Lavon Murray
(USA)+1-585-547-0077
(South Korea) +82-10-5910-4279
Jubeikibagami357@hotmail.com or Lavonmurray@hotmail.com

American Living and Working in Daegu, South Korea

OBJECTIVE

I am an educated teacher/communications/media/computer expert, with more than 20 years of experience working with people in a variety of settings. I also have nearly 8 years of experience teaching, with 2 working with children, 1 with adults, and several as a university professor. I have years of management experience, and experience owning a business. I am seeking the opportunity to develop professionally, and continue to gather knowledge in a variety of arenas. I will utilize all of my many skills to contribute as an integral part of the supportive team structure that enhances the value of the professional ecosystem.

2014 UPDATE:

Living and working overseas has provided me with a cavernous supply of skills, tools and much needed experience for real world competence. In addition to my already extensive list of job history, skills, accomplishments and so on, I felt I needed to further push myself in an extremely challenging way, while managing to improve myself professionally. As of 2014, I have decided that it is time to come home. I am now looking to use all I have to offer, to benefit an organization/career opportunity, and take myself to the next level. Ideally, coming back home to America, and continuing my professional development, is preferable. I am career minded, and ready to start.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

I have developed my skills to become a multi-talented individual with distinct skills and focus on media, journalism, broadcasting, writing, intercultural relations, public speaking, computers, and other facets of communication, management and public relations. I am an energetic take charge person, who is extremely results driven in completing projects that require strategic planning and organization. I have acquired excellent computer abilities, becoming conversant with a variety of software programs, such as Microsoft Office, Front Page, Go Live, and Dream Weaver. These have served well in the field of teaching, and I believe will continue to do so at the colligate level. I have 7 and a half years of teaching experience, in addition to my solid resume indicated work history. I will continue to work hard to prove myself, as a valuable asset to any organization, putting my skills to use.

EDUCATION

Undergraduate
Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY 00/2004
Degree: bachelor of Science - in Communications / Dean’s List: Fall 2002
Graduate

Buffalo State College / University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 04/2006
Degree: masters of Science – Public Relations / Management / Communications
Post Graduate Studies – PHD (Computer based, still under assessment)

COMMUNICATION & CLIENT RELATIONS SKILLS

• Over 10 years of experience in sales and customer relations using communicative skills to ensure quality and customer satisfaction.
• Highly articulate, with excellent public speaking skills that have been used in public venues, such as seminars and demonstrations.
• Able to effectively research, organize, and prepare complex speeches and oral presentations.
• Strong ability to interface on all management levels, including 2 years management experience as a head instructor for a major language institute. I have also owned and operated my own business for nearly a decade.
• Adept in digital (audio/video/photo) editing.
• Able to conduct research using literature, the internet, and investigation to gather knowledge.
• Trained in professional audio studio equipment, sound editing, and television camera operation and production.
• Capable of functioning in any media or communications oriented environment.
• Incredibly advanced computer knowledge of both hardware and software.
• I am capable of functioning in any environment.

WORK EXPERIENCE
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Keimyung University, Deagu, South Korea -February 2012 -Current-
-Professor-
With the Communication English Department

As a Keimyung University Professor, it is my responsibility to educate future professionals at the college level. This position is an official "professorship," allowing me the freedom to explore my own creativity in supplying students with an outstanding course, ensuring their overall ability in language.
• Designing the course from scratch. Literally course creation.
• Organizing class structure, and creating exams and other quizzes/tests.
• Utilizing the internet to monitor student progress, and issue homework.
• Creating class work and assignments, as well as homework.
• Student consultation and tutoring.
• Creating grading criteria and administering grades for over 300 students (on average.)
• Lecturing to extremely large classes and teaching various materials both provided by the University and created by myself.
• Designing activities and handouts, and using Power Point to teach advanced language students.
As a University Professor, I incorporate all aspects of communication and language, to ensure that students are receiving the maximum in instructional quality.

UPDATE: As a professor with Keimyung University, I have taught classes in:
• Society
• Technology (Digipen)
• Business Classes
• English Classes
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Hoseo University, Asan-Shi, South Korea February 2011-February 2012 -Professor-
With the English Language Studies Department

As a Hoseo University Professor, it is my responsibility to educate future professionals at the college level. This position is an official "professorship," allowing me the freedom to explore my own creativity in supplying students with an outstanding course, ensuring their overall ability in language.
• Designing the course from scratch. Literally course creation.
• Organizing class structure, and creating exams and other quizzes/tests.
• Utilizing the internet to monitor student progress, and issue homework.
• Creating class work and assignments, as well as homework.
• Student consultation and tutoring.
• Creating grading criteria and administering grades for over 300 students (on average.)
• Lecturing to extremely large classes and teaching various materials both provided by the University and created by myself.
• Designing activities and handouts, and using Power Point to teach advanced language students.
As a University Professor, I incorporate all aspects of communication and language, to ensure that students are receiving the maximum in instructional quality.
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Pagoda/Direct English, South Korea September 2010 - February 2011 Instructor/Teacher/Native Tutor

Teaching with Pagoda/Direct is giving me an opportunity to teach adults, many of whom are college students or professionals in their field. In my quest to teach at the colligate level, I understand that spending time teaching and working with adults is highly important. In this position I have been helping students in a large number of ways. These areas have included:
• Preparing for MBA examinations.
• Preparing for TEFL examinations
• Helping a young lady pass her English test, in a stewardess program.
• Preparing legal documents.
• Helping write and edit response letters to major corporations.
• Helping students learn to use English to organize important office notes.
• Editing college and job related projects.
• Developing conversation and business conversation skills.

I have been trained in all available classes at this school, and am credited with being a very cerebral instructor. I would like to go from this position, to teaching at the colligate level.
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ChungDahm ESL Institute (CDI), South Korea / August 21st 2008-September 27th 2010
Instructor/Teacher

Teaching at CDI offered me the opportunity to gain large amounts of teaching experience through the large variety of classes I taught. This was an extremely active communications environment in every way. I have instructed students in:
• Listening.
• Reading.
• Writing.
• Grammar.
• Speaking/Pronunciation.
• Critical thinking projects (many of my own creation)
• Teaching every level offered at the school from easiest, to the most difficult.

My flexibility in that regard earned the respect of my colleagues and management. While teaching at CDI, I was consistently ranked by the branch management and the students, as the single most popular instructor at the school. My class was extremely engaging, and students would often follow me from level to level taking my courses as they progressed, in an effort to keep me as their teacher.
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ChungDahm (CDI) ESL Institute, South Korea / (6 months during my time at CDI)
Head Instructor

As head instructor it was my responsibility to monitor and evaluate the teaching staff at the language institute. This was done through several means. They included:

• Critiquing the closed circuit television recordings of instructors during their classes, and in rare cases, monitoring them.
• Giving one-on-one guidance to the instructors, and performance evaluations.
• Organizing and conducting branch meetings to address matters relayed from headquarters and our own management.
• Going to meetings at CDI headquarters, and conveying that information to my team through meetings and material I often organized and prepared myself.

Communication here was vital, as I was not only responsible for just my own teaching quality, but the teaching quality of others. I prepared my lecture material daily, and often found new ways of making the material exciting for my students. This contributed to a more engaging experience. My efforts earned high praise from parents, students and management alike. This position often required longer hours, and a high level of skill in interfacing with others.
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Strong Hospital & University of Rochester (Sleep Studies Center) June 2007-February 2008
Level III Clinical Technologist

As a "level III clinical technologist,” It was my duty to ensure the safety of clinic patients, while also conducting a high quality scientific evaluation of a patient, for a doctor’s medical analysis. My duties in the lab included:

• Greeting and settling patients into their examination rooms for the night.
• Fitting patients with a vast number of wires, medical tubes (Cannula), and other sensory devices.
• During this time communication was extremely important, due to patients becoming uncomfortable especially in the case of children.
• Working with special needs clients. (Handicapped patients & behaviorally difficult patients).
• Using my Spanish speaking skills to help patients who could not speak English.
• Reading brain waves, and monitoring patients using infrared CCTV.
• Operating sophisticated software applications, to determine health related disturbances in a patient.
• Constant and accurate documentation of my findings were then submitted to a doctor. Being precise here was a matter of medical safety.
• Overnight monitoring and assistance to patients, verbally and physically.

I worked with patients ranging from 5 months old to 50. My hours were quite long, usually starting at 6pm and running until 7am of the following day. At this time, I would remove the medical sensory equipment from the patients and discharge them.
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Computer Technical services (CTS), Buffalo, NY 2005-2006
Computer Technical Services Representative

My responsibilities were diverse and computer/communication intense. Talking to clients was important, because my office was responsible for literally hundreds of computers. Understanding what difficulty a person was experiencing became very critical to ensuring efficiency in helping that person. As a CTS staff member, my responsibilities included:

• Phone based trouble shooting/technical support & advice.
• Building, programming and servicing computers.
• Networking and software installation, this included operating systems.
• Visiting locations to service/repair computers.
• Answering a wide array of questions, or discussing problems with hardware/software.

Communication and multitasking were a key elements here, as I often would program up to 10 computers at once from my station, while providing phone based technical support and preparing for a site visit. I would usually perform these tasks simultaneously. This position bolstered my computer skills tenfold, while making great use of my communication and media skills.
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Miscellaneous work History
• AutoZone - Highly communications intensive
• BSC Mailroom - Moderate communications intensity
• Eastman Kodak - Very high communication intensity
• Rochester General Hospital - Low communication intensity

(There are other positions I have worked, and have omitted for no reason other than saving space. I have worked since the age of 14 under a work permit, and have never been without employment for a long period of time.)