Resume

Professional Standing

Cactus ID: 683016	Current Utah Educator License: Level 1
	Ethics Test: 01/06/2020
	Suicide Prevention Training: 03/17/2020

Education

2019	M.Ed. in Special Education
	University of Utah, Department of Special Education Multi-University Consortium Teacher Preparation Program Sensory Impairments: Program in Visual Impairments
	Endorsements: Visual Impairments

2012	Ph.D. in Neuroscience
	University of California, Davis
	Dissertation Title: Neurobehavioral endophenotype of the CGG KI mouse model of the fragile X premutation

Observed, analyzed, and described abnormal behaviors associated with neurodevelopmental disorders Modeled abnormal behaviors observed in children/adults with neurodevelopmental disorders using animal models Modeled pathology associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in animal models Published 27 scientific publications and chapters based on my dissertation work

2005	B.A. in Biology
	University of Utah

Teaching Experience

2019-present	Teacher for Students with Visual Impairments
	Davis School District

Provide braille transcription of print classroom materials Provide tactile graphics for classroom materials Provide Instruction in Assistive Technology Solutions Provide instruction in Extended Core Curriculum for Students with Visual Impairments Develop Curriculum for braille instruction in Essential Elements-focused classroom settings Design instructional materials using 3D printing technologies Designing and implementing braille transcription pipelines to increase transcription fidelity from print media

2016-2017	Special Education Inclusion Specialist / Coordinator for Applied Academics and Diagnostic Kindergarten Self-Contained Classrooms
	Granite School District

Member of Autism team Member of Behavior team Worked on the transition from Pre-K to Diagnostic/Functional/ Kindergarten Worked on the transition from Diagnostic/Functional Kindergarten to first grade Developed procedures to facilitate mainstream access for students in a self-contained classroom Developed a pathway for students in self-contained classrooms to re-enter the general education setting Developed and implemented behavioral management techniques for K-6th-grade students across special education, self-contained unit, and general education settings Designed and provided a behavioral toolkit to facilitate Tier II and Tier III interventions Provided Spanish translation services for IEP Support self-contained teachers – DK, AA with the following: Understanding of correct policy and procedure Support for scheduling Curriculum support and referral to a specialist if needed Programing Data tracking Assessments, progress monitoring Inclusion paras for DK, AA students Bi-folds of incoming/ outgoing DK, AA students Behavior – FBA/ BIP support and development LRE consultation – observe and assist teams Tier III LRE forms Consultation with the curriculum specialist Review monthly student accounting IEP meetings and school team meetings

2015-2016	Special Education Teacher: Cluster Special Education and Resource Teacher
	Oquirrh Hills Elementary & West Valley Elementary; Granite School District

Developed procedures to facilitate mainstream access for students in self contained classroom Developed a pathway for students in self contained classroom to re-enter the general education setting Designed curriculum for 1st-6th grade students requiring special education intervention Wrote and supervised IEP implementation for K-6th grade students requiring special education intervention Developed and implemented behavioral management techniques for K-6th grade students Designed and provided a behavioral toolkit to facilitate Tier II and Tier III interventions Provided Spanish translation services for IEP

2014-2015	Special Education Teacher: Life Skills/Small Group Autism
	Foothill Elementary: Alpine School District

Designed curriculum for 2nd-5th grade students on the autism spectrum Wrote and supervised IEP implementation in a small group classroom of 2nd-5th grade students on the autism spectrum Developed and implemented behavioral management techniques for 2nd-5th grade students on the autism spectrum Designed and provided a behavioral toolkit to facilitate Tier II and Tier III interventions Provided Spanish translation services for IEP

2014	Section 504/Special Education Para-educator
	Forbes Elementary: Alpine School District

Assist with physical and emotional maintenance and instruction of a 6th grade student with autism in the mainstream curriculum in accordance with their 504 plan Assist with the implementation of the IEPs in a small group classroom of 1st-2nd grade students on the autism spectrum

2004-2014	Student Mentoring
	University of Utah / University of California, Davis

Taught 10 high school juniors skills necessary to design, perform, and analyze scientific experiments as part of an 8-week summer program Taught 34 undergraduate students skills necessary to design, perform, analyze, and write about their scientific work and supervised their day to day progress Sixteen undergraduates and one high school student are included as authors on scientific papers (5 wrote papers as the first author)

Winter 2010	Teaching Assistant
	University of California, Davis
	Course: Physiological Psychology Laboratory

Independently developed a curriculum to teach human neuroanatomy to two separate classes of undergraduate students (110 students total) Guided students through a series of goat eye and brain dissection projects to look at brain structure Received 96% positive reviews on my teaching evaluations.

Research Experience

2013 – 2014	Postdoctoral Researcher
	Department of Psychology
	University of Utah

Observed and analyzed the behavior of children/adolescents with Down Syndrome Based on my observations, developed behavioral tasks to directly model abnormal behaviors associated with Down Syndrome

2012 – 2013	Postdoctoral Researcher
	MIND Institute
	University of California, Davis Medical Center

Traced the hippocampus of primates from MRI from 1 week to 5 years of age using ANALYZE, ITK-SNAP, and MANGO Designed an automated, open source method to automatically trace the hippocampus with minimal experimenter input using ANTS and MANGO Developed methods to automate the analysis of the hippocampus in children with autism spectrum disorder using Freesurfer, ANTS, and MANGO

2007 – 2012	Graduate Student Researcher
	Program in Neuroscience
	University of California, Davis

Observed, analyzed, and described the behaviors associated with neurodevelopmental disorders Performed neuropathological and somatic pathological anayses on Fragile X premutation carriers, patients with Fragile X Syndrome, and Autism Modeled observed behavior of children/adults with neurodevelopmental disorders using animal models Modeled pathology associated with neurodevelopmental disorders in animal models Applied for and was awarded an HHMI translational/clinical science training grant to support a research program of my own design

1999 – 2007	Research Associate
	Department of Psychology
	University of Utah

Developed novel tasks to quantify behavior in animal models Designed novel methods to disrupt the function of different brain areas in animal models Formulated and tested hypotheses concerning brain function relevant to human disease in animal models Applied for and was awarded a summer fellowship from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to support my research

Scientific Communication/Blogging

From PhD to Life / University Affairs (Guest Blog Post-January 2015)

Why Haven’t They Done That Yet? (Sole Contributor)

PatternSeparation.com (Regular Contributor)

F1000 Research (Guest Blog Post-March 2014)

Golden Hat Foundation (Guest Blog Post-August 2014)

We The Humanities (Guest Blog Post-April 2016)

Skills

Assistive Technology (Hardware)

APH RefreshaBraille	BrailleEDGE 40	Braille Trail	BrailleNote mPower
BrailleNote Apex	BrailleNote Touch	Enabling Technologies and HumanWare Braille Embossers	MATT-Connect

Assistive Technology (Software)

BRLTTY	JAWS	NVDA	ORCA
VoiceOver (Mac OS, iOS)	Windows Magnifier	Windows Narrator	Zoom (MacOS, iOS)
ZoomText

Education Software

Instructure CANVAS	GoalView	IEP Pro	KITE
MClass	MyIdea	SchoolCity	Skyward

Braille Production / Transcription

BrailleBlaster	BrailleZephyr	Braillo	Daisy Pipeline
Duxbury DBT	ImageMagick	Kracken	Liblouis
Liblouisutdml	PerkyDuck	Poppin	Tesseract-OCR
xPdf

Productivity

Adobe Illustrator	Adobe InDesign	Adobe Acrobat	Apple iWork
Atom	BBEdit	Box	Cygwin
DataGraph	Docker	Dropbox	Git
Git bash	Google Classroom	Google Docs	Google Drive
GraphVis	LaTEX	LibreOffice	Mac OS
Markdown	Microsoft Windows 10	Microsoft Office	MinGW
MSYS2	Notepad++	OneDrive	Overleaf
R	Slack

Curriculum

Abacus Counting and Substitution methods	Building on Patterns	Beginning with Braille	Corrective Reading
DIBELSNext	DRA2	Early Reading Interventions for Children with Visual Impairments	Early Interventions for Reading (EIR)
EurekaMath/GreatMinds	GoMath	Language for Learning	Learning Media Assessments
Mangold Developmental Program of Tactile Perception and Braille Letter Recognition	NEXT Steps	Phonics for Reading	PRI Reading Systems (PRI/RS)
Six-Minute Solutions	Social Thinking	Wonders	WonderWorks

Assessments

Brigance	Vineland-3	BASC-3	Learning Media Assessment
Functional Vision Assessment	EVALS Expanded Core Curriculum Assessments

Behavior Management

Collaborative and Proactive Solutions (CPS)

MANDT

SafetyCare v6.0

Mental / Behavioral Health

CALM-Utah

PCA UTAH Preventing Child Abuse

USBE Suicide Prevention

Service

March 1998

Eagle Scout

Created an 8-week curriculum designed to help disadvantaged hispanic students integrate into the Utah educational system Taught disadvantaged hispanic 1st-3rd graders life skills within this curriculum Invited/organized local community leaders as guest lecturers in support of this curriculum

2000-2002

Ecclesiastical Mission

Service mission to Northern Honduras Provided general labor services on an as-needed basis to disadvantaged farmers as economic support Coordinated local relief aid program after flooding due to Tropical Storm Michelle in 2002

Languages (Read / Write)

Spanish (Conversational)

Braille (Level 1)

ASL (Level 2)