Smart Classroom Instructional Assistant
Posted on: 2013-04-11
Highlights of Qualifications
- Set up and organized Tangible and digital filing systems with Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, copying, collating, multi-tasking, uploading, downloading of files, GoogleDocs, SkyDrive
- Created, organized, and distributed digital and printed marketing materials to promote workshops, performances, lectures, academic conferences, distance and online learning academic programs, and special events
- Created and organized online social media, networking, and e-mails for Public Programs and an online distance learning program
- Verified attendance to classes and workshops, and created Continuing Education Certificates
- Assisted college and high school students with forms and links to complete their financial aid applications, also answered general financial aid questions via phone, e-mail, and in person
- Experienced at event organization and technical audio visual support
- Proficient with online classrooms such as Moodle and Blackboard
- Developed online surveys to ensure excellent student experiences during an academic, graduate level intensive
- Assisted students with MLA and APA formatting, as well as PowerPoint presentations
- Provided students assistance with accessing online and on campus resources for distance learning programs
- Created aesthetically pleasing commercial and fine art photographic images and experimental films
- Worked one on one to improve hands on computer user experiences, developed marketing materials and websites
- Developed resource guides and assisted with research for curriculum to be implemented in an undergraduate course
- Organized and prepared content for a college catalog
- Taught a Create Your Own Website workshop to Marriage and Family Therapists
- Created community partnerships with art galleries, performance spaces, and theaters, through research and community outreach, for an MFA graduate program
- Completed intakes, and evaluations, and conducted one on one counseling sessions with marginally housed and homeless youth
- Provided help desk support for a variety of cellular phone and credit card terminal users
- Worked as part of a sales and creative team with independent business owners and designers within a budget and deadline to create aesthetically pleasing ad campaigns
- Demonstrated the latest computer technology in a theater to groups of people at conventions
- Instructed children in photography and visual art
- General knowledge of WASC, FAFSA, and HIPAA
Professional Experience
Smart Classroom Instructional Assistant, Merritt College, Oakland, CA
Photographer, Photos By Joie Rey, San Francisco, CA
Product Advisor, Microsoft, San Francisco, CA
Customer Care Representative, AT&T, Austin, TX
Layout and Arts Director, Sweet Grit - Arts & Literature Journal, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Research Assistant, MFA department, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Workshop Instructor, Create Your Own Website, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Marketing Assistant/Assistant Producer, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Assistant Department Coordinator, Distance and Online Learning CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Financial Aid Office Assistant, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
Research Assistant, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
Residential Counselor, Larkin Street Youth Services, San Francisco, CA
Arts Instructor, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA
Photography/Arts Instructor, Lynn University Camps, Boca Raton, FL
Terminal Support Representative and Trainer, First Data Merchant Services
Photography/Arts Instructor, French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts Camp, Hancock, NY
Education
2011 MFA, Creative Inquiry/Interdisciplinary Art, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2007 BA, Humanities/Gender Studies/Multimedia Art, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 Butterfly Bar at Vortex Theater, Austin, TX
2011 A Visual Memoir, ARC Studios and Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2009 Masks We Wear, Alternative Design Studio, San Francisco, CA
2009 Gender? & “Paradigm”, Heavy Rotation at El Rio, San Francisco, CA
2009 Gender?, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2007 Gender & Other Layers of Identity, Atomic Cowboy, St. Louis, MO
2006 Portraits From My Past, Starbucks, San Francisco, CA
2001 Portraits From My Past, Red Dora's Bearded Lady Truck Stop Cafe', San Francisco, CA
2000 Mixed Up, Green Marble, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES
2012 Vagina Project, Online Exhibition
2012 Lessons From a Bone Box: An Anatomical Showcase, Wardenclyffe Gallery, Austin, TX
2012 RAW: Natural Born Artists presents Mixology, The Parish, Austin, TX
2011 MFA Alumni Showcase, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2010 MFA Works in Progress, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
2010 Producer of Legacy, Artists in Residence at The Garage Theater, San Francisco, CA
2010 Urban Ho-Down, Mission Arts & Performance Project, San Francisco, CA
2010 Diamond Daggers Burlesque, Silent Short Films, San Francisco, CA
2009 Excerpts From Gender?, San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2009 Open Eyes Film Showcase, Femina Potens Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Gender?, Red Radler, Sydney, Australia
2009 Gender?, Glitch Cinema, Melbourne, Australia
2009 Gender?, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, CA
2008 Gender?, London Transgender Film Festival, London, UK
2007 Glim Schtangle, with Madam Chartreuse Performance Artist, Santa Cruz, CA
2007 Gender and Other Layers of Personal History, Balazo 18 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Foyer Project with PUSH Dance Company, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA
2007 Buried Alive with PUSH Dance Company, ConterPulse Theater, San Francisco, CA
2005 Folsom Forplay Erotic Art Show, Studio Z Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 Posters From My Past, The Lexington, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS / CLIENTS
2012 Graphic Design for Beer Labels, Marcy D & The Roster, Austin, TX
2011 Promotional Advertising Photos, Seattle Weekly, Seattle, WA
2011 Graphic Design Marketing Materials, Pidgeon Coop Productions, Seattle, WA
2011 Graphic Design, Marketing Materials, Lily Divine Presents, Seattle, WA
2011 Promotional Film Stills, Seeing Red, Maxine Holloway, San Francisco, CA
2011 Photography, Exhibitionist, SFWeekly, San Francisco, CA
2011 Photography, Good Vibrations Magazine, San Francisco, CA
2011 Photography, California Institute of Integral Studies, MFA Department, Artist Salon, San Francisco, CA
2011 Art/Layout Director, Sweet Grit, Arts & Literature Journal, CIIS, San Francisco, CA
2011 Author Bio Photo, Fifteen Ways to Stay Alive, by Daphne Gottlieb, San Francisco, CA
2011 Photography, JessaBrieBerkner.com, San Francisco, CA
2011 Photography, Layout, DianaHalfmann.com, San Francisco, CA
2011 Photography, JenelleCampion.com, Oakland, CA
2010 Promotional Photography, JPM3 Productions, San Francisco, CA
2010 Photography, California Institute of Integral Studies, Pritzker Scholarship pamphlet, San Francisco, CA
2010 Promotional Photography, Lil Miss Hot Mess' Bat Mitzvah, San Francisco, CA
2010 Photography, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco, CA
2010 Photography, Heeb Magazine, National
2010 Promotional Photography, Kentucky Fried Woman, National Queer Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA
2010 Photography, ChristopherFosterPerformance.com, San Francisco, CA
2009 Photography, First Follies, Promotional Materials, San Francisco, CA
2009 Photography, Femmes on Fire, Promotional Materials, San Francisco, CA
2009 Photography, Video, Angela Chase, Rock Band Bio, San Francisco, CA
2009 Photography, Diamond Daggers Burlesque, Spring East Showcase, San Francisco, CA
2008 Film Stills, Promotional Photography, “Getting Off”, San Francisco, CA
2008 Promotional Photography, Diamond Daggers, Holiday Round-Up, San Francisco, CA
2007 Photography, Vinsantos Presents: Macabaret, San Francisco, CA
2006 Promotional Photography, Gender Enders, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2001 Photography, La Casita Restaurant, Promotional Advertising, Boca Raton, FL
1998 Photography, Fountain Magazine For Women, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1996 – 1997 Graphic Design, Gay & Lesbian Yellow Pages, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
1997 Documentary Photography, Southern Voice of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA