Kimberly Careau

Assess clients' literacy skills/needs in order to apply individual plans and provide guidance and education required to meet their goals.

Design, implement, manage, and evaluate literacy programs for individuals as well as for the community as a whole.

Actively participate in strategic planning decisions with the Executive Director and key staff.

Promote literacy in both a personal and professional context with an understanding of the community's needs and interests.

Drafted Volunteer process handbook to retain volunteers and increase volunteer satisfaction.

Created curriculum for inmates at the local detention center as part of a million dollar grant re entry program.

Researched and coordinated community resources to collect books for the local detention center.

• Developed, compiled, maintained, coordinated, and implemented all employee handbooks, safety manuals, and operations procedures as per D.O.T. regulations; performed safety audits for employees and trucks and trailers, administered and enforced safety related training programs and protocol.

• Transported goods and raw materials to and from manufacturing, retail, and distribution centers safely, legally, and on time, checked all main equipment operations areas every day to verify truck safety and performance, completing basic repairs and reporting larger issues, maintained daily logs detailing deliveries, mileage and customer concerns to update management and meet D.O.T. recordkeeping requirements, experience in dry van, reefer, hopper bottom, walking floor, and carnival rides.

• Provided innovative instruction in composition, literature, technical and business writing, media and gender studies on every level of college English as well as remedial English education and basic journalism foundations. Provided a personalized and supportive environment in order to foster intellectual independence through creative thinking, critical reasoning, problem solving and solid verbal and written communication.