Higher Education
St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas: Business Communications. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire: Taught Buyer Behavior, Professional Selling, and Sales Management in the College of Business and Fundamentals of Advertising and Introduction to Public Relations in the Communication and Journalism Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. Joined Records and Registration in the Academic Publications and Curriculum area. Earned Certificate in Web Design and Development in one year. Photo Credit: mediabistro.com
ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY, Adjunct Professor, Business Communications, part-time, 8/98-3/99
- Created newly designed six-week business communications course for accelerated bachelor’s business program. Taught primarily military personnel seeking their bachelor’s degree.
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE, admnistration and teaching, 8/05-present
Academic Publications and Curriculum Coordinator, Records and Registration, 12/-08-present
- Process faculty curriculum requests; 2,000 changes in academic year 2009-2010. Curriculum lead in database conversion from legacy Bridge software (customized COBOL programming) to Oracle PeopleSoft (off-the-shelf software) from 2008-2010. Learned both software programs as part of database conversion.
- Produce print and on-line undergraduate and graduate catalogs. Streamlined catalog process and created searchable, linkable PDF to satisfy customers. Currently, working on SharePoint model or off-the-shelf software for enhanced catalog copy and course review.
- Conducted research, including focus groups with primary target audiences and campus-wide online survey, regarding user preference for hard copy versus online catalogs, to determine transition timeline to online catalog and print-on-demand for a nominal fee for hard copy version of catalogs.
2009-2010 Undergraduate Catalog PDF
2010-2011 Undergraduate Catalog PDF
2009-2011 Graduate Catalog PDF
Associate Lecturer, College of Business and Department of Communication and Journalism, College of Arts and Sciences, part-time, 8/05-6/09
- Prepared creative, interactive lesson plans. Initiated integration of social media strategies and tactics into curriculum prior to revamp of curriculum due to accreditation.
- Taught advertising, buyer behavior, professional selling, public relations, and sales management. Consistently received positive evaluations from chairs, peers, and majority of students. Learned and used D2L, online course system, for assignments and grading. Initiated survey in first class to determine how students learn (visual, auditory, or kinesthetic) in order to teach to their styles. Also, provided online survey for students to take after first exam to obtain their feedback and shift teaching methods, style if needed.
- Mentored/coached students regarding all kinds of issues, but in particular career planning and job seeking. Refer extraordinary students to my network for employment.
- Offered employment consistently from either College of Business or Communication and Journalism, but was not always able to schedule class around full-time employment.
PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENT SOCIETY OF AMERICA, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE CHAPTER, 8/04-present
- Founding member of student chapter at UW-Eau Claire as the professional member signatory. Initially served as professional advisor, and then switched to academic advisor for two years during transition of tenured public relations faculty. Will be resuming professional advisor role in Fall 2011.
- Coach, mentor, and practice servant leadership with highly motivated, extremely competent, student executive board.
- Interviewed for professional journals and trade publications, such as “Diversity 2009 Progress at Work” in PR Week.
Diversity 2009 Progress at Work PR Week
CERTIFICATE IN WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT, 2009-2010
- Web Database Design and Implementation: With an extraordinary team, prepared a website for Great Harvest Bread Company. Client did not desire to implement. My role: Client Contact primarily, power point preparer, and photographer.
Great Harvest Bread Company PowerPoint Presentation DRAFTV-5.11509
- Web Design and Development Capstone: With extraordinary team, prepared a website for Minnesota Masters Swimming. Client liked our work so much that the following Fall she hired a couple of the original team members to continue working on the website.
Digital Storytelling: IDIS 351 Team interpretation of “Louie, Louie” by Sandra Cisneros.
