Career Highlights

Skills: Course and curriculum development, teaching/training, project management

Special Accomplishments:

• California Certified Instructor (California Post-Secondary Educational Council)
• Adobe Certified Instructor (Certified Expert in FrameMaker, Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop)
• Certified Technical Trainer (Chauncey Group)
• Quoted on the back cover of various Adobe software training publications

Strengths: Curriculum development, Dynamic classroom training skills, team player, excellent communication skills, proactive, awesome sense of humor

Experience

Colleges and universities in the Los Angeles and Bay areas, 1991 - Present

Technical Trainer/Curriculum Developer

▪ Cal State University, Fullerton Extension –

• Designed educational strategy for certificate programs
• Developed original curriculum for software training classes
• Developed evaluation criteria to measure course success and student learning
• Taught computer software and fine art courses in a classroom environment

▪ Platt college, Mission college, Foothill college, UC Santa Cruz Extension

• Develop original curriculum and tutorials for “Teach the Teachers” program at Foothill College
• Develop curriculum for semester and quarter college courses
• Software courses: PageMaker, FrameMaker, Illustrator, Photoshop, Acrobat, Dreamweaver, HTML
• Certificate program courses: Graphic Design, Print Production, Web development
• Project management including training teacher’s assistants, evaluating course success

LUCCA ZONA Studios, San Francisco, CA - 1997 - Present

Owner of Consulting/Corporate Training company

▪ Course Development/Training:

• Design and write courseware for various graphics software products
• Create custom courseware for various corporations based on client need
• Work closely with various departments (e.g. Marketing, Engineering, Product Development)
  to gain knowledge necessary to develop relevant courseware
• Customize Software Training curriculum for MS Office, HTML, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Illustrator, Photoshop, FrameMaker, pre-press, printing, intranet maintenance/design
• Train employees and customers in a classroom environment
• Various Tech Writing, Training and Design assignments for Adobe, WebTV, Bank of America,
  Xerox, Oracle, Symantec, Cisco Systems
• Contribute writing and UI design to various corporate intranet sites

Education

California Instructor Certification
Technical Trainer Certification

References and portfolio available upon request