Alex Llapitan

Experience

1. Academic Counselor - Senior

   University Of Washington Human Centered Design & Engineering

   Feb 2016 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Advise and counsel prospective and current students on admission prerequisites, program requirements, degree options, satisfactory progress, graduation, career, etc.• Annually hold on average 900+ individual in-person student appointments.• Oversee departmental undergraduate admissions, which includes preparing and distributing materials to admissions committee, reviewing applicants, conveying decisions, processing change of major forms, and conducting orientations.• Manage enrollment, maintain wait-lists, and distribute add codes for departmental courses.• Serve as member of the undergraduate curriculum committee, assisting with new course and course change applications, as well as curricular changes.• Assist with departmental events including the Corporate Affiliate Program Day, HCDE Career Fair, HCDE Graduation, and HCDE Open House.• Represent HCDE at recruiting and outreach events including departmental information sessions, transfer/major fairs, Admitted Student Preview Days, Computing Open House, Engineering Discovery Days, Minority Scholars Engineering Program Orientation, and more!• Serve as back-up Time Schedule coordinator, responsible for scheduling approximately 40+ quarterly departmental courses, processing course change requests, and ordering course evaluations. • Advise the HCDE Undergraduate Student Association.• Served on internal and external hiring committees.

Education

• University of Washington

  BA, English; Education, Learning, and Society

  2005 — 2009

Skills

• Leadership
• Microsoft Office
• Event Planning
• Customer Service
• Microsoft Word
• Student Affairs
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Public Speaking
• Social Networking
• Outlook
• Recruiting
• Social Media
• Research