Experience

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  Bloomingdales's

  • Chestnut Hill, Boston

  • Retail Sales Professional

    • Nov 2010 - May 2014
    • Chestnut Hill, Boston

    Skilled salesman and advisor in Men's haberdashery department with emphasis on professional business wear, suits to socks, fitted shirts to ties and cufflinks. Coordinated with luggage, shoes, and specialty designer clothing.

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  The Winsor School

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Long Term Substitute Teacher

    • Dec 2008 - Mar 2009
    • Greater Boston Area

    Taught Humanities (American literature, grammar, & U.S. colonial history) to 5th grade classes for complete trimester during homeroom teacher's maternity leave. Responsible for leading daily classroom discussions, facilitating key concepts, following structured lesson plans, distributing, collecting & analyzing children's coursework and providing grade-wide evaluations at end of term. Unique experience in teaching all-girl, high-achieving students.

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  Cambridge Public Schools

  • Haggerty Elementary School

  • 2nd Grade Classroom Lead Teacher

    • Sep 2005 - Jun 2008
    • Haggerty Elementary School

    2nd grade Classroom Lead Teacher, responsible for transitioning 7-8 year old public school children from novice reader/writers to literacy fluency and elementary math proficiency in preparation for 3rd grade MCAS testing. Co-ordinated with teaching assistants and behavioral specialists to guarantee class-wide achievement of diverse learners in a full-inclusion setting. Taught curriculum basics with emphasis on contemporary children's literature, writer's workshop, arithmetic and natural science courses.

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  Boston Public Schools

  • Josiah Quincy Elementary School

  • Full-time Substitute Teacher

    • Jan 2002 - Apr 2005
    • Josiah Quincy Elementary School

    Re-entered workforce after 4-year stint as stay-at-home Dad for 4-8year old daughter, just after 9/11/01 with determination to become an elementary school teacher. Landed full-time Substitute teaching position at Josiah Quincy Elementary School, five days per week, while pursuing public school teacher's license and Master of Education degree from Wheelock College. Gained wonderful teaching opportunities with first-class professional teachers in highly motivated classroom settings for K-5 children, qualified with long-term assignments for one third grade and two fourth grade classrooms.

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  Tower Records

  • General Manager

    • Sep 1993 - Feb 1996

    Rare example of rising from the bottom (sales clerk) to the top (General Manager) of a retail store then positioned among the top ten producers of revenue in a chain of 110 locations nation-wide. Responsible for managing day-to-day operations, payroll, staff scheduling of 80 full and part-time employees, inventory management, hiring/firing and reporting to regional manager who was in charge of five stores comprising the Mid-Atlantic region. Managed the DC location across from GWU initially and subsequently managed the Annapolis store.

  • Buyer, supervisor, sales clerk

    • Aug 1987 - Sep 1993

    Went to work for TR initially to augment income earned by night at FM radio Station WDCU. Sales clerk selling music recordings, much of which comprised what I was broadcasting nightly on the air to diverse Jazz listening audience in Greater Metro DC area. Promoted in Jazz/Misc. Music dept. to buyer, coordinating unit sales with major label and indie distributors, interacting with artists and colleagues who ensured the steady flow of business for the industry. Supervised staff working within my department and maintained cordial relations with customers and colleagues in an actively engaged teamwork setting.

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  WDCU-FM

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Radio Producer

    • Nov 1986 - Mar 1992
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    Dream job five hours per night, five nights per week programming music for 24-hour jazz music station on campus of University of District of Columbia. Complete responsibility for daily playlists, engineering, scripting and on-air announcing of 7pm-midnight program which serviced the Greater Washington DC metro listening area and could be heard as far north as Baltimore and south as North Virginia. Occasionally produced special programming like one-hour special on Miles Davis in '87 and biographical promotions of Milt Hinton for his book, "Basslines", and Illinois Jacquet for his Atlantic Records comeback release, "Jacquet's Got It!" in '89. Gave this up for Tower Records management promotion and to start a family.