Professional Conduct
Client Relations
Teaching Skills
Office Skills
Art Skills
Education
Professional Conduct
Highly Adaptable
Quick Learner
Punctual
Reliable
Flexible
Resourceful
Independent
Client Relations
Excellent at building rapport, especially in one-on-one situations
Affable and approachable
Excellent listening skills
Good at providing positive feedback and encouraging positive feelings
Excellent at responding to client’s needs in a professional, warm and courteous manner
Special training in the Skills and Dynamics of Human Relations
Excellent at working with children
Teaching Skills
Able to create basic curricula for a variety of student levels from beginner to advanced
Able to create detailed lesson plans for a variety of student levels
Creativity in using a variety of teaching tools and methods
Teaching Experience with adults in fitness and health care
Tutoring Experience with adults in Anatomy and Physiology
Tutoring Experience with children in art
Office Skills
Computer skills including; Microsoft Word and Works, Photoshop CS2, Internet Research in Explorer, Firefox and Netscape
Generally techno-savvy (able to easily learn and use various fax machines, photocopiers, printers, etc)
Strong organizational skills
Art Skills
Representational style, specializing in the human form in 2 and 3 dimensions
Freehand and graphic illustration
Digital photography and digital photo manipulation
Sculptural Skills, including; Carving wood and wax for casting, Ceramics, Shaping and forming non-ferrous metals, Soldering, Wood-working, Mixed media
Basic Carpentry
Basic Stone Splitting
Education
2008 CELTA Certification Teacher Training, Milan
CELTA training helps ensure quality of education for students learning English by providing high quality standardization in teaching requirements for those who teach English.
2006 Massage Therapy Certification Muscular Therapy Institute, Watertown, MA
The Muscular Therapy Program was a two year part-time highly intensive program to teach everything necessary for providing effective, professional, high quality massage therapy in a variety of practice settings. The program focused especially on the sciences and on the ethics and dynamics of client/therapist relations.
1999 Psychology of Religion Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC
The two years of study at Wake Forest was a self-designed curriculum to focus on learning about the neurophysiology of religious experiences. Courses included the history of Religion in America, the Psychology of Religion, Neuroscience, and Perception.
1994 Fine Arts Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA
This program was a four year Bachelor’s degree that included the basic academic courses required for a Bachelor’s program, but focused on courses in the Fine Arts. My major was Sculpture. My minor was Painting and Printmaking. My material skills focus was on Drawing, Lithography, and Metalsmithing.
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