MEREDITH MARIE KRATOCHVIL
Collierville,TN
Summary
Resource education professional with proven expertise in developing and implementing personalized learning plans. Skilled in fostering collaborative environments and adapting to changing needs, ensuring effective team dynamics and student success. Strong background in curriculum development, classroom management, and inclusive education practices. Reliable and results-driven, consistently delivering positive outcomes in diverse educational settings.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Special Education Teacher
Memphis Shelby County Schools
08.2023 - Current
- Handles sensitive and confidential information per federal law
- Ensures effective communication and cooperation with cross-functional teams and external partners
- Analyses multiple sources of information to provide the stakeholder with the best possible support
- Consults/collaborates with staff, parents, and agencies to ensure appropriate delivery of services and adherence to due process
- Document necessary federal and state due process rights and procedures
- Excels at communicating and managing content for all stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to maintain satisfactory, respectful working relationships within the work environment
Education Specialist
Daybreak Treatment Center
08.2022 - Current
- In a partial hospitalization program, ensures the academic growth of multi-aged clients, suffering from mental, physical, and spiritual trauma
- Create curriculum to match the current productivity of each individual while guiding them forward as they strive to reach their goals
- Firm adherence to patient confidentiality and HIPPA laws
- Developed content from current texts for necessary and understandable delivery to individual clients, on their processing level
- Excels at communicating and managing content with clients
- Demonstrated ability to maintain satisfactory, respectful working relationships with the work environment
Special Education Paraprofessional
Collierville School District
01.2022 - 05.2022
- Ensures the personal and academic growth of special needs students in a controlled environment
- Teach life skills such as laundry and cooking
- Tailor curriculum to individual students needs to ensure their academic and social growth, while challenging them to reach their full potential
- Proven effectiveness administering, scoring, and recording achievements and diagnostic tests
- Highly effective at working with students individually and in group settings
- Demonstrated ability to maintain satisfactory, respectful working relationships with the school environment
Systems Configuration Specialist
Sedgwick CMS
07.2001 - 11.2013
- Transfer existing employee client data into Sedgwick software system
- Review, update, and create technical documentation correlating to client human resource needs and benefits within the clients multiple sub companies
- Demonstrated ability of interdepartmental quality assurance to guarantee client satisfaction
- Honest and dependable communication with all stakeholders that minimized any negative fallout from program code release
Quality Assurance Analyst
Sedgwick CMS
07.2001 - 11.2013
- Verify and validate updates and enhancements to the claims management system by executing test cases and use cases
- Productively work with programmers to resolve identified issues
- Ownership of quarterly software release code
- Reliable and timely execution of software release
- Results driven technical data training for internal and external clients
Technical Data and Systems Support Analyst
Sedgwick CMS
07.2001 - 11.2013
- Create and manage system for bill review, provider self-service, and parameter needs
- Complete and update department training manual
- Provide internal customer training for multiple departments
- Tract data, system, and user issue complaints to successful resolution
- Solved interface issues for file exchanges between vendors and Sedgwick
- Effectively communicated enhancements and changes to offices, while assisting departments and IT in resolving data interface problems
Education
BS - Education: Teaching all Learners
University of Memphis
Memphis, TNMaster of Education - Special Education
Grand Canyon University
Skills
- Recognize the important roles of responsibility and accountability
- Document necessary federal and state due process rights and procedures
- Known for delivering completed projects in high-growth environments while also increasing internal efficiencies and reducing costs
- Drives results through leadership, creative thinking, detailed resource coordination, and process expertise
- Innovative and agile problem solver
- Analytical and strong communication
- Writing interventions
- Individualized education plans
- Progress monitoring
- Collaborative teaching
TN Teaching License
License #000753233
Endorsements: Interventionist K-8, Interventionist 6-12
License Expiration: 08/31/2027
Timeline
Special Education Teacher
Memphis Shelby County Schools
08.2023 - Current
Education Specialist
Daybreak Treatment Center
08.2022 - Current
Special Education Paraprofessional
Collierville School District
01.2022 - 05.2022
Systems Configuration Specialist
Sedgwick CMS
07.2001 - 11.2013
Quality Assurance Analyst
Sedgwick CMS
07.2001 - 11.2013
Technical Data and Systems Support Analyst
Sedgwick CMS
07.2001 - 11.2013
Master of Education - Special Education
Grand Canyon University
BS - Education: Teaching all Learners
University of Memphis
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