Resume

ROLAND ROGER THENOT

Provo, Utah USA  (801) 664-7723  rolandthenot@hotmail.com 

Teaching website:  https://sites.google.com/site/rolandthenot/home

Profile ________________________________________________

Self-motivated and does equally well in individual tasks or team oriented projects.  Excellent communication skills, which allows for ability to work with various personalities of students, parents, other staff members as well as the professional learning community.  Has professional experience from previous employment that entails the following:  Teaching, Financial aid, Student accounts, Veterans affairs and Counseling positions.  This experience along with interest in various hobbies creates a great ability to apply history in a way that intrigues students. 

Education Graduate______________________________________

UTAH SECONDARY EDUCATION DEGREE – Utah Valley University, Utah

Emphasis in Secondary Education Teaching License. UTAH Level 1 Teaching License.   Honors Student. 

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN HISTORY -  San Jose State University, California 

Emphasis in Modern History (1800-present) United States and Western Europe: Social, Cultural, Intellectual, Business, Law, Science, Government and Technology. 

General studies: Social Sciences, Anthropology, Psychology and Geography.

ASSOCIATE IN ARTS/SCIENCE – De Anza College, Cupertino and West Valley College, Saratoga, California

Studies in:  Quality Assurance Engineering, Computer Science, U.S. History and General Education of Arts and Sciences.

Skills Summary ________________________________________

Professional Experience _________________________________

Education 2015 - Present

Teaching Nebo, Alpine and Provo School Districts

Student Teaching UVU- JANUARY 2015 through MAY 2015

Orem High School (Alpine School District) & Independence High School (Provo School District)

• Classes taught:  U.S. History, World Civilization, World History and U.S. Government.

• Facilitated both traditional education as well as “last resort” education in different learning environments. 

• Helped students achieve their goals by employing options for success. 

• Designed engaged learning through lesson plans using various teaching models.  Created multiple lesson plans daily to teach more than one subject at a time. 

• Learned and applied through lesson plan design and implementation how to adapt to different types of students and environments. 

• Worked with cooperating teacher in emphasis on input, growth and results.  Followed policies, procedures and executed corrective action.  Participated with professional learning community to reach out as well as contribute to ongoing issues for resolution. 

• Conducted parent/student conference night.  Interacted well with parents and received positive feedback.  

Financial Aid Officer/Student Accounts Manager 

AUGUST 1995 through JULY 2017 - Masters Institute, University of Phoenix, ACS/Arthur Andersen, Scottsdale Culinary Institute, Lamson College, ITT Technical Institute, Everest College and Fortis College.

• Counseling of students and parents either individually or as a group to determine financial needs.

• Acted as liaison between the school and students.

• Processed and determined eligibility through FASFA for PELL, PLUS and Stafford loans. 

• Conducted audits to provide pro-active maintenance of student’s financial needs, school policies as well as compliance of federal regulations.

• As manager, maintained accounts receivables, deposits, petty cash, collections and process invoices.  Provided reports to upper management as needed. 

• Veterans Benefits SCO certify and Veterans resource.

• Cross trained for other tasks including: Title IV disbursements, default/exit help, R2T4 refund follow up, high risk students and attrition intervention.

• Analyzed reports to determine internal/external trends and retention of students. 

• Trained co-workers and was a resource to staff when manager was unavailable. 

• Wrote policies and procedures for Financial Aid Department.

• Recognized and awarded for excellent customer service and financial aid processing. 

In Addition ___________________________________________

• UTAH STATE CERTIFICATE OF SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT SPECIALIST 2011 -2017

• FINANCIAL AID CERTIFIED – Affiliations CASFAA and ASSFFA. Department of Education 2018.

• VETERANS AFFAIRS CERTIFIED - Veterans Affairs certify all programs SCO 2002 – 2019.

• VOLUNTEER WORK:  Elementary Education Head Start and Class Officer 2010 -2011, Elementary Education Provo School District 2013 – 2014. HOA Vice President Lake View Fields 2018.

• TRAINING - Completed training in counseling skills, suicide/crisis intervention, SOAR and CPR. 

• OTHER AREAS TAUGHT: Financial literacy, guitar, auto work, industrial technology, bicycling, tennis, ping pong, outdoors and interests of historical artifacts.