Director of Community College Partnership Development

• Sep 2022 - Present

Establish cooperative relationships among Purdue Global and Ivy Tech deans, department directors, and faculty to establish course and degree articulations and increase transfer enrollments.Recommend and leverage the existing pathways and articulation options to help IVTCC students optimize their learning and experience for the shortest and best path to credential to meet their career goals.Create a seamless student experience for students interested in transferring to Purdue Global. Direct a strategic communications and marketing program.Promote and facilitate cooperative student services including career services.Initiate special projects related to institutional long-range planning and priorities. Show less

Senior Academic Operations Manager

• Oct 2020 - Sep 2022

Adjunct Instructor of Anatomy and Director

• Jun 2015 - Oct 2020

Adjunct Instructor of Anatomy (part time), IUPUI Department of Biology Served as Anatomy Lab instructorExcellent student evaluations and promoted to hybrid lab instructor Director Project manager, leader, and strategic planner of this co-funded department between Ivy Tech Community College and IUPUI. Establish cooperative relationships, initiatives, partnership grants and policy among IUPUI and Ivy Tech administration, deans, directors and faculty. Direct a strategic marketing program and design cooperative student services and policy. Oversee the exchange of information and data between Ivy Tech and IUPUI and provide financial reporting. Initiate special projects related to institutional long-range planning and priorities. Manage the departmental budget and supervise professional and student staff. Create and maintain articulation agreements. Analyze data to create conduct a yearly presentation for chancellors, administration, and staff at Ivy Tech and IUPUI. Key highlights • Successful project manager of IUPUI’s Guaranteed Admissions Agreement and articulation agreements • January 2020 Indiana University Transfer Champion Award recipient • Increased budget by more than $60,000, and created data reporting system and dashboard • Member of LSAMP Grant program review committee and serve as partnership grants consultant • Lumina Grant recipient • Created the Passport Transfer Guide and IUPUI’s ‘Bulletin Benefits’ academic policy • Successfully recruited Indianapolis Mayor to present at 2019 Passport Breakfast • 2019 book chapter published in Applying Student Development Theories Holistically Show less

Academic Advisor

• May 2011 - May 2015

Provide academic advisement and first-level counseling for approximately 350 biology and biotechnology students. Support students from matriculation until graduation. Research and network with pre-health programs and clubs to counsel students on preparation for and admission to professional and/or graduate school. Problem solve student issues with creative campus networking solutions. Complete financial aid appeals, scholarship appeals, reinstatement contracts, and graduation audits. Attend pre-med conferences and pre-health club meetings. Conduct new-student orientation and probation/dismissal meetings. Evaluate unofficial and official transcripts for course applicability. Nominate students for scholarships and awards and compose letters of recommendation. Conduct Intrusive advising for students with poor attendance/performance. Key highlights• Redesigned advising website, orientation packet, and student handouts• Recruit for Freshman Work Program and conduct assessment and exit interviews • Created innovative templates, check sheets, and documents utilized by other departments and advisors• Created pre-pharmacy information documents Show less

Clinical Education Coordinator

• Feb 2010 - May 2011

Created and coordinated third and fourth year medical student clinical rotations for the inaugural year of clinical clerkships at this regional site. Recruited physicians to volunteer as clinical faculty and created curriculum documents. Appointed and promoted physicians to the IUSM. Researched rotation requirements with physician clerkship directors and implemented rotation specifications. Created daily student schedules and ensured rotation requirements were met. Collaborated with hospital administration and submitted continuing medication education credentials for physicians. Ordered and proctored NBME exams. Coordinated the Rural Medical Curriculum and facilitated the rural MS4 projects. Facilitated grant applications with the Richard Lugar Center for Rural Health. Problem solved preceptor/student situations. Key highlights • Created curriculum diagrams and clinical rotation specifications utilized as the framework for all campuses • Recruited physicians to serve as clinical preceptors (without reimbursement) • Successfully managed and created the largest student ratio at regional campus rotations • Contributed to grant writing and recipient of the Richard Lugar Center for Rural Health • Created third and fourth year elective clinical rotations • Researched extensively and succeeded in providing students a necessary psychiatry rotation requirement Show less

Transfer Advisor

• Mar 2009 - Feb 2010

Academic Advisor

• Oct 2006 - Feb 2009

Academic Advisor

• May 2006 - Feb 2009

Senior Academic Advisor

• Aug 2001 - Jun 2006