Kevin Ryan

2489 Hampstead Drive, Loveland, CO 80538 USA 970-635-0317

 http://kevinryan.com ryan@kevinryan.com

Showa Women's University, 1-7 Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, 154-8533 Japan

Tatsumi Plaza #301 Miyamaedaira 2-15-33 Miyamae-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa-ken, 216-0006 Japan 044-853-7058

Objective

Use language, computer, and training skills in development and implementation of training, education or learning.

Experience

 

 

1990–Present: Showa Women’s University, Tokyo, Assistant Professor

  • Developed, coordinated and taught computer literacy courses.

  •  Assisted curriculum development and testing.

  •  Trained co-workers in networking computers on campus.

1985–1990 Language Services, Inc., Tokyo Director of Foreign Staff

  • Doubled student enrollment.

  • Managed 40 teachers in corporate training of English for National Railroad, International Banking and National Public Television. Developed curriculum. Set up computer assisted language learning facilities.

  • Coordinated seminars on Intercultural communication for National Public Television.

1978–1983 Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain Instructor

  • Youngest teacher in staff of 75.

  • Committee representative for largest English Language school in Spain.

  • Royal Society of Arts course in English as a Foreign Language.

  • Full summer scholarship to Northwestern University, Evanston.

Education

1997–1999 Ziff-Davis University: various online courses in Visual Basic, C++, Perl, CGI, HTML and ActiveX.

1983–1984 University of Illinois, Chicago: M.A., Applied Linguistics. Full academic scholarship by State of Illinois.

1974–1978 Manchester College, Manchester, Indiana: B.A., Psychology with minor in Spanish.

Languages

English, Spanish, Japanese, Catalan. Visual Basic

Volunteer

Past President of Tokyo PC Users Group 1994 and 1996. Past President of JALT CALL SIG, 300 teachers using computers.

List of publications.