HR Operations Specialist at Gearbox Entertainment (2016-04 – 2024-03)
- Served as the Onboarding Specialist -Facilitated all new hire orientations
- Collaborated effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve company-wide goals and drive positive change within the organization
- Discovered and resolved complex problems that affected management and business decisions
- Ensured legal compliance in all HR activities, minimizing risk exposure for the organization
- Promoted emergency preparedness strategy involving oversight and maintenance of inventory and equipment
- Created onboarding process for our hiring managers to better set up our new hires for success on day one
- Assisted with recruiting and talent acquisition
Substitute Teacher/Long Term at Jenks PS (2013-08 – 2016-05)
- Taught various grade levels at Jenks Elementary on a part-time basis
- Supervised, supported and educated students on specific skills and concepts by managing classroom behavior and keeping students engaged
- Developed creative instructional strategies to keep students motivated
- Provided feedback and support to help guide them and accomplish learning benchmarks
- Utilized quick thinking and problem-solving skills when quickly needing to adapt to a technology or processes that you're not familiar with.
- Guided learning process, achieving curriculum goals and objectives.
- Maintained confidentiality of privileged information by respecting personal privacy.
Parent Educator at Even Start Carrollton ISD (2005-08 – 2007-06)
- Conducted Interactive literacy activities between parents and their children (parent-child activities)
- The long-term purpose is to help break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy for low-income families.
- Conducted ESL classes with parents to achieve goals leading to economic self-sufficiency (adult education).
- I made weekly home visits to each family enrolled in the program and assessed gaps in resources and environment
- At the home visits, I would model basic pre-k learning literacy exercises, then have the parents model the exercises
- Designed assessments to measure student/parent progress and helped to determine students' needs
- Noticed a 65% increase in comprehension and retention by the end of the program
- Focus on adapting to meet the needs of the learner
- Identified potential risk factors in children's development through observation and screening tools.
Special Education Teacher at Plano ISD (2003-07 – 2004-06)
- As a Special Education teacher, I provided case management in the form of an Individual Education Plan tailored to each student's differing needs and goals
- Established efficient classroom management procedures
- Developed Individualized Education plans for each student based on SMART Goals
- Organized sessions including parents as well as other teachers to determine areas we all felt needed improvement. This lead to 35% improvement within three months
- Continued increased parent interactions throughout the year resulting in a 40% increase in assessment scores by the end of the year
- Recommended accommodations and/or adaptive technology
- Constantly checking the latest community resources for technology that may be beneficial to students and their families
- Collaborate with general education teachers and speech pathologists to provide differentiated instruction and classroom accommodations/modifications
- Provided a multi-sensory language-based classroom including visual auditory tactile and kinesthetic support.
- Modeled professional and ethical standards when dealing with students, parents and community.
- Encouraged critical thinking skills while promoting independent problem solving strategies.
- Kept accurate reports, records and files on individual students.
- Gathered data to measure student progress and determine learner needs.
- Observed confidentiality rules and regulations to secure student data.
