about me

• TOEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) certification
• Teaching experience in-person, online, and hybrid
• Curriculum development and assessment experience
• 15 years combined teaching/tutoring experience in an afterschool teaching creative and expository writing to US 3rd & 5th grade students, at a two-year college teaching rhetoric and humanities, and at a four-year, Tier I University teaching business & accounting communications and leadership theory
• 27 years job training experience in retail, corporate, and academic environments, including the development of curriculum and outcomes

• 13 years supervisory experience as a hiring/firing manager in retail, corporate, and academic environments, including full-time, part-time, temp, and work-study/international students, as well as direct and indirect reports
• 22 years writing technical and procedural documentation for operations and training
• 25 years working in an academic environment and mentoring others toward success, both as management/administration and as faculty
• 28 years experience in project analysis, development, and implementation in corporate and academia (operations, administration, and as faculty)

• DLS (Doctorate of Liberal Studies), Research focused on imagined and real barriers to public participation - Coursework Completed
• MPA (Masters of Public Affairs), Concentration in Public & Non-Profit Management, 2015
• MA in Humanities, Concentration in Literature and Creative Writing, 2011
• BA in English, Concentration in Creative Writing, Medieval Studies Minor (Sigma Tau Delta, English Honors), 2007
• CPM (Certified Public Manager)
• TEFL (Teacher of English as a Foreign Language certification)

City of Plano, Budget & Research Department     May 2014 – Mar 2023

Cultural Arts Grants Administrator and Commission Staff Liaison        Oct 2019 – Mar 2023  

Sr. Budget Analyst and Commission Staff Liaison     May 2014 – Oct 2019   

UT Dallas Naveen Jindal School of Management     Aug 2009 – May 2023

Adjunct Faculty – Business & Accounting Communication    Aug 2011 – May 2023

Writing Center Tutor     Aug 2009 – Jul 2011   

Collin County Community College, Preston Ridge Campus   Aug 2011 - Aug 2014   

Adjunct Faculty – English/Rhetoric and Humanities   

UT Dallas School of Economic, Political & Policy Science   Feb 2008 - Aug 2009  

Administrative Assistant – Part-time (while in grad school)      

SMU Office of Development & External Affairs    Sep 1999 - Oct 2007  

Assistant Director of Constituent Records