Joshua Isaacs

Highlights

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Information Technology

Actual experience in implementing and maintaining 20+ production cloud solutions in both crisis and routine situations.

Practical and theoretical understanding of 15+ programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Python, HTML, CSS, LUA, Javascript, Java, etc.

20 years of experience in Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, and Redhat) and Windows enterprise systems and server software.

Productivity software mastery and teaching (Word, Pages, Numbers, Excel, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.)

Self-motivating in learning and able to adopt new technologies and skills rapidly.

Leadership

Proven ability in both leadership of over 200 educators and in individual support roles across 13 private Git repositories.

Strong communication and organizational skill sets, unifying 13 global schools under self-designed standards and increasing student intake potential by over 50%.

Experience in over a dozen team communication environments (Slack, Discord, RocketChat, WeChat, etc.)

Driven to learn and grow consistently, digesting large amounts of information rapidly to be synthesized into practical applications.

Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
AWS Certified Solutions Architect (in progress)

Experience

Wasatch AcademyRemote, 2019 - present

Manager of Collaboration

Needs assessment of 10+ international partner schools with 1200+ end-users in technology and pedagogy and design/deliver enterprise system solutions.
Multitask directing policies, 200 member faculty training, and IT solutions with technical documentation, enforcing best practices.
Collect psychometric data through data mining related to testing areas and authentic learning and design data science algorithms to support changes and improvements.
Generate 200+ lesson plans for dozens of subjects yearly, most requiring initial study and mastery of unfamiliar topics and tech.
Stay abreast of modern pedagogical progress and standards and research advancements supporting infrastructure and technology.
Network security and maintenance of cloud architecture and control of information security in database administration.
IOS and Android application development in 4 languages (Java, Javascript, C#, and Swift) improving student results by roughly 10%.
Full-stack web development in 4 languages (Javascript, HTML, PHP, and CSS.)

Responded to COVID-19 based educational crisis by leveraging and migrating to cloud solutions to bring entire schools behind restrictive national or school firewalls from the physical classroom to 100% online. Implemented and maintained in-house conference rooms, LMS systems, and management platforms, often including the underlying architecture.

Guangdong University OFSChina, 2013 - 2021

Assistant Professor

Lecture on the subjects of IT and Programming Languages (Java, Javascript, Python), Culture, and Learning.
Participate in 6 team projects and research and development, often including machine learning.
Data gathering, data mining, and web scraping in Python and C#.
Stream and make sense of raw data to support research.
Modify and manage the highly available school-wide Moodle LMS system over 3 cloud networks (AWS, Aliyun, In-House) with PHP.
Penetration testing with Kali Linux and contributing to information security, reducing intrusions by 100% for 7 years (from a suspected yearly problem.)
Network administration and Ubuntu server administration.

SunYat-sen UniversityChina, 2010 - 2013

Lecturer

Teach Information Technology, Linguistics, Graphic Design, and Culture.
Develop and teach in 4 programming languages (Java, C, C++, and C#.)

Education: University of New York at Buffalo

Major: Education Studies
Minor: Computer Science