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Education
| Ph.D. |
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Counseling and Student Personnel Services: Rehabilitation |
| M.R.C. |
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Rehabilitation Counseling |
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Post-Baccalaureate Major - Pre-Medicine |
| B.A. |
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Major: Philosophy; Minor: Sociology |
Work Experience
| Behavior Specialist, current. | Serves clients with disabilities in their return or entry to the world of work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a facility context, specializing in client motivational stategies and representing behavioral dynamics to team members. (Reorganization eliminated the Vocational Training Department.) |
| Supervisor, Vocational Training, seven years. | Administer, manage and supervise year-round vocational instruction program with 12 Instructors and two support staff, teaching a maximum of l50 students with disabilities. Administer, manage and serve as Examiner for the General Educational Development (GED) program. |
| Consultant, Research and Program Evaluation, six years. | Primary consulting contract for special projects, research/design, data management systems, microcomputer and data analysis instructions, computer programming. Secondary consulting contracts with city government and private parties. |
| Research/Teaching Assistant, Post Graduate, four years. | Teaching graduate-level courses, team grant-writing, in-service training, research design/statistical analysis consultation (master's degree candidates), departmental data analysis, grant research data management/analysis, counseling supervision. |
| Rehabilitation Counselor, Sr., two years. | Service provider for first dedicated Supplemental Security Income caseload for persons with severe disabilities. |
| Nursing Assistant, four years cumulative. | Caring for primary medical needs in various hospital units including, othopedics, oncology, internal medicine, emergency, post-operative surgery, psychiatry, and obstetrics. |
Selected In-service EducationTeaching the Tiger: ADD/LD/HD, Tourette, with executive dysfunction
Americans with Disabilities Act: the Supervisor's Perspective
Achieving Extraordinary Customer Relations; Customer Service
Customer Service Training
Leadership Conference: Teamwork & Team Building
Leadership Conference: Organizational Ownership
Leadership Conference: Total Quality Management
Leadership Conference: Quality Assurance
Issues in Leadership: Decision Making
Performance Appraisals Training
Motivational Presentations
Challenges of the 90's: Planning
Special Programs: Domestic Violence Teleconference
Maryland Rehabilitation Training: Program Evaluation
GED Examiners Workshops
Telemedicine and Distance Learning
Georgia Tech: Partnership Planning for Telemedicine/Distance Learning Project
Vocational Technical Grant Writing
Crosswalking from Public Schools to Post-Secondary Vocational Training
Expertise
Administrative expertise has been gained through ten cumulative years of experience in both the public and private sectors of service delivery. These experiences range from top level (CEO) administration of self-owned corporation, contracting with governmental agencies, public organizations, and private businesses to second-tier administrative duties as Supervisor/Manager in rehabilitation service infrastructure of service delivery.Program development expertise has been gained through twelve overlapping and cumulative years of experience with public and private enterprises requiring such development from a broad spectrum of needs including: research, instruction, technology, service delivery, sequenced business implementations, and sequencing of service delivery to customers with disabilities.
Personnel management expertise has been gained through fourteen overlapping and cumulative years of experience in public and private organizations with whom business dealings have required management of personnel involved in research, instruction, technology, service delivery, implementations of business programs and management of individualized referral plans for customers with disabilities.
Research/research design expertise has been gained through ten years of overlapping and cumulative years of experience with institutions of learning, public and private service delivery sectors. Such experience has been gained in areas of research design/statistical analysis consultation, departmental data analysis (program evalutation), creation of research/design and data management systems, and serving as primary consultant in various research projects. Special expertise has been gained in the field of single-case strategies of intervention, research and analysis.
Information management and analysis expertise has been gained through twelve years of overlapping and cumulative experience with public and private agencies and educational institutions in areas of customer caseload documentations, dessimination of statistical information and analysis on various program/project results, grant research data management/analysis, departmental data analysis, research design/statistical analysis consultations for master's degree candidates, and contractual information management for city governments and private parties.
Academic Instruction expertise has been gained through four years as a research/teaching assistant in graduate school and more recently, as an adjuct professor, teaching Medical Aspects of Disability and Social Policy to senior level undergraduate students in professional majors.
Skills Instruction expertise has been gained through ten cumulative and overlapping years of experience in educational institutions and public service delivery agencies. This expertise includes: teaching graduate-level courses, teaching in-service training courses, instructing other caseworkers in working with a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) caseload, assisting vocational instructors to write grade level appropriate, competency-based curriculum, and working with vocational instructors to gain skills needed to utilize technology in the various training areas.
Curriculum Development expertise has been gained through five cumulative years of experience in the public service delivery arena. This expertise is diverse, emphasizing the development of curricula geared to students with disabilities. Not only has experience been gained in creating individualized, competency-based, criterion-referenced curriculums that require texts, instruction, and demonstration, but also in creating the same standard curriculum for on-the-job training and computer-based instructions.
Computer Programming, Software Applications expertise has been gained through fourteen overlapping and cumulative years of experience with the educational field, public service and private business contracts. This experience includes programming and development for a variety of applications.
Select Accomplishments
·"Distance Learning", Basic Reading Skills. Designer and programmer (using Authorware) of a very successful interactive, computer-based, fourth through tenth grade reading skills curriculum, in a pilot cooperative venture to teach remote rehabilitation clients under the supervision of instructors at a distant location, using the "Distance Learning" curriculum with minimal intervention.
·GED Chief Examiner. Operate the GED testing at a rehabilitation facility, administering the GED tests and awarding GED Diplomas to Institute students with disabilities often requiring testing accomodations and to students from the surrounding community receiving their GED training through the outreach program of a nearby technical institute.
·GSAMS at the Roosevelt Institute. Liaison and network representative during the first expansion phase of the a prototype functional two-way, audio-visual, real-time electronic classroom.
·Co-developer of the Vocational Diagnosis and Residual Employability (VDARE) System (1977). This is the first systematic application of job analysis techniques in client vocational analysis, making possible direct comparison of job-analysis and person-analysis profiles. Wrote the first computerized job-person matching system (copyright 1977) using Fortran, punch cards on a mainframe computer.
·Information management system designer, manager and analyst (1979-1981) for the Management Control Project (MCP), a federally funded research and demonstration project for evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor performance. The evaluation system is still being disseminated and utilized in VR agencies across the nation.
·Developed data management, analysis and reporting system for RWSIR program evaluation which is still in use. This evaluation system underwrites and supports the Uniform Data System, a federally funded system for nationwide comparison of rehabilitation hospitals developed by the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, NY.
·Generated inventory and purchasing control computer program still in use after eight years.
·Designed and programmed a computerized tracking system for a city court, still in use after nine years. This system tracks offenders, offenses, verdicts, fines and payments.
·Developed personal proficiency with Microsoft environment applications, including Windows, a variety of spreadsheets, word-processors, databases, and graphic design, and multimedia applications. In addition, developed commercial proficiency in a variety of programming languages, including Basic, Paradox and Authorware.