Objective:

To use my experience to empower others through coaching, speaking, writing, and training to live life without fear, to live up to their potential, and to turn every adversity into opportunity.

Professional Profile

Personal and Professional Coach

  • Offer private instruction in fitness, boxing, kickboxing and self-defense
  • Work with diabetics of all ages to help them overcome challenges they face everyday with their diabetes
  • Teach people how to handle the bullies in their personal and professional life
  • Coach people from all walks of life on how to set and accomplish their goals
  • Help individuals turn challenges into victories

Speaker and presenter

  • Keynote speaker to schools, organizations and civic groups on personal empowerment, turning adversity into advantage, and pursuing one’s unique purpose in life
  • School assembly and staff in-service presenter on the subjects of bully prevention, and safety education
  • Presenter at National Martial Arts Industry Association to martial arts school owners on personal safety courses, and how to increase revenue in your schools
  • Presenter of child safety related programs to elementary, middle and high school students on a variety of related subjects, including: bully prevention, safety and awareness in the neighborhood, abduction prevention, and facing down peer pressure
  • School staff in-service presenter on the subjects of classroom management techniques, personal safety for faculty and administration, and bully prevention for both faculty and students
  • Presenter and speaker on personal safety to larger organizations including: Upper Administration of Rutgers University, Johnson & Johnson employees and management, Wal-Mart corporate functions, and at the Martial Arts Industry Association’s national conventions in Las Vegas, Nevada and Orlando, Florida.
  • Presenter of boxing and kickboxing skills and drills to boxers, martial artists, coaches, and fitness trainers

Professional Martial Artist

  • Founder, co-executive director, and chief instructor of Family Martial Arts Academy, a successful martial arts school in Highland Park, New Jersey
  • Founder and President of the New Jersey Continuous Contact Karate League
  • Nationally recognized grandmaster of American Freestyle Karate; grandmaster of kickboxing; grandmaster of continuous full contact karate
  • Sixth Degree Black Belt under Bill “Superfoot” Wallace
  • Advanced tactical master instructor of the CDT Method of liability conscious restraint and third party protection techniques
  • Recipient of multiple Martial Arts Hall of Fame awards

Educator: New Jersey Schools

  • New Jersey State Certified teacher, elementary k-8 and ESL k-12
  • Masters degree in language education from Rutgers University, 1994
  • Thirteen years of teaching experience in New Jersey public schools

Personal Safety Instructor:  Tom Patire Group

  • CDT tactical master instructor under Tom Patire
  • Certified personal safety instructor specializing in courses for children, teens, adults, and families under Tom Patire
  • International Training Commission Certified executive protection specialist with State of the Art Security

Mentor to teens and adults

  • Assist clergy to guide teens in their congregations toward positive choices in life
  • Assist police in violence intervention and prevention in Highland Park, N.J.
  • Have been personally mentoring teens and young adults at the request of their parents, teachers and principals since 1989
  • Youth development specialist: National Council of Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD)
  • Hosted and directed an at risk group of young men, called “Choices” at Pathways program in Carteret High School, Carteret, New Jersey
  • Mentor a variety of teens and adults in personal issues related to relationships, careers, and personal habits

Work History

1997-present, Co-Executive Director, Family Martial Arts Academy, Highland Park, N.J.

2008-present,  Founder and President of New Jersey Continuous Contact Karate League LLC

2006-2008, Youth Development Specialist, NCADD Middlesex County N.J.; Pathways office, Carteret High School, Carteret, N.J.

2001-2003, Teacher of English as a Second Language, Conerly Road School, Somerset, N.J.

2000-2001, Teacher of English as a Second Language, Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Edison, N.J.

1999-2000, Teacher of Algebra and pre-algebra, Highland Park Middle School, Highland Park, N.J.

1993-1999, Teacher of English as a Second Language, Pine Grove Manor School, Somerset, N.J.

1994 Instructor of English as a Second Language, Middlesex County College, Perth Amboy Annex, Perth Amboy, N.J.

1993 Instructor of English as a Second Language, Language Institute for English, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, N.J.

1990-1993,  Daily Substitute Teacher, Franklin High School, Somerset, N.J.

Education

1992-1994  Rutgers Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick, N.J.

Masters of Education, Language Education.

1985-1989    State University of New York at Binghamton, Binghamton, N.Y.

Bachelor of Arts, English

References

References are available on request.

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