Record introduction KAK BE Instructor

Carl Coltrane is an English instructor with expertise in business English. He has a business degree from the University of Texas and has trained in adult and online learning. He is fluent in English, German, and Spanish. Carl has taught in various settings, including corporate environments and secondary schools. He has also worked in sales and marketing for companies like Xerox, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard. In recent years, he has focused on disruptive high-tech industries like big data and machine learning. Carl is excited to share his knowledge to help improve business and leadership skills. My name is Carl Coltrane. I am an English instructor specializing in business English. A native of the Silicon Valley, I later earned a business degree from the University of Texas at Austin. I then trained in adult learning, online learning, and then teaching English as a foreign language at the University of California. As a dual national citizen of Germany and the United States, I am also fluent in English, German, and Spanish. In the U.S., I have taught in corporate environments, adult education schools, and secondary schools for grades 9 through 12 in the state of California. As a young U.S. Army intelligence officer, I had the opportunity to enhance my innate interest in other countries and cultures. After then working for companies in Austin, Texas, and New York City, I returned to Silicon Valley to work in sales and marketing for Xerox Corporation, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard. I eventually transitioned into leadership roles in sales and marketing in the emerging category of revenue operations for early-stage, high-technology startups, usually with less than 100 employees. Some of these included companies based in Europe. I contributed to the successful sales of several startups to larger organizations. At these companies, our focus was typically business-to-business in the disruptive high-tech categories of big data, machine learning, data science, high-performance computing, and autonomous vehicle navigation. After working in the last decade in high-tech environments specializing in disruptive technologies, I bring an intimate understanding of how business gets done in the U.S. in places like New York City and the high-tech hubs of Austin and the San Francisco Bay Area. With my breadth of knowledge and my experience as an instructor, I look forward to sharing insight that you can begin to use right away to improve your business and leadership ability.