THOMAS FREDERICK734.476.8627 tfrederick@frontier.com

Seeking a career in quality management and instructional design applications in my interests: data driven decision making, statistical analysis, cross functional team

collaboration, quality process improvement, customer service, dynamic online and live instruction, and project management.

Skill & Experience Highlights Quality Process Improvement: Teaching students how to revise and work collaboratively

to develop a finished product. Improved student scores on national standardized test by an annual average of 96%! Working with administration to identify inefficient processes and apply lean and six sigma tools to improve processes and reduce waste.

Data Driven Analysis: Tracking student performance data and implementing statistical analyses to evaluate content understanding, maximize student learning growth, and improve teaching delivery. Performing root cause analyses to determine largest obstacles to student growth.

Project Management: Developed an activity based physics program that demonstrates how physics can be applied to real world applications. Lead curriculum update and acquisition processes for multiple courses and platforms.

Team Building: Managed a cross functional team of eleven diverse instructors, developing curriculum delivery and testing metrics, analyzing student data to optimize performance, facilitating collaboration and sharing of best practices.

Negotiations and Conflict Resolution: Produced win-win solutions to contract related conflicts as Area Representative and Grievance Chair. Collaborated on bargaining teams to produce fair and reasonable collective bargaining agreements.

Technical Writing: Teaching students how to present findings in formal laboratory reports and presentations. Collaborated locally to write common final exams in mathematics and science; work in partnership with a state-wide team of physics teachers to produce state-level standardized test questions. Proficient in MS Office.

Member American Society of Quality (ASQ)

Employment History

Physics & Mathematics Instructor: Saline Area Schools 1993 – present

Enthusiastic and innovative Physics, Honors Physics, Principles of Technology, Physical Science, Algebra, Pre-Calculus, Geometry, and Applied Trigonometry teacher.

Lessons focused on real world applications and mathematical modeling.

Chair of the Science Department managing budgets, designing and devolving new curriculum, establishing quality metrics to effectively measure student learning.

Eliminated variation in instruction by establishing common assessments for all core classes.

Participated on the High School and the District Technology Teams developing means to purchase and integrate technology into the school curriculum.

Planned and administered summer Jump Start program for at risk students transitioning successfully from the middle school to the high school.

Trained colleagues in desktop publishing and technology applications for more effective curriculum delivery.

Served as Area Representative and Grievance Chair for five years, representing union membership and seeking solutions to contractual issues.

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Online Physics & Mathematics Instructor: Homeschool Connections Online 2013 – present

Innovative online educator for international education provider.

Designed self-guided online curriculum and engaging daily lessons.

Production Manager: Protech Painters 2013 – 2014

Assisted with logistics and operations for obtaining, planning, and completing residential painting jobs.

Supervised four paint crews on multiple job sites.

Performed site walk throughs to oversee job quality and to ensure customer specifications were met.

Managed customer support interventions to increase customer satisfaction.

Director of High School Programming: St. Andrew Church 2000 – 2007

Successfully developed and implemented a strategic plan for all high school programs

Recruited and trained adult volunteer teams, designed and implemented high school leadership training

Coordinated weekly educational programs and large annual events for 100+ high school students handling all logistics, planning, and budgeting for multiple high school programs.

Education

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, Lean Sigma University, 2016

Six Sigma Projects:

Local Scholarship Application Process, Saline Area Schools

Improved the process of applying for 29 local scholarships. Approximately 1200 applications are made annually. The process was made into an online process reducing application errors, saving clerical time, and reducing material waste.

Improving Patient Follow up to Reduce Readmission, Huron Valley Physicians Association

Collaborated on a CQI team to track patient care management for a group of 26 private care providers in Washtenaw county to improve productivity, reduce patient readmissions, increase percentage of on-time care plan approvals, ensure proper patient use of medications, and improve profitability.

Adv. Graduate Certificate in Quality ManagementEastern Michigan University, GPA 4.0/4.0 (currently completing). Most Recent Coursework:

Quality Management in Health Care, HLAD 525 Quality Planning, QUAL 552 Quality Management and Team Building, QM 107 (Schoolcraft college)

MS, Physics Education, 1996Eastern Michigan University, GPA: 3.9/4.0 Masters Project: Designed a hands-on, technology-based physics curriculum to improve

kinesthetic understanding of concepts in introductory physics.

BS, Mathematics, 1991University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, GPA: 3.8/4.0