Resume

• 2011

  Regional and State Social Studies Fair

  WV

  Animal care

  Mercer County Humane Society

  Rapporteur

  American Model United Nations

  Chicago IL

• 2009

  Fort Arbuckle

• 2008

  Jarret's Fort

  Organizer

  Families Link LLC Toy Drive

  PowerPoint

  Leadership Development

  Microsoft Word

  Distance Learning

  Curriculum Development

  Fundraising

  Customer Service

  Microsoft Office

  Community Outreach

  Developmental Education

  Curriculum Design

  Event Planning

  Teaching

  Retention

  Nonprofits

  Training

  Public Speaking

  Assessment

  Higher Education

  Staff Development

  Ayersman

  Adrian

  Ayersman

  Pop's Sports Club

  Brainfuse

  Bluefield College

  Bluefield State College

  TIPP'S Sugar Shack/Nawhla Farms

  New River Community and Technical College

  Applebee's

  Families Link

  LLC

  Bluefield State College

  Concord University

  Bluefield College

  Bluefield State College

  Bluefield

  WV

  ENGL 98: Basic Grammar and Reading\nENGL101L: ALP Composition 1

  Adjunct English Instructor

  Bluefield

  West Virginia

  Responsibilities include: \n-Providing Blackboard/Moodle support and training to faculty and students. \n-Troubleshooting student and faculty issues in the online environment. \n-Creating Blackboard classes and copying content for instructors. \n-Running and uploading Argos reports to batch create individual usernames in Blackboard. \n-Running and uploading Argos reports to batch enroll Blackboard students and faculty.\n-Adjusting purged and dropped students' availability settings. \n-Generating usable test banks for faculty (Blackboard/Respondus).\n-MyLab training

  course creation

  and LMS integration. \n-Troubleshooting Turnitin/Safe Assign related issues. \n-Peer mentoring new instructors.\n-Assisting with the organization of the 3rd Biennial Regional Technology Conference. \n\nCurrently training on Moodle and video editing.

  Online Instructional Specialist

  Bluefield State College

  Hinton WV

  - Produced and sold a variety of jams and fruit butter\n- Produced and sold honey and maple syrup\n- Produced and sold a variety of greenhouse plants \n- Raised small livestock\n- Grew and sold fresh produce

  Business Owner

  TIPP'S Sugar Shack/Nawhla Farms

  Princeton

  WV

  - Identified and worked to resolve negative family patterns (in order to maintain at-risk children in their homes)\n- Provided family related reporting to Child Protective Services\n- Taught parenting\n- Taught adult life skills\n- Provided social and emotional support\n- Provided crisis intervention \n- Organized a toy drive to help provide gifts for all of the children impacted by the company\n\n

  Case Manager

  Families Link

  LLC

  Hinton

  WV

  - Cook/Server\n- Distributed casino winnings\n- General cleaning duties

  Server

  Pop's Sports Club

  Bluefield

  Virginia

  ENGL 1013: Introduction to the Writing Process\nENGL 1023: Argumentative and Analytical Writing

  Adjunct English Instructor

  Bluefield College

  Beaver

  WV

  College Activities \n- Course development\n- Course assessment \n- Recorder for the Transformation of Developmental Education Subcommittee\n- Recorder for the Quality Matters Subcommittee\n- Leader for the Online/Hybrid group (within the Distance Education Oversight Committee)\n- Adjunct Appreciation Committee\n- Criterion III Subcommittee \n- Criterion IV Subcommittee \n- International Committee\n- Values Committee\n- Faculty Adviser for the Model United Nations Club\n- Book Club\n- Awards Banquet Committee\n- Presenter in Learning Community Workshops\n- Presenter at 2 Faculty Institutes \n- One of 3 faculty members that started/presented a grassroots “Early Intervention” project to reach out to at-risk students

  improve retention rates

  and bridge the gap in interdepartmental communication

  \n- Composed the common final Developmental Writing Rubric and Prompts (2012) \n- Organized common course assessment measures in Developmental English (2012)\n- Piloted the first Pearson MyLab courses on campus \n- Piloted the first Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) in English (with another instructor)\n- Piloted the first online developmental classes: Integrated Reading/Writing and ALP English\n- Copies of my classes are being used by others

  and I’ve helped train many instructors on the software.\n\nProfessional Meetings and Conferences \n- NMUN Conference- New York

  April 2012 \n- WVADE- Stonewall Jackson Resort

  Oct. 24-25 2012\n- National Model United Nations Conference Oct. 26-28 2012- Washington DC\n- WVADE- Tamarack

  Nov. 2012\n- National Model United Nations Conference 2013- Charlotte NC\n- Session Chair- Faculty Academy

  May 2013\n- Developmental Education Summit

  Stonewall Jackson Resort

  June 5-7

  2013\n- Conference on Acceleration in Developmental Education

  Baltimore

  MD

  June 12-14

  2013\n- Complete College America- Morgantown WV Jan 9-10

  2014 \n- SCALE Training-Ghent

  WV June 2014\n- HLC Assessment Academy: Results Forum- Chicago

  IL

  June 2015\n\n\n\n

  Visiting Instructor of Developmental English

  New River Community and Technical College

  Beaver

  WV and Bluefield

  WV

  - Taught adjunct classes (6-9 credit hours per semester)\n- Course development\n- Course assessment

  Adjunct Instructor of English

  Bluefield State College

  Bluefield and Beckley WV

  Engl101L: Composition 1 (ALP)

  Visiting Instructor of Developmental English

  Bluefield State College

  Athens

  WV

  ENGL101C: Grammar

  Composition

  and Rhetoric

  Adjunct English Instructor

  Concord University

  Princeton

  WV

  - Served tables\n- Seated tables\n- Organized catering/To Go orders\n- Organized food for table delivery\n- Prepared and measured food \n- General cleaning duties\n

  Server

  To Go Specialist

  Expo

  Prep Cook

  Host

  Applebee's

  Greater New York City Area

  Writing Tutor

  Brainfuse

  Master’s Degree

  Concentration in Literature/Cultural Studies

  Humanities/Humanistic Studies

  Golden Key International Honor Society

  \nPhi Kappa Phi Honor Society

  \nAssisted Marshall University and the University of Kentucky in excavations of Jarret’s Fort (08) and Fort Arbuckle (09).

  Marshall University

  Integrated Reading and Writing

  Introduction to the Writing Process

  Developmental Reading

  Argumentative and Analytical Writing

  Developmental Writing

  Basic Grammar and Reading

  Composition

  ALP Composition 1

  Technical Writing

  Developmental Grammar

  Composition 1

  American Literature II

  Major American Authors

  Composition II

  World Literature II

  The Modern Tradition

  Grammar

  Composition

  and Rhetoric

  American Literature I

• 1998

  High School

  Business/Nursing

  Future Business Leaders of America

  \nNational Vocational-Technical Honor Society (MCTEC)

  \nWho’s Who among American High Schools Students

  \nPresident’s Education Award

  \nWest Virginia Top of the Mountain Recognition

  Princeton Senior High School

• 3.43

  English

  Bachelor’s Degree

  Concentration in Psychology

  Social Sciences

  Biology Club President

  Delta Chi Omega

  Omega Society

  Model United Nations (Vice Chair)

  Pi Gamma MU Honor Society in Social Science

  SGA

  and Greek Council

  Bluefield State College