I have right at 20 years experience in acadamic English and 25 years experience in corporate human resources, special projects completion, employee training and development. I have strong design, organizational, and writing abilities and skills for program and curriculum design. These skills have been applied in corporate organizational and employee training and development programs as well as in academia. In the latter case, programs and curriculum have been designed for first year courses through graduate level courses. I currently teach remedial reading and writing courses as well as literature and composition courses at the university level, and direct the operations of the writing center. In my past career, I worked as a human resources director responsible for all aspects including management services and compensation planning. I received the American Compensation Association certification as a compensation planner. I compiled, edited and published several cookbooks as wel