SUMMARY

• My professional focus is online teaching and learning, curriculum design and educational technology, and how to merge these elements together with a user - centered design approach. 
• Many times these opportunities involve promoting unique marketing strategies that communicate different aspects of these projects for different stakeholders including colleges and universities, corporate, healthcare, industrial and financial sectors. 
• Most projects involve web development and written documentation to support grant and curriculum efforts, educational research, evaluation and assessment, accreditation, training, communications, and new program development. 
• Specialties: eLearning and LMS design, website design, production, deployment, storyboarding, training modules and administration of online programs, online facilitation skills, context dependent learning, cognitive multimedia and learner- centered approach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

eLearning Tools and environments (partial): Articulate, Techsmith Camtasia, Jing, Snagit, eCollege;

Cornerstone OnDemand Learning: ANGEL; Blackboard; Moodle; Bloomfire; Collaboration Station (IBM);

Adobe eLearning Creative Suites: Dreamweaver; Photoshop; InDesign; Captivate and Acrobat Pro.

EXPERIENCE

Web Designer

• Responsibilities include designing new online programs which included VTOnline/Summer Sessions departmental websites, graphic design layouts for marketing materials, creating HTML ads for mass emails to targeted demographics internally and externally, branding compliancy, and supporting systems integration for VTO Online & IDDL websites.

Confidential,Lynchburg, VAInstructional Designer

• Intranet web administrator for knowledge based management system for all lines of business.
• Maintain and developed a central repository for SOPs, training and job aids.

Adjunct Faculty, Workforce Development

• Provided project based workforce development in Adobe Creative Suites and Confidential Office
• products for a variety of clients (healthcare, small business owners, i.e., adult learners.

Faculty, Web and Visual Communications

• Online instructor for the College of IST, Web and Visual Communications course “Image Editing and Implementation”. 
• This course introduces students to image editing and its role in the disciplines of web design, electronic publishing and multimedia development.
• An overview is presented on image editing software applications, file formats, composition, color, text placement, retouching and manipulating digital images and creating web graphics. Create multiple hands on projects.

Instructional Designer / Online Education

• Online course development and administration at a for profit online program using Angel 7.4.
• Created unique instructional materials/course cartridges into new course shells, for business, accounting, general education, paralegal and medical technology courses using CS4 eLearning Suites, Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver and Photoshop.

Instructional Designer

• Worked with key stakeholders in eLearning Initiatives to design and develop enterprise wide interactive training modules created with Adobe Captivate with professional audio voiceover, visual assets and user centered assessments for the nationwide Customer Driven Labor launch. 
• Primary methodology Events of Instruction.

Institute of Advanced Learning and Research 

• Conducted monthly program evaluations to support grant Confidential is a research company in Confidential, Massachusetts that specializes in the evaluation of educational programs and materials Confidential conducts formative, process, and summative evaluation of Confidential . Confidential evaluation of the program includes collecting data over the three project years with youth participants and their families, Confidential instructors, and key staff members at participating organizations and internship sites.
• The Dan River Information Technology Academy
• ( Confidential ) is a three year, grant funded program for ninth grade high school students who are interested in computers and/or pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). 
• The program is sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), a regional partnership working to attract the talent and technology needed for economic transformation in Southside Confidential .  
• IALR houses state of the art classroom and computer facilities, as well as four research laboratories.

Technical Writer Optical Systems Engineering

• Created SOPs and product documentation for fiber optic technology (deep well monitoring devices) products for the oil industry.
• Rapid prototyped graphic design images for products, created installation instructions, user’s guides, job aids, work procedures, and documented optical engineering systems processes. 

Confidential,Roanoke, VA

Web Developer/Instructional Designer Research 

• Developed, designed and implemented Research Department infrastructure for all research and to improve coordination of resources, foster research collaborations, augment research quality, and limit liabilities for all research within the Carilion Clinic and its affiliates.