Executive Director And Learning Architect Resume
Oak Harbor, WA
SUMMARY
- Senior Instructional Designer Applying 15 year’s experience consulting for change and leading design, development, implementation, and evaluation of learning for six year’s experience leading an instructional design certificate program; and a master’s degree in instructional design.
SKILLS: ADDIE Process - Change Management- Adobe Captivate Adult/Cognitive Learning Theory- Essential Facilitation- Articulate Storyline Stakeholder/SME Collaboration- Project Management - Storyboarding Learning Needs Analysis- MS Office, Project- HTML/CSS/LMS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Oak Harbor WA
Executive Director and Learning Architect
Responsibilities:
- Coordinated successful foundation application for 501c3 IRS status.
- Facilitated foundation’s signature leadership core competency curriculum design.
- Implemented foundation instructional design, including documenting process.
- Created an asynchronous/synchronous ISD certification course.
- Leading weekly virtual training sessions for instructional design certification.
- Designed comprehensive web-based instructional design course bridging knowledge gap between master's program and job necessities.
- Developed style guide to support foundation learning consistent with common corporate styles and the Chicago manual of style.
- Guiding and critiquing content for content organization, instructional writing, image selection, and application of style guide.
- Teaching message strategy beginning with learning objectives, desired cognitive and emotional outcomes, and audience analysis.
- Coaching interns in the use of stories to support learning (e.g., scenarios).
- Facilitating synchronous and asynchronous virtual collaboration for course design and peer review.
- Created step-by-step instruction on image editing with Photoshop and learning asset development with Captivate.
Environments: Adobe Flash, Premier Pro, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Photoshop, Articulate Storyline, Camtasia, Google Apps, MS Office, MS Project, Skype, WebEx, JoinMe, EDUonGo (LMS).
Confidential, Oak Harbor WA
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Redesigned learning for search engine analysts to accelerate learning, improve retention, and enhance extended performance using virtual learning with peer-to-peer and mentor support.
- Introduced peer-to-peer support in training for increased learner engagement, deeper learning, and lower development and maintenance costs.
- Reduce redundant development, increased design consistency, and supported consistent product quality through improved process templates, reusable development structures, objective quality criteria, and dedicated QA support.
- Managing learning projects for organizations lacking formal training structure, assessing needs, confirming objectives, establishing design agreement, and supervising out-sourced development, ensuring both quality and return on investment.
- Facilitating inclusive formation of content quality criteria for reduced resistance and enthusiastic adoption.
- Supporting EDUonGO, Inc. product implementation and classroom to eLT conversions for improved customer satisfaction and product adoption.
- Consulting for LMS selection, negotiating agreement on selection criteria, product scoring, and selection process, facilitating amicable, equable, and speedy selection.
- Designed and developed EDUonGo, INC product simulations with Captivate and Storyline.
- Managed 21 eLearning design/development projects for telecommunications in 2.5 months.
Environments: Adobe Flash, Premier Pro, Dreamweaver, Captivate, Photoshop, Articulate Storyline, QuickTime Pro, Google Docs, MS Office, MS Project, Skype, WebEx, JoinMe, EDUonGo (LMS).
Confidential, Everett WA
Instructional Systems Designer
Responsibilities:
- Managed between three to six simultaneous learning projects guiding 46 projects to stakeholder approval in 15 months.
- Collaborated with stakeholders and SME’s leading product applying with ADDIE process.
- Facilitated inclusive content quality criteria development.
- Designed and developed learning for content to sensitive to outsource.
- Supervised 3rd-party content development ensuring fidelity to specifications and standards.
Environments: MS Project, Force10; Adobe: Captivate, Photoshop, Fireworks, Flash; MS: Office, SharePoint, WebEx