COLETTE S. COLEMAN
** ***** ******? Brooklyn, NY 11218 USA ? *******@***.****.*** ? +1 917 854
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EDUCATION___________________________________________________________________
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****-*** ***ola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California, USA
7 Master of Education, May 2007; GPA: 3.7
1998-200 Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
3 Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, May 2003; GPA: 3.67
EXPERIENCE__________________________________________________________________
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Septembe Children's Progress, Inc., (CPI) New York, New York, USA
r 2009- Educational Consultant
Present With extremely limited marketing budget and in virgin territory,
increased customer base by 200% through webinars, presentations,
conference attendance and excellent customer relations
Expanded CPI's New York City business model by collaborating with local
agencies to build a training program and authorize compensation for
this, totaling over $500k in possible revenue
Led product development for CPAA-Spanish version by creating a usage
model and training educators on it; collaborated with upper management
to strategize its marketing
Created proposal to influence federal policy to allocate state funding
toward technology-based assessments; organized educators to advocate
July for such funding before their legislators
2008- Advised administrators in securing over $100,000 from federal and state
July grants for the CPAA
2009
Yogyakarta International School, Central Java, Indonesia
Third and Fourth Grade Multi-Subject Teacher
Led and organized school Open Day for prospective parents resulting in
10% increase in student body and $50,000 in revenue, mitigating drop in
enrollment
Supervised staff of 3 and conducted technology training, reducing data
analysis time by 80%
Developed international curriculum that successfully prepared 100% of
22 students instructed to enter schools in over 15 countries across 6
continents
July Teach For America, Los Angeles, California, USA
2005- Cochran Middle School Math Teacher
June Selected as one of 3,500 from over 17,000 applicants to serve in highly
2008 acclaimed national service corps; committed to teach 2 years in
under-resourced region to close educational achievement gap
Chaired 6th grade math department, and to compensate for lack of
Professional Development funds, researched and instructed colleagues on
latest math teaching and data analysis tools
Accessed $120,000 in grants enabling private free tutoring in students'
homes to ensure that those underachieving in my classes of up to 45
received individual attention
August Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), New York, New York, USA
2003- Investigative Paralegal
June Worked as lead paralegal on high-profile Department of Justice/FBI
2005 collaborated prosecution of banking regulation breach, resulting in
conviction with $12.5 million penalty
Researched from a variety of sources to critically analyze credibility
of claims made by and against FRBNY and to develop our defense and
prosecution
Monitored daily and evaluated hundreds of Suspicious Activity Reports
submitted by charter banks; discerned fraudulent pattern linked to
terrorism and facilitated enforcement action
LANGUAGES___________________________________________________________________
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Fluent in Spanish and competent in French, Italian and Bahasa
Indonesia
OTHER
SKILLS____________________________________________________________________
Skilled in Windows Vista and various legal and educational
technology programs