform outreach

Massachusetts, United States

• Tutor students 1:1 using Summit Educational Group's top-tier curriculum
• Cover all sections of the official SAT, SSAT, and ACT practice tests with students of various skill levels
• Tutor Math, English, Reading, and Science associated with the aforementioned exams, as well as writing personal college essays
• Cooperate with parents and students over phone, email, WhatsApp, Facetime, and Zoom to schedule sessions and insure customer satisfaction

San Jose, California, United States

• Scaffolded, refined, and taught the reading program for 20-hour weekly test-prep bootcamps in person, hybrid, and online
• Designed, refined, and taught the syllabi and curricula for AP, Intensive Reading, and EssayAI classes
• Designed curricula and writing assignments to increase student writing performance and led seminars for seniors on expectations for college, the current challenges schools face, and good essay writing
• Developed teaching curriculum, including lesson plans and most materials, for AP Language, AP Psychology, EssayAI, Reading Enrichment, and Intensive Reading classes

San Jose, CA

• Diagnosed skill level for ESL, ELL, at-risk learners, and developmentally disabled students, providing specialized supplementary materials for each student
• Tutor, in a mixed 1:1, 2:1, and 3:1 environment: all sections of the ACT and SAT; middle school English, high school English, and English for ESL; high school essay, poetry, and creative writing; AP Psychology, AP.
• Create lessons, materials, and parts of curricula for the aforementioned subjects (save math); diagnose student skill level; and provide specialized supplementary materials, including reviewing and ordering textbooks
• Work with College Application Students to craft essays for top-tier schools with a combination of tutoring, interviewing, and creative-writing techniques; track and manage essay progress for application deadlines.

Mountain View, CA

• Teach and personalize a specialized, all-subject SAT curriculum to students of various skill levels
• Travel to different schools across the Bay Area, check in with administrative and janitorial staff, and inspect and clean rented classroom
• Work with corporate office to assure that students are receiving extra help if necessary
• Host and reward learning-oriented activities, such as games, based on class makeup and performance

Mountain View, Califor

• Assign lesson plans to, update the grades of, and correct the essays of writing students
• Train tutors, create workflows, and work with directors to fill in schedule and keep writing student parents updated
• Assist with front-desk secretarial duties and continue duties as a Tutor

Mountain View, California

• Tutor reading and writing (grades 1-12), math (grades 1-9), ISEE/SSAT, ACT, and SAT Reading, Writing & Language, Essay, and Math— all in a mixed 1:1, 2:1, or 3:1 environment, or online 1:1
• Teach small classes of speed reading, and tutor it online 1:1
• Students include ESL, ELL, at-risk learners, and the developmentally disabled in a 1:1, 2:1, or 3:1 environment

Rochester, NY

• Freelance Assistant (2014)
• Train and direct other assistants on high-profile shoots (such as for Blue Cross Blue Shield), as a 1st assistantPhotographer (2011-2014)
• Train and direct assistants in events and portraiture (business, infant, political, etc.)

Scottsville, NY

• Train new hires, perform closing procedures, take inventory, manage money in register and bank, promote on social media, bake and make drinks

Rochester, New York Area

• Work on a team of specialized technicians to photograph and perform diagnostic exams on patients, including the blind, young, and/or developmentally-disabled
• Manage, curate, and relate the images and diagnostics of patient medical records

Rochester, New York Area

• Process interlibrary loans using Exchange, ILLiad, Odyssey, and various other software
• Manage Connect NY and reserves for professors with catalog software Millennium
• Correspond with patrons, train new hires, and communicate with clerks to plan out tasks
• Ship and deliver sensitive library materials, on and off campus

Rochester, New York Area

• Advertising II TA
• Scan photos, rent equipment, assist with materials for class and lecture, and lecture with the professor in class
• Teach lighting techniques, concept refinement, and planning shoots of still lives and portraiture inside and outside the studio, in a 1:1 environment
• Provide feedback on images in a critique setting

Postgradudate Certifications, Education

● Post-undergraduate certifications for Interdisciplinary Writing, and for Teaching & Learning in Digital Spaces (both ongoing)

Bachelor Of Fine Arts (B.F.A.), Professional Photographic Illustration

Activities and Societies: ● Kappa Delta Rho Fraternity, Signatures Magazine, & Rochester Institute of Technology Gay Association (ritGA) ●.