Experience

Rhodes State College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Chair of Information and Emerging Technology and Asst. Professor, Digital Media

  • Jan 1998 - Present

  Responsibilities include: administrative work such as budgeting, scheduling, employee evaluations and professional development planning, program assessment, curriculum review, curriculum development, articulation agreements, credentialing of faculty, college credit plus offerings, summer camps, student advising, and conduct advisory board meetings. Am also an instructional designer and instructor for digital media classes, including on-line classes as well as face-to-face classes, for various computer software. (i.e. Adobe Premiere, InDesign, Dreamweaver, HTML & CSS, Director, Windows, Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, Publisher). Advisor for digital media students. Assessment Champion for IT/ET Division. Participate as a 2008 and 2019 HLC Comprehensive Evaluation, Criterion Co-Chair. Assisted in facilitation and coordination of writing the assurance argument. Complete course assessments, participate on various committees and conduct community service hands-on digital media activities. Serve on the Lima Senior High School and Vantage Career Center Advisory Boards for digital media majors and as a mentor. Show less



Ohio Northern University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Adjunct Faculty

  • Aug 2005 - Dec 2005

  Responsibilities included teaching Technology 139: Introduction to Information Systems. Taught Windows, Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint. Responsibilities included teaching Technology 139: Introduction to Information Systems. Taught Windows, Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.



The Ohio State University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Program Coordinator for Continuing Education Department

  • Sep 2001 - Aug 2002

  Responsibilities included: assessing business community needs, marketing, developing, facilitating and training staff internally on the usage of computer software, and preparing contracts for the IT programs for the Continuing Education Department. Help established an OSU IT Training Center and the implementation of certification classes. Responsibilities included: assessing business community needs, marketing, developing, facilitating and training staff internally on the usage of computer software, and preparing contracts for the IT programs for the Continuing Education Department. Help established an OSU IT Training Center and the implementation of certification classes.



Degen Excavating Company, Inc.

• Lima, Ohio

• Office Manager

  • Mar 1996 - Aug 2002

  Responsibilities include: payroll, accounts receivable and accounts payable for three different companies on a computer based accounting system. Maintain five different checkbooks. Responsible for fringe benefits, including preparation and payment of union dues. Responsible for the balancing and compiling of all payroll taxes and payments of same. Responsible for paying all invoices to vendors. Responsible for creating invoices, receiving payments, preparing deposits, and maintaining accounts receivable records. Also responsible for month end, quarter end and fiscal year end closings and reconciliation of accounts, and the generation of financial reports. Compile and prepare information for bid packages. Typing of correspondence and forms. Show less



Alloway Environmental Testing Services

• Lima, Ohio

• Lab Administrator/Accounts Receivable

  • Mar 1995 - Jan 2000

  Responsibilities included: payroll, maintain personnel files, track employee days off work, facilitate and maintain employee benefits. Management of accounts receivable. Assist with collection of outstanding accounts, journal entries, and month end closing. Train analysts, secretaries and customer service personnel on Windows software, including Word Perfect, Quattro Pro, Excel and Word. Maintain Novell network computer system throughout the Lab, including troubleshooting. Assist Lab Director in organizing/compiling necessary analyses information for large projects, coordinating with the secretaries to ensure accuracy of these reports. Create templates to make analyses and reporting less time consuming, optimizing efficiency. Prepare laboratory analyses and field sampling quotes. Review in-house projects to ensure on-time delivery of laboratory results. Accounts receivable job responsibilities included: preparing invoices, receiving payments and preparing month-end accounts receivable reports. The accounts receivable work was done on my computer at home using QuickBooks. Show less



bp

• United Kingdom
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Process Safety Management Systems Associate

  • Mar 1989 - Mar 1995

  While at BP Chemicals, I absorbed as much computer training as I could get. This is where I learned the bulk of the knowledge of the various software packages, as they graciously allowed employees to take multitude of varieties of computer classes. My responsibilities there included: coordinate/communicate site-wide with Managers, Team Leaders, and procedure owners regarding ISO-9002, Process Safety Management (OSHA Regulation 29 CFR Part 1910) and Management of Change typing issues. Administer control of ISO/PSM/MOC procedures and 85 manuals. Coordinate and manage ISO/PSM/MOC typing efforts, which included training of contract personnel in the advanced features of Microsoft Word, Excel, Draw and Drafix for Windows. Originate monthly reports, charts and comparisons for the ISO/PSM/MOC projects. Format and prepare slides for staff presentations using Power Point software. Conduct team meetings to train/inform and update Associates of ISO/PSM/MOC policies and procedures, focusing on record retention. Specialized in document viewing system used at BP Chemicals, Lima, using Visual Basic and FoxPro software packages. Responsible for maintaining and updating the system. Act as a scribe for hazard analyses meetings. Responsible for using FoxPro database software to track recommendations of hazard analyses and to prepare monthly reports. Show less



Scot Lad Foods, Inc.

• United States
• Oil and Gas

• Payroll and Fringe Benefit Administrator

  • Jan 1980 - Jan 1989

  Responsibilities included: payroll, payroll changes, maintain personnel files, and administering policies and procedures on hiring/firing of employees and handling personnel/payroll complaints. Responsible for computing the payroll and fringe benefit budgets on a yearly basis. Computed the Workers' Compensation premium payment and monitored all claims. Monitored the health insurance claims and reports. Prepared all the payroll reports and payroll taxes, assembled all the information for payroll and the payroll taxes journal entries for the general ledger. Typed the financial statements and did other typing as needed. Prepared time cards and researched questionnaires, verifications, and inquiries for personnel/payroll. Set up new payroll/personnel files and reports on the computer system. Represented Scot Lad Foods in Ohio Civil Rights hearings and National Labor Relations Board hearings in discrimination cases. Participated in the hourly employees' union negotiations. Show less