# 5/92 State University of New York at Purchase
Bachelor of Arts Degree - Major: Drama Studies
Student of the Royal Shakespeare Company
# TESOL
Certification – International Teacher Training
# CERTIFICATIONS
Teen Crisis Intervention, CPR, First Aid
Working History
* English Teacher
: Mahanaim - International Youth Fellowship
June 2011 – Present - Huntington New York
English teacher with a specialty in Conversation, phoenetics, kinesthetic learning, and accent correction.
* Private Tutor
Windmill Education
July 1992 – Present
Private teacher of Swordplay, English, and Shakespeare
Information Management and Archives
* 04/11- 05/11 Youth Counselor - Hope for Youth
Amityville, New York
Supervised troubled teen boys in a group home setting.
* 05/10-06/10 – Journalist – Westminster News
London, United Kingdom
I wrote the travel article New Yorker’s Guide to London.
* 01/09 – 07/09 – GNB English Academy
Hwsaesong, South Korea - English Teacher
Teaching English as a second language to students aged 6 to 14 years old in both English and Korean. A language which I taught myself.
Created monthly written and oral evaluations of students speech patterns, flow, phonetics, and vocabulary.
Achieved a 35% improvement in student test scores from the previous year.
* 09/08 to 12/08 – Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY -Store Representative / Archivist / Office Manager
Streamlined the scheduling of the employees of the retail operation of the main gift shop of the museum resulting in a net increase of employee workflow.
Created an organized environment for the floor managers and supervisors at the museum to increase information flow and productivity.
Achieved a greater level of organization resulting in a radical reduction in stock loss and employee retention.
* 09/92 -to the present - Private Tutor – Windmill Education
New York NY - Private Tutor
I have trained hundreds of students in the Fillipino martial Arts of Eskrima ( of which I have three black belts )
I also have taught Shakespeare and stage combat. References furnished on request
* 01/07 – 03/08 Barrington Equities
New York, New York - Chief Archivist / Records Manager – Assistant Project Manager – Assistant to Interior Designer
Assistant to the Interior Designer for records collections and retrieval, contact information, expenses, and account / order fulfillment for the development of nine model apartments for the development project at 120 Greenwich Street. Contributing to the complete sale of every apartment in the building.
* 08/06 -12/06 AEA Investors LLC
New York NY - Archivist Contractor
Archived, Organized, Catalogued and Indexed the entire legal office of AEA Investors LLC in every aspect of the file purging, archiving and converting
Prepped for the records system for turnover to electronic filing system
Analyzed and wrote accomplishment reports, final needs assessment, records methodology, destruction letter and daily work logs. Resulting in increased workflow for the employees.
Created retention schedule and uniform classification system which resulted in a timely manner
file disposition archiving and destruction
Established file hierarchy and location plots for file move
* 08/05 – 03/06 Barrington Equities
New York, New York - Chief Archivist / Records Manager – Assistant Project Manager – Assistant to Interior Designer
Handled a multitude of duties as an Assistant Project Manager which included but was not restricted to Records Management, Interior Design, Worksite Inspection, Construction, Accounting, and Project Objective Fulfillment to complete the construction of the residential apartment building located at 120 Greenwich Street.
Organized, catalogued, filed, entered, and boxed the records of the office of Barrington Equities which consisted of records classes which included: legal documents, accounts payable, taxes, and banking between multiple accounts and companies.
Developed a Uniform Classification System / Retention schedule for the records of Barrington Equities based on their chart of accounts and available records classes.
* 05/05 - 05/05 Queens Borough Presidents Office
Kew Gardens, New York - Records Consultant – Contractor
Organized, logged, labeled, boxed, and filed the records for a 3000 square foot
Penthouse space for the Queens Borough President’s Office Fiscal Services and Timekeeping
& Payroll Offices in compliance with the New York State Records Retention
Policy.
Supervised and trained a crew of 8 in records methodology.
Wrote the LGRMIF/ DORIS grant for the removal of the above mentioned files
Created a final needs assessment, accomplishment report, daily work logs, destruction letter and all related disposition paperwork for the project.
* 03/05 – 04/05 Windels, Marxs, Lane & Mittendorf. LLP
New York, New York - Records Consultant – Contractor
Organized, boxed, and filed the legal records for two records rooms
In compliance with Windels, Marx, Lane and Mittendorf’s Records
Retention policy.
* 03/04–08/04 Tishman Speyer Properties
New York, New York - Senior Records Coordinator
Created and Develop Records Retention Protocols, resulting in a overall increase in departmental performance.
Scanning and retrieval of documents into documentum for use and distribution company wide on Docnet
Creating, Launching and facilitating Workflows
Development of records management systems / Uniform Classification Systems
Storage of records onto CD
Archiving and Importing of electronic and paper documentation
Catalogued record classes and files for storage at Eagle Business Archives.
Records profiling / classification / retention / destruction / archiving into Filesurf 7.5
* 11/99-11/03 Strategic Resources Corporation
New York, New York - Records Management Consultant
Records profiling / classification / retention / destruction / archiving into iManage and Records Management Software.
Scanning and profiling of mission critical documentation for disaster recovery.
Personal Introduction
# Summary
Result and achievement driven individual dedicated to providing the highest standards of educational practices. A sharp, highly productive, information manager / educator with a consistent level of achievement.
# COMPUTER SKILLS
Filesurf 7.5, RMS/MDY, Imanage, Spicer/Imagenation, Access, Lexis-Nexis, Microsoft Word, Excel, Documentum, Docnet