Ray LeCara Jr

As Multifaceted Coach and Strategic Educator

• Currently empower authenticity, success, and growth through academic guidance, professional development, communication training, inspiring content creation, and authentic living lessons
• With dynamic offering of over two dozen courses, design academic, enrichment, and life-skill workshop content that is taught on multiple online platforms to adults and young learners
• Since 2019, instructed nearly 600 students/clients from twenty-four countries and from over forty states

As Creative Professional

• Develop artistic visual products while working within defined technical constraints
• Interact with authors and other internal customers to define job requirements and resolve content, production and scheduling issues
• Check preliminary and final proofs for errors and made necessary corrections

Startup and Small Business Contract Work

• As liaison between clients (HOA and condo association boards) and vendors (telecom providers), managed communication while developing and implementing style guides for consistency
• Increased workflow, communication, and file management by 25% spearheading customized CRM design better suited to business needs
• Created video marketing content
• As temporary COO of newly established book division: Enhanced operations through new process developments in advance of scaling, introducing new methods, practices, and systems to reduce turnaround time; edited manuscripts and collaborated closely with authors to achieve deadlines
• As Online Curriculum Coordinator: Designed, implemented, and managed successful weekly online instruction on Exponential Leadership and Business Management program, utilizing comprehensive approach to evaluate client progress and identify additional online or onsite training needs
• Artificial Intelligence Prompt Engineer: Writing copy to train and test AI system (ongoing since April 2023)

Notable Highlights:

• Cultivated necessary experience, skills, and strategies in AP Language & Composition classes to lead attending students of BEHS to average score of “3” two years running (2015-2017) on College Board exams, besting other local high school’s scores
• Routinely worked with underperforming students in diversified emerging urban district where 47% of students are eligible for free/reduced lunch, providing targeted language instruction and coaching that successfully enabled them to pass standard course requirements
• Boosted underperforming student assessment results: Out of 26 targeted for improvement in 2015- 2016, all made gains; forty-six percent achieved gain of over 20%
• Equipped students with long-term learning fundamentals and skills to successfully complete course requirements, presenting supplemental lessons on goal setting, reflecting, attitudes, focusing, class distractions, procrastination, motivation, note-taking, quiz/test taking strategies, reducing anxiety, study habits, time management, organization, and active listening/reading
• Reinforced and maintained culture of high achievement by focusing on discipline as opportunity for learning, growth and community-building
• Delivered personalized educational, behavioral, and emotional support to individual students through special accommodations, extra assistance, and assessments to enable positive learning outcomes
• Prepared, presented supplementary learning material, and trained staff on Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, and Grade Programs to increase learning opportunities, and support new teacher learning and development
• As union steward and vice president, worked closely with president, cultivating strong and transparent relationship with workplace to promote open communication about problematic issues against stated milestones and goals
• Reduced grievances and arbitration needs by educating frontline supervisors on techniques for enhancing interactions between labor and leadership; negotiated collective bargaining agreements; participated in labor-management meetings to discuss labor issues

• Organized and edited training manuals, multimedia visual aids, and other educational materials based on client needs
• Delivered new employee onboarding and training sessions
• Communicated all learning and performance objectives, schedules, and training assessments to upper management
• Evaluated success of training programs and recommended improvements to upper management to enhance effectiveness
• Developed engaging and entertaining presentations to maintain employee attention and improve impact of training
• As skilled instructor, trained and empowered over 7,000 professionals and non-professionals from diverse backgrounds, teaching over 70 unique applications
• Consistently exceeded client expectations by tailoring curriculum to meet their needs and achieve business objectives
• Instrumental in securing Hartford location's designation as State of Connecticut Department of Education CEU provider for educators