Lanita Wimberly

About Lanita Wimberly

Experienced IT professional with 17+ years experience as a QA Analyst, Configuration…

Experience

1. Teacher

   Durham Public Schools

   Aug 2015 — Present · Durham, NC, US

   Work in collaboration with parents, school personnel and outside agencies in order to assess students’ needs, develop and implement Individualized Education Plans and ensure instruction was tailored to meet the students’ identified needs-Use research-based instructional techniques such as discrete trials, task analysis, peer modeling and multi-sensory instruction-Co-teach 8th-grade math with each of the three 8th grade math teachers on staff, each day, while also providing targeted instruction to students on my EC caseload as well as other students needing additional support in the classroom-Consistently create a learning environment with clearly established routines and expectations that facilitated opportunities for independence in academics-Facilitate special learning and extracurricular activities-Participate as a member of the Parent Advisory Council (PAC), representing two schools-Assist students with learning research-based reading strategies that improve fluency and comprehension-Work with students with a variety of learning differences to reduce their cognitive load and cognitive processing to gain efficiency in reading comprehensionAssist students with Phonemic Awareness (blending sounds, segmenting words into sounds, etc)-Assist students with mastering word identification (developing letter sound correspondences, facilitating advanced word reading, reading regular words, reading irregular words, and reading decodable books)-Facilitate fluency in small reading groups and one-on-one student learning opportunities-Develope and implement lesson plans for 8th-grade math resource, 8th-grade reading resource and 6th-grade reading resource classes as well as collaborate with general education teachers to produce lesson plans for co-taught 8th grade math classes-Attend no fewer than 15 hours of Professional Development sessions annually.

Education

• Collin College

  Project Management - Project Analysis and Design

  2002 — 2002

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  BA

  1986 — 1990

Skills

• Visual Basic
• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Requirements Analysis
• Agile Project Management
• Regression Testing
• Business Process
• Requirements Gathering
• Telecommunications
• Test Cases
• Analysis
• Access
• System Testing
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Call Centers
• Test Automation
• Program Management
• Pmp
• Software Quality Assurance
• Data Warehousing
• Test Planning
• Business Requirements
• Change Management
• Process Improvement
• Enterprise Software
• Vendor Management
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• Databases
• Software Documentation
• Sdlc
• Sql
• Visio
• Quality Center
• User Acceptance Testing
• Strategy
• Training
• Sharepoint