PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 1992 – August 2018

·         Senior English Teacher – International Schools (Wall Street English, Meten)   – Dec. 2016 - To Date

o  Program Director, private tutor and curriculum developer attending to all levels from beginning to advanced learners and those who are prepping for the IELTS, ACT, or SAT.

o  Dynamic teacher to Participants at their Corporate Sites, delivering custom, complete training curriculum to assist foreign-born professionals from a variety of cultures and ages, in improving their American business communication/career English skills.

o  Business English , business document writing skills, leading and participating in meetings and job interviewing skills. Business vocabulary, business news, money matters, currency exchange, participating in mock seminars for business people, mock interviews, resume building, participating in meeting with vocal involvement (“keep the conversation going”), managing a meeting, brainstorming and evaluations, questioning and clarifying, and bargaining.

·         Culture Studies “Round Table” Master of Ceremonies with The Shanghai Museum of Architecture - January 2018 - To Date

·         Sr. ESL Teacher – The English Center, Oakland, CA – August 2012 – Dec. 2016

o  Highly-rated teacher of English to a very large international student population.

o  Fluent, unique, artistic teacher of English Grammar, Reading & Writing, Speaking & Listening, & Community English.

·         Corporate Training Instructor – Oakland, CA – Sept. 2012 - Dec. 2016

o  Work closely with subject matter experts (SME) weekly to analyze the audience, determine the course objectives, and get input for curriculum.

o  Develop the content of the  course modules in the form of Instructor led training, web based training, eGuides, quick reference guides, videos, etc.

o  Conduct a final review with all the SMEs to verify all content for final review and revisions before training the trainer to help him/her understand the course content and how to deliver the content.

o  Conduct a pilot with the first set of students with a Students assessment. which contains questions pertaining to the content they learned and enhance/adjust the course as necessary based on how the first cohort of students performed on the assessment.

o  Expert educator in Technology for ESL Learners (Basic-Advanced Computers, Job Readiness, Basic-Advanced MS Office classes.

·         Residential Director of Studies for St. Giles Juniors’ Summer – Bay Area, 2013:

o        Responsible for all aspects of the ESL Immersion course pertaining to Academics, ensuring smooth running of the academic program at all times by closely monitoring Academic Training from start to finish to maximize benefit to students and to the workloads of 11 teachers.

o        As a strong leader, worked closely with Center Director, Regional Director, Production Managers and other Directors of Studies in 12 other cities in America in staffing, training content direction, academic development.

o        Conducted Teacher Observations (in/out of class), Area Induction (feedback to HQ about teacher performance), Teacher Mentoring, Staff Meetings

o        A positive, passionate, authentic, influential and empowering force in maintaining professional relationships with full-time as well as volunteer staff and the student populace, striving for continued professional development. Solid background with matters of confidentiality, hiring and termination processes. Fluent in computer literacy and use.

o        Established, creative,confident, authentic teaching style with children, teenagers and adults while contributing to an inspiring educational environment.

o        Lively, authentic teacher of the English Language in formal classrooms with a wide range of student experience and age-ranges. Adept with language learners from all over the world.

·         Program Manager/ESL Teacher for various Alameda County elementary, middle and high schools developing curriculum, qualitative record keeping, preparing lessons and instructing – 1999-2013.

o        Provide engaging, inspirational lessons in classrooms with up to 48 students as well as in one-on-one “tutoring” style sessions.

o        Excellent written and verbal interpersonal skills with high levels of motivation and initiative. Proven ability to effectively problem-solve and come up with solutions on the fly with comprehensive academic programming.

o        Fluent with formal assessment design and implementation (i.e. CASAS, CAHSEE, et al.) and the management & coordination of curriculum testing to evaluate curriculum effectiveness.

·        Project Manager at the DeYoung Museum. Administered network, configured and supported internal hardware.

·        Senior Technical Support Webmaster, acted as key contributor in a cohesive, highly productive engineering team providing Senior-most level of support via e-mail.

·        Project Manager for a successful 1,600-desktop deployment / rollout. Developed and tested workstation images. Evaluated, tested and packaged large array of applications for workstation distribution.

·        Desktop Support Manager and Help Desk Supervisor with SBC & Yahoo. Interacted directly with support, engineering, and marketing. Mentored 2nd/3rd levels of support staff. Managed contents of the Knowledge Base, reviewed internal documents and prepared said material for external consumption.

·        Game Counselor at Nintendo of America providing energetic customer support with hundreds of popular games via telephone.

California State University at East Bay, CA

·         MA TESOL graduate, focusing on Language Learning, 2^nd Language Acquisition, & Sociolinguistics.

·         Graduate with BA in English – Language & Discourse in the Major, Creative Writing in the Minor.

·         Graduate from the Language Institute in Monterey, CA – Intermediate & Advanced Russian Studies.