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Aimese's Resume
email: aimese@rocha-photo.com
home page: www.aimese.com

CAREER OBJECTIVE

     My career goal is to continue as a full time elementary school teacher.  I am looking for a position for the fall and I am trying to find a teaching position in another state.  I am willing to relocate! My long-term goal is to become a permanent teacher in an organized and innovative school district.

SKILLS
     I am a fully credentialed elementary school teacher.  I qualify for the "highly qualified teacher" through the No Child Left Behind Act, because I have a CLAD Multi-Subject Credential. In order to obtain my credential I had to pass the CBEST, RICA and the MSAT(The MSAT is the pre-2003 test that was used to demonstrate subject-matter competency).  In the past three years I have taught kindergarten, 3rd grade, and 4th grade. Prior to that I was a substitute-teacher for 3 years in two local school districts.   I am also highly skilled with computers, both PC and Mac. I have knowledge of many types of computer programs and the ability to teach and train people of all ages.  I am also a web page designer, graphic artist, and an artist.
EMPLOYMENT
Freelance Graphic Design Work
Designed a logo for Jane Yoa - Nei Kung (click here to view logo)
Desktop Publishing - Design: Business cards, adds and other documents for Rocha Photography - ongoing
Designed a logo for Warp Nine Systems
Designed a logo for the North Coast Hockey League
Freelance Web Design Work
Aimese's Page
This page was born soon after I graduated from college in 1995.  I have been working on my art, and my web page, all on my own, for a number of years now. 
http://www.aimese.com
Born 1996
Re-born 2000
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SDI Insulation, Inc.
Fixed and re-did their website which hadn't really been set up completely.  Kept the design simple but added a great deal of content, and information about insulation.

www.sdi-insulation.com
Summer 2004

Pacific Coast Weddings
Local wedding officient.  Have been working on website, on an off, for several years.

Protoculture
My brother's band's website.  I would have added more weird stuff but he didn't like it.  He did not renew the domain name and so no longer owns the site.
http://www.protoculture.com
Re-Born 2001
now defunct
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Bobby Badfingers Webpage
I redesigned and expanded his original site.  It has since been taken over by someone else.
http://www.badfingers.com
Re-born 2001 - 2003
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Garrison Musacchio Montanari, P.C.
Web designer in the year 2000.  The site no longer exists.
http://www.gmmlaw.com
2000
Premier Audio Video Services
I no longer maintain the site but I was the initial Webmistress/ Web designer and graphic designer.
http://www.premier-audio-video-services.com
Born 2000 - 2002
North Coast Hockey League (NCHL)
I created the first NCHL website to inform the community about our local hockey league.  It then began to be maintained by another volunteer and now no longer exists.

www.coastside-rollerhockey.com
Born 2000 - 2003

Regular Employment
Saint James School
San Francisco, CA

3/7/05 - 5/27/05

Kindergarten Teacher 
Long term sub for teacher on maternity leave. Taught kindergarten, including letter introduction, beginning reading skills and beginning math skills. 
San Mateo County Office of Education
San Mateo, CA

10/04 - Present

Special Education Substitute Teacher 
On call substitute teacher for all schools and grades that have county Special Education classes.
Luther Burbank School District
San Jose, CA
8/03-7/04
 
Kindergarten Teacher/ 3rd Grade Teacher
Taught kindergarten for first trimester, including letter introduction, beginning reading skills and beginning math to a multicultural, multilingual group of children.  Then moved to 3rd grader second trimester plus I worked with other grades throughout the day.

Majestic Way Elementary School
San Jose, CA
8/02-6/03
 
Kindergarten Teacher 
Taught kindergarten, including letter introduction, beginning reading skills and beginning math to a multicultural, multilingual group of children.  

Portola Elementary School
San Bruno, CA
8/01 - 6/02
 
 
4th Grade Classroom Teacher 
I began as an intern and earned my credential mid-year.  I job-shared with another teacher and worked 50% until my partner retired in February 02.  I taught a multicultural and multi-ability class.  There were 6 different languages spoken by my students with a wide range of abilities.

Cabrillo Unified School District
Half Moon Bay, CA
2/99 - 2/02
 
Substitute Teacher 
On call substitute teacher for all schools and grades (K - 12th) in the Cabrillo School District
Student Teacher 
Student-taught in a dual immersion Kindergarten class.

Laguna Salada School District (now Pacifica School District)
1/00 -  6/01
Substitute Teacher 
On call substitute teacher for all schools and grades (K - 12th) in the Cabrillo School District

Franz
11/96 - 3/98
Secretary-Office Manager:
Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable, including quarterly sales tax, processing credit card sales; Mailings, Correspondence; Creating Forms for Sales etc.; Maintaining Office Filing system; Phones: helping customers find out the status of orders, answering general questions about business; helping walk-in customers; Ordering Office Supplies 
Also: Desktop Publishing:  Designed adds, business cards, office stationary/ paper.  Author and designer of the original website  for Franz (it has since changed) 2nd place winner for Business Web sites Marin County Fair 1997; Illustrate/draw office furniture using a CAD program

Atchison Staffing
Temp. Agency

9/96 - 11/96
Portal Publications International, gen. office help creating documents in Excel and word, researching company files on AS/400 mainframe.

Nelson Human Resource Solutions
Temp. Agency 
11/95 - 9/96,  3/98 - 8-98, & 11/98 - 8/99
 
Assignments at Nelson have included:
DFS- Sephora, data entry, & database management/design using Microsoft Access. 1 year
Dominican College, Financial Aid Office. Office help, processing financial aid for students. 1  month
Lucasarts, Product Support Division. Technical support phone rep.. Gained valuable in depth knowledge of troubleshooting software on both Macs & PC's. Supervisor: Dino. 2 months 
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., Adm. Asst. for the Creative Services Dept.  Performed basic secretarial duties, paying department bills, assisting designers using Quark for in house posters, plus Filemaker data base management. 3 months.   Other companies performed general office/secretarial duties: Autodesk, CP Shades, Lucasfilm, Mindscape, Occupational Health Services, THX, etc. 
VOLUNTEER
North Coast Hockey League
PO Box 74, Moss Beach, CA 94038 
Hockey Coach: Coached my son's Peewee (12 & under) hockey team consisting of boys from grades 2 to 6. Assistant Coached my sons Bantam (14 & under team), as well as coached an 8 & under team.
Board member: Participate in monthly board meetings, built and maintain website www.coastside-rollerhockey.com, built and designed Microsoft Access database for better league management, referee roller hockey games, plus other general volunteer work.
     8/99 - 8/02
   
                        
 
 

 

Dixie Youth Soccer
San Rafael, Ca 94903
Soccer Coach: Coached my son's Under 8 soccer team consisting of boys from grades 1 to 3. 
8/96 - 11/96
 
 
 
UC Santa Cruz
Anthropology Department
Peer Advisor in the Anthropology department. 
Vice President of Anthropology Society, a faculty sponsored UCSC campus organization
 9/94 - 6/95
 
 

 

Creating Our Future
A social action training organization for high school age youth. (click here for an old article about the group) As one of the teenage founding members of the group I was actively involved with the group in all aspects.  Board member, assisted in organizing workshops, and participated in decision making. I worked on the Macintosh designing manuals and other documents, overseeing mailings, and other general volunteer work.  I learned a great deal about managing an organization and worked with board members such as Ramdass, Bob Wier, Jerry Garcia, Joanna Macy, Jason Clay, John Robbins, Rita Archibald, Nathan Gray, Shams Kairys, and Sat Santokh S. Khalsa among others.
7/87 - 7/89

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION
Notre Dame de Namur (formerly College of Notre Dame)
 Multiple Subject Clad Credential  (earned Dec 2001
9/99 - 5/02
 
College of Marin
Computer Classes: Desktop Publications, Computer Networks and HTML.
Spring 97 - Spring 98
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. - Degree of Bachelor of Arts Anthropology 
Majored in Anthropology with an emphasis in both Physical Anthropology and Archeology. I wrote a senior thesis paper in each sub-field.
9/93 - 6/95
 

 

College of Marin
A.A. - Degree of Associate in Arts Liberal Arts and Sciences, General 
Attended community college as an Anthropology major with an emphasis on learning to better use computers. 
Illustrated artifacts published in a book called Uncovering the Past at College of Marin by professor Betty Goerke.  Samples of my illustrations are available upon request.
8/90 - 5/93

 
 
 

 

San Francisco Art Institute
Received the Sobel Memorial Scholarship, considered the most prestigious scholarship to be awarded to incoming freshmen by SFAI
9/89 - 12/89

 

Tamalpais High School
Mill Valley, CA
Graduated High School 1989
 
PERSONAL INFO.
I am the mother of a 15 year old. We spend a lot of time going to Ice Hockey practice and games, (my son's); And I spend a lot of time at home being crafty/arty/creative or working in schools.

When I am not working at a school,  I also spend time being creative by gardening, drawing, knitting, sculpting etc., and reading a lot of books. I have just completed my fifth quilt and I have knitted a few scarves and a blanket (what else are you going to do for hours at an ice rink?).  I have learned how to ice skate and hope to someday play women's ice hockey for fun. My other hobbies are building web pages,  and drawing and painting in general.  For my 30th birthday I finally bought myself a surf board and I go to the local beaches and attempt to surf.  I also own a sailboat which I am still learning to use.

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