Bethany Smith

Current

• Asst Director of Learning Technologies for College of Education at North Carolina State University

Past

• Teaching Technician at North Carolina State University
• Manager of Training & Development at Absolute Quality
• Corporate Trainer at Absolute Quality

• Technology Education Teacher at Green Hope High School at Wake County Public Schools
• Summer Internship in Information Security at Goldman Sachs

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Education

• North Carolina State University
• North Carolina State University

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Industry

Education Management

Bethany Smith’s Experience

• Asst Director of Learning Technologies for College of Education

  North Carolina State University

  (Education Management industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Learning Technologies facilitates faculty, staff and student use of electronic media, tools and resources. Its objective is not only to help keep the college aware of the technology available for enhancing learning, research, and professional practice, but also to provide an environment for experimentation with technology for instruction and research.

• Teaching Technician

  North Carolina State University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  December 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 2 months)

  Teaching Technician for the VISE project, a 3 million dollar science education research grant funded by the GSK foundation.

• Manager of Training & Development

  Absolute Quality

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  January 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 5 months)

  Developed, delivered and evaluated training needs within the company encompassing soft skills, technical skills, process and procedure, as well as professional development. Clients ranged from educational software companies to major operating systems.

• Corporate Trainer

  Absolute Quality

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  August 2000 — January 2002 (1 year 6 months)

  Designed, implemented and evaluated multiple technical and non-technical training programs for support representatives and other employees.

• Technology Education Teacher at Green Hope High School

  Wake County Public Schools

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Education Management industry)

  July 1999 — July 2000 (1 year 1 month)

  Printing & Graphics, Journalism and Yearbook instructor. Taught several graphic oriented software applications, focused on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Pagemaker. Managed computer lab of 13 G3 Macs, networked with Mac OS X server, an Imagesetter and two printing presses.

• Summer Internship in Information Security

  Goldman Sachs

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GS; Investment Banking industry)

  May 1998 — August 1998 (4 months)

  Participated in the internship program for the Information Technology Department. Designed and wrote orientation materials and presentations as well as designed and maintained an internal web page for the Information Security Department to be distributed throughout the corporation.

Bethany Smith’s Education

• North Carolina State University

  MS , Instructional Technology , 2005 — 2009

• North Carolina State University

  BS , Technology Education , 1995 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  The Technician, Agromeck, TECA

Additional Information

Bethany Smith’s Groups:

MEGA, Blogger

•    International Society for Technology in Education
•    Education Unbound
•    North Carolina State University Alumni Group
•    Edubloggers

Bethany Smith’s Honors:

2008 College of Education Award for Excellence and nominated for University Award

Bethany Smith’s Contact Settings

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