Experience

North Orange Continuing Education

• Adjunct

  • Sep 2019 - Present



Garden Grove Unified School District

• Garden Grove, CA

• Intensive Behavioral Instruction, Office of Special Education, Garden Grove Unified School District

  • Dec 2012 - Sep 2019

  Create and implement intensive behavioral instruction for preschool through high school students. Customize curriculum to ensure student understanding while regularly monitoring progress with discrete trial and observational data. Ensure Individual Education Plan goals are met beyond expectations or that obstacles have been identified to target behavioral solutions. Phenomenal reputation for competence and flexibility when working with parents, teachers, students, and school staff. Create and implement intensive behavioral instruction for preschool through high school students. Customize curriculum to ensure student understanding while regularly monitoring progress with discrete trial and observational data. Ensure Individual Education Plan goals are met beyond expectations or that obstacles have been identified to target behavioral solutions. Phenomenal reputation for competence and flexibility when working with parents, teachers, students, and school staff.



YMCA of Orange County

• Tustin

• Program Director of YInclusion, YMCA Community Services

  • Jun 2014 - Apr 2015

  Staff management, budgeting, and marketing advocating inclusion services for children with special needs across Orange County. Collaborating with community service members, staff, and other non-profits to encourage self reliance and individual development for the special needs population. This also includes investing, working with, and training staff to ensure children with special needs are socially included in all facets of after school care. Staff management, budgeting, and marketing advocating inclusion services for children with special needs across Orange County. Collaborating with community service members, staff, and other non-profits to encourage self reliance and individual development for the special needs population. This also includes investing, working with, and training staff to ensure children with special needs are socially included in all facets of after school care.



Chapman University

• Orange County, California Area

• Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant

  • Dec 2011 - May 2013

  Instructional technology support for graduate and undergraduate courses in education, includes creating and developing pedagogy through learning management systems such as Blackboard, Voicethread, Adobe Connect, and other learning softwares. Assist evaluating instructional methods and content to guide student discussion and understanding. Research focus introducing spatial analysis to examining the diverse cultural and linguistic learning environment. Emphasis on developing directed academic collaborations to better serve diverse school and community populations. Show less



Chapman University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Personal Assistant to Yakir Aharanov

  • May 2009 - Mar 2011

  Personal caregiver professional to an autistic adult. Regularly creating curriculum, social experiences, and other counseling techniques to develop self reliance and empowerment.

• Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant/ GIS Humanities Lab Specialist

  • Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Conduct faculty supervised Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology research in the humanities disciplines (sociology, historical linguistics, cultural anthropology) and beyond. Assist developing GIS curriculum and assessments for undergraduate history courses in African historical linguistics and spatial analysis. Assist managing and integrating geo and lexicostatistical databases to support student and faculty research. Contributor to a University of California, Los Angeles, University of Houston, and Chapman University consortium using an online platform to borrow, inherit, and innovate new ideas in historical linguistics and spatial analysis pedagogy. Show less

• Academic Peer Advisor

  • May 2008 - Sep 2008

  Part time position academically advising incoming freshmen and transfer students. Act as the first liaison with new incoming students upon acceptance to the university. acted as the first liaison with new incoming students upon acceptance to the university. Acclimate new students to their academic majors, programs, registration process and Chapman University life. Reputation with new parents and students for making the transition into the university as enjoyable and inspired to achieve their academic goals. Show less



YMCA of Orange County

• Central Orange Coast YMCA

• Childcare and After School Program Director

  • Aug 2001 - Aug 2005

  Manage and oversee staff at YMCA childcare and after school programs in Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Corona del Mar, and Tustin. Year round program targeting elementary through junior high school aged students. Centers consistently grow above expected enrollment with positive school and community presence. Implement a Character Counts initiative and curriculum while managing supportive staff. Fiscal and personnel management for childcare sites while boasting a constant 15% revenue increase through enrollment. 2003 Peer recognition for building school and community partnerships. COC YMCA Committee Chair for building and sustaining school district and community partnerships. Measure A Funding Community Committee Member for the Newport –Mesa Unified School District. Show less