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Vishakha Parvate 22722, Majestic Oak Way, Cupertino, CA, 95014 [email protected] (408)255-2535
I am an educational practitioner with 7 years of experience in international situations. My roles in the past have included curriculum development, instructional design, academic administration, admissions-in-charge and academic research. I have expertise using Perl, C++, LISP, Unix, DOS, MS-Office, Adobe Creative Suite. I have international educational experience.
Experience and Skills:
(1 year) Experience working as an intern on the Stanford International Initiative, to assist the effort leading to a potential collaboration in the field of pre-service teacher training between the Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning and the Ministry of Education in Chile.
Responsible for interacting with Ministry of Education officials from Chile to start initial conversations around the collaboration.
Experience in analyzing policy documents from the international educational arena in the field of curriculum reform. Responsible for evaluating the existing Bermuda Computing Curriculum as a possible model for collaboration with Chile.
Responsible for developing a white paper detailing a comprehensive scenario around a pilot program for a collaboration to enhance capacities and practices of Schools of Education as principal role players in teacher training and professional development. (expected date of completion June 30th, 2005)
(6 years) Experience working as a curriculum developer using knowledge of learning theories, instructional design and outcomes-based assessment. Experienced in the application of academic research around emerging trends and their successful implementation in large (45+ students) classrooms.
Experience teaching discrete math and automata theory to graduate computer science students using a problem based approach. Responsible for designing instructional material, assessments and conducting student evaluations.
Responsible for evaluating and ensuring quality, accuracy and effectiveness of all courses
Member of curriculum redesign committee for the Department of Computer Science, University of Pune and University Technology Recommendation team.
Experience in classroom management and online evaluations.
(3 years) Experience working as an Academic Administrator for an autonomous university department of computer science serving ~150 students. Responsible for managing academic records of all the students past and current(~1000 students) of the department.
Developed a system for automatic generation for product documentation from the system, so that newly added features would be reflected in the user manual. Used formatting, typesetting tools and Perl to auto-generate a print version of the online manual. (Samples available upon request)
Added new features, using Perl and SQL, to generate attendance sheets and annual grade reports to ensure compliance with the university standards.
Responsible for interaction with the university academic senate to codify the academic rules of the department. Responsible for establishing a process of collaboration with the academic senate regarding declaration of results.
Responsible for generating time-schedule for classes each semester adapting to the changing palette of courses offered. (1 year) Experience working as Admissions InCharge for an autonomous university department. Responsible for design and logistics of conducting a nation-wide entrance test(~10,000 applicants) at 15 different test centers.
Responsible for design and layout of the brochure, newspaper advertisement, test paper and related material in the admission kit, in compliance with university standards for layout and cost. (Samples available upon request)
Responsible for a budget of over 500,000Rs.
Responsible for declaration of results and new admit orientation.
(1 year) Experience working as a member of technical staff at a national center for software technology. Experience working in a technical lead capacity for a project to develop a mathematical tutoring system. (Project description available at http://www.ncst.ernet.in/kbcs/mathemagic.shtml)
Developed a diagnosis and remediation system for high school math in C++
Responsible for need-finding, system design and implementation.
Responsible for collaboratively designing and implementing the user interface while ensuring backward compliance with computer systems available in schools.
Responsible for designing a qualitative assessment study with local school children and compiling the results.
(6 months) Experience working as a student intern to implement a library system for computer assisted drafting for an industrial boiler design company.
Responsible for need finding and interaction with technical personnel.
Responsible for identifying appropriate tools and implementing system using AutoLISP and C++.
Responsible for interfacing with the development of the larger drafting software development. Responsible for deployment and testing at client site.
Excellent team player with problem-solving and trouble-shooting capabilities.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Experienced in effectively communicating with both technical and non-technical personnel.
Expertise in designing and producing instructional materials to support classroom interaction.
Expertise in mathematics education research.
Education :
M.A. (Education) with an emphasis in Learning, Design and Technology, Stanford University, California, 2004-05
M.Sc.(Computer Science) University of Pune, India
B.A. (Mathematics) Bombay University, India
Diplome de Langue, Alliance Francaise de Bombay, Ministry of Education, France.
Awards and Publications :
Parvate Vishakha, et. al. Mathemagic: An Adaptive Remediation System for Mathematics. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, Vol 17, No. 2-3, 1998
University Rank 1 for B.A. (Mathematics)
Recipient of National Talent Search Scholarship (200 each year, nationally out of a total of 20,000 applicants)