I served as a legal extern with the Office of General Counsel in the Pennsylvania State Police Department.

• Handle cases involving pension and compensation claims against the Veterans Administration.• Communicate directly with clients regarding the status of their claims.• Research and prepare briefs, memoranda, and other pertinent documents.

• Coordinated research projects.• Provided qualitative and quantitative data collection• Assisted with instrument development, prepared project reports, and managed data.• Regularly communicated with internal and external contacts to provide complex technical information and/or service and to gather information.• Independently anticipated and identified problems, obstacles and opportunities and took decisive action to address them.

• Certified high school teacher in Chemistry and Biology • Assumed all responsibilities of a regular classroom teacher, including professional development, communications with parents, and assessments of students• Taught in a high-need, alternative school in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn• Designed challenging, enriching, and innovative activities to address the diverse interests and needs of students• Developed curricula in Chemistry and Biology to help ensure student success, emphasizing cooperative and interactive learning • Developed an integrated database for use by faculty in tracking student success and monitoring progress across all classes being taken by an individual student• Tracked student progress using both traditional grade books and an integrated database

• Managed 4 million dollar list in professional computer book titles• Established contact with and maintained relationship with publishing liaisons within IBM• Established and maintained schedules and budgets for all book projects• Identified and contracted high profile authors for key book projects