She has a Bachelors of Science; Math and Science Major, Art Minor; 30 Graduate credits beyond Bachelors and a partial MBA.
In addition to her 23 years of private tutoring and classroom experience, Joan https://mathtutor.web.cmu.edu/ developed IBM Sales training programs, which were adopted nationally in IBM. Her business experience was in Sales, Marketing, Education and Channel Operations.
She volunteered and taught in the Chicago Literacy Reading Program and has a sense of Caring, Enthusiasm, Humor and Desire to provide high quality education She helps students develop love for learning, giving consideration to student's learning style and preferred learning modality in customized approach.
Teaching, Education and Curriculum Development
Middle School Teacher, Supervisory Teacher
Substitute Teacher Lisle District 202 and permanent Math Substitute in Naperville District 204.
Fountain Valley School District, Fountain Valley, California Supervisory Teacher for 2 student teachers
Long Beach Unified School District, Long Beach, California
Utica Community Schools, Utica, Michigan
Teaching and Education Development Work Experience in Business Environment
IBM Corporation
Sales Training Instructor/Developer for (Sales Representatives and Managers) within IBM Corporation, NDD Education. (Taught five-day sales solutions skill certification course to 1,200+ dealer sales representatives annually.) Responsible for Atlanta headquarters NDD sales education and provided education to major cities across the U.S.
Managed education/development project. Designed, created and produced 7 Computer Based Training (CBT) sales course modules, 7 videotapes, diskettes, work books and interactive skills assessment module, including writing of scripts.
Implementied and created the division marketing programs and plans, including division announcements, marketing collateral, pricing. Set up a distribution center for the product called The EDGE -- (Education, Guidance and Evaluation).
Significantly enhanced training experience and performance of sales representatives. 98% dealer satisfaction compared to 65% ratings achieved by other non-trained channels from statistical survey.
Senior Program Instructor/Developer -- Technical Education/Product and Operating System Software
Technical Education/Developer Instructor in high volume student environment provided to System Engineers and Manager. Taught computer courses on PC products, Sales Skills, OS/2 2.0 Operating Systems marketing, installation and configuration services in 24 cities. Set up of LAN (Local Area Network) systems in every classroom environment.
23 years of tutoring serving students from Naperville schools at a reasonable cost.
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