Resume

Accomplishments

  • Helped to raise school size from 50 to 350 students at Nova Inter-Cultural Institute through excellence in demo lessons and group lessons
  • Produced an educational French podcast that ranked in Apple's top ten in search
  • Three-time Chief Learning Officer Learning Elite contest judge

Professional Experience

Elementary Teaching Experience

Teaching Practicum

October 20th to December 11th

Montague Consolidated School

  • Taught in a Grade 3 French Immersion Classroom
  • Created interactive French activities to engage learners
  • Created lessons aligned with the SCOs of the PEI Public Schools Branch
  • Assigned and reviewed worksheets to reinforce concepts
  • Organized group activities to encourage social skills and teamwork
  • Did Read Alouds to build literacy and comprehension skills
  • Conducted student evaluations and tracked progress
  • Taught Math and encouraged students to develop their Math Strategies toolbox

International Teaching Experience

English Teacher

February 2001 to February 2002 and May 2005 to May 2006

Geos

  • Taught 40-minute English lessons
  • Gave demo lessons that led to a substantial increase in student enrollment
  • Created lesson plans
  • Counseled students on their progress
  • Coached students who successfully reached their goals, including winning a speech contest

English Teacher

March 1998 to December 1998

Nova Intercultural Institute

  • Taught 45 to 90-minute English lessons
  • Created fun, practical, career-specific lessons
  • Attended cultural events with students
  • Worked with students to achieve their goals, i.e. getting a bilingual job and applying to grad school
  • Gave sales presentations and briefly managed the school while we were without a manager

Corporate Teaching Experience

Instructional Designer

July 2021 to January 2023

Sobeys

  • Created and delivered training to front-end and customer staff for new software and product launches
  • Successfully prepared staff to navigate two of the organization's biggest strategic shifts
  • Created user manuals, job aids, virtual training sessions, and eLearning for launches
  • Incorporated video, gamification, software simulations and other elements to bring the training materials to life to team members receiving the training
  • Collaborated effectively with executive leadership, subject matter experts, and the project team

Training Implementation Planner

June 2014 to July 2017

Amway Canada's Head Office

  • Trained independent business owners and internal staff on Amway's product line
  • Created training materials and employee engagement resources for the staff
  • Collaborated with the training and development team on the scripting and execution of the online sales training curriculum
  • Certified to train internal staff on Franklin Covey's 4 disciplines of execution
  • Helped sales agents to increase their sales by 20%

Volunteer Work

Team Lead

September 2023 to September 2024

Kiva (Kiva.org)

  • Led a team of 24 volunteer Spanish loan translators and editors
  • Edited loans to ensure they met Kiva's quality standards before posting them to kiva.org
  • Improved readability of loan descriptions by fixing style issues and correcting grammar
  • Motivated team members to meet their monthly loan review and translation goals
  • Shared weekly updates highlighting team accomplishments and lending trends

Education

UPEI Bachelor of Education Candidate

Expected Graduation Date May 2026

Bachelor of Arts in French

1996

Queen's University

Certifications & Skills

Professional Certifications

  • Leadership in the 21st Century - The Jack Welch Management Institute (2020)
  • Project Management - Google Career Certificates (2022)
  • Become a Reporter: Report the News! - Michigan State University (Via Coursera) (2023)
  • Full Stack Web Developer - Ongoing at freecodecamp.org (2025)

Skills

  • Bilingual in French and English
  • Conversational in Japanese, and Spanish
  • Curriculum design & development
  • Creating user manuals, job aids, video simulations, and assessments
  • Training facilitation, presentations and public speaking
  • Technical writing
  • Creative writing
  • Video editing
  • Articulate 360
  • Camtasia
  • Graphic design
  • Web Development