Experience & CV

This CV brings together professional and instructional appointments, research, courses taught, publications, editorial work, conferences, service, fellowships, education, credentials, honors, and methods. The About page provides a more narrative introduction, while linked case studies and portfolio artifacts show selected work in context.

Across professional learning, higher education, workforce development, research, and teaching, my work has centered on the same problem: how to turn complex information, programs, and processes into systems people can understand and use.

• Manage development and continuous improvement across a multi-format professional-learning portfolio spanning live workshops, mastery programs, microlearning, and on-demand learning.
• Coordinate faculty, internal stakeholders, contracts, outlines, learning assets, launch requirements, and quality assurance across concurrent projects.
• Build analytics dashboards and reporting tools to surface utilization, engagement, topic signals, and portfolio performance.
• Develop SOPs, templates, QA practices, taxonomy structures, and workflow improvements that reduce friction for instructors and internal teams.
• Lead AI-responsive curriculum updates and translate emerging technology and market shifts into practical learning experiences.

• Led career-services and student-success programming across workshops, advising, employer engagement, technology platforms, reporting, and cross-campus initiatives.
• Recorded 1,007 engagements with 399 unique students, 6,897 platform logins, 632 resumes, and 795 cumulative document reviews.
• Managed employer activity including 97 active employers, 2,177 postings, 174 approved opportunities, and 36 new partnerships.
• Managed the HACU/HSI Grow With Google Career Readiness initiative, connecting digital-skills learning with career education and faculty engagement.
• Built scalable resources and operational systems designed to make career development easier to integrate across the institution.

• Built and maintained 90+ employer partnerships and supported 260+ placements, later reaching 270+ annually.
• Delivered 50+ workforce-development workshops, employer sessions, orientations, and training programs while maintaining engagement with 4,800+ contacts.
• Increased Symplicity job-portal engagement by more than 363% year over year and supported large-scale database cleanup and import work.
• Supported Train & Earn programming for 51 participants with greater than 70% completion, coordinating participant services, documentation, employer needs, and reporting.
• Used labor-market information, CRM data, spreadsheets, and outcomes data to guide employer development, advising, and program decisions.

• Supported academically advanced learners in accelerated writing and research programs, including individualized instruction and feedback.
• Taught and supported research writing and methodology across research design, evidence evaluation, IRB concepts, statistics, SPSS, quantitative reasoning, and academic communication.
• Supported students through the full research-writing process, including work intended for publication.
• Taught robotics and worked in technology-rich learning environments, translating technical concepts for young learners.

• Led curriculum updates across an adult ESOL program, including development of an independent Level 6 textbook and integration of career-readiness material into existing curricula.
• Managed teacher and substitute staffing across five primary sites and coordinated interviewing, onboarding, training, and support for roughly 85–110 volunteer and part-time teachers per cycle.
• Coordinated recurring professional development and served as a liaison for teacher observations and TESOL-related partnerships.
• Contributed to grant writing, program evaluation, retention/progress analysis, literacy testing, and compliance-related workflows.

• Built out a grant-funded English-language-learner research program and supporting compliance tracker.
• Wrote and edited an ELL textbook for parents and caregivers with supplementary teaching materials.
• Connected instructional design, program documentation, and operational tracking rather than treating them as separate deliverables.

• Supported education, writing, proposal, and digital-content projects across nonprofit, workforce, and technical-learning contexts.
• Helped coordinate a technical-certification initiative, contributed to a Florida CAPE certification application, and designed an industry exam on collaborative robotics.
• Produced and edited WordPress sites, branded documents, accessible forms, grant applications, proposals, and long-form academic/professional writing.

• Supported undergraduate and graduate humanities instruction, assessment, written feedback, and course administration.
• Worked across close reading, argumentation, writing development, and interdisciplinary research while completing graduate study in English and Comparative Literature.

• Oversaw adviser-skill training and evaluation, expanding from roughly 10 advisers to more than 25 certified advisers within two months.
• Managed curriculum updates associated with a 41% increase in program benchmark completion.
• Supervised 26 advisers serving 52–104 high-school fellows on a rolling basis while also mentoring students directly.

• Led a bilingual robotics-research and biomedical-sensor product-development course for learners ages 12–18 culminating in a product launch.
• Built an interactive college and school matching tool spanning large comparison sets of universities, liberal-arts colleges, and boarding schools.

• Taught children ages 4–13 in studio-art programs and supported inclusive curriculum and student development.
• Accumulated more than 2,000 hours of service and took on lead teaching-assistant responsibilities including volunteer and intern support.

Concurrent, contract, instructional, editorial, and earlier roles are included alongside the primary professional chronology.

• 2024–Present — Executive Director, The Righting Desk. Operations, budgets, contracts, technical proposals, research reports, and writing/editing support for public-sector and technical R&D work.
• 2021–2023 — Instructor, Hostos Community College Continuing Education & Workforce Development. Taught continuing-education coursework including healthcare and information-technology survey courses.
• 2021 — Career Services Specialist, Research Foundation of CUNY. Career-document review, career-readiness presentations, advising resources, and student support.
• 2020–2021 — Essay Coach, College Transitions. One-to-one college-application writing instruction, reflection, revision, and admissions-essay feedback.
• 2018 — Education Curriculum Development Intern, Manatee Performing Arts Center. Developed apprenticeship curriculum and intern handbooks spanning technical theatre, finance, and arts administration.
• 2017–2018 — Copyediting & Finance Relations Consultant, Teen Art Salon. Grant research/writing, copyediting, fundraising strategy, and financial-record cleanup.
• 2017–2018 — Seasonal Associate, Victoria’s Secret. Customer service, sales-floor operations, inventory, transactions, replenishment, and peak-season retail support.
• 2015–2017 — Residential & Office Aide, Columbia University CUPS. Office, residence, incident, access, and emergency-response support.

Selected case studies, project write-ups, and reusable tools provide additional context for the roles, methods, and outcomes listed in the chronology.

The professional chronology establishes the record; these public case studies and artifacts show selected work in context.

M.A. Essay, Columbia University, 2020: Hyde and Hand: Strangeness in Stevenson’s case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The project examines the hand, embodiment, confession, homoerotic desire, gendered representation, and the act of reading in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella.

Research areas: nineteenth-century British and European literature; Victorian studies; gender and queer literary studies; literature and medicine; embodiment and the medical imaginary; digital humanities and textual scholarship; research methods; quantitative and qualitative analysis; pedagogy and learning systems.

Selected research projects: Stevenson textual analysis; the Making and Knowing Project and BnF Ms. Fr. 640; digital critical editions and epistemic design; literary-medical discourse; computational/textual methods; curriculum and learning analytics.

Research writing & methods

• Introduction to Scientific Writing I — Spring 2020 through Summer 2024 across recurring terms.
• Introduction to Scientific Writing II — Summer 2020 through Summer 2024 across recurring terms.
• Introduction to Scientific Writing III — Spring 2020 through Fall 2024 across recurring terms.
• Introduction to Scientific Writing IV — Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024.
• Research design, source evaluation, human-subjects/IRB concepts, statistics, SPSS, quantitative reasoning, revision, and academic communication embedded across research-writing instruction.

Continuing education & survey courses

• Introduction to Healthcare — Summer 2021 through Summer 2023 across recurring terms.
• Introduction to Information Technology — Fall 2022 and Spring 2023.

ESOL & instructor development

• ESOL courses, NRS Levels 1–6 — Fall 2018 through Spring 2020.
• ESOL Teaching Methods workshops for volunteer instructors — Fall 2018 through Spring 2020.
• Writing and Reading Development Workshop — Summers 2018 and 2019.

Seminars & special topics

• Revolution In/On the Caribbean — Spring 2020.
• Heroes, Lovers, Visionaries — Fall 2019.
• Topics in Topology — Fall 2018.
• Writing and Robotics — bilingual course, Summer 2017.
• Poets Whose Miserable Lives Made Their Works Great — Fall 2016.
• Advising Best Practices — Spring 2017.
• Art / fine and mixed media — Summers 2012–2015.
• Best Practices in Self Publishing — 2012 and 2013.

• 2025 — “Vitreous Humors,” Dipity Literary Magazine.
• 2024 — “Navigating Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing AI in Disease Management: AI and the State of Rare Diseases in Healthcare,” Routledge.
• 2023–2024 — Hostos / HACU-HSI Grow With Google Career Readiness booklet and 57-page curriculum guide.
• 2022 — “Practical and Case-Based Methods in Teaching and Learning,” IGI Global.
• 2020 — Primary author, core chapters of ELL for Parents and Caregivers and supplementary teacher materials for the Manatee County ELL project.
• 2019 — “The Bed,” Calico Journal.
• 2018 — “Exploring Your Options,” Quarto.
• 2017 — “Celebrating 10 Years: The Columbia Ballet Collaborative,” “Symphonie Fantastique and the Columbia University Orchestra,” “CCW30 Women’s Symposium,” “Bandstand: In Retrospect and Today,” “Anastasia: In Retrospect,” and “A Bit of Off-Broadway Magic,” The Columbia Lion.
• 2017 — “What Does the Hippocampus Do? A Tale of Mice and Men” (illustration), The Columbia Lion.
• 2017 — “Reparation and Resuscitation,” Quarto.
• 2015 — “Overcoming Complacency,” Live Poet Society.
• Early creative publications — additional fiction and poetry published under the pen name R.A. Spyder.

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• 2020 — Organizer, HaPData 2020 virtual conference on data analytics and digital transformation.
• 2019 — Coordinator, International Conference for the Protection and Accountability in Burma, Columbia University.
• 2019 — Moderator and panelist, Columbia College Alumni Reunion.
• 2018 — Speaker, CEO Beijing/Shanghai Training.
• 2018 — Conference reader, American Library Association Conference.
• 2018–2019 — Rare Books and Manuscripts Section representative, New York International Antiquarian Book Fair.
• 2017–2018 — Panelist, CollegePoint Advising Conference.
• 2017 — Student panelist, Dell Women’s Entrepreneurship Conference.
• 2016 — Student panelist, TEDxSarasota.

Selected service

• CUNY Women’s Conference volunteer — 2024.
• Teacher, Columbia Splash — 2015–2020.
• Mentor, Columbia Mentoring Initiative — 2017–2019.
• Mentor, Q-Flip Mentoring Program — 2016–2017.
• RBMS Volunteer Coordinator, American Library Association — 2017.
• One-2-One Tutor, Community Impact — 2015–2016.
• Special Olympics Florida Gulf Coast weightlifting support — selected events, 2014 and 2019.
• Blessings Thrift Shop volunteer support — 2006–2015.

Professional memberships and associations, current and historical

Project Management Institute (PMI) · National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) · Continuing Education Association of New York (CEANY) · Hispanic Educational Technology Services (HETS) · Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) · American Library Association (ALA) · Columbia Alumni Association · American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) · TiE Global · Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Organization.

• 22 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards during secondary school.
• Two Congressional Art Competition awards.
• Heart of Art Award.
• Additional creative recognition includes Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Congressional Art Competition awards, the Heart of Art Award, the Creativity Award, and the CSArts Award.

Explore the creative work and recognition in dedicated sections: Art & Visual Work → · Art Gallery → · Awards & Recognition →

Professional & technical credentials

• 2025: Project Management Professional (PMP)®, Project Management Institute; MBTI Step I Certification, The Myers-Briggs Company; Autism, DASA, and SAVE workshops.
• 2023: Google IT Support Professional Certificate / Specialization; IT Security; Operating Systems; Computer Networking; Technical Support; Foundations of Data Analytics; Ask Questions to Make Data-Driven Decisions; Foundations of UX Design; Foundations of Project Management; Project Initiation; Project Planning.
• 2023: GCP for Clinical Trials Involving Investigational Medical Devices; Human Subjects Protection SBR; Responsible Conduct of Research—Humanities, CITI Program.
• 2020: TESOL Certificate, Columbia University / Community Impact; Naloxone Administration Training, Columbia University Health Service; Columbia CTL Advanced Track Teaching-development program participation.
• 2019: TABE 11/12 Administrator Training; BEST Plus 2.0 Refresher.
• 2018: BEST Literacy Administrator Certification; BEST Plus 2.0 Administrator Certification; Research With Minors—SBR, CITI Program.
• 2016: Advising Skills Evaluation Administration Certification, CollegePoint.

Selected honors

• 2024 NACE Career Services Excellence Award — Small College Honorable Mention, Hostos HACU/HSI Grow With Google Career Readiness Program.
• 2023 CEANY Conference Award.
• Columbia Dean’s List; William P. Schweitzer Scholarship; Core Scholars Award; Ivy League Scholarship; Multicultural Affairs Graduation Cord.
• 22 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards; two Congressional Art Competition awards; Heart of Art Award; Creativity Award; CSArts Award; National League of American Pen Women Writing Award; National Merit Semifinalist.

View the detailed qualifications, certifications & training record → · View awards & recognition →

The portfolio, publications, and public tools provide concrete examples of the methods summarized here.