RESUME
MARK L. HYMOWITZ – INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER / TECHNICAL WRITER / ENGLISH TEACHER / AUTHOR 10810 McComas Court, Kensington, MD. 20895 Phone: 301-***-**** e-mail: ac2bnt@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Over 25 years of experience in front-end analysis, designing and developing comprehensive curriculum, teaching courseware in a comprehensible manner to military, medical and corporate personnel. Published political satirist.
EDUCATION
MA, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY, California State University - Chico, Chico, CA. 1982
Master’s Thesis: "Basic EKG Interpretation” plus documentation and shot script.
BA, RADIO & TELEVISION PRODUCTION, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. 1980
ENGLISH TUTOR
Club Z In-Home Tutoring Services, Potomac, MD. 2/2017 – Present
Basic English: sentence construction, spelling, articles, grammar and vocabulary.
AUTHOR
“The Lizzard of Ozz” - A Rollicking Satire of Washington DC, the Federal Government and the Military-Industrial Complex. Available on Amazon and Kindle. Travel between Maryland, Michigan and California 2004 – 2016. This book is based on the books and newspaper columns that I read and the movies that I saw: “Tom Sawyer”, “Huck Finn” and “The Prince and the Pauper” by Twain, “Gulliver’s Travels” by Swift, “1984” and “Animal Farm” by Orwell, “Brave New World” by Huxley, “Catch 22” by Heller, the collected newspaper columns of H.L. Menken, the books of P.J. O’Roarke, the movies of the Marx Brothers, Billy Wilder and Peter Sellers, the movie “Dr. Strangelove” by Stanley Kubrick, the books and early movies of Woody Allen, and the books and movies of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson.
ENGLISH TEACHER
Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD. 8/2000 – 12/2000
1)Developmental English Instructed students in the correct use of spelling, vocabulary, grammar and sentence construction.
2)English 101 Characteristics of different kinds of writing; elements of organization and the importance of specifics, relevant examples in technical literature and the discussion of plagiarism.
3)English 102 Research and gathering and organizing evidence into term papers.
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER AND TECHNICAL WRITER
Impact Labs, Benzonia, MI. (Near Traverse City, MI.) 4/2001 - 10/2003
Technical Writer - Training Dept., Start-Up, research and developed training materials, created training manual for X-Ray compression software application. Used Captivate 6. Company folded.
Allied Signal, Green Belt, MD. 5/1999 – 11/1999
Training Specialist - Operations Engineering and Training, research and develop training materials, tests and instructor guides for Integrated Terminal Weather System (ITWS) for NASA.
Crown Consulting, Washington, DC. 6/1998 – 12/1998
Instructional Technologist - Engineering Services. Responsible for the accurate design, development, overall conceptual layout and programming of FAA “Weatherwise” Computer Based Training (CBT) software training program. Involved in a wide range of training projects, including CBT using every phase of Instructional Systems Design (ISD) process.
1)Front End Analysis - Met department heads, isolated training possibilities from requests. Completed job and task analysis of target populations. Determined fiscal, population, physical, equipment, teaching and time constraints.
2)Curriculum Development - Generated a scheme of enabling and terminal objectives. Determined type of training (cognitive, affective, or psychomotor) objectives. Researched and estimated cost for delivery systems. Developed outlines and criterion referenced tests. Piloted objective driven curriculum and rewrite from first draft.
3)Delivery of Courseware - Composed manuals written to target student audience background and education. Researched costs, designed and produced training aids: view graphs, charts, job aids, interactive CBT scripts and storyboards for Interactive Video Disk (IVD/CD-ROM). Lectured, supervised labs.
Arlington Consulting, Arlington, VA. 2/1998 – 6/1998
Senior Analyst - Responsible for the accurate design, development, overall conceptual layout and content in training. Fulfill requirements for training and curriculum support: develop curriculum and design programs to “Program Management Fundamentals” training. Conduct Distance Learning capabilities and telecommunications analyses, corporations, and government agencies.
Microbreweries, 1990 – 1996
Assistant Brewer – Cleaning all brewing equipment, adding brewing ingredients, operating filtration equipment, moving yeast from fermenter to fermenter, checking specific gravity and alcohol by volume.
1)Red Tail, Hopland, CA. 1990
2)Red Feather, Chambersburg, PA. Start-Up, Folded, 1991 – 1993
3)Wild Goose, Cambridge, MD. Start-Up, Folded, 1994 – 1996
Vitro Labs, Aspen Hill, MD. 6/1987 – 12/1989
Training Analyst - Training Dept. Responsible for the creation and updating of the master training program document for the Mark 92 Shipboard Fire Control System for the US Navy. Held a Secret clearance.