Alison Sharkey

I'm a project management consultant specializing in instructional design, looking to make the pivot from in-person service based work to more collaborative tech team-based assignments and contracts. In addition to being a fully credentialed public school teacher and experienced middle school administrator, I'm also a conservatory trained classical cellist, and a member of the American Federation of Musicians. The intellectual discipline, relationship building, and complex nonverbal communication skills I've honed over a lifetime of professional symphony performances and classroom teaching make me an excellent team player, active listener and creative problem solver. Although I'm CompTIA A+ certified in IT support, analysis, and troubleshooting, my learning path is on track to becoming a full stack software engineer by the end of 2022. I'm currently proficient in entry level JavaScript, completing short coding projects incorporating foundations of HTML and CSS, and feel confident researching and fact-checking on MDN, Slack, Discord, and Stack Overflow. I aspire to someday contribute to the creation of future educational and training apps, but will enjoy any development work intentionally designing solutions that help people in need.

Ideal Workplace Values

To me, the ideal workplace values safety, equality, democracy, inclusion and transparency. I support efforts to advance anti-racism, civil rights, justice, and dignity for all people. Ideally, I would love for all my work to empower and give a voice to the voiceless, innovating new ways to champion empathy, whether for humans, our shared natural environment, or any sentient being currently experiencing neglect, threats, exclusion, or exploitation.