Vincenzo Rosario La Franca Pitarresi

• Oversee development and implementation of science curriculum, ensuring alignment with IB standards and meeting diverse needs of students
• Regularly liaising with other departments, ensuring interdisciplinary learning opportunities
• Manage, mentor, support seven science teachers, fostering professional growth, setting performance expectations
• Monitor more than 70 students' progress, analyzing results to make informed instructional decisions
• Responsible for budgeting, allocating resources for laboratory equipment, materials, educational tools
• Laboratory technicians supervisor
• Primary contact for external science-related partnerships, programs, competitions, providing students with opportunities beyond classroom
• Maintaining safe, engaging, innovative learning environment, updating lab safety protocols, introducing modern teaching techniques
• Engage with parents, wider community, promoting importance of science education
• Preparing students for Chemistry Olympiads through comprehensive curriculum development, targeted coaching techniques

• Curriculum Delivery: responsible for planning, delivering engaging, rigorous lessons aligning with IB Chemistry curriculum
• Assessment and Feedback: design, administer formative, summative assessments to evaluate students' progress, understanding of subject
• Lab Work, Practical Skills: ensure students understand, adhere to safety protocols conducting experiments, guide in developing essential laboratory skills, including data analysis, scientific report writing
• Individualised Support: provide support, guidance to students, identifying strengths, weaknesses. Offer extra help, clarification, extension activities as needed to ensure students grasp challenging concepts, reach full potential
• Classroom Management: Maintaining positive, conducive learning environment
• Collaboration, Communication: collaborate with colleagues within science department, across other disciplines to ensure interdisciplinary connections, holistic education
• Supervise, guide students through Extended Essay (EE), Internal Assessment (IA)
• Evaluated student progress through formative assessments, adjusting teaching strategies as needed for optimal results
• Provided consistent feedback on assignments, empowering students to take ownership of learning process, make improvements as necessary

• Maintained records of student progress and lab completions, using ManageBac.

• Program Planning: developing curriculum, program structure for summer school, designing engaging, interactive English language lessons, selecting appropriate learning materials, organising extracurricular activities, excursions
• Staff Management: recruiting, training, supervising team of teachers, activity leaders, support staff
• Student Enrolment, Communication: handling student enrolment process, advertising program, processing applications, communicating with parents, guardians
• Student Welfare, Discipline: responsible for well-being of students attending summer school
• Evaluation, Reporting: Evaluate program effectiveness, collect feedback from students, parents, staff
• Optimised scheduling logistics to minimise conflicts between classes, extracurricular activities during summertime
• Evaluated program effectiveness through regular assessments, refining approaches as necessary to optimise results.

• Curriculum Delivery: responsible for planning, delivering engaging, rigorous lessons aligning with IB Chemistry curriculum
• Assessment, Feedback: design, administer formative, summative assessments to evaluate students' progress, understanding of subject
• Lab Work, Practical Skills: ensure students understand, adhere to safety protocols conducting experiments, guide in developing essential laboratory skills, including data analysis, scientific report writing
• Individualized Support: provide support, guidance to students, identifying strengths, weaknesses, offer extra help, clarification, extension activities as needed to ensure students grasp challenging concepts, reach full potential
• Classroom Management: Maintaining positive, conducive learning environment
• Collaboration, Communication: collaborate with colleagues within science department, across other disciplines to ensure interdisciplinary connections, holistic education
• Maintain open communication with students, parents, administrators, providing updates on student progress, discussing concerns, fostering partnership for student success
• Supervise, guide students through Extended Essay (EE), Internal Assessment (IA)

• Maintained records of student progress and lab completions, using ManageBac.

• Research involves carbon dioxide fixation into valuable chemicals for organic and pharmaceutical applications, plus silicon chemistry
• Responsibilities include reporting findings, supervising lab activities, and teaching 'Sustainable Synthesis in Organic Chemistry' to Master's students
• Expertise lies in air and moisture sensitive techniques, optimizing synthesis yields, and utilizing various separation and detection methods
• Proficient in analytical techniques such as IR spectroscopy, NMR, and GC-MS for product identification
• Trains students in instrumental analysis and proficient in mining scientific literature using databases like SciFinder and Pubmed
• Skilled in Microsoft Office and chemistry drawing software like ChemDraw

• Collaborated with team of 4-8 chemists on the project 'Development of organometallic moieties for selective functionalization of organic molecules'
• Synthesized, purified, characterized heterocycles on scales ranging from mg to 25 g
• Conducted experiments under high-pressure conditions
• Employed analytical techniques including LC-MS, HPLC, NMR (1D and 2D), and TLC for analysis and characterisation.

• Maintained detailed documentation of methodologies, observations, and results for future reference and reproducibility purposes.

• Contributed innovative ideas that led to successful patent applications demonstrating company commitment towards intellectual property growth.

• Receive prescriptions and communicate required medications to pharmacist
• Monitor medication stock and communicate with pharmacist when supplies are low
• Assist pharmacist with drug preparation and stock inventory.