Recent Projects

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Centers for Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation

An initiative designed to increase the number of effective teachers by restructuring the Elementary Education Bachelors of Science degree to include more content specific courses, enhance co-op teacher preparedness and outreach strategies, and incorporate supervisor coaching best practices and real-world teacher evaluation models with training.

Tampa Bay Healthcare & Nursing Program

A program designed to help participants overcome the gaps in knowledge, technical skills, and credentials necessary to fulfill the population's growing needs for healthcare professionals, and strengthen the region's economy with a skilled and employed workforce.

Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program

A program to drive robust implementations of adaptive learning within one's institution and document the implementation while measuring student outcomes and to sharing these findings broadly with the field so as to shed light on the promising field of learning innovations.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Company: St. Petersburg College
Position: Research Analyst
Dates: 3/2016-Present

Company: St. Petersburg College
Position: Research Analyst
Dates: 10/2014-3/2016

Company: ActionLink
Position: Market Development Manager/
Sales Event Specialist
Dates: 12/2011-12/2014

Company: University of South Florida
Department of Anthropology
Position: Research Assistant
Dates: 9/2011-7/2014

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Research

• Centers for Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation
• Tampa Bay Healthcare & Nursing Program


• Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program


• Preliminary Findings from an Efficacy Study of a Distributed Leadership Model of School Organization
  
  
• Videogame Usability Test


• The Adolescent and the Classic Novel-A Study of How Required Reading Affects the Reading Habits of Teenagers


• Dungeons & Dragons on the University of South Florida Campus


• Rebuilding after Hurricane Charley: A look at which Homes Still Need Repairs

Centers for Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation

Dates: 2016-Present
Position: Research Analyst

An initiative designed to increase the number of effective teachers by restructuring the Elementary Education Bachelors of Science degree to include more content specific courses, enhance co-op teacher preparedness and outreach strategies, and incorporate supervisor coaching best practices and real-world teacher evaluation models with training.

Tampa Bay Healthcare & Nursing Program

Dates: 2014-2016
Position: Research Analyst

A program designed to help participants overcome the gaps in knowledge, technical skills, and credentials necessary to fulfill the population's growing needs for healthcare professionals, and strengthen the region's economy with a skilled and employed workforce.

Adaptive Learning Market Acceleration Program

Dates: 2014-2015
Position: Research Analyst

A program to drive robust implementations of adaptive learning within one's institution and document the implementation while measuring student outcomes and to sharing these findings broadly with the field so as to shed light on the promising field of learning innovations.

An Efficacy Study of a Distributed Leadership Model of School Organization

Dates: 2011-2014
Position: Research Assistant

Our goal for this project is to evaluate the implementation of an intervention at Florida middle schools designed to establish a new organization structure and its impact on student achievement outcomes. Data collection consisted of three major elements: semi-structured interviews and focus groups, multiple surveys, and observations.

Videogame Input Usability Test

Dates: September-December 2010
Position: Co-Researcher

For this project, my research partnet and I observed 10 participants as they played through one of two different videogame demos to determine how effective each was at conveying to a player how to play that particular game.

The Adolescent and the Classical Novel - A Study of How Required Reading Affects the Reading Habits of Teenagers

Dates: August 2009-May 2010
Position: Researcher

My undergraduate thesis, which focuses on the thoughts of high school seniors on novels high school seniors have been required to read in their English classes as well as the thoughts of their English teachers and to create ideas for new approaches to solving the adolescent literacy problem.

Dungeons & Dragons on the University of South Florida Campus

Dates: August-December 2009
Position: Researcher

A short ethnography focusing on the character development, social interactions between Dungeon Masters and players, and dice superstitions in the table top game Dungeons & Dragons.

Rebuilding after Hurricane Charley: A Look at which Homes Still Need Repairs

Dates: May-July 2008
Position: Researcher

Together, my mentor for this research paper and I analyze some of the obstacles hurricane victims must face when working towards reparing their homes including dealing with government programs and insurance companies.

Interactive Projects

My Portfolio

Dates: January 2011-Present
Position: HTML Programer, Designer

My portfolio site was designed and coded by myself.

I Am A Gamer

Dates: February 2011-May 2011
Position: Content Gatherer, Designer, Flash Programer

My Masters Capstone Project: I am a Gamer. For this project I asked 15 people what it meant to be a gamer for them and about gaming in general.

Earth University P.E.P. Microsite

Dates: January 2011
Position: HTML Programer, Content Gatherer

For our friends at Earth University and their Permanent Education Program or P.E.P. Program, my team and I designed and coded a microsite highlighting various aspects of their program.

Earth University Interactive Brochure

Dates: January 2011
Position: Flash Programer, Content Designer, Content Gatherer

As a part of a winter project, my team and I were asked to produce a CD brochure Earth University in Costa Rica could distribute at conferences to spread information about their Permanent Education Program or P.E.P. Program.

Darrell Coble Photography Website

Dates: December 2010
Position: HTML Programer

For this project, we were divided into groups of four and provided with a client in need of a new website. For Mr. Coble's site, my group created a Flash XML slideshow for the home page and the other galleries through a jquery slideshow that pulls photos from Flickr. The music is also done through Flash.

Top 100 Video Games Infographic

Dates: December 2010
Position: Flash Programer, Designer

An inforgraphic highlighting the top 100 videogames ever based on a top 200 videogame list from the magazine Gameinformer. The videogame titles are color coded by which company distributed the console the videogame was for.

Prototype iPhone Application

Dates: November-December 2010
Position: Flash Programer, Usability Designer

For this project, my class was asked to individually design a prototype alarm clock/radio app for the iPhone in Adobe Flash. For my app, I chose to do a Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask theme as the gameplay revolves around time.

Through the Door Flash Game

Dates: October-November 2010
Position: Content Creator, Flash Programer, Usability Designer

My first attempt at game design, I created a point and click adventure game inspired by a PC videogame I was playing at the time called "The Dig". In each section I tried to incorporate different Adobe Flash elements we had learned during the semester and others I found on my own to create various puzzles for the player to work out.

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