Ryan Sprague - CMO, REI Automated

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Work Background

REI AutomatedFrontend Developer

Nov. 2022Florida, United StatesDesigned and built front-end for company's app with Javascript/Typescript, HTML, CSS (mostly Tailwind), React and Nextjs. Also used animated SVGs. Designed and built video streaming member site for Japanese Youtuber Designed and built robust landing pages with built-in sms/email notifications and CRM integrations, address lookup/validation and phone validation.

一般社団法人近江の天秤施設長

Feb. 2022 - Mar. 2023滋賀県Continuing to run the schools I helped start. Seeing phenomenal growth in Hope Sprouts Preschool and Kindergarten through effective brand awareness and social media marketing strategies. Leading a team of talented, dedicated educators, kitchen staff, and administrative staff who are passionate about raising up the next generation using Montessori's incredible philosophy and method of education. Handling all the nitty gritty issues that pop up for anyone in leadership.

Hope SproutsBusiness Owner

Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2022Osaka, Osaka, JapanMarketing: created everything from the brand concept, the copy and marketing messaging, online ads and offline materials like flyers and brochures Materials Development: developed materials to be used in the classroom to improve the quality of service and to expand service offerings Curriculum Development: developed curriculums to match needs of learners Lesson Planning: extensive lesson planning included creating new language learning activities to improve learning outcomes Teaching: provided high-quality lessons to over a hundred students on a weekly basis Website Development and Management: Used Wordpress to build websites that effectively converted prospects into sales leads Copywriting: Crafted copy for websites, flyers, brochures, online ads, and social media

Osaka City Board of EducationOsaka City Native English Teacher and Facilitator

Aug. 2013 - Jan. 2015osaka area, osaka, japan・Selected as the 2nd best applicant in a pool of several thousand English language teachers to help lead the first Osaka City Native English Teacher Program as a Facilitator and English Teacher ・Leading a wonderful group of teachers: advising on life in Japan, interfacing with Japanese colleagues, effective lesson planning, language teaching methods, etc. ・Assisting Japanese staff at Osaka City Board of Education in leading the Osaka City Native English Teacher program: leading meetings, acting as a filter between the Japanese staff and the teachers, planning events, creating materials used citywide, leading training programs ・Teaching English at a junior high school and two elementary schools: lesson planning, coordinating lessons with Japanese teachers, training Japanese teachers in effective language teaching pedagogies, materials development

Friends International PreschoolHead Teacher

Mar. 2012 - Apr. 2013Shiga, Japan・primarily responsible for the development of the kindergartener's English language skills ・tasked with leading special language learning programs ・trained fellows teachers in classroom management, language teaching pedagogies, effective teaching techniques, and professionalism

ALTIA CENTRALAssistant Language Teacher

Sep. 2011 - Mar. 2012Shiga, Japan・assisted Japanese English language teachers in the classroom: created effective English language learning tasks that engaged the students while increasing language proficiency, helped develop pronunciation, reading, writing, and speaking skills for all students ・engaged with students outside the classroom to help build positive feelings toward English language learning and toward foreigners in Japan

Calvin CollegeTIS Assistant

May. 2008 - May. 2011Grand Rapids, MichiganTechnology integration at Calvin College - staging and deploying workstations - installing smart classrooms - updating software - maintaining and recycling old hardware

Healthy Homes Coalition of West MichiganOrganizational Development Intern (Comenius)

Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2011Grant writing and management: successfully wrote grants that acquired 60K in funding for the organization Database development and design: worked with the database tools to manage the organization's donor list, including scripting actions to streamline donation requests, donor contact info updates, etc.

Spout LLCMarketing Intern

Jan. 2008 - Dec. 2009Grand Rapids, Michigan, United StatesCommunity Management: promoted community engagement through games, contests, and discussions related to film and the film industry. Content management and development: used the company's CMS to update it's database of films Customer support: addressed customer questions, concerns, and complaints regarding issues with the website and related services QA testing and reporting of issues: black box tested the website and reported errors and missing data to the team; where possible I fixed issues using the CMS

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