Experience

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  Science Glen

  • United States

  • Member

    • Jun 2023 - Present
    • United States

    Science Glen creates tools and courses to help people learn faster — easier — and deeper.

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  Palmdale High School

  • Palmdale, California

  • Science Teacher at Palmdale High School

    • Aug 2018 - Jun 2023
    • Palmdale, California

    I’m truly fortunate to currently be teaching AP Physics 1, AP Chemistry, and General Chemistry to an amazing group of students in a remarkable school and district.• Cleared teaching credential in Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. • Cleared technical education teaching credential in Information and Communication Technology.

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  Vasquez High School

  • Acton, CA

  • Science Teacher

    • Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
    • Acton, CA

    Excited to be teaching at an amazing school with brand new facilities, small class-sizes, and great people. I'll be teaching Physical Sciences, Physics, Chemistry, and AP Chemistry.

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  Ingenuitor

  • Van Nuys, CA

  • Co-founder

    • 2005 - Aug 2016
    • Van Nuys, CA

    Headed a team brought together to develop an electronic version of the bestselling Pocket Medical books of JDV Publishing Co./Booksmythe. After developing a thorough business plan and attracting financing, Ingenuitor’s team of engineers, designers, and programmers succeeded in developing and testing software for the first tool to allow communication proofing—between any pair of languages. • Supervised the development of product specifications, physical design, prototype development, content, engineering, GUI, software implementation, component sourcing, and contract manufacturer selection on several platforms including: Linux, Mac, Windows, and iOS.• In collaboration with doctors, nurses, EMTs, and police developed the content for several forms ranging from pain assessments to informed consents to medical triage for inmate and arrestee processing.• Coordinated the software incorporation of the graphics, text, and audio recordings in ten languages. • Successfully conducted beta tests at the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail, Los Angeles Municipal Detention Center, and Cedars Sinai Medical Center.• Developed an intellectual property plan resulting two registered trademarks from the USPTO and a non-provisional patent filed for the essence of the invention.• Development recognition included: London School of Business—Top 20 Global Security Start-ups, Dow Jones Healthcare Innovations—Top 50 Healthcare Start-ups, and Dow Jones Mobile Technology Summit—Top 25 Wireless Companies.• Technology used: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Dojo, XML, Lua, Xcode, Coda, Dreamweaver, Linux, Oracle VM, Adobe CS3–CC, Audacity, BitBucket, Teamviewer, Testflight, Colloquy (IRC)

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  Booksmythe

  • Founder

    • 1999 - Aug 2016

    I started Booksmythe to fill an enormous need in healthcare—doctors and nurses were having trouble communicating with their patients. Starting with "Pocket Medical Spanish," the Pocket Medical series of books sold over 100,000 copies.Managing a team that handled the desktop publishing, content creation, design, vendor relationships, distribution, marketing, accounting, and order fulfillment, Booksmythe published several books in categories ranging from reference to promotional to award-winning children's books were created.

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  LAUSD and more.

  • Teacher

    • 2008 - Jun 2016

    Experience teaching students ranging from 6th grade through high school and up to students in medical and dental school. In demand for great classroom management, a broad technical and scientific background, and an easy style.

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  Techstars partnering with Disney Accelerator

  • Greater Los Angeles Area

  • Fullstack Associate

    • Jun 2015 - Oct 2015
    • Greater Los Angeles Area

    Partnering with The Walt Disney Company to deliver the Disney Accelerator -- an incredible opportunity to learn, network, and grow while helping amazing companies do the same. Full-stack AssociateTechstars is a global ecosystem that empowers entrepreneurs to bring new technologies to market wherever they choose to live. With dozens of mentorship-driven accelerator programs and thousands of startup programs worldwide, Techstars exists to support the world’s most promising entrepreneurs throughout their lifelong journey, from inspiration to IPO. The partnership with Disney combines the Techstars entrepreneurial mindset with Disney magic.• Responsible for video capture of team trainings, lectures, and pitch practices with post-processing in Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, and Adobe Media Encoder followed by upload to Vimeo or UsePodium.• Desktop published various documents including team summary sheets for visiting mentors.• Designed and built a printed training guide for teams to use the new Pluot video conferencing system.• Tested, tracked, and identified bugs in team websites.• Wire-framed website flow with InVision and page layout with Wordpress.• Assisted Disney IT in maintaining internal network, repairing Windows Vista BIOS on some machines, helping teams with connectivity issues, and other general technical support.• Technologies used: Apache Bench, Blaze Meter, Wordpress, InVision, Adobe CC 2015 suite, Asana, JiraLearn more about the Disney Accelerator here: http://disneyaccelerator.com.

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  General Assembly

  • Santa Monica

  • Student

    • Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
    • Santa Monica

    General Assembly is an educational institution that transforms thinkers into creators through education in technology, business and design at nine campuses across three continents. General Assembly has created a global community of individuals empowered to pursue work they love, by offering full-time immersive programs, long-form courses, and classes and workshops on the most relevant skills of the 21st century – from web development and user experience design, to business fundamentals, to data science, to product management and digital marketing. The course is organized into four 3-week sprints of learning concepts and then pitching, building, and presenting a project using the concepts from that section. This is followed by extensive feedback and code questions regarding what was built. Project 1: TicTacToe (https://dazzling-inferno-4632.firebaseapp.com/)• Technology used: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Angular.js, SQLite3, Firebase, Markdown, InDesign, Git/GitHub, Pivotal Tracker Project 2: QuizBuilder (https://quizbuilder.herokuapp.com)• Technology used: HTML5, CSS3, Ruby On Rails, RSpec TDD, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Markdown, InDesign, Git/GitHub, Pivotal Tracker Project 3: MunchTime (• http://www.rushindra.com/munchtime/)• Technology used: HTML5, CSS3, Ruby On Rails, RSpec TDD, API, Active Model Serializer, Angular.js, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Markdown, Powerpoint, Git/GitHub, Pivotal TrackerProject 4: Personalized Study Guide (http://perstudyguide.herokuapp.com/) Project 4 was the continuation of Project 2, above. http://perstudyguide.herokuapp.com/• Technology used: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Ruby On Rails, RSpec TDD, PostgreSQL, Heroku, Markdown, Draw.io, InDesign, PowerPoint, Git, GitHub, Pivotal Tracker