About—Education

15+ years' corporate experience defining communication and training needs
...and developing the most effective way to deliver your message

About | Education

College

  • Bachelor of Science—University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, Texas
    Major—Journalism; minor—English. (Journalism courses included formal photography training.)

    ✦ Graduated cum laude, 3.9 GPA

    Also attended: The University of Texas at Austin, Paris Junior College

  • Texas Teaching Certification (Texas Education Agency)—Journalism, English, Science, Business, Reading/Language Arts

    (all certifications are for high school and/or middle school levels)

Professional Development

These are all formal training courses, many of them multiple-day classroom based, unless otherwise noted.

TRAINING DESIGN and DEVELOPMENT

  • Instructional Systems Life Cycle (ISLC)

  • Accelerated Development Process

  • Information Mapping®

  • Instructional Programs Development (Ruth Clark)

  • Cognitive Approaches to Instruction

  • Needs Analysis Workshop

  • Harless Job Aid Workshop®

  • CBT Author Training Workshop

  • EDS Education Specialist Internship (year-long mentored internship with curriculum and rigorous requirements while full-time Training Specialist at Electronic Data Systems)

WEB and USABILITY DESIGN

  • Writing for the Web (Neilsen Norman Group)

  • Macintosh User-Centered Design

  • (Book Study) Designing Web Usability (Neilsen)

  • (Book Study) Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Krug)

  • (Book Study) The Design of Sites: Patterns, Principles, and Processes for Crafting a Customer-Centered Web Experience (van Duyne, et al)

TECHNICAL

  • Systems Life Cycle (SLC) Overview

  • Using the SLC for Maintenance and Minor Enhancements (I also designed and developed this course for systems engineers and architects)

  • SLC Structured Analysis

  • SLC Project Management

  • Security Awareness

  • Designing a Business System

  • Consolidated Data Modeling

  • Basic Electricity and Telephony

  • The Business of AT&T

PROJECT MANAGEMENT and LEADERSHIP

  • Project Management Workshop

  • Benchmarking for Process Improvement

  • Basic Measurement (Metrics curriculum; I also designed this multi-course training program)

  • Metrics (Data) Analysis (Metrics curriculum; I also designed and developed this multi-course training program)

  • Executive Presentations

  • Business Improvement Cycle (I also developed this course for corporate security upper management)

  • EDS Leadership Internship (year-long mentored internship with curriculum and rigorous requirements while full-time Training Team Manager at Electronic Data Systems)

  • Leading People

  • Successful P&L Management

  • General Ledger Overview (I also designed and developed this course)

  • Behavioral Interviewing®

  • Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Overview

  • Group Dynamics

  • Quality Awareness Seminar

TEACHING (high school level)

  • Flipped Classroom Conference

  • Edmodo, an Educational Social Learning Network

  • Creating Content for the SmartBoard®

  • Advanced Academic Summit: Designing Online Assignments for the Advanced Academics Classroom

  • Pre-AP (Advanced Placement®) Secondary Teacher Institute

  • Pre-AP (Advanced Placement®) English for High School Teachers
    (4-day class taught at SMU in July 2013)

  • 30-Hour Initial Gifted and Talented Training (plus study of four books)

  • K-12 Writing Institute (8-day class through Allen ISD in July 2012)

  • Literacy in the 21st Century Classroom

  • Analytical Paragraphs

  • Working with Writers in the Expository Structure

  • Texas English Language Proficiency Assessment System (TELPAS) training (multiple courses with must-pass testing to prepare to assess progress made in learning the English language by any limited-English-proficient (LEP) high school students I taught in my Allen HS classes)

SALES and MARKETING

  • The Versatile Salesperson®

  • Building Successful Proposals

  • Customer Relations

COMMUNICATION and LEARNING

  • Mind Matters® (mind mapping)

  • Information Mapping® (also listed under Training and Education)

  • (Book Study) So What Do They Really Know? Assessment That Informs Teaching and Learning (Tovani)

  • (Book Study) Words Fail Me: How Language Works and What Happens when it Doesn't (Vail)

  • (Book Study) Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level (Shaywitz)

  • (Book Study) Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)

  • (Book Study) In the Mind's Eye: Visual Thinkers, Gifted People with Dyslexia and Other Learning Difficulties, Computer Images, and the Ironies of Creativity (West)

  • (Book Study) Living with Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults (Daniels)

  • (Book Study) Differentiation: Simplified, Realistic, and Effective: How to Challenge Advanced Potentials in Mixed-Ability Classrooms (Kingore)

  • (Book Study) Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression, and Other Disorders (Webb, et al)

  • (Book Study) Whole-Brain Thinking: Working from Both Sides of the Brain (Wonder)