KAREN DEMETRIA ETHRIDGE

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Fairfax, VA 22030

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EDUCATION:

Ph.D. Educational Psychology, Capella University. “Academic self-efficacy in African American college students.”

M. S., Psychology, Personnel Management, Industrial Organization concentration Alabama A&M University.

B. A., Psychology, Minor - Sociology, University of Alabama Huntsville. QUALIFICATION SUMMARY: (Recently re-located to the Northern Virginia area)

Possess a Doctorate Degree and Master’s Degree in Psychology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology.

Possess a MBI Federal security clearance.

Responsible for the strategic and tactical activities resulting in a resilient and productive workforce to ensure academic computing requirements are met.

Provide components with the tools and resources to manage the stresses inherent to improve employee performance.

Analyze program strengths and weaknesses against security regulations for secure, reliable, effective and efficient pedagogical approaches.

Demonstrated ability to think strategically and translate business performance gaps into learning and development strategies.

Foundational Learning (Learning Asset Development and Teaching): Alabama A&M University (Assistant Director of Online Learning and Assistant Professor of Psychology)

Performance Learning (Consulting): Personnel Psychologist with the United States Postal Service

Workflow Learning Asset Management: Alabama A&M University (Assistant Director of Online Learning and Assistant Professor of Psychology)

Accelerate the implementation of a Learning and Development framework related to performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, and alignment with learning and development offerings to enable outstanding organizational, team and employee/business performance

Leverages logistics knowledge and experience developing, implementing, and/or managing effective product support strategies

Continuously improves product and service delivery to provide the right knowledge and skills at the point of need through mission assistance, workshops, classroom offerings and on-line resources

Proposes, develops, validates, and manages currency, quality, and competency alignment of the logistics career field and associated interdisciplinary learning assets of federal employees

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Leads geographically dispersed government and contractor teams in development, and maintenance of instructor-led classroom and computer-based on-line learning assets with the United States Postal Service

Develops and conducts presentations/briefings, case studies, simulations and workshops

Teaches and facilitates higher levels of adult learning for the federal workforce, including leading and facilitating student discussion, problem solving, and critical thinking

Leverages product support management expertise to develop and maintain workflow learning assets including communities-of-practice, human resource articles, job support tools, guidebooks, and related media

Provides consulting and mission assistance to federal program office and sustainment teams, and federal acquisition workforce members

Leverages interdisciplinary skills such as reliability, availability, maintainability, and supportability analysis, configuration management, performance based logistics, technical data/product data management, software life cycle management, maintenance planning, intellectual property, supply chain management, and/or product support funding to integrate life cycle logistics learning assets with other acquisition communities

Leads diverse teams to successfully plan, budget for, and execute complex learning asset/ curriculum development projects

PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGIST

United States Postal Service

Duties and accomplishments

Develops tools, strategy and methodology to assess the effectiveness and impact of learning programs. Responsible for leading national and organizational wide programs and driving training strategy.

Serves as a project lead overseeing and coordinating the activities of employees assigned on a project or task force basis to include assigning tasks, monitoring progress, providing feedback, and providing guidance.

Conducts complex measurement and evaluation projects, including outcomes assessment and program and training evaluation. Makes recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness.

Designs, validates and implements development assessment tools and processes. Develops aids to assist in the comprehension of results and application of feedback to improve performance.

Establishes and implements measurement plans for the collection, compilation, evaluation, and reporting of post-course reaction and learning test data to training and functional course owners.

Conceptualizes and presents ideas and methods for the research, measurement, analysis, and evaluation of individual learning, performance, and change resulting from education, training and leadership development.

Designs, validates and implements methods and instruments to determine competency, readiness, or qualification of employees. Develops corporate competency models for leadership and functional technical roles.

Monitors and analyzes business measures to ensure that assessment and development programs are positively impacting the achievement of business ETHRIDGE, KAREN

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goals and objectives. Quantifies business results of training programs and measures return-on-investment.

Designs, validates, implements, and monitors quality assurance and evaluation systems.

Serve as technical authority on market segmentation principles, techniques and applications to report by research reports, executive notes and briefing slides to present to senior leadership

Develops recommendations for evaluation improvements that align with current and future organizational goals and objectives.

Conducts complex research, prepares technical reports and presentations, and initiates follow-up consistent with academic and professional standards. LEADERSHIP AND DIRECTOR EXPERIENCE

Assistant Director Center for Distance Education and Online Learning 01/2018-08/2018

Alabama A&M University

Duties and accomplishments

Manage all aspects of development of online content including needs analysis, timeline, course outline, content assessment and quality review.

Facilitate the audio and video recording, editing and distribution of online course lectures, simulations and demonstrations.

Facilitate professional development addressing course development using web based enhanced technologies.

Evaluate online course content using established assessment tools and provide actionable tasks to senior faculty and administration.

Responsible for the planning and development of curriculum material.

Contribute to the conceptualization, design, analysis, and presentation of applied research (applying appropriate quantitative and qualitative research techniques, data collection strategies, data analysis methods) to inform technical and leadership decisions

Analyze business to identify key metrics and opportunities for effective execution by the Americas Sales organization; drive associated initiatives to improve performance and exceed business objectives

Engage with finance partners to drive P&L and business data analysis to make and execute strategic decisions

Coordinate staff meetings and communications for the senior management

Partner with HR Business Partner to plan and drive a performance management process to create a high-performance culture and drive diversity and inclusion strategy across Americas

Learning and Prevention Lab at Alabama A&M University Co-Director 12/2016-08/2018

Alabama A&M University

Duties and accomplishments

Conduct high quality research in the areas of education and psychology. Our current research efforts are primarily focused on understanding how individuals from stigmatized groups cope with environmental stressors. ETHRIDGE, KAREN

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Manage and hire both undergraduate and graduate students to

Topics of interest include, resiliency, effectiveness of instructional strategies, parental stress, academic self-efficacy, learning disabilities, sensory perceptions, and human factors.

Prepare course material (student and instructor) according to current instructional systems design technology. Develop course schedules and arrange for guest speakers.

Develop and analyze student assessments and provide student counseling to ensure the highest degree of learning

Through Learning Lab contracts with government agencies, possess a depth of knowledge in DoD acquisition policy, practice, process and regulations applicable to systems acquisition management and Financial management

Managing the formulation, justification and execution of the budget for an entire agency or major component

Serve as the technical authority on policies that impact program goals or national priorities for online courses that are available for government agencies to meet educational training and continuing education credits.

Provide mission assistance through consulting, targeted training, and Workshop efforts to the Defense Department, military services and other federal agencies providing technical guidance and assistance on various matters including those of unusual complexity or without precedence.

Ability to resolve broad, complex or sensitive acquisition issues that involve diverse organizations, multiple approving authorities and stakeholders, and a variety of laws, policies and controls that both achieve statutory and regulatory compliance and mission success.

Develop special-purpose tests and related instruments for application to specific and general examining needs.

Conduct studies to determine the predictive effectiveness of existing tests for specific occupations

Design and execute job analysis studies

Develop and validate assessments for selection and development purposes

Develop and analyze workforce surveys

Evaluate the impact of human capital programs

Contribute to basic and applied research projects that improve the measurement of critical knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal characteristics

Design performance management systems

Develop research plans and integrate into a larger program of research.

Provide guidance to other research psychologists at lower grades and provide guidance to operational personnel in the preparation and execution of evaluations and tests.

Develop valid and reliable data collection methods using both experimental based observations and subjective instruments.

Perform and/or oversee data reduction and analysis and write reports describing the completed research.

Review reports of other scientists and contract personnel for quality, accuracy, professional standards, and compliance with regulations and style manuals.

Prepare and provide briefs after receiving minimal input from the unit chief and/or team leader.

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Professor/Undergraduate Coordinator

01/2016-01/2018

Alabama A & M University

Dr. Tonya Perry

Adjunct Professor

08/2004-01/2016

Alabama A&M University

Dr. Leatha Bennett

Online instructor/Dissertation Advisor University of Liverpool-online 01/2013-Present

Dr. Alina Perez

Duties and accomplishments:

Teach 80-100 graduate students in the behavioral sciences field of study per semester.

Mentors, counsels, and advises students in role of primary faculty advisor to undergraduate and graduate students

Conduct classroom instruction utilizing the latest technology to enhance class material for students.

Leading commitment to interdisciplinary methods and ability to teach a wide range of curriculum relevant to national security such as Abnormal Psychology and Career Counseling and industrial base capabilities to include the integration of strategy and resourcing and the analysis of defense resourcing alternatives.

Qualified to teach a diverse class curriculum to undergraduate and graduate students thereby equipping them with the knowledge and expertise to pursue their perspective degree requirements.

Complete student and teacher evaluations and follow-up career assessment counseling with students. Develop comprehensive curriculum guidelines for behavior sciences.

Mentor senior level faculty in online learning platform.

Designed and implemented training (face to face or online);

Evaluation of training needs such as needs analysis or leadership development program evaluation

The development of effective assessment tools such as performance plans, selection measures or a 360 degree survey for individuals & organizations.

Individual and organizational development and assessment

Serves as research adviser to individual students and student groups performing research on topics of academic interest.

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SPECIALIZED TRAINING:

Member of the American Psychological Association (APA) Academic Retention Research- Learning and Prevention Lab WORKSHOPS/PRESENTATIONS

Ethridge, K (2012), Campus suicide and depression awareness, Alabama A&M University.

Ethridge, K. (2013). Social media and campus presence, Community Fellowship of Faith Church.

Ethridge, K. (2013). Social media and new student orientation, Alabama A&M University RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS (Peer reviewed)

Brown, S., Gere, B., & Ethridge, K. (2017). Re-conceptualizing vocational assessment and career placement. Manuscript in Print, Journal of Forensic Vocational Analysis, January 2017.

Ethridge, K. (2012). Academic self-efficacy and social role modeling in African American college students. Published research in Pro Quest Journals. Ethridge, K. & Holloway, L. (2017). Cultural diversity in education matters. EC Psychology and Psychiatry 2(3), 87-92.

K. Ethridge & T. Davis. (2017, April 21). What’s going on? Incidence and treatment of childhood sexual abuse in America. https://psychologybenefits.org/ K. Ethridge & T. Davis & N. Black. (2017, April 21). Grandparents as foster parents: Barriers and facilitators in mental health services for foster grandchildren. https://psychologybenefits.org/

Psychology Today (2017) Cognition Café Blog

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