Work:
Milwaukee Area Technical College
TUTORING SERVICES ASSISTANT
Community Newspapers Inc
COPY EDITOR & PAGE DESIGNER
Rubin Jewelers, Mequon
ONLINE EDITOR & DESIGNER
MyCommunityNOW.com/Community Newspapers Inc
ASSISTANT ONLINE EDITOR
Community Newspapers
COPY EDITOR & PAGE DESIGNER
Trade Press Publications' Maintenance Solutions
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
FREELANCE REPORTER
Lakeshore Newspapers Inc
REPORTER & PHOTOGRAPHER
Oconomowoc Enterprise, Oconomowoc
REPORTER & PHOTOGRAPHER
Capital News Service
CORRESPONDENT
Education:
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI
MASTER'S in administrative leadership
Milwaukee Area Technical College
DIPLOMA in web design
Michigan State University
BACHELOR'S in journalism
Skills:
ANDRAGOGY: thorough knowledge of barriers to and motivations behind adult learning; adept at working with people from diverse backgrounds; experienced in online and blended education, both as an instructor and as a student; practiced in on-the-job training and coaching as a peer instructor; versed in instructional system design, specifically the ADDIE and iterative spiral models; disciplined in learner-centered instruction. ONLINE: working in content-management, data-management and learning-management systems; employing adaptive technologies, such as closed captioning; using Web 2.0 tools like social-networking sites, blogs, photo sharing, text messaging and wikis to communicate; coding in XHTML (HTML and XML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). APPLICATIONS: CMS platforms WordPress, Clickability and Dynamic Site; video technologies, including Final Cut, Camtasia, MovieMaker and YouTube; Adobe Creative Suite, including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash and Acrobat Professional; LMS platforms Desire2Learn and Blackboard; collaboration platforms Elluminate, Skype and Google Drive (Documents); Microsoft Office Suite, including Project, Visio and Publisher; DMS platforms TutorTrac and CCI. MULTIMEDIA: filming, editing and producing videos; designing products for print and online; writing, editing and proofing for print and online; shooting and publishing/posting photographs; creating graphics for print and online; generating and moderating forums and polls; interviewing and researching.