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Certification
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Eileen Wargo

Eileen Wargo

Southbury,CT

Summary

Highly qualified, goal-oriented and ambitious learning development specialist with over 20 combined years of teaching and health benefits software testing and training experience. Strong education and technical background with demonstrated learning management skills.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification

Work History

Business Teacher

Naugatuck High School
08.2022 - Current
  • Teach Introduction to Business classes to all high school levels that concludes with a culminating project of writing a business plan for their own unique business that fulfills an opportunity and which incorporates all units covered of business law, ethics and social responsibility, finance, marketing, accounting, economics of supply and demand, risk management and future growth plans
  • Design creative and engaging Marketing I and II lessons to teach students how to market their own unique businesses in this high-tech and global business world by helping them to understand social media marketing, international marketing fundamentals and ways to ethically run and market their business
  • Teach Marketing I class how to write marketing plans to incorporate into their business plans that touch upon digital marketing skills to successfully reach a wide variety of target markets and how to analyze potential markets and usage of e-commerce using data analytics
  • Independently moderate DECA, a business education club and have led the club to two state 2nd and 3rd place wins in Marketing Plans and Start-up Business categories
  • Teach Honors Economics that touch upon key micro and macroeconomics elements
  • Write business education curriculum to satisfy new Applied Education standards for 21st century learning to ensure students are ready to enter the workplace or post-secondary education.

French Teacher

Fairfield Ludlowe, Warde High Schools and Fairfield Woods Middle School
- 08.2022
  • Taught French levels 1, 2 3 and 4 on both honors and college-prep levels
  • Taught French 7 and 8 at the middle school levels
  • Collaborated with fellow French and Spanish teachers to develop common assessments based on common instructional units to ensure uniform expectations and student outcomes
  • Designed lessons based on the 5C’s of the World Language Standards and unit focus questions to form more cohesive and purposeful units
  • Designed lessons that encompassed peer editing and learning
  • Taught lessons that included varied instructional strategies to highlight various learning styles
  • To focus on performance-based learning, developed formative and summative assessments to ensure both students and teachers are aware of any learning weaknesses and to correct them for oral, written and reading achievement.

French and Business Teacher

Xavier High School
08.2008 - 06.2012
  • Independently teach French levels 1 thru 4
  • Utilize technology to have students converse and write in the target language via blogging using Google Voice and Edublogs and to create their own French webpages in Weebly to display their collaborative and independent projects using Voicethread
  • Collaborate with fellow business teacher on the expansion of the business curriculum to offer new Marketing and Personal Finance courses
  • Teach basic Marketing concepts, including e-Commerce tools and market research techniques, to Marketing I class
  • Provide instruction to Small Business Management class on foundations of starting a small business, emphasizing global awareness and skills needed to be a successful entrepreneur
  • Allow my Marketing and Small Business Management students their opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge by marketing their own product/service or securing financing for their small business to potential lenders or investors by composing their own e-portfolio using LiveBinders
  • Assisted in adopting a new textbook for our Computer Essentials course that includes web-based training, projects and exams in Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint.

Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

Hewitt Associates
01.1999 - 07.2006
  • Execute automated and manual detailed test plans, prepare test data and confirms the tested items meet business and user requirements using specifications for Graphical User Interfaces, Web-based and Voice Recognition platforms on a functional and end-user basis
  • Oversee other testers to make sure deadlines are being met per the project plan on all cycles of the SDLC from development to production
  • Interact with the client on writing new plan requirements for health benefits administration, legislation and system functionality
  • Assist Systems Analysts in debugging program errors and defects
  • Provide application support on system issues reported by the Benefits Center representatives
  • Perform system tests by running mainframe batch jobs and analyzing system outputs and files
  • Train Benefits Center representatives on new functionality of the system for implementations, upgrades and annual enrollments in our health and welfare benefits administration division
  • Teach new hire training sessions on testing approaches and systems
  • Create and deliver training content on learning management systems.

Education

CT State Secondary Education Teaching Certification Program -

Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT
05.2008

Master of Business Administration - International Business

Fairfield University
Fairfield, CT
05.2002

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Marketing

Bryant College
Smithfield, RI
12.1997

Georgetown University
06.1997

Skills

  • Organization
  • Write Business and User Requirements
  • Large/Small Group Presentations
  • Software Testing
  • Training (Technical and Functional)
  • Health and Welfare Benefits
  • Instructional Design
  • Verbal/Interpersonal Communication
  • Curriculum Assessment
  • E-Learning
  • Entrepreneurship Education
  • Adaptive Learning

TECHNICAL SKILLS

  • Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint
  • AI Use (Chat GPT/Claude/Pi)
  • Zoom
  • SAS/JCL
  • ISPF/CICS
  • SQL/QMF
  • HTML
  • QR Coding
  • Blackboard
  • Canvas
  • Google Apps, incl Classroom, Meet
  • Canva
  • Prezi
  • Flip

Professional Memberships And Certifications

  • National Business Educator Association
  • ACTFL
  • COLT
  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business Teacher Certification

Affiliations

  • National Business Educators Association, CT Language Teachers, American Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages

Certification

  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business Teaching
  • CT State Teaching Certification - Business Education and French
  • Athletics Coaching

Languages

French
Full Professional

Timeline

Business Teacher

Naugatuck High School
08.2022 - Current

French and Business Teacher

Xavier High School
08.2008 - 06.2012

Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

Hewitt Associates
01.1999 - 07.2006

French Teacher

Fairfield Ludlowe, Warde High Schools and Fairfield Woods Middle School
- 08.2022

CT State Secondary Education Teaching Certification Program -

Southern Connecticut State University

Master of Business Administration - International Business

Fairfield University

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Marketing

Bryant College

Georgetown University

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