Jeremy C. Douwstra

5118 W. Mercury Way                                                                         Home: (480) 961-9293
Chandler, AZ                                                                                       Email: jeremycd@aol.com


Dedicated, motivated professional pursuing training and teaching position in the education field with a desire to teach computers.  Over the last year has done each of the following: train school districts on use of software, customer support, in-house support, network administration of mail accounts and drive permissions, technical writing, software development, software testing, and web design.  Previously held tenured teaching position, which also included being responsible for training and educating peers on the use of in house computer systems.  Additionally responsible for repairs and solutions of hardware problems and development of web site for district.  Excellent communication skills and ability to work as part of a team or independently.

 

Hardware/Software:

Intel Pentium III to 386, iMac/G3 to Mac Classic, Apple IIe, Commodore PET, Commodore 64 and Vic20, MS Windows NT/9x/2000, MacOS, MS Front Page 97/2000, MS Word 3.0 - 2000, MS Excel 2.0 - 2000, MS Powerpoint 95 - 2000, MS Access 2.0 - 2000, Hyperstudio, Netscape Communicator, MS Internet Explorer, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, TargetTeach, Kid Pix, HTML, JavaScript, CGI, BASIC, PASCAL, and much more.   

 

Experience :                 

3-01 to present

Scottsdale Unified School District – Scottsdale, AZ

Lead Instructional Technology Specialist.

7-99 to 3-01  

Evans Newton, Inc – Scottsdale, AZ

Technical Support Consultant and Trainier.  Duties included: traveling to school district through out the United States to train district personnel on TargetTeach software, trouble shoot customer and colleague hardware and software problems, maintain company web site, test and evaluate updates to TargetTeach software, write, edit, and format technical manuals, and work as part of a team to help improve student test scores.   

5-94 to 7-99

Kyrene School District -- Tempe, AZ – Kyrene de la Esperanza

Teacher, Technology Rep. and Computer Trainer.  Technical responsibilities for school and district in addition to teaching a fourth grade class are: training certified and support staff in the use of technology through various programs on both Mac and Windows platforms.  Webmaster and ongoing troubleshooting for school’s computer problems. 

 

Certifications and Honors :    

1996 to present –

·         Member of I.S.T.E (International Society for Technology in Education)

 

1991 to 1999

·         Arizona Schools Foundation – A+ school award

·         Kappa Delta Pi & Golden Key National Honor Society

·        Honor Roll: NAU Spring 92 to Spring 93 – MCC Spring 91

 

Education:

Northern Arizona University – Flagstaff, AZ

·         Bachelors of Science in Elementary Education with a Minor in Mathematics – 1993    GPA: 3.77

·        30 credits towards Masters Degree in Educational Technology (expect to graduate in Summer 2001) Current GPA: 3.83

 

References available upon request.

 

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