Language Teacher Mortgage Consultant

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Resume

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Bronx, NY 10453

Cell Phone 848-***-****.

Dr. Shek G. Sesay e-mail:

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Objective: Secure the Adjunct Instructor of Biology position the Manhattan College, NY.

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Summary of Qualifications:

PhD (1997) – Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Nowoursynowska 166, 02-766 Warsaw, POLAND.

MSc, BSc (1991) - Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Nowoursynowska 166, 02-766 Warsaw, POLAND.

Work Experience 1994 to present

The following assignments are of central importance to my current teaching activities:

• NYCCT

Bio 1101: General Biology

Bio 1100: Human Biology

Bio 1201: Second Level General Biology, with a bias for topics in Evolution

& Microbiology.

• Hostos Community College

Bio111: Principles in Biology

Bio 230: Anatomy and Physiology

• College of New Rochelle

HLT 397A-QDA: Approaches to Stress Management

HUM 102A/SCI 102A-QDA: Science & Human Values

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BSC/PSY100A PBD: Human Body

*01/28/2015 – to date – Adjunct Assistant Professor, Teaching, Bio 110, Principles of Biology as well as Bio 230 Anatomy and Physiology I (A&P I) at the Hostos Community College, 450 Grand Concourse, Bronx NY 10451. Immediate Supervisor: Julie Trachman, PhD Co-Ordinator and Associate Professor, Biology Unit of The Dept. of Natural Sciences. Phone: 718-518- 4132. Email: *********@******.****.***, Office Number: 507-D.

*01/29/2007 – to date – Adjunct Assistant Professor, teaching Bio 1101 and Bio1201 (General Biology) as well as Bio1100 Human Biology; Biology Dept., New York City College of Technology (NYCCT), 300 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201, 718-***-****. Immediate Supervisor: Dr. Andleeb Zameer, tel: 718-***-**** or 718-***-****. E-mail:

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*01/29/2005 - to 08/01/2015 - Adjunct Faculty, teaching Human Body, Biopsychology, Science and Human Values, as well as Introduction to Stress Management, College of New Rochelle, School of New Resources; Brooklyn, John O’Connor and Rosa Parks Campuses.

Immediate Supervisor: Eleanor F. Bennett Lord, Ph.D. Instructional Staff. Tel: 718-***-**** ext. 6834. Fax: 718-***-****. E-mail: ********@***.***. Contact Address: 1368 Fulton Street, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11216

*09/06/04 - to 08/30/05 - Adjunct Instructor, Department of English, Brookdale Community College, 765 Newman Springs Road, Lincroft, NJ 07738. I taught English Composition: Research Writing. Supervisor: Scott Ridley. Chair: English Dept. Tel: 732-***-****

*09. 2002 to 2003. English language teacher, Z. S. nr 2, High School, ul. Mlynarska 43/45, 01-170 Warsaw, Poland - Tel. +48-22-632**** 6324602. Fax. 6321715.

*09. 1999 to date to 31. 08. 2002

English language teacher, L. O. XXXI X im. Lotnictwa Polskiego, High School, ul. Lindego 20, 01-952 Warsaw, Poland

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*1997 to 2002. English lecturer, Papal Faculty of Theology, Warsaw Catholic University, “Bobolanum section, Salezjanski instytut Wychowania Chrzescjanskiego. Ul. Kaweczynska 53, 03-775 Warsaw, Tel 6198417.

*01-10-1998 to June 2001 English Lecturer - University of Banking and Insurance, Address- ul. Modlinska 51, 03-199 Warsaw, Poland. tel.

+48-22-811****/8117001.

*1998 to 1999. English language teacher Zespol Szkol Mechanicznych nr.4, im. Stefana Starzynskiego, High School, ul. Jagiellonska 61, tel. 811 28 68.

*1996 to 1997. English language teacher Zespol szkol nr. 16 im. Gen. Wladyslawa Sikorskiego, High School, ul. Sandomierska 12, 02-567 Warsaw, tel. 49 54 12.

*1995 to 1996 English Language lecturer Department of Foreign Languages

(SPNJO) of the Warsaw Agricultural University (SGGW). Correspondence Address - Dzial Spraw Osobowych, SGGW 02-766 Warszawa, ul. Nowoursynowska166, Tel 84390 41/61/81.

Taught English with an agricultural background to students at all levels.

*1994 to 1995. English language teacher Zespol Szkol nr. 17 im. I. Lukasiewicza, High School, ul Jagiellonska 57, 03-301 Warsaw, tel. 811 26 33.

*Mortgage Consultant (10/29/2003 to 04/05/2004)

BLSFunding, Corp. (Mortgage Bank) 121 Highway 36, suite 150, West Long Branch, NJ 07764.

Publications:

1) Sesay S. G., Loboda T., Pietkiewicz S. 1995.

Mineral Relations in amaranth and quinoa plants under drought conditions. Biol. Bull. Poznan, Suppl., 32,22 .

2) Grochowski Z, Sesay S. G., Pietkiewicz S, Loboda T. 1995 4

Gas Exchange of amaranth and quinoa plants under drought Conditions. Biol. Bull. Poznan, Suppl., 32, 269.

3) Sesay S. G., Loboda T, Grochowski Z., Pietkiewicz S., 1995. Distribution of assimilates in Amaranthus cruentus L. and Chenopodium quinoa Willd under drought conditions. Eco-physiological conference, Cracow. 4) Sesay S.G. 1997. Effect of Low soil moisture on some physiological parameters in Amaranthus cruentus and Chenopodium quinoa. 5) Sesay, S. G. 1991.Comparison of the Dry matter, crude protein, crude fiber and chemical composition of some temperate pasture legumes to tropical ones.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263928221_EFFECT_OF_LO W_SOIL_MOISTURE_ON_SOME_PHYSIOLOGICAL_PARAMETE

RS_IN_Amaranthus_cruentus_and_Chenopodium_quinoa.

This site containing my PhD thesis, has had over 100 downloads. Publications 1) through 4) above, rightly belong to the said study which spanned six years; hence justifying their inclusion. Professional References

1. Julie Trachman PhD,

Co-ordinator and Associate Professor,

Biology Unit, Dept. of Biology.

Phone: 718-***-****.

Email: *********@******.****.***,

Office Number: 507-D.

2. Eleanor F. Bennett Lord, Ph.D.

Instructional Staff.

E-mail: ********@***.***

College of New Rochelle, School of New Resources,

Brooklyn Campus, 1368 Fulton Street,

2nd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11216.

Tel: 718-***-**** Ext 6834. Fax: 718-***-****

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3. Daniel Koroma, PhD

17205 18th Ave. East

Spanaway, WA 98387

Tel; 253-***-**** (Cell)

253-***-**** (Home)

e-mail: *******@***.**.***

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4. Isaac Barjis, PhD

Department of Biology

New York City College of Technology

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718-***-**** (office)

917-***-**** (cell)

Statement of Teaching Philosophy

My teaching philosophy is to employ methods that encourage students to learn by themselves, to motivate them to develop higher order thinking skills and to ensure consistent and appropriate monitoring of their progress. I hope to make the lectures in a way that always attracts the attention of students during the lecture; use visual aids (Power Point slides), diagrams, charts, and design models instead of dry text; teach students to make ethical evaluations, after my teaching Science and Human Values. I will also communicate effectively in context and seek, handle, and interpret information; exhibit sensitivity and understanding of the diverse academic, social, economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds of the students.

Based on my interdisciplinary experience and educational qualification I am confident that I can make effective contributions to the existing teaching/learning programs at Manhattan College.

I have achieved certification as an eProfessor, capable of executing distant learning, from the City University of New York (CUNY). I am full of hope that this certification will be of tremendous use, in executing distant learning, if given the opportunity to serve as a faculty. Indeed, evidence exists that I have been teaching online courses successfully. The said teaching activities, still on-going, at the New York City College of 6

Technology (NYCCT) and the Hostos Community College, started since the onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Spring of 2019. Statement of Research

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In the research aspect of my statement, I am full of hope that my experience carrying out experiments that are physiological, in setting during my doctoral as well as my post-doctoral degree research have exposed me to a lot more ideas as to how to carry out investigations if I am employed; indeed, making sure that the sustainable investigation of the diverse organisms of Botanical and/or Animal origin receives invaluable input. Oilseed, rape, is one of the crops I had down in my project proposal for a post-doctoral study that could have led to my attaining to an Associate Professor title.

My Postdoctoral experience, 07-06-1997 to 07-06-1999, commenced in the Department of Plant Physiology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences

(SGGW) is testimony enough as to my readiness to take on research. I still have the research proposal that I wrote for the research that could have led to the award of an Associate Professor title. I am more than willing to discuss it with any authority. I would like to submit this, among others, as a Post-doctoral Research Experience Statement. The research proposal is entitled:

“PHYSIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS OF SPRING TRITICALE, RAPE AND LUPINE INFLUENCING RESISTANCE TO HIGH

TEMPERATURE”.

If moving forward, an objective of a search committee is working across disciplines and developing local, national, and international research partnerships, then I am sure I fit right into that category. As far as such a category is concerned, I would like to state that my teaching across disciplines such as Agriculture, Biological Sciences, Biopsychology, is proof enough that I have what it takes to meet the demands of one capable of working across disciplines. Furthermore, implicitly, there is the requirement for the recruited candidate to be one who can develop partnerships that are local, national, and international in setting; it is equally a requirement that is right up my alley. I studied at the Local Agricultural University in Sierra Leone but while taking on a master’s degree research, in Europe, which compared tropical and temperate pasture legumes, some of my tropical samples were transported from abroad, thanks to healthy partnerships. I am currently in the United States, a third country in my professional 7

development and work. My affiliation to more than four institutions of tertiary level of education, is a good admixture of three continents and is proof enough of my readiness to take on this position. In my teaching, health-biased courses to Nursing students, I employ a lot of computerized simulations, which have the effect of exciting the said students and help make otherwise difficult concepts easy.

Statement Addressing Discrimination

I would like to state that I come from the West African state of Sierra Leone. I had a good relationship with many expatriates back then. At High school and at the local university, the University of Sierra Leone, I had a lot of healthy relationships, indeed cherished memories of expatriates including many Canadian Universities Service Overseas (CUSO) volunteers and Peace Corps who taught me.

Sierra Leone has a population that is largely Islamic in religious setting, but the heads of state, including the current one, are predominantly Christian; we have only had one head of State who was Muslim. I am proud to say that people do not spite others, let alone make any feeble attempts at marginalizing them, based on religious bigotry.

I registered to read up a master’s degree in Poland at a time when the Pope, John-Paul II (St. John-Paul), was a Pole. I was neither discriminated against, throughout my fifteen years of living in Poland, nor did I see any reason to discriminate against others. I even had the opportunity to teach at the Warsaw Catholic University, where many of my students were catholic Nuns. I always see others as human beings first, while other considerations take a second place. If necessary, I will post/mail photos of my respectful interactions with my Polish students back then.

I have no reason to judge anyone based on their sexual orientation. I go by the good adage “Respect is a two-way traffic”. If the next person respects my sexual orientation, then I am expected to reciprocate; that indeed is what I have always stood for.

I had two daughters. I therefore have a moral right to defend members of the opposite sex thanks to my emotional and otherwise feelings towards my daughters and my late mother; I am indeed indifferent to the gender of the next person because efficiency is what matters to me. My sense of morality will not allow me to discriminate against the next person due to their disability. I do not see myself passing by a disabled person without lending a helping hand if they needed one. 8

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