
I’m seeking employment as a learning strategist & eLearning developer. I’m a lifetime learner, a what-ifer, adventurer, and creative collaborator with teaching and development experience.
Experience:
Volunteer Work:
Free Geek Portland 2012-current
- Developing a Moodle LMS for Free Geek’s community classes.
- Designing and developing an eLearning module for Free Geek’s Hardware ID class, using Adobe Captivate and Creative Cloud Apps.
Content Strategist (Contract, PT)
33 Degrees Design Studio 2013-2014
- Worked with an emerging web design company to develop best practices for collaborative web and print design projects.
- Collaborated around UI, UX, SEO, and content strategy.
- Contributed to company development meetings and the company blog.
Content Strategist (Contract, PT)
Beekmedia Design 2011-2012
- Assisted in developing an early childhood teacher eLearning website and a Life Coaching website using WordPress, HTML5, PHP, CSS3, and principles of responsive design.
- Managed client updates, site progress, benchmarks, notes, documentation, and to-do lists for collaborative use in Google Docs.
- Designed newsletters for e-mail list subscribers with Constant Contact.
4th/5th Grade Teacher
Molalla River Academy 2009-2011
- Designed and implemented curriculum for a science and arts based charter school for its first two years.
- Experienced looping, blended classes, and multidisciplinary, project based learning.
- Organized events and field trips to complement our curriculum. Mobilized volunteers.
- Offered individualized instruction as required for a wide range of student abilities and special needs, implemented accommodations, learning tools, and systems for accessibility.
- Incorporated many lessons about PC use, including: word processing, Powerpoint, Logo (a basic programming language), using the internet for research, Google Sites.
6th Grade Teacher
Ascension Solorsano Middle School 2006-2009
- Taught Language Arts, Reading, and Social Studies.
- Continued parent contact and involvement, including a website and web accessible grades.
- Collaborated with Core department to plan instruction and analyze data. Acted as grade level lead in ’08-’09.
Education:
University of Santa Cruz, California 2001-2006
& University of Glasgow (study abroad 2003-2004)
B.A. in Psychology, Minor in Education 2001-2005
M.A. in Teaching and Instruction 2005-2006
Portland State University 2012-2014
Graduate Certifications:
Training and Development (Online Training Focus) Summer 2014
Training and Development (Training Focus) Winter 2015
e-Learning Design and Development Spring 2013
Meet-ups and Workshops:
- Devsignercon
- The Association for Talent Development (ATD, formerly ASTD)
- PDX Web & Design Meet-up
- I attended Rails Girls 2012 (an introduction to Ruby on Rails for ladies)
- Mac iWork (Pages, Keynote, Numbers)
- MS Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel)
- Google Drive (Forms, Docs, Sheets, Drawings)
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2014 (Photoshop, Bridge, InDesign, After Effects)
- Adobe Captivate 6-8
- Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
- GIMP
- Moodle LMS
- WordPress CMS
- SCSS, CSS3, Less, HTML5
- e-mail marketing with Constant Contact and SurveyMonkey
- Social Media networks (LinkedIn, Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit . . .)
- Amateur: JS and JQuery, PHP, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, AutoCAD, Visual Basic (VBA) & GitHub