Mr. Kerry William Parsons

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Employment History

How I Have Earned a Living

Varsity Tutors

private tutoring
tutor in subjects Latin (all levels), French (all levels), Academic Writing, Creative Writing

WyzAnt Tutoring

private tutoring

WyzAnt provides the online infrastructure for tutors and their clients to communicate, organize lessons, and be paid.  I tutor in French, Latin, English, SAT Prep, Writing, Reading, and English as a Second Language.

Carlbrook School

private college preparatory therapeutic boarding school
Aug 2014 to Jun 2015: taught French I, II, III & IV/AP & Latin I, II & III to students in grades 9 thru 12

Willowtree Farm, Ruckersville, Virginia

hobby farm / show kennel
December 1989 to August 2014: As owner and manager, I have planned and executed (or supervised the execution of) additions and improvements to the farm and extensive pleasure grounds, cared for the livestock and plantings, performed maintenance on buildings and equipment, negotiated prices for services and materials, and handled the bookkeeping.

The Library at Willowtree Farm

online at-home business

February, 2008, to March 2013: This has been a fun little side business in which I sell books, movies, music, and magazines out of the Willowtree Library.  Alibris Booksellers has been a wonderful group with which to work online - they have done a wonderful job of setting up an infrastructure that has allowed me a great deal of success (net revenue of more than $1,500.00 to date) in my endeavor of not only paring down our collection but also of bringing in a little extra cash.

Albemarle County School District, Charlottesville, Virginia

public education

April 13, 2009 to April 24, 2009: Substitute Teacher - French IV & AP French at Albemarle High School; Exploratory French (7th grade) & French I (8th grade) at Sutherland Middle School.  Please see "Courses Taught" for a detailed description of this two-week preview of Student Teaching.

May 25, 2009: Substitute Teacher - Art at Henley Middle School

Write Words, Inc., Cambridge, Maryland

online publisher
June, 2003, to present: Assistant editor--Review and revise manuscripts for matters of grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation, continuity, narrative flow and overall quality, answering directly to Arline Chase, Publisher/Editor.

Charlottesville Police Department, Charlottesville, Virginia

police and emergency services
November 1997 to April 2001: As Clerk/Communicator in the Police Department's Services Division, working variable shifts, I documented and stored all evidence that came into the possession of the police department, and maintained the database (newly-implemented at the time) of warrants, arrests, traffic citations, accident reports, and officers' incident reports. To assist investigations, I input information to and queried the National Criminal Information Computer and American Fingerprint Identification Service. I answered all non-emergency incoming phone calls, and was the first stop for citizens seeking assistance from the police department in person, either answering the citizens' needs myself or routing them to appropriate personnel.  I also filled all the clerical needs of the lieutenants, sergeants and uniformed officers.

Voyager Publishing

small-press publisher (now defunct)
Spring, 1996, to Spring, 1997: as Markets Editor, I wrote "The Writer's Muse" column for the quarterly Oatmeal and Poetry, for which I published information and advice about poetry and short story markets I had researched.

Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia

public, undergraduate college

Department of Residence Life

campus housing
September 1989 to December 1990: As Resident Assistant, I had responsibility for twelve Freshman male students.  I handled discipline, mediated disputes, organized recreational activities, and developed two dorm-wide activities per semester.  The activity of which I am most proud is a hiking trip to the Cascades, the waterfall in the mountains outside Blacksburg, Virginia. For this job, I received training in first aid, recognizing emotional and mental crises, among other skills, and I was expected to know how to handle emergencies and even to do some low-level counseling.

Department of Campus Recreation

intramural sports
September 1987 to December 1990: As Assistant to Director Julia Smith, I filed, answered the phones, ran errands, and handled all her databasing, wordprocessing and desktop publishing needs.

Foreign Language Camp, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia

week-long camp for Virginia high-school students
July 29, 1987 to August 6, 1987: As a paid intern in the French camp, I spent the week working closely with the French camp counselors, and I was responsible for developing programs and lessons for the campers, as well as helping to oversee their successful participation in the camp.

Four County Players, Barboursville, Virginia

community theatre group
May 1987 to August 1987: As a paid intern, I participated in the many aspects of putting on a community theatre production.

Summerleas Farm, Rapidan, Virginia

private estate
April 1984 to August 1987: Under the tutelage of estate owner and recognized gardening expert Mrs. Sarah Smith, I spent three summers during high school tending her extensive grounds of flower beds, herbaceous borders, rolling lawn and vegetable gardens.
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