Victoria Gold 77 Pond Ave. apt 308 Brookline, Ma 02445 Home: (617) 232-3733 Cell (617) 335-4154 Online portfolio http://cte.dce.harvard.edu/~vgold Email: gold@fas.harvard.edu EDUCATION Present Instructional Technology Licensure candidate, Harvard University (anticipated completion: August 2006) Present Master’s candidate, Educational Technologies, Harvard University (anticipated completion: June 2007) 1982 MS Computer Science, SUNY Binghamton 1980 BS Business Administration, SUNY Binghamton SUMMARY 5 years of teaching experience as a Computer Teacher for Jewish Vocational Services and as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Years experience as a Lead Software Engineer and Web Site Development Manager Computer Science expertise in Java, C++/C, Internet Technology and Web Construction, Database Design, OO Design and Methodology. Application expertise in the Microsoft Office Suite and MacroMedia Tools. Proven ability to Teach, Manage and Motivate K-12 students in a Classroom Environment. May 2006 to June 2006 Lincoln Public Schools Student Teacher Presently student teaching in Lincoln Public Schools grades K- 8, with the Instructional Technology Department. My responsibilities include teaching lessons on how to Research effectively and safely on the Web, How to Evaluate Web materials and in coordination with the art department create a series of lessons on how to create an animated claymation movie using iMovie. In addition general responsibilities include assisting teachers with technology either in the computer lab or with laptop carts. March 2006 to May 2006 Lincoln Sudbury Regional High School Student Teacher Student Taught with the Instructional Technology Coordinator and Computer Science Department. My direct responsibilities were to co-teaching a Computer Literacy Course and an Introduction to Programming along with professional development courses. May 2005 to Present Jewish Vocational Services – Boston, MA Technology Teacher Computer teacher at Computer Learning Centers. Responsibilities include running a Computer Center at Brandywyne Village and the Maverick Housing Project in East Boston. I hold separate classes for K-12 students and for adults and the elderly. Kids’ class size varies from 10 to 20, with adult and elderly ranging from 8 to 10 students. Assignments are project based and differentiated for each student's interests and ability levels. Activities include the design and implementation of computer gaming technologies, flash design, power point presentations and general technology 1 assistance and mentoring. Adult projects include Photoshop, Excel, Word, and Microsoft Publisher along with general computer literacy support for software and hardware issues. Sept 2001 to Present Harvard University– Cambridge, MA Teaching Fellow Head Teaching Fellow for Harvard University’s Distributed Java Course, http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~cscie160/, Teaching Fellow for Introduction to Educational Technologies, http://extension.harvard.edu/2005-06/courses/11986.jsp, and Teaching Fellow for Technology and Universal Design in Education and Employment, http://extension.harvard.edu/2005-06/courses/12630.jsp Teach on-campus and on-line distance sessions. Additional responsibilities include lesson plan creation; grade student homework and supply individualized in-depth analysis of homework. I answer student questions in person and via email. 2003 to 2004 Boston, MA Quality Data Management, Inc Senior Software Consultant for Gold Computer Consultants, Inc QDM is a research company that administers patient surveys on behalf of health care organizations by using Virtual Call Center Technology. Responsible for Data Base transformations using statistical analysis techniques. 2001 to 2002 Avery Dennison, Framingham, MA Senior Software Consultant for Gold Computer Consultants, Inc Brought in as a Consultant where I Designed, Implemented and Documented a Proof of Concept Prototype that enables non-EDI customers to manually enter Purchase Order. 1/2001 to 5/2001 / Significantly Downsized Gold Wire Technology Inc. Waltham, MA 02452 – Eng Manager and Project Manager of DB Group Gold Wire Technologies “Formulator” is an automated routing configuration management N tier distributed tool running on Unix/Linux using C++ & Oracle 8i. As hands-on manager of the Database Group responsibilities included: management of 3 db dev engineers, responsible for the design and implementation of Oracle database. 9/2000 to 12/2000 / Company Closed SimPlayer Sports, Inc. Stoneham, Ma Senior Project Manager of Database Group SimPlayer developed dynamic, visual interactive applications for the global sports market. The product line includes live game simulations, statistical analyses and fantasy management tools for baseball, football, and basketball. Developed on Linux using C++ and Sybase 11.2.7. 1998 to 2001 Cahner’s Publishing, Newton MA Development Manager and Project Manager for Manufacturing MarketPlace www.manufacturing.net Portal web site consisting of content from 23 magazines. As part of Cahner’s New Media department I designed, implemented and coordinated MM’s transformation into an online searchable Ecommerce ready web site. Responsible for MM’s $2.3Million website reconfigured development effort. Day to Day Management of 7 to 10 engineers, designed, implemented, and developed Yellow Pages for individual magazines. Upgrade of hardware, Y2K compliance, 24 x 7 uptime, weekly builds, weekly newsletters etc. 2 1996 to 1998 Sybase Inc., Burlington MA, Senior Consulting Software Engineer and Project Manager for Gold Consultants Responsible for the functional definition, design and implementation of the NT version of the Sybase IQ Provider plug-in to Sybase Central. Sybase Central is a UI based Database Administrator tool. I delivered both the Java and C++ versions of the Sybase IQ Provider Plug-in 1995 to 1996 Lecroy Corp, Burlington, MA, Senior Software Engineer Lecroy was run by ViewPoint’s former CEO. As Software Eng/Project Manager I was responsible for the design, documentation, implementation and performance of UI & DB API for Lecroy’s Network Analyzer. Responsibilities include UI usability studies. Written in C++ using Zapp and RogueWave & Sybase’s ctlib. 1993 to 1995 Progress Software, Nashua, NH, Senior Software Engineer Progress develops a 4GL environment for database access. Responsible for the design, documentation, and implementation for the db access of Progress’s future product line. Developed in Smalltalk, C++, DB-Lib 1992 to 1993 ViewPoint Information Systems, Inc., Waltham, MA, Software Engineer ViewPoint developed an Informix-based electric component information system called VCL. Project lead responsible for design, documentation and implementation for the db API and Import/Export facility. Developed in C++ with an Informix backend. 1989 to 1992 Intersolv (formerly Index Technology), Cambridge, MA, Software Engineer Intersolv developed Excelerator an upper market PC CASE tool. Project lead responsible for the Data Sharing Import/Export facility for the OS/2 Excelerator Series II Smalltalk version. Project Lead for the db-api facility for the Windows Excelerator Series I C++ version 1987 to 1989 ComputerVision Corporation, Bedford, MA, Software Engineer Designed and implemented components of Product Data Manager (PDM), a CAD/CAM tool for automating product design and manufacturing. 1984 to 1987 VMark Computer, Inc., Natick, MA, Software Engineer Designed and implemented portions of uniVerse, a Pick-like multi-user database management and application development environment. uniVerse runs on UNIX. Developed in C. 3