Scott King

Experience

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  University of Waterloo

  Sept 2004 - Dec 2004

  Research And Administrative Assistant

  This placement was my first Coop job at the University of Waterloo. I provided reports/relevant financial data such as revenue/profit/expenses/debt/stock price, etc. for multi dimensional statistical analysis for the Institute for Quantitative Financial Analysis and Professor Mu Zhu of Fortune 500 companies. I developed a report on hedge funds provided technical support for coworkers at IQFI and provided website updates using Adobe Dreamweaver. I also was involved with administrative duties such as arranging meetings, appointments and clerical tasks such as printing, preparing and editing letters, reviewing reports, memos and critical emails. Show less

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  Real Programming 4 Kids

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2008

  Video Game Programming Instructor

  Taught hundreds of students how to program video games in Visual Basic, Java, C#, C++, XNA and DirectX. I later went on to become the Director of Education and Operations Manager at Real Programming 4 Kids when I completed Teacher's College at Queen's University.

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  Sydenham High School GDST

  Sept 2008 - Mar 2009

  Mathematics and Computer Science Secondary School Teacher Practicum Placement

  I did my 3 teaching practicums at Sydenham High School during my time at Teacher's College. I taught classes for students in grade 9 academic math, grade 9 applied math, grade 10 applied math and a grade 12 computer science class. I applied statistical analysis and subsequent research on the results of frequent formative assessments. I developed course content on the LMS Moodle. I was also involved with their extracurricular chess club during lunch hours, mathematics tutoring center during lunch hours and co-initiated Syd's Math League with approximately 20 junior students and 14 senior students with my associate Shane Cook. Show less

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  Thames Valley District School Board

  Mar 2009 - Apr 2009

  E-Learning Assistant

  As my alternative teaching practicum for my Bachelor of Education, I worked as an E-Learning assistant for the Thames Valley District School Board. I was responsible for reviewing all the eLearning courses on Desire2Learn (D2L) that the Ministry had written and updating weblinks used by teachers all over Ontario. At my time there, I also attended a Regional eLearning meeting of the London area. I also attended an all day DELC meeting of the Ontario eLearning Consortium covering the future of eLearning in Ontario. Show less

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  Real Programming 4 Kids

  Jun 2009 - Oct 2019

  Director of Education/Operations Manager

  When I took over as the Director of Education and Operations Manager, the company has grown in revenue 3 to 4 times its original amount to well over 1 Million dollars in yearly sales. We also increased the number of locations in Ontario from 5 to 8 spanning from London to Ottawa. With increased interest and enrollment, it also meant increased number of classes and instructors. As the Operations Manager, I directly recruited, interviewed, hired, trained and supervised the approximately 40-50 instructors and 2-3 senior instructors teaching approximately 1000 students yearly at all 8 locations at Real Programming 4 Kids. I was also solely responsible for inventory management and technical support of all 8 sites including instructor supplies, computers, usbs, shirts, etc. As Director of Education, I was directly responsible for creating/updating/approving/removing courses as required and making detailed course manuals in Alice, Scratch, Visual Basic, Java, Python, JavaScript, C# and C++ used by hundreds of employees teaching thousands of students over the years. Not only did sales increase but the quality also improved year after year as well (results from Survey Monkey and Google Survey gathered from customers). In addition, I was also responsible for various other duties such as social media management, customer database management, SQL marketing inquiries, individual customer queries, curating specific email lists, mass marketing emails using MailChimp, payroll, website management using Joomla and Wordpress, class scheduling, facilitating private educational programs outside of RP4K at public and private schools in the GTA, creating report card and summative assessment templates, distributing and reviewing all of the report cards for each student taught at RP4K, course summary sheets, free trial classes, scheduling make up classes and bonus course material. Show less

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  University of Waterloo

  Feb 2020 - now

  Instructional Support Coordinator - David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

  The Instructional Support Coordinator's primary role is to assist the professors with their responsibilities largely by managing the aspects of running a course and to provide continuity and consistency from term to term. These duties include scheduling and organizing meetings, managing support staff including Instructional Support Assistants, Teaching Assistants, Instructional Assistants, dealing with student concerns, professor concerns, grade management, archiving, academic integrity cases, exception requests, exam appeals, exam management, managing course notes, managing marking meetings and coordinating the final exam. I am or have been the Instructional Support Coordinator for CS106 (Introduction to Computer Programming 2), CS116 (Introduction to Computer Science 2) CS136 (Elementary Algorithm Design and Data Abstraction), CS138 (Data Abstraction and Implementation), CS137 (Programming Principles), CS234 (Data Types and Structures) and CS247 (Software Engineering Principles). Show less