Management
2002-2007 Jean-Jacques Gallery Inc, Philadelphia, PA USA (Design Gallery)
- Conception, creation, and management of gallery
- Turnover= $200,000
- Recruitment and management of a team of 4 employees
- Buying, Accounting, and IT management
- Many processes were automated to make working as a team spread out over distance easy
- Developed site Jean-Jacques Gallery, regular updates done, site coded entirely by hand
- Created marketed, and managed the monthly newsletter using HTML mail and “Constant Contact” for delivery and analysis
1995-1998 Fitness Center 1800, Oakland, California, USA
- General Manager of a corporate wellness facility with over 40 employees
- Turnover= $500,000 per year
- Developed, planned, and followed a strategic plan and budget, monthly reports, managed accounting and personnel, training of employees
Information Technology
2009 IT Consultant, Toulouse, France
- I launched an IT consulting company in France
- Consultant for IT needs of office and web, video training tutorials, and technical training in English
- 1st contract: Marcom Consulting, Montauban France, screencast training videos to demonstrate one of their products, eSchedule PRO
2002-2007 School District of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA USA
- Computer Science teacher in High Schools and Middle Schools
- Technology Teacher Leader, trainer of teachers in IT
- Network Administration, maintained 4 servers and more than 300 computers on the network
- I created and managed the site Hill Freedman
- I worked on a team to evaluate and try out new tools and software applications
- our team was in charge of training other teachers when a new application or tool was adopted
- I trained other teachers in: Workgroup Manager, Remote Desktop, Webgui, Atomic Learning, Webtrekker, and Schoolnet
- General maintenance and troubleshooting of computers in schools
Since 2007 Video Screencast Developer, Atomic Learning, Minnesota, USA
- Developed screencast tutorials to show how various software applications worked
- Developed over 150 screencasts for Blogger and Google Sketch Up
- Worked on a team spread over 3 continents
Since 2002 Webmaster bilingual, SPecializing in clients in the US and France
- http://francetales.com
- http://owenpeery.com
- http://socemot.com
- http:www.jean-jacquesgallery.com
- http://jeanjacquesgiret.com
Language Training
Since 2008 English Teacher, at L’école Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France
- General English and Aeronautical English (short term contracts)
- Technology focused, created blogs and wikis with students to better work together on a team but at a distance
1999-2002 Hayward Unified School District, Hayward, California, USA
- English and History Teacher
Miscellaneous
- Native language: English
- French (read, spoken, and written) Intensive courses taken at the Alliance Française, DELF B2 exam passed May 2009
- Spanish (studied 6 years in school but do not speak very regularly anymore)