Experience

Derry Township School District

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• High School Special Education Teacher

  • Aug 2016 - Present

• 2nd-5th Grade Special Education Teacher

  • Aug 2014 - Aug 2016

• Long Term Sub Learning Support/ Emotional Support

  • Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
• Long Term Sub Autism Support/Intensive Learning Support

  • Aug 2013 - Oct 2013


The Vista School

• United States
• Ranching

• Behavior Technician

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2013

  Responsibilities include but not limited to: -implementing behavioral and academic programming with fidelity across 6 students-planning functional goal based activities-collecting reliable data on programming-responsible for conducting job training (CBVT-community based vocational training) with multiple students at local businesses and completing appropriate paperwork/ assessments-communicating to multi-disciplinary team (MDT) about CBVT progress-inputting data into appropriate database/ graphs Show less

• Teacher

  • Jun 2009 - Aug 2013

  Responsibilities include but not limited to: -member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT)-managing the classroom with 6 students, 8 classroom staff, 4 therapists, and 2 support staff-being the leader in the classroom by leading meetings, delegating responsibilities, creating action steps during meetings for attainable goals, creating and orchestrating the daily classroom schedule, and planning functional goal based activities-training staff to ensure consistency and fidelity of programming implementation-parent communication; choosing and creating priority IEP goals using a variety of assessment tools and current performance level based on data collection-write and update lesson plans according to the IEP-ensuring lesson plan implementation across disciplines (SLP, OT, PT, etc.) Show less



The JDK Group

• United States
• Events Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Caterer

  • May 2004 - Sep 2009

  Served in positions of progressive responsibility from wait staff to Lead caterer. Responsible to clients for whole events to include completing the packing of the event items, transport of all goods to the event, cost effective and efficient service to the client during the event and breakdown and clean-up after the event. Continued to work part-time throughout entire college career, while home on breaks. Also, worked in various aspects of the company (laundry, kitchen help, rentals, etc.). Show less



Camp JOY/ Brian's House

• Full-time resident counselor

  • Jun 2008 - Aug 2008

  A full-time resident counselor at a camp for children and adults (ages 4-75) with developmental disabilities: mental retardation, autism/ autism spectrum disorder, brain injury, and neurological disorders. Primarily assigned full-time care responsibility for 1 to 3 campers in one week blocks depending on severity of disability. Also, assisted in running day camp activities, for children who did not stay overnight, also as ESY opportunity) as break from full-time camper commitments. A full-time resident counselor at a camp for children and adults (ages 4-75) with developmental disabilities: mental retardation, autism/ autism spectrum disorder, brain injury, and neurological disorders. Primarily assigned full-time care responsibility for 1 to 3 campers in one week blocks depending on severity of disability. Also, assisted in running day camp activities, for children who did not stay overnight, also as ESY opportunity) as break from full-time camper commitments.