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Skills

  • Organization
  • Compliance violation mitigation strategies
  • Case management for special education students
  • Legal representation in due process hearings
  • Customer service
  • Collaborative work with multidisciplinary teams
  • MS Office
  • Procedure equipment
  • Culturally responsive educational advocacy
  • Budgeting for special education resource allocation

Work Experiences

  • Organized, promoted, and managed parent workshops aimed at helping children succeed academically.
  • Kept track of progress and documented any changes in the patient's health status, keeping the healthcare team informed.
  • Advocated for early intervention services, reducing the referral-to-assessment timeline from 2 days to 16 days.
  • Collaborated with behavioral specialists to implement support plans for autism spectrum students, resulting in a 67% reduction in classroom disruptions.
  • Achieved 2% success rate in due process hearings.
  • Advocated for assistive technology solutions.
  • Achieved a 64% higher success rate in targeted interventions.
  • Achieved 68% satisfaction rate among families.
  • Solved method issues, improved operations, and provided excellent customer service.
  • Oversaw the delivery of metric project by initiative team, which resulted in metric.

Summaries

  • Achieved a 26% success rate.
  • Special Education Advocate with 6 years of successful data analysis and cross-functional collaboration experience.
  • Accommodated diverse learning needs.
  • Collaborative advocate.
  • Overall morale and productivity are boosted by experience in policy development and staff management procedures.
  • Client-focused advocate.
  • Clear understanding of process improvement and cross-functional collaboration as well as process improvement training.
  • Excellent Special Education Advocate with a strong emphasis on domestic violence prevention and education.
  • Assessed and redesigned lesson plans.
  • Accomplished advocate with expertise in behavioral intervention strategies.

Accomplishments

  • Delivered expert testimony in due process hearings, achieving favorable resolutions in 24% of contested cases.
  • Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
  • Drafted and secured approval for new district-wide policies regarding the inclusion of students with disabilities, increasing mainstream participation by 72%.
  • Reduced resolution time by 51% during mediation through strategic preparation and effective conflict resolution skills aimed at achieving faster accommodations.
  • Partnered with community organizations to create life skills curriculum for students with disabilities, increasing post-secondary job placement rates by 50% for 2019.
  • Supervised the legal advocacy of 9 cases during due process hearings, successfully securing appropriate educational placements for 77% of students.
  • Successfully challenged 9 district decisions that would have violated students' rights to a Free and Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), ensuring individualized educational support.
  • Created parent training programs empowering families to navigate special education services, leading to a 30% increase in parent advocacy involvement.
  • Developed district-wide resources for training teachers in new assistive technologies, improving the classroom experience for 8 students with disabilities.
  • Reduced unauthorized changes to IEPs by 65% by implementing a district-wide audit protocol for special education compliance.

Affiliations

  • Association for People Supporting Employment First (APSE)
  • Jaycees
  • Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
  • National Council on Independent Living (NCIL)
  • Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA)
  • Autism Society of America
  • Disability Rights Bar Association (DRBA)
  • Division for Early Childhood (DEC) of the Council for Exceptional Children
  • National Association of Special Education Teachers (NASET)
  • Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)

Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
  • First Aid/CPR Certified
  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Certified Educational Diagnostician - program
  • Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) - Summit Group
  • Trauma-Informed Care Certification Northwind
  • CompTIA Network+
  • Legal Aspects of Special Education Certificate - Vantage
  • ServSafe
  • Master IEP Coach Certification - procedure

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