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Texas, United States

Falls Church, VA, US

• Coordinated project controls, schedules, and budgets for multiple concurrent teams, ensuring financial efficiency and compliance with quality standards.
• Facilitated collaboration among project team members through effective communication strategies, addressing and resolving issues to maintain project alignment.
• Maintained a proactive presence on job sites, engaging directly with ongoing activities to address emerging issues and ensure client satisfaction.
• Authored bid scopes of work, managed procurement processes, and tracked bid participation, resulting in competitive and accurate deliverables.
• Documented and distributed minutes from OAC meetings, managing material tracking logs and punch lists to meet project outcomes.
• Leveraged background in education to mentor interns and new staff, fostering their development and enhancing team capabilities.

Falls Church, VA, US

• Assist in providing preconstruction services, working with a team to handle multiple aspects of budget and bid proposals, understanding the major trades and components of building a construction project
• Make and influence decisions with multiple projects, preparing written scopes of work for various trades, providing quantity take-offs, writing RFI's during the pricing phase, and providing input for costs savings.
• Communicate with subcontractors and suppliers on a routine basis, reviewing technical and financial information presented by subcontractors
• Assemble deliverables both internally for our Operations teams and externally for our clients
• Review work to ensure process and quality are consistently being achieved

Columbia, Maryland, US

• Responsible for assisting Senior Estimators, Estimator II, and Preconstruction Managers with developing a construction budget and schedule that can be profitably implemented.
• Responsible for maintaining positive relationships with clients, architects, developers, engineers, subcontractors, local building officials for projects, executives, and corporate staff.
• Perform commercial and multi-family construction take-offs.
• Assist with analyzing and coordinating plans and specifications.
• Assist with applying unit costs to develop conceptual estimates.
• Perform site analysis, cut fill studies, and geotechnical analysis.

Oakton, Virginia, US

• Directed a classroom in all core content areas, managing classes of 10-12 students
• Planned and adapted social studies, language arts, math, and science units to meet with current COVID-related restrictions on student interaction.
• Managed the needs of the major stakeholders in education, balancing the diverse deliverables expected by administration, parents, and the students themselves.
• Created individualized hands-on lessons in all subjects including delivering presentations, facilitating group projects and discussions, curating lessons to meet individual learning styles and outcomes.
• Maintained a flexible attitude to curriculum, methods of teaching and assessment as we moved back and forth between in-person and virtual learning.
• Collaborated with my grade level team, subject specialists, librarian, technology consultants, and administration to support instruction, document student progress through written reports, and plan creative and.

Falls Church, Virginia, US

• Directed a classroom in all core content areas, managing classes of 25 to 29 students, general education and English Language Learners, with a classroom priority on intrinsic motivation, creative and critical thinking.
• Increased student reading performance over 150% on reading comprehension testing, with 95% of students passing statewide reading benchmarks
• Increased student math performance in number sense, computation, and logic and reasoning, with 90% of students passing statewide mathematics testing
• Develop students’ research and technology skills through technology-based research projects, pursuing district-wide goals to showcase student skill development in researching and comparing ancient cultures through.
• Recognized the human side of change, organizing individualized lessons to fit the hybrid situations of both our in-person and at-home learners with empathy and careful messaging while maintaining high curriculum.
• Coordinated meetings and outcomes using strategic communication with diverse stakeholders, including students and parents from multiple cultures, language backgrounds, and socio-economic levels.

United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates, AE

• Instructed English Language & Literature to 6th-8th grade English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students at an IB Middle Years Program first-year candidate school.
• Presented information in a clear and concise way to best ensure that my students could engage with the material, checking for understanding, adapting and adjusting the presentation format to align with the variety of.
• Worked closely with both home-country and international staff to create curriculum and procedures, enhancing and improving student learning environment and systems across campus.
• Created and implemented a student behavior plan in direct communication with the school principal and counselor.
• Maintained positive relationships with staff from a variety of languages and cultural backgrounds, facilitating planning and team building efforts across disciplines.

• Redesigned physical spaces to engage learning for grades K-12, increasing interest in literacy and creating excitement around the school to positively impact reading motivation and library circulation by 40%
• Maintained positive connections with students to fit each student’s reading level and interests as well as foster an independent love of reading, intrinsic motivation, and social-emotional wellbeing
• Revised organization of physical resources using LexWin Library Systems electronic catalog
• Conducted Scholastic Reading Inventory tests to assess students' Lexile reading levels and progress
• Initiated curriculum development & instruction for after-school programs including Middle School creative problem solving, book club, debate club, readers theater, dance, and arts
• Collaborated with all levels of teachers to create curriculum and increase resource availability for entire school

• Taught conversation, culture, and listening comprehension classes for low-level to advanced students, encouraging natural speaking in academic settings
• Developed curriculum for ‘flip classes,’ creating lessons with a team of professors to maximize classroom instruction efficiency
• Served on the Global Lounge committee, providing extracurricular English-speaking opportunities to EFL students and connecting them to the international community at the university

• Part-time social studies instructor concurrent with teaching EFL full-time at Jeonju University
• Engaged students in multimedia lessons with differentiated instruction to target multiple intelligences
• Encouraged student-driven lessons to foster intrinsic motivation, love of learning, and responsibility

• Created hands-on learning activities to build on textbook instruction and prior knowledge for 6-7 year old students
• Worked cooperatively with other faculty including Korean and foreign English as a Foreign Language teachers
• Engaged students in multimedia lessons with differentiated instruction tailored to students’ individual needs

Houston, TX, US

• Taught at an Alternative Learning Center, a disciplinary educational placement for 6th-12th grade students removed from their main campuses due to violation of district policies, developing technology-based lesson.
• Conducted research focusing on student behavioral infractions and the impact that a calming classroom environment could affect, seeing a clear impact on the statistics of behavior escalation leading to student removal.
• Encouraged positive development in social and emotional behaviors and attitudes, leading to academic growth, personal responsibility, and improved self-esteem
• Mentored students and monitored daily behavior progress with leveled reports
• Analyzed student performance with daily check-ins and weekly assessments of academic progress

St Louis, Missouri, US

• Communicated with jobsite director, project architect, and building manager about daily updates and changes to the cost estimate or schedule timeline
• ​Updated architectural drawings with requests for information to jobsite plans and created weekly vehicle reports, recording and organizing mileage and hours logged by each piece of equipment on site
• ​Prepared reports for meetings with project subcontractors and collaborated with project engineers and superintendents on daily site tasks

College Station, TX, US

• Organized 3D laser scanner input data for the American Battle Monuments Commission with a team of researchers from multiple universities
• Evaluated data to input in map of the World War II battle site using 3D laser scans of monuments, bunkers, cliffs, and bomb craters
• ​Measured and organized data using AutoCAD and TachyCAD
• ​Increased data available to the team to further aid in physical solutions to 70+ years of erosion at the historic site, leading to cliff stabilization and the reopening of the Observation Post to the public

Master Of Education - Med, Curriculum And Instruction

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Construction Management