
Assessment Developer at Kaplan Virtual Education
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Assessment Developer at Kaplan Virtual Education
Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area
(E-Learning industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
As an Assessment Developer for KVE, I provide creative assistance and programming skills in the production of online quizzes, tests, and exams and additional components for all assignments for KVE courses.
My responsibilities include:
• Development of quizzes and inserting all components (text, images, flash, audio, video, etc.)
• Production of custom graphics as needed
• Provide quality assurance (QA) throughout the development and review process to ensure that all of the quiz components are created, named and posted properly
• Editing, fixing, changing, and recreating assessments
• Making creative decisions regarding assessments layout and provide feedback to the team
• Creation of tracking charts and necessary documentation for each course within assessments development
(Staffing and Recruiting industry)
November 2007 — June 2008 (8 months)
Responsibilities include research, name generation, sourcing potential candidates, use of telephone, directories, memberships and online services, assisting clients in their recruiting efforts to fill vacancies, generating target lists, identification of potential candidates, candidate development, and development of organizational charts.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Responsibilities included searching the internet looking for sites that have been miscategorized or not categorized, searching for websites that are not covered by an appropriate category, working on a project developing a line of content filtering products dealing with all types of content (including sensitive / offensive materials), using fair, balanced and rational view of pornography, nudity, adult language, gambling, entertainment, drugs, etc., browsing through test proxy, checking the correctness of suggested additions and removals, working knowledge of the internet, browsers, search engines, and proxies, and dealing with customers. Tools used Penguinfeet database, MS Outlook, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet / Web.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
February 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Helped build online community web portal by editing Anime and Manga encyclopedia, edited content, uploaded pictures, ranked and commented on Anime and Manga series and episodes, performed web research, assigned a specific letter in the encyclopedia (which has over 4,000 Anime and Manga series in the database) and was responsible for editing the series description, uploaded the series main picture, screen shots, the URL for any trailers, commented on the anime, confirmed and uploaded all series episodes to make sure they were present and accounted for, edited the episode descriptions, added episodes to my diary and then ranked and commented on them, uploaded the episode main picture and screen shots, ranked and commented on episode, edited the news section (uploaded the database with past news and daily updates); wrote my own news and articles, edited existing news and articles, newsletter editor and events (calendar) editor.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)
February 2004 — May 2004 (4 months)
Responsibilities included going through magazine portal and sifting through articles, produced short summaries and categorized articles, categorized and recategorized articles that needed to be corrected, broke down bits of information from each article to ensure feeds were being sent appropriately to website owners, and added article descriptors. Tools used Mozilla, Magportal, Hot Neuron SimilarityTM software, and MS Outlook.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
October 2003 — January 2004 (4 months)
Worked independently in a fast paced production environment for a large computer (online retailer) corporation in their Miami office. Responsibilities included researching product content on the Internet, creating content for site, uploading of contents to database, maintaining and updating product contents, knowledge of components, build-it-your own accessories and emerging technologies, editing of images, design of web pages and general content, an understanding of computer systems, equipment and technology, writing, editing, graphics, coding/programming, documenting web errors, management of web team, assisted in creating a new training manual for new hires, and good understanding of computer components (such as video cards, hard drives, networking, etc.). Tools used were Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, UltraDev HTML programming language.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Real Estate industry)
March 2003 — June 2003 (4 months)
Wrote training manuals, promotional literature, and provided web consultation services.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Automotive industry)
January 2003 — March 2003 (3 months)
Worked onsite full time in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale at client's location for ANC Rental Corp. Responsibilities included content management (maintenance) such as revisions, updates and training flashes; document conversion from MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, document conversion; new Training Manual for Customer Service and Finance Department; Developed a manual for the Finance department in the area of commissions; Tracked project information using Excel; Wrote policy and procedures manuals, training manuals, user manuals for customized software, and online reference sites using FrameMaker 6.0, HTML editing software (FrontPage 2000 and DreamWeaver).
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
October 1999 — September 2002 (3 years)
Responsibilities included migration of content from Mainframe System to Intranet Application; Author, Editor, and Publisher of Content through Vignette Application; Hyperlink Management Report (Spider Crawler); document conversion from MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, MS WordPad; NotePad; document conversion; trained new authors on Front Page, Preference (Mainframe), Vignette, and the Spider; Rolled out Pilot test to receive feedback for fine-tuning; Created work-flow process for content management (maintenance) such as revisions, updates, new content, content expiration, content deletion, and content archiving.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
January 1999 — October 1999 (10 months)
Responsibilities included resolving daily issues for customers, marketing, and representatives; provided statistical analysis on day-to-day issues; attended identicality calls and meetings; auditing and reconciling customer accounts.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
February 1997 — January 1999 (2 years)
Responsibilities included solving customer inquiries and disputes via telephone, letters, fax, and e-mails; provided customer account support and promotional information; handled supervisor calls; trained new hires; provided quality assurance measures through monitoring and feedback sessions and facilitated team meetings. Documented quality assurance by using statistically valid sampling. Ensured services were being performed in accordance with such quality assurance program. Provided compliance with quarterly report documentation and TSC adherence to such quality assurance program in connection with the services. Prepared TSC Service Delivery Results (SDR) reports to compliance, in order to confirm performance. Collected statistics and analyzed reports for trends and development. Monitored employee's knowledge for referencing policies and procedures, and daily adherence, process for consumer complaints (tracking & resolution) and exception process by monitoring and auditing.
B.S. , Communications
Networking, Ways to grow and excel in my craft, Meeting new people.