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Overview
Work History
Education
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Professional Development And Certifications
Professional Interests
Presentations
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Certification
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Ernest J. Bridges

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Summary

Assistant professor with a passion for education and a commitment to academic excellence. Proficient in curriculum development, classroom instruction, and student mentorship. Skilled in fostering an engaging learning environment and conducting impactful research. Dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the success of students.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Professor of Business

Newberry College
Newberry
03.2022 - Current
  • BUA 311 – Business Ethics: This course explores the theoretical foundations and applications of business ethics. The coursework, tools, and discussions in business ethics provide a solid ethical foundation integral to all business careers.
  • BUA 101 - Introduction to Business (On-site & Online): Students are introduced to business concepts and current business issues while expanding their vocabulary, improving their critical and analytical thinking skills, and refining their business decision-making in this introductory course.
  • BUA 260 – Principles of Management (On-site & Online): This course is an introduction to the management process of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. This course includes contemporary topics such as managing diversity, globalization, and ethical issues.

Adjunct Professor of Business

Benedict College
Columbia
08.2021 - Current
  • BA-130/230 - Business Applications Software (On-site & Online): This course introduces MS Office. It is designed to develop basic operational proficiency while using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, and PowerPoint). Students learn how to use word processing, spreadsheets, database, and presentation software. Topics include creating business letters, business memos, elementary spreadsheets, database structures, and slide presentations.
  • MKT-330 - Principles of Marketing (On-site & Online): This curriculum examines our present-day marketing system from a managerial point of view and has a current events component to help emphasize the marketing principles in today’s business world. Subjects covered include consumers, market research and target markets, feasibility analysis, products, promotion, channels of distribution, pricing, international marketing, and use of technology in marketing.

Business Education/Career and Technology Education Teacher

Richland County School District One
Columbia
08.2019 - 06.2022
  • Entrepreneurship I (On-site & Online): The curriculum was centered on three key aspects of entrepreneurship: The individual, their traits, skills, and attributes that make entrepreneurs successful; The business ideas, how to generate them, where to look for them, how to expand them; How to ensure they are valid business ideas with potential to meet profit goals.
  • Fundamentals of Marketing (On-site & Online): The curriculum included marketing strategy, customer behavior, segmentation, market research, product management, pricing, promotion, sales force management and competitive analysis.
  • Introduction to Advertising (On-site & Online): The curriculum included training in the legal, ethical, and social responsibilities of advertisers, as well as ways to engage and communicate with clients and target audiences.
  • Accounting I: An introduction to the principles, and practice, of accounting. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of recording, adjusting, analyzing, and reporting financial information in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Business Education/Career and Technology Education Teacher

Sumter County School District
Sumter
09.2017 - 07.2019
  • Integrated Business Applications I & II Microsoft Office: Used the Microsoft Office Suite application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Access) to apply student knowledge in creating professional-quality documents, professional communication, worksheets, presentations and databases suitable for coursework, professional and personal use.
  • Personal Finance: In this introductory finance course, students learned basic principles of economics and best practices for managing their own finances.
  • Introductions to Management, Marketing and Finance: This course was designed to provide a foundation in such general business concepts as: economics, finance, accounting, business law, marketing, and other business systems.

Adjunct Business Administration Instructor

Virginia College
Florence
08.2016 - 12.2018
  • HU 245 – Ethics: The aim of the general education course in ethics was to prepare students to become responsible moral agents, competent and humane professionals, and informed and engaged citizens.
  • BU 177 – Customer Service: This course was designed to develop the necessary skills for success as a customer service provider.
  • MG 250 – Business Ethics: This course focused on study of ethical problems in business and the foundations for decisions involving ethical issues.
  • BU 190 – Fundamentals of Business Management: This course was designed to familiarize students with the concepts related to business management as well as the functions of management, including planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling.

Education

Doctor of Philosophy - Organizational Leadership

Columbia International University
Columbia, SC
05-2025

Master of Business Administration - General Business Administration

Southern New Hampshire University
Manchester, NH
05-2019

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management, Concentration: Human Resource Management

Francis Marion University
Florence, SC
01.2014

Skills

  • Ethical decision making
  • Data analysis
  • Effective communication
  • Departmental and interdisciplinary collaboration
  • Team building and collaborative teamwork
  • Student assessment and program evaluation
  • Leadership development
  • Problem solving
  • Technology integration in learning
  • Academic research

Professional Development And Certifications

  • Social-Behavior-Educational Researchers, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 01/01/23
  • General Industry Certification, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 01/01/20
  • Social-Emotional Learning, Richland County School District One, 01/01/20

Professional Interests

  • Fundamental of Business
  • Principles of Management
  • Management of Organizations
  • Organizational Behavior
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Human Resource Management
  • Business Ethics
  • Retailing
  • Business Communications

Presentations

  • Making Dollars…Make Cents: An Introduction to Financial Literacy, 12/07/24
  • Responsibility, Respect in Relationships, 01/20/20, 01/21/19, 01/15/18
  • Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood, 01/20/20, 01/21/19, 01/15/18
  • Intimate Violence in Relationships, 01/20/20, 01/21/19, 01/15/18
  • Shaping your Future, 01/20/20, 01/21/19, 01/15/18, 01/16/17

Affiliations

· “Making Dollars…Make Cents: An Introduction to Financial Literacy”, December 7, 2024

· “Responsibility, Respect in Relationships”, January 20, 2020; January 21, 2019; January 15, 2018

· “Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenthood”, January 20, 2020; January 21, 2019; January 15, 2018

· “Intimate Violence in Relationships”, January 20, 2020; January 21, 2019; January 15, 2018

· “Shaping your Future”, January 20, 2020; January 21, 2019; January 15, 2018; January 16, 2017

Certification

Social-Behavior-Educational Researchers – Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, 2023

General Industry Instructor Certification – Occupational Safety and Health Administration, 2020

Social-Emotional Learning – Richland County School District One, 2020

Timeline

Assistant Professor of Business

Newberry College
03.2022 - Current

Adjunct Professor of Business

Benedict College
08.2021 - Current

Business Education/Career and Technology Education Teacher

Richland County School District One
08.2019 - 06.2022

Business Education/Career and Technology Education Teacher

Sumter County School District
09.2017 - 07.2019

Adjunct Business Administration Instructor

Virginia College
08.2016 - 12.2018

Doctor of Philosophy - Organizational Leadership

Columbia International University

Master of Business Administration - General Business Administration

Southern New Hampshire University

Bachelor of Business Administration - Management, Concentration: Human Resource Management

Francis Marion University

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