Montgomery College, Department of Early Childhood
-Developed curriculum for early childhood courses, special education courses, and translated course materials.
-Part-Time College Instructor

   2011 - Present

Services Provided as a Consultant:

-Created strategic plans for agencies.
-Developed business plans, Identified and analyzed the market audience, directed program marketing efforts, and expansion to maximize the organization’s branding efforts.
-Developed procedures for day-to-day employment and staff management..
-Implemented guided consultant trainings, and support for all content development.
 

PROMINENT CLIENTS:

ACCA Child Development Center, Annandale VA.

-Provided staff supervision to over 50 teachers.

-Supported the development and implementation of an annual center wide professional development.

-Ensured proper implementation of curriculum.

-Provided staff support for completing assessment of children and provided technical assistance to educators.
Participated in IEP and IFSP meetings.
Coordinated family and program events, parenting classes and meetings.
-Ensured program assessments and standards were communicated and maintained.

CDA - COUNCIL FOR PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION,

-Establish collaborations aimed at implementing strategies to reach new markets.
-Work with Senior Executives to establish an internal process for addressing changes.
-Contribute content for website and other publications
-Develop and manage relevant policies and processes that enhance efficiencies and support the growth of the product development.
-Develop tools to assist managers in implementing strategies of the new product.

PANITEA, Non-Profit for Parents with Children in the Autism Spectrum Disorder, Uruguay
-Keynote speaker at PANITEA Annual Conference; Duranzo, Uruguay

WETA, Colorín Colorado
-Developed and edited bilingual articles based on current education best practices for monthly electronic newsletters.
-Edited to ensured all written material was culturally sensitive and appropriate for targeted audience.

Robert-Leslie School Publishing,
-Brought reports forward to company leaders after evaluating the effectiveness of materials through on-site observations, receiving excellent feedback from supervisors and colleagues.
-Provided ongoing bilingual support as they expanded their product-line to meet the needs of all students.
-Created and edited marketing pieces to better present their product in the bilingual and special education market.
-Evaluated curriculum pieces to ensure they were developmentally appropriate. 

Maryland Committee for Children
-Translated infant and toddler training courses.

2010-2011

-Successfully launched the Ways to Work Used Car Loan Program, and expanded the client market to better diversify the agency’s loan portfolio to reduce delinquency rates to a 4% from 10% average rate.
-Attended and directed in appropriate professional development programs to attain and exceed competency based in contractual agreements with local funders.
-Develops policies, departmental goals, strategic business plans, and implements new initiatives to achieve the vision and mission at Family Matters.
-Develops strategies to continue to form partnerships with academic institutions; corporate companies and other non-profit organizations.
-Broaden the agencies outreach to include diverse communities, through media presence, radio show hosting at local radio stations, collateral content development, and advertisement.
-Collaborates with the CEO and COO in organizational fund development initiatives.

2006-2010

-Developed policies, departmental goals and practices to better execute the vision and mission at a national level.
-Developed and managed budgets and schedules ensuring fiscal goals were achieved.
-Collaborated with publications team to develop materials, provided constructive feedback, and coached to ensure current research was applied.
-Co-wrote educational curriculum, Family of Readers.
-Lead departmental changes to ensure all curriculum-based trainings were aligned using current best practices adding electronic versions, significantly decreasing production costs.
-Represented Reading Is Fundamental, Inc. at related national events and conferences, cultivating and maintaining relationships with potential donors, as well as relationships with partners.
-Spoke publicly representing the organization at a variety of audiences at national events.
-Presented to education leaders from other countries to encourage other nations to imitate the organization’s mission.
-Oversaw development of education program components for communities, schools, and afterschool programs.
-Oversaw the production of online content and online-curriculum based on current research and best practices.

2004-2006

-Oversaw the master schedule providing leadership and developing long range and annual plans for product development and product launch.
-Oversaw and managed, consultants, designers to ensure deadlines were met.
-Lead product launch and exhibitions.  
-Developed and updated education correlations for all school publishing products to national/state standards within given deadlines.
-Coordinated and managed sale-representatives product-sampling budget.
-Monitor requests and assured accurate sampling reducing costs and assuring appropriate delivery within given deadlines.
-Successfully launched a new curriculum program during a two-day company conference introducing participants to the product line: Language, Literacy & Vocabulary!

 2000-2004

-Worked in cooperative teams as a member of Los Angeles Child Find Initiative.
-Regional team leader, managed a large referral case-load, oversaw the development of educational plans to better support children in their beginning stages of the special education child find initiative.

Special Education, Primary grades Instructor, Miles Elementary School, -Supervised and managed special education assistants and one-on-one assistants.
-Instructed special needs students 2nd-5th Grade in all content areas.
-Designed student Individualized Educational Plans (IEP) and administered a variety of formal/informal assessments, for initial and reevaluation referrals.
-Designed curricula, created and assigned work geared toward student’s ability, modified curriculum and created behavior management strategies and techniques.

 1997-2000

-Provided ongoing outstanding customer services to company clients.
-Demonstrated team player skills, working extended hours when requested, to meet customer demands.
-Provided customers with a positive experience and consistently increased store sales.