Résumé

Teaching

Cover Letter

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Schools

• Lynn English High School (2011-present)
• Salem Academy Charter School (2010-11)
• Waltham Senior High School (2007-10)
• Belmont High School (2006-07)
• Peabody Veterans Memorial High School (2004-06)
• Marblehead High School (2003-04)

Subjects Taught

• Honors, CP and AP^® Physics 1 (Lynn English High School, Salem Academy Charter School)
• Honors and AP^® Physics 2 (Lynn English High School)
• Honors, CP and Applied Chemistry 1 (Lynn English High School, Salem Academy Charter School, Waltham Senior High School, Belmont High School, Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, Marblehead High School)
• Honors, CP and AP^® Chemistry 2 (Waltham Senior High School, Belmont High School, Peabody Veterans Memorial High School)
• Honors Organic Chemistry (Peabody Veterans Memorial High School)

Note that I created my own curriculum and curricular materials for almost every one of these courses.

Professional Development & Contributions

Peabody Veterans Memorial High School

• Created & maintained wireless network for science department.
• Created & maintained school's website.

Waltham Senior High School

• Created & led professional development for staff on Edline and GradeQuick software.
• Participated in school district's website redesign committee

Lynn English High School

• Participated as a mentor for new teachers in the district's mentoring program.
• Served on the High School Curriculum Council for the Lynn Public Schools.
• Created & led professional development on eSchool and Schoology software, including presentations, screen-capture videos and one-on-one troubleshooting.
• Created and implemented contact tracing system for the return to school after remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community

• Member of and frequent contributor to the Boston University Physics Teachers Network.
• President of North Shore Science League

Certifications & Awards

Licenses

I possess the following Massachusetts teaching licenses:

• Physics 8-12
• Chemistry 8-12
• Biology 8-12
• Mathematics 5-8, 8-12
• SEI Endorsement

You can verify my teaching licenses on the Massachusetts Public Lookup for Educator Licensure page.

National Board of Professional Teaching Standards

I hold an expired NBPTS certification in Science/Adolescence and Young Adulthood. You can verify my NBCT status in the NBCT Directory.

Aula Laudis Society

I was inducted into the Aula Laudis Society of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society in 2012.

North Shore Science League

I am the president of the North Shore Science League (NSSL), an organization that holds monthly competitions for high school science teams.

Publications

• Co-author of experiment #15 in AP^® Chemistry Guided-Inquiry Experiments: Applying the Science Practices (the 2013 AP^® Chemistry lab manual)
• Class notes (self-published) for Physics 1 (AP^®, honors and CP), Physics 2 (AP^® & honors), and Chemistry 1 (honors & CP). These notes are used and acclaimed by hundreds of teachers around the US.

Websites

• General teaching/classes website
• MOODLE site (MOODLE is an online Learning Management System used by many colleges and some high schools. I maintain my own MOODLE site.)

Tutoring & Adult Education

Worked as a tutor for high school mathematics (algebra 2) and physics during 2005-06 and 2006-07, resuling in an improvement of a full letter grade or more for each student.

Taught HTML authoring and basic UNIX skills to users at MIT via one-on-one sessions, small group discussions, and presentations to groups of 50-100 people.

Biotech Research & Engineering

Process Engineering

As a research scientist for Advanced Magnetics (now AMAG Pharmaceuticals), developed and scaled up manufacturing and purification processes for MRI contrast agents and raw materials using cGMPs. Managed transfer of these processes from R&D to production. Trained production personnel in relevant procedures and supervised production of initial batches.

Tissue Culture

Designed, implemented, and managed a small-scale pharmaceutical tissue culture program. Responsibilities included laboratory design, budgeting, purchasing, and research.

Researched and developed experimental protocols and SOPs for tissue culture laboratory. Trained personnel in tissue culture techniques and procedures. Worked closely with VP of Operations and senior biologist in charge of animal facility.

Publications and Technical Writing

Lee Josephson, Jeffrey Bigler, and David White. The Magnetic Properties of Some Materials Affecting MR Images. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. Vol. 22, Issue 2, pp. 204-208 (1991).

Edited articles for technical journals. Edited research sections of two 10,000-page FDA New Drug Applications. Wrote SOPs, manufacturing documents, and QC procedures.

Software and IT

Software Quality Assurance

Implemented and managed QA programs for three software companies: a web-based data mining company, a supply-chain software company, and a network security company. Responsibilities included test planning and design, functionality and UI testing, bug tracking, assessment of release readiness, and managerial responsibility over a small QA engineering staff.

Technical Support

Responsible for second-tier support of Manufacturing Planning Windows software package. Responsibilities incldued analysis and resolution of customer problems and management of customer relationships. Translated customer feedback into bug reports or enhancement requests as appropriate.

Provided first- and second-tier technical support for Kerberos V5-based network security package. Analyzed and solved customer problems. Received spontaneous praise from customers for the level of support provided. Gathered usability data and gave feedback to developers, resulting in reduced support load.

Technical Writing

Wrote complete set of documents for a commercial Kerberos V5-based network security package. Documents included Installation Guide, User's Guide, System Administrator's Guide, and Guide to Building from Source Code. Documents received spontaneous praise from several customers and are still in use with minimal changes over a decade later.

Management, Etc.

Worked as operations manager for two software startup companies as they grew from a few to over 50 employees. Responsibilities included facilities management, finance (controller, purchasing, payroll) and human resources.

Hobbies & Interests

Music & Dance

Professional violist with Symphony by the Sea, an all-professional North Shore chamber orchestra. Principal violist of the Firebird Pops Orchestra and the Reading Symphony Orchestra. Dance foreman (teacher/leader) for Red Herring Morris adult morris dance team and Banbury Cross Morris children's morris dance team. Also performed with the New England Philharmonic, the MIT Summer Philharmonic, the Cantemus Chamber Chorus, the Boston Chamber Ensemble, the Boston Civic Symphony, the Brookline Symphony Orchestra, the Triptych Chamber Orchestra, and the Greensboro (Vermont) Summer Festival Orchestra.

Other Interests

Interests other than music & dance include coffee roasting, travel, caving, SCUBA diving, bicycling, downhill skiing, camping, hiking, amateur radio, roleplaying games, locksmithing, trains, and coins.

Member of AΦΩ National Service Fraternity, the National Honor Society, the International Thespian Society, and the MIT Student Information Processing Board (a volunteer computing-oriented service organization). Past president of the Little Nahant Improvement Association.