​​​​Jessica Hanna​

Professional info​

Professional Experience                                                                      2005 - Present

Marshall University

South Charleston, West Virginia

​2012 - Present

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During my time at Marshall, I have served as a graduate assistant, part-time faculty, and currently as full-time, tenure-track faculty. I am also the Coordinator of the Career & Technical Center Teaching program, a joint faculty member in the Master of Arts in Leadership Specialist program, and one of the website designers/editors for the the College of Education and Professional Development.

Assistant Professor

Leadership Studies/Adult & Continuing Education

2015 - Present

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As a tenure-track professor, I am  assigned to the Adult & Continuing Education (ACE) Department, as well as, a joint faculty member for the Leadership Studies (LS) Department. Within the LS Department, I teach in the Leadership Specialist Master's Degree Program.  This fully online program has earned the "Military Friendly" endorsement. If interested, you can view my instructor's video for the Human Resource Management Course.

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In the ACE Department, I serve as the Program Coordinator for the Career & Technical Center Teaching major in the master's degree program. As one of two faculty members in the department, I am extremely dedicated to seeing all students succeed. Since joining the ACE faculty in 2015, we have converted the program from face-to-face to an online, asynchronous format. The only synchronous component was the portfolio defense, which used to be conducted via video conferencing software (student's choice). We have finished switching this defense to asynchronous and will be writing a paper on the conversion process. 

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Part-time Faculty

Leadership Studies/Adult & Continuing Education

2013 - 2015

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While I was a doctoral student and a graduate assistant, I was approached about adding another opportunity--teaching one to two courses a semester. I had taught at the undergraduate-level, but I jumped at this chance to add graduate-level teaching to my skill set. As a part-time faculty member, I was able to design, build, and teach ATE 550 (Human Relations in the Workplace), LS 690 (Leadership Capstone), and ATE 628 (Adult Instruction Environmental and Personal Perspectives).

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Graduate Assistant

2012 - 2015

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As a "GA," my duties included assisting faculty with research projects, building and maintaining the doctoral program's website, helping to build the College of Education and Professional Development's website, and designing online courses. I also had the opportunity to co-teach EDF 517 (Statistics), and develop learning modules for online professional development courses.

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Central Ohio Technical College

Newark, Ohio

2010 - 2012

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Part-time Faculty

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I started teaching at Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) as a part-time faculty member after deciding to make a career change from business to education. My first course as a post-secondary marketing course offered to high-school seniors. The following term, I began teaching business and computer courses to undergraduate students on the Newark, Ohio and Pataskala, Ohio campuses and online. The courses I taught included: Principles of Business, Principles of Management, Principles of Marketing, Team Building, and Principles of Computing. Most of the time, I was expected to design and build the courses I taught.

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American Electric Power

Columbus, Ohio

2005 - 2010

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I began working at American Electric Power (AEP) in the middle of my MBA program. I joined the company as a contractor in the engineering group and was hired on as a permanent employee one year later in the contracts group.

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Contract Administrator

2006 - 2010

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As a Contract Administrator I negotiated, wrote, and amended construction contracts with various vendors for the "Generation" segment of the company. In addition, I was the liaison to the IT Department, and in charge of creating/maintaining the vendor performance and diversity supplier databases using Microsoft Access and VB.NET. Working with IT and document control, I helped design the document management system implemented throughout the entire company.

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Engineering Technician

2005 - 2006

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As an Engineering Technician, I served dual functions. I provided direct technology support for my assigned engineers and acted as a liaison by smoothing the communications between the engineers and the vendors. In addition, I also worked directly with a document control partner to maintain 24/7 access to various documents related to "stack" construction and retrofit projects.

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