Experience

CoreAxis Consulting

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Project Management

  • Sep 2021 - Present

  Responsible for the account management of all projects and the management of all employees including Project Managers, Instructional Designers, eLearning Developers, and Quality Assurance.• Account Management: Effectively manage projects with the associated project management processes and tools; work to continuously improve processes and tools.• Program Management: Managing various recurring processes: utilization, forecasting, budgeting, metrics, etc using project management software (AdaptiveWorks Planview formerly known as Clarizen).• Project Management: Direct teams in evaluation and development or sourcing necessary content and management of all program timelines• Effective Leadership: Liaise effectively with colleagues and teams across all geographies to ensure the design and development of global learning has the maximum reach and impact. • Relationship Management: Develop and manage external vendor/partner relationships resulting in high-quality, cost-effective learning solutions.• Project Engagement: Lead the warm-handoff of projects from sales to the Project Manager and engaged with the client to ensure project readiness before kickoff.• Consulting: Consult with clients on the most efficient technical and instructional sound approaches to deliver high-quality training experiences.

• Senior Instructional Designer / Developer

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Serves as one of the Senior Instructional Designers responsible for the redesign of new hire training and eLearning development.• Training Design: Assumed a lead role in the curriculum redesign of two New Hire Training programs for Charter Communications Inc. Designed and developed Instructor-Led Training to include Facilitator Guides, Participant Workbooks, and Job Aids in support of new hire training.• eLearning Course Development: Served as a Senior eLearning Developer on multiple projects for Amazon, Cummins, Haemonetics, Therma Fisher, EarlySense Inc. and Charter Communications Inc.• Collaboration: Conducted contribution sessions and collaborated with SMEs to gather the required information, help determine performance objectives, design storyboards and scripts, and provide recommendations to improve the learning experience.• Consulting: Worked closely with the program manager from Charter Communications Inc. to provide recommendations for learning road maps, curriculum design, use of assessments, and the implementation of eLearning into the new hire training programs.



ISC Consulting Group

• Australia
• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Training & Development Manager

  • Nov 2014 - Oct 2019

  Led the design and development of all training from analysis through evaluation of the ADDIE process to include deployment on multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS).• Project Management: Increased on-time project delivery and customer satisfaction for multiple projects by optimizing all the training department’s project schedules more efficiently to better track tasks, milestones, objectives, and levels of effort. While also controlling project scope, facilitating meetings with the project teams, and ensuring on-time deliverables.• Training Management: Managed the design and development of all training from analysis through evaluation to include: Large and small-scale Needs Assessments, eLearning, Self-Paced eLearning Courses (SPeC), Computer-Based Training (CBT), Web-Based Training (WBT), Serious Games, and Simulations.• eLearning Course Development: Received widespread recognition for designing and developing highly interactive SCORM and 508 compliant eLearning courses which includes design documents, storyboards, custom user interface development, gamification interactions, custom graphics, and interactive knowledge checks.• Instructional Design: Managed the development of quality assurance policies, design documentation, storyboards, narration scripts, lesson plans, student guides, on-the-job handbooks, and other performance support materials. • Multiple Skill Sets: Ability to conduct the ISD analysis and design, develop the courseware, develop graphics, animations, and implement JavaScript within the eLearning authoring tools to create advanced interactions that were previously being handled by multiple resources.• Innovation and advisor to the CTO: Consulted and incorporated new technology and learning theories into the design and development of current and future training products to include Virtual Reality, and a faster more agile Learning Model that helped speed up the development of training by 35%.



The Angelo Group, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Serious Games Designer

  • Feb 2009 - Nov 2014

  Lead designer on the development of realistic 3-Dimensional, Terminal, and software simulation training environments in which learners can interact with components and software while gaining conceptual knowledge. • Creativity and Engagement: Authored the instructional design of all educational game and simulation design to include two multi-million-dollar training virtual simulations for the US Army.• Content Development: Administered learning needs analysis to identify training needs. Reviewed large amounts of reference documents to create instructional objectives and content through the application of the ADDIE process. Ensured the integrity of outgoing training products through collaboration with both military and civilian clients and subject matter experts.• Training Evaluation and Implementation: Implemented a new Quality Assurance (QA) test plan procedure for testing serious educational games and simulations. Spearheaded the testing of lesson integration and coordinated tasks with Quality Assurance. Deployed and analyzed various strategies to ensure learning needs and outcomes were achieved.