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  • Solutions-driven professional with extensive experience in training, technology design for classroom instruction, leadership of small and large groups, and designing/implementing strategies to improve student, faculty and staff performance.

  • Learner-centered, highly motivated self-starter with effective technology, training, presentation, teaching, and multi-media design skills.

  • Highly resourceful, creative problem-solver with proven ability to analyze course/program requirements and target audience/student/curriculum/departmental needs and design/implement innovative custom solutions.

  • Motivated achiever who exceeds goals and has been given consistent increases in responsibility, including supervisory duties.

  • Articulate and effective communicator who has extensive experience in blending professional expertise with outstanding interpersonal skills; adept at delivering presentations and conducting training sessions.

  • Served as the Chair of the Curriculum Committee and trainer for Learning Frameworks Instructors to ensure alignment of program and course level objectives and outcomes and to ensure the implementation of current technology in program implementation, marketing, and assessment.

  • Co-designed and present workshops on the implementation of the QEP and its components to campus, state, and national audiences.

  • Collaborated with members of the campus community to ensure that the QEP was properly implemented and to discuss suggestions for improvement of the program.

  • Collaborated to create and execute programming, workshops, and off-campus field experiences for program participants.

  • Worked with Director to create and manage yearly budget.

Associate Director, Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
​2011 - 2016
Languages

Beginning conversational and written Spanish

Skills

Blogging Platforms:                                        

Blogger/WordPress 4.4.2, Tumblr

Cloud Storage/Note Taking:                          

DropBox, iCloud, Google Drive, SkyDrive, Evernote

Email Management:                                      

Microsoft Outlook, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo

Graphic Design and Layout:                          

Adobe InDesign, Inkscape, Microsoft: Publisher, Word, PowerPoint

Learning Management Systems:                   

Moodle

Mobile Computing:                                        

Apple iOS 10

Multi Media Presentations:                             

Emaze, Google Drive Presentations, Keynote, PowerPoint, Prezi, PowerPoint, Sway, Thinglink

Operating Systems:                                        

Microsoft Windows 10, MAC OS X Sierra

Survey Tools:                                                   

Qualtrics, Surveymonkey, Google Drive Forms, Poll Everywhere, Socrative, TodaysMeet

Team Collaboration Tools:

Crew, GroupMe, Slack

Video Production/Hosting:                             

Windows Live Movie Maker, iMovie 10.1, YouTube, Vimeo

Web/Video/Teleconference:

Skype, Webex, Zoom, Google Hangout, AnyMeeting

Web Page Construction:                                

Google Sites, Wix, Weebly, Wikispaces

Word Processing and Spreadsheets:             

Pages, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Google Drive Spreadsheets

Additional Software:

Banner, Taskstream, ARGOS

2010 - present

2010 - present

Prairie View A&M University
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Lead Instructor, Learning Frameworks Courses
2010 - Present
Instructor, Learning Frameworks Courses
2006-2010

  • Design and present student and faculty/staff development workshops to campus, state, and national audiences on topics such as effectively incorporating technology into instruction, creative ways to use technology to engage students/staff, technology-enhanced flipped classrooms, innovative instructional/learning strategies, classroom management, and critical thinking. 

  • Facilitate orientation sessions each summer (approx. 2,000-3,000 attendees)  as a part of university’s enrollment/recruitment initiatives.

  • Create and maintain instructor and student course websites, including online assessments and presentations.

  • Create and implement innovative and challenging lessons for Learning Frameworks (CURR 1011 & 1013) courses, including two capstone documentary/multimedia projects.

  • Designed and piloted innovative, inquiry-based seminar (CURR 1011) that focuses on improving critical thinking and research skills via use of technology and multimedia presentations.

  • Collaborated on curriculum redesign for Learning Frameworks courses to make them an integral part of the Quality Enhancement Plan.

  • Taught Developmental Reading and English courses and redesigned course curricula.

  • University Appointments:

    • ​Member, Student Conduct Panel Committee

    • Member, QEP Advisory Committee

    • Member, Center for Innovative Teaching and Faculty Advancement Advisory Council

  • Created online course evaluation system for students.

  • Created innovative lessons/activities for and deliver instruction to 100 college-bound high school graduates to prepare them for college-level writing courses.

  • Founder and Senior Editor of the ACCESS yearbook and course website.

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Learning Resource Specialist, Developmental English and Reading
2004 to 2010

  • Tasked to redesign and rewrite the curriculum for Developmental English and Reading courses

  • Collaborated with University’s Pre-College Enrichment Institute as department representative for two years

  • Served as diagnostic test administrator and English instructor for the Summer Transportation Institute

 

 

 

 


 

   

 

 

                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Composition Instructor & Yearbook Founder/Editor - ACCESS Summer Bridge Program
Summer, 2009-2011

CURRICULUM VITAE

Education

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  • Communication

  • Leadership & Training

  • Designing & Delivering Faculty Development Curriculum

  • Interpersonal Collaboration

  • Problem Solving & Flexibility

  • Educational Technology

  • Relationship Building

  • Teaching Background in Higher Education & K-12

 

Lone Star College
Adjunct Developmental English Faculty
July 2007-December 2007
 
 

  • Provided creative and effective instruction for several sections of ENGL 0307 during Summer II and Fall semesters.

  • Created original activities, lessons, and rubrics to ensure students’ comprehension and success in the course.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highland Heights Elementary School
Teacher/Grade Level Chairperson - 4th Grade
2002-2004
 
 

  • Created innovative lessons and delivered instructions in all subject areas, specializing in Math and Science.

  • Served as an after-school tutor as a part of the 21st Century program.

  • As Model Lesson Coordinator, attended ongoing training and instructed grade-level colleagues on the use of model lessons in math and science.

  • As grade-level chairperson, acted as liaison between administration and teachers and conducted weekly meetings with grade level colleagues.

  • Served as assistant cheerleading coach for the school’s first cheerleading squad.

Joseph A. Craig Elementary School
Teacher/Grade Level Chairperson-Grade 4.5
2001-2002
 
 

  • Delivered individual, cooperative group and whole class instruction in all subject areas to seventeen at-risk transitional fourth grade students.

  • Facilitated after-school tutorials to increase students’ comprehension and performance.

  • Created and implemented numerous academic, physical, and social classroom accommodations for socially and academically challenged students.

Professional

Profile

 

Key

Skills

Work​

Experience​

 

Prairie View A&M Unviersity 
Master of Community Development
 
 
Tulane University 
Bachelor of Arts - English
 
 
Mississippi School for Math and Science
High School Diploma
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