Laura L. Meyer

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Phone: 1-517-349-1859

Summary:

I was not job hunting however, this opportunity to apply my passion for mathematics, technology, and teaching to AI projects, sounds perfect. I like the idea of working with others while contributing to the development of quality educational materials. In short, when I read the job description, I know this is something I want to do.

Career Experience:

• March 2021 to Present:   Data Analyst for Auto-Owners Insurance Company
  • Work on a variety of data reporting jobs.
  • Help to automate some of the processes.
  • Write and run queries to test data fields associated with insurance projects.
  • Help to maintain data integrity.
• Over 30 Years of College Tutoring Experience in the areas of:
  • Math, Logic, Statistics, and Physics
  • Programming, Web Development, and Computer Science
  At the following schools:
  • Lansing Community College (LCC): Lansing, Michigan
  • Davenport College (now a university): Lansing, Michigan
  • Michigan State University (MSU): East Lansing, Michigan
  • Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI): Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Cuyahoga Community College (CCC): Parma Heights, Ohio
• Over 30 years of College Math Teaching Experince:
  • Precalculus, Business Calculus, Engineering Calculus I, II, & III, Linear Algebra, Differential Equations, Algebra, and others
  • Created auto-graded interactive SCORM compliant software programs that students use to both test and enhance their understanding of mathematical concepts
  • Created and improved WebAssign (Cengage Publishing) homework system questions
  • Studied and edited the Hot Potatoes SCORM compliant crossword puzzle API code to make it retain the highest score for LCC.
  At the following schools: LCC, Davenport, MSU

Experience with Programming and Scripting Technologies:

• Procedural: ActionScript 2.0, Java, JavaScript, Pascal, PHP
• Object oriented: ActionScript 3.0, C++, C#, Java, Python, Visual Basic
• CSS, HTML, SVG

Other Relevant Experience:

In my spare time, I enjoy learning and inventing new techniques to solve problems, and coming up with creative ideas for software that helps students learn concepts. I have:

• Spent one summer, answering questions on Yahoo Answers. Often, by the time I put together a well crafted answer with images to help illustrate a concept, another answer would have already been selected as the correct answer. Many times it was wrong or not well written, so I started working on questions that were at least a half hour old with nobody attempting to answer them. I found the older questions were often more challenging, therefore there was not as many people answering them. It was enjoyable to take the time needed to write a carefully crafted answer with all of the steps necessary to work through the problem.
• Written educational software in Flash and PHP: (In the process of updating my portfolio now that the Flash player is no longer available.)
• Made SCORM compliant interactive and engaging learning objects after spending an entire summer researching how to use SCORM.
• Learned to use HTML5, CSS3, SVG, JavaScript, and PHP to replace Flash projects: http://mathematical.website

Related Professional Development:

• Presented a mathematical idea to replace nested loops with a single loop at the 2020 LAND conference
• Presented at a poster session (http://lsquaredmath.us/scormQuest/SCORMposter) during an Angel User's Conference in Chicago and at a Detroit conference
• Helped discuss SCORM (shareable content object reference model) at Garrett Brand's Educational Technology Organization of Michigan (ETOM) conference session
• Led my own SCORM session at another ETOM conference
• Presented Great Gadgets for Online Courses at the MichMATYC (Michigan Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges) 2003 conference

Education: