Casiana I. Pascariu

• The customers' problems we had to solve were related to blocking heat and light, saving electricity, matching their interior decor, and staying within their budget.
• The stakeholder's problems we solved were related to packaging, diversity of the products, lead time, and eliminating as many as possible mistakes when it comes to shipping the products.
• I approach our customers' consultations as in-depth interviews and learn about their personal lives, the pain points with their current window treatments, and the outcomes they'd hoped to achieve with new window treatments.
• I action on these insights and provide customers with bespoke treatment options for their needs.
• After noticing low closing rates, we adapted our approach with new follow-up strategies that expanded our clientele by 125% within 8 months.
• I actively participate in end-to-end project management.
• This includes initial points of contact, in-home consultations, product installation, and follow-ups to ensure our customers are appeased.
• Maintained being a 5-stars company on Google , Yelp and Angi for 3 years in a row.
• Between Q1 and Q2, we gained 343 new clients and our revenue increased by 200%.
• Conducted market research activities and competitive analysis to facilitate implementation of aggressive company marketing strategy.
• Employed and managed vendors by negotiating deliverables, cost and expected quality

• Teach ATH 101 Introduction to Anthropology.
• Teach ATH 111 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology.
• Teach ATH 315 Anthropology in the Contemporary World.
• Teach ATH 489 Capstone in Anthropology
• Provide personalized feedback.
• Create class announcements.
• Assess student writing and learning outcome.
• Meet with students online during office hours.
• Outreach for students at risk to encourage student retention

• Experience with Learning Management Systems Canvas: designed and developed quizzes, projects, surveys, discussion posts, record and edit lectures.
• Interactive group project assignments, collaborate with students via Zoom/ Skype/ CiscoWebex, interactive video lectures using ScreenCast O'matic.
• Guided the students in developing and conducting their own anthropological research projects, through community partners (6 years).
• Merged anthropological concepts with encounters of everyday life of the students by incorporating their personal experiences in the lecturers’ examples.
• Moderated Skype guest speakers on topics about Archeological research in Kenya, “A chat about Africa” and an brief introduction to Slavery in Romania focusing on Roma.
• Initiated, coordinated and moderated panel discussions with three to seven guests from different belief systems from the community (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Catholicism, Orthodox and Islam), who answered basic as well as challenging questions regarding historic and contemporary contexts of their religions (2 years).
• Retention rates mirroring the rates of the department.

• Experience with international students from multicultural backgrounds: SES (from sheikhs to students on scholarships due to their income), ethnically, racially and nationally (over 80 countries) diverse students (3 years).
• Developed the assignment Debates (impromptu) based on any social issue (locally, regionally, globally) which the students had an interest in.
• Collaborating with the business department where the students debates while applying innovation design thinking methodologies (2 years).
• Guided students in developing and conducting their own anthropological research projects, and presenting their results in a conference-setting format (3 years).
• Developed and Implemented event Bringing the past into the future: learning from UAE elderly generation AUE students from sociology courses presented their research results open to the community (2 years).
• Moderated guest speakers on topics about A brief Introduction to Linguistics, “A chat about Africa” and an brief introduction to Slavery in Romania focusing on Roma.
• Experience with the Learning Management System Akademia (2018-2021): designed and developed quizzes, projects, surveys, discussion posts, record and edit lectures, interactive group project assignments, collaborate with students via Teams/ zoom/ skype/ whatsapp, interactive video lectures posted on Youtube.
• Design, adapt and apply interactive lessons in Sociology like playing Monopoly in order to learn about social inequality (2 years).
• Design kahoot games for Social Science assessments in order to learn different concepts (3 years including summer 1 and summer 2).

• Attended Accelerator “Seedspot Women Bootcamp”, Phoenix, AZ. Received a grant for $900; Part of Demo day on the 10th of December, 2015.
• The mission: enrich traveling through local connections and experiences, in hidden places.
• Created trips aimed for the customers to have an authentic local experience: immersing
into the native lives by acting as locals.
• Cultivates partnerships with community partners such as MCCCD, Seed Spot, and Stick To
It (local gym).
• Connected with SHERAA, Sharjah Entrepreneurship Center, American University in
Sharjah, UAE.
• Social Media, website knowledge, supervised a team of two members.
• Approved for a Kiva loan for $1,000.
• Summer 2016 organized the first local experience to Romania with six clients.
• Summer 2017 organized the second local experience to Romania with five clients.
• March 2018 organized the third local experience to Egypt with five clients.