Warm, Charming, Mature Go-getter Thriving on Trust, Challenge and Prestige!
Deep, Critical, Divergent, Lateral, Quick, Complex-Adaptive Thinking Problem Solver!
Multicultural, Multilingual, Multitasking, Multitalented, Multifaceted!
Creative, Intellectual, Persuasive, Intuitive, and Analytical Mind!
After many years editing, performing spoken word, and teaching English, business writing and college and career success skills at the college level in New Orleans and squeezing in event coordination/translation work on the side, I am returning to Middle Tennessee and in search of one long-term position.
Do you need a conscientious, determined, multilingual, multitasking, highly
educated, and intelligent person? I am more strategic and operational by nature
than tactical, but fully cross-functional. I prevent fires to appear poised and
gracious rather than tearing around stomping them out to appear stressed and
busy. It’s a matter of style: seeming effortlessness and anticipation of the
least vagary.
- English, French, Spanish –
fluent and literate.
- Local roots: Brentwood Academy graduate.
- BA-International
Affairs and English (minors in Modern Languages and Theatre Arts): Sweet Briar
College
- MA-English (Applied Linguistics) and Multicultural Education:
University of New Orleans
- Additional paralegal, private investigator, computer
networking, e-business, website design studies.
- Vast knowledge of computer
software.
- Pointillistic: minute attention to detail while still maintaining a
grasp of the big picture.
- 100% early delivery of assigned projects.
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Consistently surpassed goals.
- Proven leadership in the workplace and the
community.
- Selected and mentored new hires.
- Led diverse, cross-functional
teams in the fulfillment of department productivity, quality and bottom-line
objectives (once cut costs by 50% by discovering someone’s error!).
- Resolved
client difficulties quickly and tactfully.
Creative INTJ Mastermind: thinking of new strategies and rational solutions with a broad range of applications, managing details, creating sophisticated processes to get complex work done. Once a game plan has been put in place, I see that it is implemented and improved where possible. Decisions appear quick, but are based on facts and carefully reasoned. When people think I'm being quiet, I'm inwardly abuzz with contingency plans. I love to analyze problems, fix them, and move on to the next challenge.
When working with others, I am motivating, fair, and democratic; I can always be counted upon to deliver: assertive, systematic, investigative, thinking, artistic, creative, enterprising, and persuasive as needed. When facilitating meetings or leading others, I use an authoritative style if a group member lacks knowledge about a certain procedure, a participative style with group members who understand the objectives and their role in the task, and a delegative style with group members who know as much as or more about the task than I do. I generally mix charismatic and participative styles to help everyone feel motivated and valued. When training others, I mix extreme patience to repeat and reiterate, learning style and personality tailoring, variety of input, and positive reinforcement with high expectations for mastery to produce rapid results with measurable outcomes.
I have been called a cross between Mr. Monk (observant and super-organized) and Radar O’Reilly (loyal, confidential, anticipating needs and making helpful connections at all levels of society).
Want to know more? For photos, CV, writing samples,
references and comments on my work ethic, please see more at
https://www.angelfire.com/falcon/gavilaninternational/cvitaevida.htm
E-mail: vfonse@dcc.edu
Phone: (615) 669-2408
Thank you for your time and kind attention,
Vida L. Henry
¡Buscavidas Emprendedora, Cálida, Encantadora, y Madura que Prospere con la Confianza, el Desafío y el Prestigio!
¡Profunda, Crítica, Divergente, Lateral, Complejo-Adaptable Pensadora que Resuelve Problemas Rápida- y Exitosamente!
¡Multicultural, Multilingüe, Multitarea, Polifacética! ¡Exigente, Creativa, Intelectual, Persuasiva, Intuitiva, Analítica!
Después de muchos años de trabajar come redactora, en la realización de poesía, y como profesora en la enseñanza de inglés, la escritura del negocio, y las habilidades de la universidad y una carrera de éxito a nivel universitario y apretando en la coordinación de eventos y traducción en Nueva Orleans, volví a Middle Tennessee y busco una posición a largo plazo.
¿Necesita Vd. una persona consciente, decidida, multilingüe, multitarea, muy educada e inteligente? Yo soy más estratégica y operativa de personalidad que táctico, pero totalmente lista para actuar de una manera competente y poli-funcional. Yo instituyo la prevención de incendios para aparecer serena y clemente en vez de romper todo pisoteando incendios para aparecer destacada y ocupada. Es una cuestión de estilo: sin esfuerzo aparente y con la anticipación del menor deseo del jefe o cliente.
Inglés, francés, español - leer y escribir con fluidez y de manera bien letrada.
- Raíces locales: graduada de la Academia Brentwood.
- BA-Asuntos Internacionales e Inglés (menores en Lenguas Modernas y Artes Teatro): Sweet Briar College
- MA-Inglés (Lingüística Aplicada y la educación de adultos multiculturales): la Universidad de Nueva Orleans
- Asistente paralegal, investigadora privada, technica de redes de computadoras, negocios-e, estudios de diseño en la Red.
- Amplio conocimiento de programas informáticos.
- Puntillista: minuto atención a los detalles, manteniendo un alcance de todo el panorama.
- 100% entrega de los proyectos asignados a tiempo o temprano.
- Las metas sobrepasadas consistentemente
• Un liderazgo comprobado en el trabajo y la comunidad
• Selección y servir de mentor a las nuevas contrataciones
• Liderazgo de diversos equipos multi-funcionales en el desempeño de la productividad del departamento, la calidad y los objetivos de la línea de fondo (¡Una vez logré reducir los costos en un 50% mediante el descubrimiento de errores en el presupuesto!).
• Los problemas resueltos de los clientes de forma rápida y con mucho tacto.
Personalidad Myers-Briggs INTJ Cerebro Creativo, Dirigente, Impulsor: pensando en nuevas estrategias y soluciones racionales con una extensa gama de aplicaciones,
experta en la gestión de datos y detalles, la creación de procesos sofisticados para cumplir metas complejas. Una vez que el plan de juego se ha puesto en marcha, lo velo para que sea no solo implementado sino mejorado en lo posible. Decisiones parecen rápidas, pero se basan en hechos y se razonan con cuidado. Cuando la gente piensa que estoy tranquilita, soy un hervidero de planes de contingencia por dentro. Me gusta analizar los problemas, solucionarlos, y pasar al siguiente reto.
Cuando trabajo en equipo, soy motivadora, justa y democrática; siempre se puede contar conmigo para brindar: resultados firmes y sistemáticos, el pensamiento investigativo, artístico, creativo, emprendedor y persuasivo, según sea necesario. Al facilitar reuniones o dirigiendo a otros, uso un estilo autoritario, si un miembro del grupo carece de conocimiento sobre un determinado procedimiento, un estilo participativo con los miembros del grupo que comprenden Los objetivos y su papel en la tarea, y un estilo delegativo con miembros del grupo que conocen la tarea tanto o más que yo. Yo generalmente uso una mezcla de estilo carismático con un participativo para conseguir que a todos se sientan motivados y valorados. Al entrenar a otros, mezclo mucha paciencia para repetir y reiterar, con una variedad de entradas bajados en estilo de aprendizaje y la personalidad del estudiante con el refuerzo positivo y grandes expectativas de dominio para producir resultados rápidos con objetivos medibles.
Me han llamado un cruce entre el Sr. Monk (atenta y súper-organizada) y Radar O'Reilly (leal, confidencial, anticipándose a las necesidades y haciendo conexiones útiles a todos los niveles de la sociedad).
¿Quiere saber más? Para fotos, comentarios sobre mi trabajo, muestras de composición, un CV completo:
URL:
https://www.angelfire.com/falcon/gavilaninternational/cvitaevida.htm
Correo Electronico: vfonse@dcc.edu Tel: (615) 669-2408
Muchas gracias por su tiempo y atención amable,
Vida L. Fonseca
Curriculum Vitae: V. L. Henry
Not narrowly crammed into the "job-specific" box,
but a broad-spectrum, diversely proficuous and holistically complex-adaptive factotum.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Skillful and dedicated with extensive and broad-ranging experience in the coordination, planning, and support of daily operational and administrative functions. Interculturally and multilingually adept and literate.
- Demonstrated capacity to provide comprehensive support for executive-level staff including scheduling meetings, coordinating travel and events, and effectively managing all essential tasks.
- Proven track record of accurately completing research, reporting, information management, marketing, and business-development efforts early and within budget requirements.
- Adept at developing and maintaining detailed administrative and procedural processes that reduce redundancy, improve accuracy and efficiency, and achieve organizational objectives.
- Highly focused and results-oriented in supporting complex, deadline-driven operations; able to identify goals and priorities and resolve issues in initial stages.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, FrontPage, PeopleSoft, troubleshooting hardware and software, excellent spelling and grammar, fluent in French and Spanish.
Education
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M.A.E.T.
English and Education (Applied Linguistics/Multicultural/ Adult
Education)
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Grade Point
Average: 3.6
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Alpha Theta
Epsilon Interdisciplinary Honor Society
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Certification to teach English and English as a Second Language
(7-12,K-Adult)
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Student
teaching: Archbishop Chapelle High School-Honors, AP, Academic
English-12th Grade
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Volunteer:
Court-Appointed Special Advocate for Children, Tutor Redwood Housing Project
Little Schoolhouse, Teacher of ESL/Citizenship to adults through Operation
Mainstream
Also studied Non-Fiction Writing, Adult Ed/Seminar Planning, Black and Multicultural Literature, Multicultural Education and Psychology. Seminar Certificates in
Import/Export(World Trade Center), Security Training(Orleans Parish Criminal
Sheriff's Office), Private Investigation (Delgado Community College)
PUBLICATIONS/PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Published: Recipe (& short story) for Smothered Pork Chops in Cook’s Country: Lost Suppers, "The Teachers We Need and How to Get More of Them,", 2 Poems: World’s Best Poets 2003: Chateaux dans la Brume, Colours of the Heart Anthology, Nobel House (UK), Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award 2004 Silver Cup - International Poets' Society.
Memberships: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Museum of Art, Opera Guild, World Trade Center, Council for International Visitors, World Affairs Council, Academy of American Poets, World Trade Center, LaTESOL, Louisina Women in Higher Education, Adult and Higher Education and Disdability (AHEAD), Technology, Reading, and Learning Disabilities (TRDL) Associate, Orton Dyslexa Society
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Law Office of Ivan
Omar Lopez-Hernandez:
Bilingual Paralegal/Office Manager/Investigator/Notary/Courier
- File proper documents with courts.
- Proofread copy to detect and correct errors in spelling,
punctuation, and syntax, alleviate awkwardness or wordiness in English
and Spanish.
- Maintain the office calendar of attorney.
- Handle disgruntled and overwrought clients in Spanish.
- Data gathering and analysis, problem solving, multilingual legal
research, editing and writing,
- Find people (especially criminals and non-citizens) who do not want
to be found, process service.
- Respond timely to all electronic and telephonic inquiries.
- Perform delicate negotiations with aplomb and calm the distraught.
- Keep the office organized, stocked, and maintained.
- Handle sensitive client data with utmost discretion, care and
accuracy.
- Perform tasks as assigned with accuracy and celerity, targeting
deadlines accurately.
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Inspiris Bilingual Call Center Consultant: Scheduler
- Using
MSOutlook Calendar, Excel, Access, Mapping software, Avaya dialing software,
Spark, Report Manager, and Citrix simultaneously to plan and execute
scheduling of annual in-home wellness assessments for fragile elderly in
English, Spanish, mainly; some Kreyol/French, Brasilian Portuguese and
Italian; gaining members' trust by telephone and persuading them to avail
themselves of the service.
- US Census
Bureau: Promoted from Bilingual Enumerator to Bilingual
Recruiting/Personnel Clerk to Administrative Special Assistant to the
Local Census Office Manager to OOS-QAC (Office Operations
Supervisor-Quality Assurance and Control)then OOS-FO (Office Operations
Supervisor - Field Operations) in charge of the Enumeration in
Transitory Locations to enumerate the homeless and those living in
temporary housing.
- Performing load tests for computer network
- Entering applicant information into PeopleSoft
- Interviewing and hiring candidates
- Scheduling testing sessions & proofreading schedules
- Obtaining donations of space for testing and training in 3
parishes through personal community contacts
- Fingerprinting new hires for FBI background checks
- Organizing manager's office, timelines and calendar for several
simultaneous operations, troubleshooting and acting as liaison with
5 departments,
- Training and overseeing up to 50 clerks and 3 operations after
Field Ops supervisor resigned with a team of 4 OOSs doing field ops
and quality control/assurance,
- Juggling and keeping track of several million pieces of paper
going from office to field to office to regional office
- Troubleshooting and keeping to inflexible timelines.
- GrassTopsUSA
(Online Daily News Digest Editor - ongoing part-time) –
- Heritage Sports
Center – office manager/bookkeeper
- Tennessee
Williams Southern Literary Festival – Scholar's Conference Aide,
Satellite Site Coordinator
- New
Orleans/Nashville Fringe Theater Festivals – Site Coordinator
(Volunteer) Front desk/intake/interpreter
- LSU Medical
Clinics – Front desk/intake/interpreter
- New Orleans
Home and Rehabilitation Center – secretary for Social Services,
Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Rec. Therapy,
Event Planning
- Herbert
Insurance/Wilson Realty(Franklin, TN) – weekend single-person office
- The Vacuum
Shop(Franklin, TN) – small engine repair, sales, bookkeeping
- Brooke
Temporaries
- Shuart
Temporaries
- Robbins
Consultants/TempForce
- Yvonne
Bourgeois Staffing – all of the above as a temp
- See Also
Delgado Community College under next heading –
- Managed data banks, contracts, Proshop, front desk, A/P, A/R, customer
relations, special events: 4th of July Picnic, corporate Christmas Party,
regional handball tournament, golf tournament, foster children Christmas
party; research & data processing/presentation, phone banks, political
television, radio appearances, coordinate volunteers; negotiate donations,
personal appointments & travel arrangements political activities,
translations, convention work, writing HR policies, HR & client
communications & handbooks. Training others in customer service and
retention.
Educational
Administrator, Teacher and Professor(1983-2008)
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LSU
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English Department - English 1001 - Freshman Comp (My students' median score was 28% higher than the overall median and all passed on the departmental final exam graded by other professors), English 1002 - speeches, presentations and term papers, Career and Academic Writing, English 1005 - English as a Second Language for Upper Level Undergraduates and Graduate Students (My students had a 75% higher pass out rate than those of any other instructor of the same class.)
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Delgado Community College
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Communications Department - Human Development, Developmental English,
and English 101-Composition and 102-speeches, presentations and term papers,
Testing Department - ESL and Special Needs Testing Administrator,
Exit Exam Grading Committee, ESL Committee, Testing Committee, Honors Committee, Academic and Admissions Standards Committee, Developmental Education Assessment Committee, Interculturalism and Diversity Committee, workshops and seminars in software applications for learning enhancement,
Noel-Levitz student retention and recruitment seminars, TESOL, member of Louisiana Association of Women in Higher
Education and the American Association of University Women; Association on Higher Education And Disabilites, Technology for Reading and Learning Disabilities, Laubach Literacy, College Board, and Lorton Dyslexia Conferences, voluntarily manning the call center after Hurricane Katrina to help staff and faculty get paid, their families get their death benefits, students get signed up to continue their classes online, etc., helping set the school back up in New Orleans in November 2005, directing the moving and setting up of the department 3 times
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The Accent
International Language Academy
-Private Accelerated English and Spanish Instruction to Adults in Baton Rouge, Gonzales, New Orleans, Gretna and Slidell
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The Street
Academy
- Drama, Speech, English, Spanish to At-Risk Junior High Students
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Orleans
Parish Prison-Target Cites' About Face Program
- Literacy, ABE, GED, English as a Second Language to Prisoners in Drug
Treatment; edited and published prison-wide newspaper
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Orleans
Parish Public Schools
- Itinerant English as a Second Language Program - K-8 Language Arts and Reading at 3 Schools on 2 sides of Mississippi River and Director of the Largest ESL Summer Camp in Orleans Parish (Villages de L'Est)
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Williamson County (TN) Adult Education Program - Project EvenStart English as a Second Language and Citizenship Program
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Metro-Nashville Public Schools,Williamson County(TN) Public Schools, Franklin(TN) City Schools, Amherst County(VA)Schools
·Full Time Substitute(Pre-K-Adult)-Spanish, Civics, Special Education(BD, ED, Severe/Profound, DD, G&T)
·Taught Spanish, English, ESL/Biligual Ed., LifeSkills, Human Development, Speech, Drama, Social Studies, Civics/Citizenship, Dance
·Wrote Grants, Developed Curriculum, Oversaw Standardized Testing, Obtained
Donations of Space, Materials, and Texts, Handled Public Relations in Print
(Designed Flyers and Ads and Was Interviewed), and on Radio(Interviewed), Opened
Four New Adult-Education Venues
·Special Ed. and Gifted and Talented: helping students prepare for, motivating them
for, judging them at 4-H Talent Shows throughout the area, as well as helping with DD/MR/LD
programs in rural Appalachian schools.
Published:
"The Teachers We Need and How to Get More of Them"
Catering/Formal Dining Service/Event Management
(1979-Present)
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Kike Bonilla
Latin Jazz -
Manager
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Loveless'
Restaurant-Franklin, TN -
Breakfast
and lunch Manager, night cashier
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Nashville
City Club-Nashville, TN -
Catering
Captain, Bartender, Hostess/M. C.
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Sweet Briar
Catering-Sweet Briar, VA -
Catering
Captain, Bartender, Hostess
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LaTESOL
Conference -
Site
Coordinator
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Tennessee
Williams Festival –
Satellite
Site Coordinator
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MLA
Conference –
Translator,
Hostess
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World
Health(NY) -
Translator,
Site Coordinator, Troubleshooter
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Greenstar
Television, Lippsynch, Inc. -
Copy Editor,
Site Coordinator, Site/Talent Scout, Props/Costuming, Actress
Trained in food & wine choice & preparation & culinary terminology, place settings & seating protocol, guest relations and added-value service, safe bartending habits (licensed), cpr & heimlich, formal service, wine, fine liqueur,
after-dinner drinks, & cigar selection, counted upon to "stamp out fires" due to others' lack of planning & institute systems to prevent their recurrence before anyone knew that anything was amiss; see to it that the impossible was done in the least amount of time and at the lowest cost without breaking into a glow: arranging for sites, food, actors, entertainment, rooms, transportation, reservations, fixing clerical mishaps, editing and translating printed materials or speeches, etc. with only a few days' notice, if that. The ultimate, last minute, save-the-day volunteer.
Interests
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Involved in
various communities of immigrants throughout the city:
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World Trade Center Member
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Council for International Visitors, Foreign Relations Association (World Affairs Council)
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Advisor:
Bridges to Cuba
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Honduran
Association, Hispanidad, Mexican, Argentine, and Other Consular Galas
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Planet
Tango, Tango Belt, Chat Noir, Krewe of the Mystic Nights of Tango and
other Milongas (Featured on Front and Subsequent Pages of Sunday
Times-Picayune Living section)
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Salsa
Dancer/Band Manager
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Adult
ESL/Bi-lingual Sunday School Teacher, Lector, Choir, Multicultural
Youth Leader, Outreach and Discernment Committee Member, Lay Eucharistic Minister to Sick & Shut-ins, Loaves and Fishes: Feeding Homeless, Endymions and Other Fundraisers, St. Anna's-Grace Mobile Medical Ministry, Music to Medicine, Angola Prison Ministry -Grace Episcopal
Church
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Volunteer Immigration Paperwork Helper
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Vietnamese, Chinese, East Indian, and Islamic Festivals ('Eid and Belly
Dance) and Native American Powows
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Court-Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children
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Art Gallery
Openings
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Opera & Musica da Camera
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Symphony
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Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Museum of Art, WPLN, WWNO, WWOZ Member
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Poet – 2
Poems Published in World’s Best Poets 2003: Chateaux dans la Brume
1 Poem Published in Colours of the Heart Anthology - Nobel House (UK)
, Outstanding Achievement in Poetry Award 2003, 2004 Silver Cup -
International Poets' Society, - American Academy of Poets
- Owl's Tooth, Poet as Shaman, International Women's Day, Scherezade, Mad Poet's Express Poetry Readings
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