CURRICULUM VITAE

R agan (Edith) Lorraine Lavorata, MBA, MLS, MALS, EdM

** ****** ***** ** ? Bohemia, NY 11716 ? 631-***-**** ?

acn258@r.postjobfree.com ? acn258@r.postjobfree.com

Bilingual Higher Ed Business Instructor and Doctoral Student

Subject Matter Expertise: Marketing/Market Research/

Advertising/MIS/Business Management

Objective: Part or full time business instructor position online or on

campus

Highly academically credentialed business instructor with 21 years

experience teaching a variety of business courses, including: marketing,

marketing research, advertising, promotions, MIS, and business management.

Teaching style uses multiple modalities to accommodate diverse learning

styles, including: visual aids, PowerPoint, lectures, group work,

interactive activities. Currently pursuing a PhD in management with the

ultimate goal of a full time tenure faculty position either online or in a

brick and mortar environment. Some special skills include Languages:

Bilingual: French and English, tutor ESL, Took Italian in school and can

read Spanish and Portuguese. Computer Applications: Can teach and operate

applications of Word97, 2000,

Windows98, 2000, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, and Internet Research skills, I

hold four masters degrees in diverse areas.

RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS

. Possess four masters degrees in diverse areas with 21 years experience

. Proficient at computers, tutoring, and lecturing in addition to

teaching

. Fit well in any university culture

. Taught in other countries including Russia, and participated in

conferences in France

. Proficient in using technology, computers, the Internet and working in

online environments such as Blackboard, e-college, campus cruiser, and

WebCT.

EDUCATION:

PhD, Management Expected 2016

Walden University, Minneapolis, MN -ABD

Working on dissertation

MLS Masters of Library Science,

2007

St John's University, NY, NY

Masters of Education Administration

Columbia, University, Teachers College, NY, NY

2006

MA Liberal Studies. August, Major: Liberal Studies: Concentration: US

History,

Business History, Political Science

1997

SUNY Stony Brook, StonyBrook, NY

MBA Management.- Major: Management:

1989

Concentration: Human Resources

CW Post LIU, Greenvale, NY

BS Marketing.

1985

CW Post LIU, Greenvale, NY

DISTINCTIONS:

. Strathmore's Who Who 2008

. American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Biographical

Listing for Scientists with Disabilities: 1995

. Biographical Institute Listing for Teaching and Disability Rights

Advocacy, 1993 & 1994

. Who's Who of American Women, 1992

. Who's Who of Young Aspiring Americans 1991, Who's Who of

International Women, 1991

. Who's Who of American Business and Society, 1991, American

. Dean's List throughout College Career 1980-1989

. Honour Societies: Alpha Beta Gamma & Phi Theta Kappa 1980-1982

. Honour Society: Delta Mu Delta 1982-1988

RELEVANT HIGHER ED TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Adjunct Instructor of Business.

Adjunct Instructor of Continuing Education Computers

Portfolio Reviewer of Business

Distance Learning Technical Assistant

Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY

1993 - present

Courses taught: Advertising

Continuing Education courses taught; Basic computers and the PC,

PowerPoint, Word, Excel,

Researching the Internet,

Accomplishments include: Help students learn to create an advertising

campaign and used real life experiences in the classroom. Adjunct

Professional Assistant for Distance Education- worked as technical

assistant for distance learning classes. Review portfolios for lifelong

credit for business students.

French, History, ESL, and Business Tutor

Self-Employed, Bohemia, NY

2002 - present

Courses tutored; French Language, American, French, and World

History, English, Bible Study, and ESL

Accomplishments include: Help students master fluency in French, better

understand the world of business, improve their English skills, and

ameliorate their analysis of history and improve their scholarly

understanding of Bible Scripture.

Adjunct Business Instructor

Briarcliffe College, Patchogue, NY

2005-2006

Courses Taught: Operations Management, Management Information Systems

Substituted for classes: Strategic Marketing, Business Communications,

MS Outlook Independent Studies in: Marketing Research, Strategic

Marketing and Advertising

Accomplishments Include: Conducted independent study classes in marketing

and increased student interest in MIS topics through helping them become

scholar-practitioners who create a real world plan in class

Adjunct Visiting Instructor of Business

Moscow University Touro, Moscow, Russia

2006

Courses taught: Fast-track MBA Programme, Strategic Marketing,

International Marketing

Undergraduate programme: Marketing Management, Advertising, General

Business, Marketing Research, Business Ethics

Visiting Faculty

Accomplishments Include: Advised students and assisted students with their

graduation papers and conducted seminars to help students learn both APA

and Chicago citation forms.

Adjunct Instructor/Assistant Professor of Business.

South Hampton College. Southampton, NY

2003-2005

Courses taught: Retailing, Advertising, Promotions

Accomplishments include: Helped students learn how to apply advertising,

marketing, and promotional strategies to real life situations. Taught

students how to create their own advertising campaign and commercials.

Adjunct Instructor of Business

St Francis College, Brooklyn, NY

2002 - 2004

International Marketing

Accomplishments include: I received excellent evaluations for excellent

teaching methods. In addition, I helped students create an international

marketing olan increasing their knowledge of other cultures.

Adjunct Lecturer of Business.

SUNY Stony Brook StonyBrook, NY

1995 - 1997

Courses Taught: Business Policy/Strategic Management

Marketing

Accomplishments include: In Business policy, students were taught about

financial, marketing, and hiring policies. They played the business policy

game and worked on a project on universal access.

Adjunct Lecturer of Management

Dowling College, Oakdale, NY

1993 - 1996

Courses taught; Production Management

Accomplishments include: Assistance in National Aviation & Transportation

Center's Proposal on Intermodal Transportation and Disability, HEOP tutor

of business, aviation law, computers (Windows

and its applications) and natural science. Help students apply production

management, PERT, and critical path to service industries and to the

students' own workplaces

Adjunct Instructor of Business and Aviation Administration.

SUNY Farmingdale, Farmingdale, NY

1993 - 1995

Courses taught: Principles of Marketing, Business Communications,

Aviation Economics

Accomplishments include: teaching students how to apply economics,

business, and marketing to the field of aviation

Adjunct Instructor of business and continuing education human resources.

CW Post LIU, Greenvale, NY

1994 - 1998

Courses taught; Marketing Principles, Continuing Education:

Americans with Disabilities Act

in the Workplace, College Orientation for

Freshman

Accomplishments include; Assisted freshman in their orientation towards

college life, study skills, and issues of financial aid. I have also helped

HR professionals understand how to accommodate persons with varying

disabilities, particularly neurologically impaired employees. In addition,

I helped students learn how to write a marketing plan.

AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH:

Marketing

Retailing

Small Business

Industrial Marketing

International Marketing

International Business

Management

Human Resources

Personnel Management

Business Communications

Aviation Economics

Aviation Management

Research Projects

. Gender and the glass ceiling in the workplace

. Organisational learning and systems thinking, comparing the efficacy

of male and female work teams

. Gender differences and leadership Careers

. Dissertation - quantitative study asking how close is the relationship

between the number of science, technology, engineering, and math

(STEM) classes taken by females born after 1980 in high school and

college and the number of female role models to their career choices

and salaries.

MEDIA APPEARANCES:

"Carol and Joe's Extraordinary Life", Manhattan Cable (1998)

Interview on the Americans with Disabilities Act, the

Rehabilitation Act and the

History Of IQ testing, hosted by Carol Orito

"Inner Sight for the Disabled", Hauppauge, NY Cablevision (1998)

Interview on the Americans with Disabilities Act and France's

Disability

Policy, hosted by Frank Perrino

VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Volunteer Dates

National Aviation & Transportation Center, at Dowling College

1993 - 1998

Oakdale, NY

Assisted with project on developing an intermodal transportation

system accessible to people

with disabilities: Dowling College (1993 & 1994, 1997)

Volunteered at Hausman Center for the Disabled at Dowling

College (1993) Oakdale, NY

1993-1998

Volunteered for Business Department on Open House at

Dowling, Suffolk: Advised students on courses for business majors

Also advised students in the Harriman School at SUNY Stony Brook

as a volunteer. Oakdale, NY

1995-1998

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS

TESOL/TEFOL Certification to Teach ESL, Montpellier, France 2010 -

present

Subject Certificate in Accounting, Selden, NY

1994

Notary Public

1991 - present

PUBLICATIONS:

"They Came from Outer Space: Space Spinoffs that Enable", Abilities:

Canada's

Lifestyle Magazine for People with Disabilities, summer, 1998,

Canadian

Publication, Toronto, Ontario.

"Accessibilility in the Final Frontier: Space Colonies",

Ad Astra, July/August, 1995 National Space Society, pub, Washington

DC.

"Accessibility in the Final Frontier", Able News

June and July 1993 and Journal for Space Development,

November 1993, pub: Houston Space Society, Houston, TX.

"Space Commercialization Now", August 1992, Spacelines,

pub: Galesburg Space Society, Galesburg, IL.

PEER REVIEW AND EDITING

. Peer Reviewer and Editor for the Association for the Advancement of

Computing in

Education- Review and edit scholarly articles for

publication, 2004 to Present

. Peer Review and Editor for IBAM and JBAM - Journal of Business and

Applied Management - - Review and edit scholarly articles for

publication, 2004 to Present

. Peer Reviewer of grant proposals for GEAR UP for the US Department

of Education, July 2000

. Peer Reviewer of grant proposals for the National Science

Foundation's Programme for People with Disabilities, (December

1997 and April

1999)

ONGOING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Seminar name or description, dates

Seminars on ecology, economy, and business

V s o, France

2007

St Martin, France,

2008

Antibes, France

2009

Month long seminar in Loire Valley Seminar - Disability culture, and

French business

Pontevoy, France

Summer 2004.

Eurolingua: French Business immersion programme,

Frouzins, Toulouse, France,

November, 2001

Eurolingua: French Business immersion programme,

Moau-Sartoux, France,

Winter, 2005

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS

ATHAREP Conference for University Students with

Disabilities, University of Orsay, Orsay, France.

Discussed American disability policy related to policies

Orsay, France

March 1998.

Lectures on disability rights and the Americans with Disabilities

Act for Fernald

Center, Waltham and Cambridge, Massachusetts

1997.

Presented a paper at the Milton Plesur Graduate Student

Conference at SUNY Buffalo on the History of the Disability Rights

Movement

Buffalo, NY

1996.

Presented a paper at the Ellipses Interdisciplinary

Graduate School Conference at SUNY Stony Brook: Paper

Topic: History of the Disability Rights Movement,

Stony Brook, NY

1995

Started a Women in Science Panel at ICON Science

Fiction Convention at SUNY Stony Brook under Dr.

Lisa Mezzacappa, Stony Brook, NY

1995

Guest Lecturer in Social Work Colloquium and Education

Seminar Classes at Dowling College:

Topic-Education, vocational accommodations and services for people

with disabilities in the US

and France, Oakdale, NY

1994 - 1998

Total Quality Management & Its Impact on People with Disabilities:

Suffolk County

Rehabilitation Council Conference

Dowling College Oakdale, NY

1994

Hausman Center for the Disabled at Dowling College:

Transition from School to Work for Students with

Disabilities, Series of three workshops; Oakdale, NY

1993

Lectures on Space Science Topics at SUNY Stony Brook's

ICON Science Fiction Conventions and to civic groups

such as: artificial intelligence, spinoff benefits

of space, and how the space programme, assists the

disabled through microgravity and adaptive technology

Stony Brook, NY

1987-2004

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:

. American Production Inventory Control Society

. President and Founder Suffolk Challengers for Space, Chapter of

National Space Society

. American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics

. American Association of University Women

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