Current Role
English Language Arts instructor in the state of Alaska.
Artist and author.
Objective
I am searching for supplemental income through part-time and contract labor. My skills include teaching, writing, design, and simple programming.
Experience
English Language Arts Teacher
Alaska Gateway School District
August 2024 – Present
- Taught children in the arts of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Reading Interventionist
Yukon-Koyukuk School District
August 2023 – July 2024
- Provided explicit instruction to rural Alaskan students K-3 in the art of reading.
- Traveled to remote Alaskan villages on a bimonthly basis to provide onsite support.
Research Assistant
University of Alaska – Fairbanks
January 2023 – July 2023
- Developed C++/Python scripts to gather and visualize data from a mining robot.
Stay-At-Home Father
Fairbanks, AK
July 2020 – January 2023
- Served as a full-time father for my two children during the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Developed interpersonal and leadership skills in the context of working with adolescents.
Senior Technical Writer and Junior Programmer
Komodo Platform
September 2017 – June 2020
- A primary co-author of the Komodo Whitepaper. This ninety-three-page document formed the basis for the internal company vision and the external marketing narrative.
- Authored, edited, and coedited hundreds of pages of technical documentation.
- Performed common, simple developer tasks: set up and maintained a Vuepress documentation website, managed Github repositories and test servers, and created basic C++ scripts for workflow automation.
Technical Support
TimeClick Software
June 2016 – November 2016
- Provided customer service, sales, and technical support for TimeClick software.
- 50% sales closing rate on final month.
- Average closing rate over 25%.
Adjunct Professor
Utah Valley University: August 2014 – December 2015
Brigham Young University: January 2016 – April 2016
- Developed curriculum for class sizes of fifteen to twenty students.
- Topics included foundational design, and advanced entertainment design.
Owner
Independent Illustration, Creative Writing, and Technical Writing
April 2004 – July 2020
- Author/illustrator of Westly: A Spider’s Tale (2015, Shadow Mountain Publishing).
- Recipient, Kirchoff/Wohlberg Award (New York Society of Illustrators).
Business Assistant
Richard Solomon—Artists Representative
April 2007 – February 2009
- Tasks included networking and managing transition from traditional to digital media
- Sourced 20 million free advertising impressions via corporate networking
BYU Auxiliary Services
Brigham Young University
Summer 2003 – Fall 2005
- Employee of the Year (2005)
Education
Brigham Young University – BFA: Illustration (2007)
Western Governor’s University – MAT English Education (2023-25)