OKONY CHAM
Academic Advisor
Rochester,MN
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Academic Advisor
Riverland Community College
Austin, MN
02.2024 - Current
Primary administrator
Google
- For SharePoint and, Workspace
- Experience working with open educational resources
- Build diverse project teams that reflect the community being served
- Self-motivated and oriented, including driving project-related data risks and outcomes
- Understanding of the full project lifecycle, from requirements gathering and design to implementation, testing, and deployment in the context of ERP system
- Assist students in identifying their learning needs
- Registration and program referral
- Provide individualized technical program advising, including course selection, degree planning, and career path exploration
Teacher
Rochester STEM Academy
Rochester, MN
08.2023 - 02.2024
- Taught 5th-grade and High School students
- Designed lesson plans and graded weekly assignments and exams
- Facilitated and supervised gym activities
- Lead in the aggregation, documentation, and improvement of information and cyber security frameworks and measures and apply improvements to the risk management process
- Continue to monitor, update, and adapt to ongoing risks
- Working closely with the Security Compliance Manager and Director to support risk remediation and tracking
- Perform risk assessments to plan and execute compliance and professional standards effectively
Academic Advisor and Adjunct Faculty
Salt Lake Community College
Salt Lake City, UT
01.2019 - 08.2023
- Assists students in identifying career and educational pathways
- Delivers one-on-one comprehensive advising
- Provides academic and non-academic referral
- Had a caseload of over 650 students
- Served on hiring
- Participate in and influence information risk assessment process improvement
- Delivers face-to-face classroom instruction and facilitates Canvas learning activities
- Delivers hybrid instruction
- Develops teaching materials, including service learning
- Maintains a conducive learning environment, interactive and engaged classroom
Student Programs Coordinator
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
12.2017 - 12.2018
- Coordinated student-directed programs and improved student involvement by 20%
- Supervised 21 student program coordinators, program directors, and four community partners and increased voluntary hours by 300 per month
- Expanded the annual April Saturday Service Project from 1 site to 7 sites, increased volunteers to 200 from 120 in the previous year, and established three new community partnerships
- Connected students to various departments and developed and improved outreach programming
- Assisted students with recommendation letters and referrals to different departments and colleges
Academic Advisor and Recruiter
Utah State University
Salt Lake City, UT
07.2014 - 07.2017
- Academic Advising/Mentorship
- Advised students from diverse refugee/immigrant backgrounds and provided academic referrals
- Compiled, managed, and tracked students using Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Assisted students in identifying appropriate resources at community, college, and university levels
- Implemented weekly advising partnership with Salt Lake Community College (SLCC)
Education
Master of Science - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Southern Utah University
08.2024
M.P.A - undefined
MPA - Public Administration
Minnesota State University
05.2015
Master of Science - Community Health Education
Minnesota State University
12.2007
Skills
- Master of Science in Cybersecurity with Information Assurance (MS-CSIA), Southern Utah University
- Excellent customer service listening, empathy, and problem-solving skills
- Experience researching, compiling, and analyzing data and communicating business requirements
- Excellent working knowledge of Software as a Service (SaaS)
- Working knowledge managing technology projects in an academic or student affairs environment
- Proficient working knowledge of Microsoft Project and Planview
- Excellent understanding of software development life cycle and IT Infrastructure
- Advanced training in IT Project Management and IT Risk Management
- Firmed knowledge of risk management, threat
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders
- Experience in risk management, budgeting, and project scheduling
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on team development and project success
- SKILLS
- Audit Coordination
- Policy Enforcement
- License Verification
- Process Implementation
- Remediation
- Business Continuity
- Security Questionnaire
- Risk Mitigation
- Internal Assessment
- PCI-DSS
- SSAE -18 (SOC1 & 2)
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Student Development
- Knowledge of academic policies
- Strategic Decision-Making
- Academic Monitoring
- Higher education practices knowledge
- Student Advocacy
- Cross-cultural competency
- Ethical behavior
- Career guidance
- Collaborative mindset
- Resource Identification
- Course planning and organization
- Academic Counseling
- Academic majors mastery
- Staff Management
- Curriculum Planning
- Student Performance Evaluations
- Records Maintenance
- Progress Reporting
- Enrollment Planning
- Administration Collaboration
- Conflict Management
- Teamwork and Collaboration
- Letters of Recommendation
Timeline
Academic Advisor
Riverland Community College
02.2024 - Current
Teacher
Rochester STEM Academy
08.2023 - 02.2024
Academic Advisor and Adjunct Faculty
Salt Lake Community College
01.2019 - 08.2023
Student Programs Coordinator
University of Utah
12.2017 - 12.2018
Academic Advisor and Recruiter
Utah State University
07.2014 - 07.2017
Primary administrator
Google
Master of Science - Cybersecurity and Information Assurance
Southern Utah University
M.P.A - undefined
MPA - Public Administration
Minnesota State University
Master of Science - Community Health Education
Minnesota State University
Work Availability
monday
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Accomplishments
- Used Microsoft Excel to develop inventory tracking spreadsheets.
- Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
- Supervised team of 21 staff members.
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