Looking for an Expert
You can trust me with your next project, whether it involves documentation, research, training, team leadership, or overall project management. My experience includes nearly 30 years of teaching HS English. training in DEI, and corporate consulting.
Skills
Research Skills
Project Management
Project Management
In addition to keeping current on best practices, I have been expected to continuously be able to communicate them to my teams as well as to my peers. Rapidly adapting to a changing environment is part of my ongoing skill set.
Project Management
Project Management
Project Management
As a teacher and teaching team member, I have been managing diverse teams for nearly thirty years, workers who need to be motivated and monitored closely. Timely, excellent and documented results were expected quarterly at a minimum.
Instruction
Project Management
Instruction
Developing and delivering challenging instructional content, breaking it down so that my audience can grasp it, assessing their grasp of the content and closing the information gaps where they exist: this is the dynamic process of instruction that lies at the heart of what I do.
Career History
I attended Stony Brook University beginning in 1982 and graduated in May 1985 with a BA in English (Departmental Honors) and a minor in Biological Science. Upon graduating, I took a position as Copy Editor with the American Institute of Physics in Woodbury NY, editing copy for the Journal of Chemical Physics. Then I got a contract job as Project Editor in Grumman’s Proposals and Presentations department in Bethpage, NY, working on classified documents for various programs. From 1987-1991, I worked as Senior Editor for Loral Electronic Systems in Yonkers, NY, again working on classified documents for various projects. I was hired for the position of Editorial Supervisor by General Instrument in Hicksville, NY, and the position lasted until the company was acquired by Litton Corporation, based in California. The position was eliminated in 1992 as the company transferred its publishing operations to their California headquarters. During this period, I completed my Master’s degree in English.
From 1992-1995, I found work as an Environmental Scientist, collecting groundwater and soil samples from sites being monitored for environmental remediation and writing site inspection reports. During this period, I decided to change careers to become a high school English teacher. I returned to Stony Brook University to complete the required coursework and clinicals to obtain my certification in Secondary English. During this time, I also taught Remedial English and Freshman Composition as an Adjunct Professor at Suffolk County Community College Grant Campus, Brentwood, NY.
Skills
As my long and varied career history demonstrates, I have a broad array of knowledge in diverse technical areas, the ability to work with individuals in multiple capacities, from psychiatric patients to corporate executives to engineers and scientists and business owners, as well as consultants, students, administrators, and fellow educators. I have supervised employee teams as well as thousands of students. I rose through the ranks in my editorial career until market conditions derailed it, but it wasn’t until I discovered teaching high schoolers that I found my calling. My career history shows that I have the following highly transferable skills:
· Project design (e.g., curriculum) and management
· Able to produce complex deliverables under deadline pressure
· Able to design and present training on a broad array of topics to audiences of authorities as well as laypersons
· Team leadership
· Flexibility
· Strong work ethic
Final Thoughts
If I were asked to list my two biggest strengths as a worker, I would answer my superior skills with writing and producing high quality documentation, as demonstrated by my extensive experience as an editor, scientific writer, author, adjunct professor, teacher, and supervisor. My second most valuable skill is my ability to not only get along with, but to lead and collaborate with a widely diverse selection of people. It would be fair to characterize me as a “team player” (acknowledging the cliché), capable of taking multiple and varied roles in a variety of situations as needed. I am very comfortable with taking the lead when required but also giving credit to all contributors.