Joe Tojek
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Tom Stearns
Joe worked with me as a Learning Leader in Emerging Technologies at Optum Tech for almost 5 years. During that time, I was impressed by his overall performance, particularly in his technical acumen and his in-depth knowledge of technology training. He consistently worked hard to achieve best-in-class training solutions for our team. Joe is a reliable and a joy to work with who doesn’t hesitate to help his co-workers. He is also an excellent communicator and leader, who always maintained a positive relationship with our clients. I’m confident Joe will be a great asset to any tech or training team he joins, just as he was in ours.
Clea Ostendorf, CISSP
Joe and I worked together when he was creating innovative training for Optum's technology groups and approached my organization to create a brand new security training. Joe is an innovative thinker who is talented at pulling together thought leaders and selling the value of an emerging technology. He strives to identify new trends in education and technology and works across verticals to develop a program. Joe is a positive person to work with.
Tom Stearns
Joe worked with me as a Learning Leader in Emerging Technologies at Optum Tech for almost 5 years. During that time, I was impressed by his overall performance, particularly in his technical acumen and his in-depth knowledge of technology training. He consistently worked hard to achieve best-in-class training solutions for our team. Joe is a reliable and a joy to work with who doesn’t hesitate to help his co-workers. He is also an excellent communicator and leader, who always maintained a positive relationship with our clients. I’m confident Joe will be a great asset to any tech or training team he joins, just as he was in ours.
Clea Ostendorf, CISSP
Joe and I worked together when he was creating innovative training for Optum's technology groups and approached my organization to create a brand new security training. Joe is an innovative thinker who is talented at pulling together thought leaders and selling the value of an emerging technology. He strives to identify new trends in education and technology and works across verticals to develop a program. Joe is a positive person to work with.
Tom Stearns
Joe worked with me as a Learning Leader in Emerging Technologies at Optum Tech for almost 5 years. During that time, I was impressed by his overall performance, particularly in his technical acumen and his in-depth knowledge of technology training. He consistently worked hard to achieve best-in-class training solutions for our team. Joe is a reliable and a joy to work with who doesn’t hesitate to help his co-workers. He is also an excellent communicator and leader, who always maintained a positive relationship with our clients. I’m confident Joe will be a great asset to any tech or training team he joins, just as he was in ours.
Clea Ostendorf, CISSP
Joe and I worked together when he was creating innovative training for Optum's technology groups and approached my organization to create a brand new security training. Joe is an innovative thinker who is talented at pulling together thought leaders and selling the value of an emerging technology. He strives to identify new trends in education and technology and works across verticals to develop a program. Joe is a positive person to work with.
Tom Stearns
Joe worked with me as a Learning Leader in Emerging Technologies at Optum Tech for almost 5 years. During that time, I was impressed by his overall performance, particularly in his technical acumen and his in-depth knowledge of technology training. He consistently worked hard to achieve best-in-class training solutions for our team. Joe is a reliable and a joy to work with who doesn’t hesitate to help his co-workers. He is also an excellent communicator and leader, who always maintained a positive relationship with our clients. I’m confident Joe will be a great asset to any tech or training team he joins, just as he was in ours.
Clea Ostendorf, CISSP
Joe and I worked together when he was creating innovative training for Optum's technology groups and approached my organization to create a brand new security training. Joe is an innovative thinker who is talented at pulling together thought leaders and selling the value of an emerging technology. He strives to identify new trends in education and technology and works across verticals to develop a program. Joe is a positive person to work with.
Credentials
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Career Essentials in Generative AI by Microsoft and LinkedIn
MicrosoftAug, 2023- Sep, 2024 -
Foundations of Corporate Training
LinkedInMay, 2020- Sep, 2024 -
Javascript programming
Brainbench Technology CertificationJun, 2012- Sep, 2024 -
HTML5
Brainbench Technology CertificationJan, 2012- Sep, 2024
Experience
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Think
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Business Consulting and Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Project Management Consultant
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Jun 2020 - Present
● Led engineering, operations, and vendor teams in a broadcast playout facility buildout and transition for 22 networks, ensuring on-time completion of the project ● Managed a continuous improvement program across media, engineering, operations, traffic, distribution and satellite teams reducing daily incidents by 25% ● Orchestrated the development of an innovation roadmap process leading the team through the development of criteria and artifacts required to develop business ideas into profitable products ● Adopted the use of ChatGPT to solve business problems and collaborated to develop a ChatGPT training program to enable other consultants to leverage the technology in their client engagements Show less
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Senior Information Technology Management Consultant
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Dec 2018 - Jun 2020
● Designed and developed SEO optimized websites using WordPress and Wix, resulting in increased traffic and improved customer experience ● Provided strategic guidance and implementation support on digital marketing initiatives resulting in short term growth of over 6000 Instagram followers ● Designed and developed SEO optimized websites using WordPress and Wix, resulting in increased traffic and improved customer experience ● Provided strategic guidance and implementation support on digital marketing initiatives resulting in short term growth of over 6000 Instagram followers
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IT Knowledge & Learning Portfolio Leader
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Jun 2013 - Oct 2018
Grew the cloud commercial learning portfolio to 2 million budget by supporting leaders to drive adoption of strategic IT initiatives and new commercial cloud products Developed effective technical writing and training initiatives in cloud migration, API’s and emerging technologies as measured by exceeding training adoption targets and NPS scores. Led matrixed teams of instructional designers, technical writers and IT SME’s Developed innovative learning for internal technical conferences as measured by engagement and NPS by leading teams in hands on event models including code fests and hackathons to address technical and quality challenges. Technologies included APIs, cloud, big data, predictive analytics, Artificial Intelligence and secure coding Show less
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Capella University
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United States
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Principal Learning Architect - Enterprise IT solutions and online product UX
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Jun 2010 - Jun 2013
Senior learning solutions architect and implementation lead on efforts to innovate and differentiate the online teaching and learning experience through strategic development, best practice research, and collaboration with domain experts.Developed user stories and Blackboard Learn program configuration for the FlexPath direct assessment program. This innovative program offers authentic competency based assessments in a personalized and self-paced format for working adults allowing them to demonstrate the skills they have achieved. Principal architect and implementation lead for university-wide e-Portfolio initiative. Developed custom outcome and competency-based portfolio template designs for professional studies programs as required for accreditation. Show less
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Principal Learning Architect - Outcome and competency based learning tools and evaluation
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Jun 2008 - Jun 2010
Principal learning architect and implementation lead on efforts to innovate and differentiate the online teaching and learning experience through strategic development, best practice research, and collaboration with domain experts. He developed and tested UX designs for learning and teaching, created award winning courses, and led the development of IT solutions for online education products.Drove adoption and use of outcomes based curriculum models in instructional design and learning activity development for award winning courses. Led the development of the learning activity design catalog resource for course development staff and faculty to apply competency type and instructional strategy aligned learning activities to the achievement of learning outcomes in online courses. Developed the LAD Map job aid for instructional designers to quickly identify relevant learning activities based on key verbs in learning outcome statements. Show less
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Principal Learning Architect - Collaborative media and virtual world design for learning
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Jun 2005 - Jun 2008
Supported enterprise deployment of Adobe Connect web conferencing system. Developed synchronous and asynchronous learning activity design templates for use by instructional designers, online faculty and support staff. Developed support materials and conducted online training and provided support for subject matter experts, course developers, and faculty.
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Laureate International Universities
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Brazil
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Director of Technology Services - Web and Applications Development
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Aug 2003 - Apr 2005
Developed online faculty pay software to support piecework assignment model praised by faculty and development teams by leading requirements gathering, functional design, QA testing, product acceptance and release phases Developed enhanced Datatel Colleague implementation supporting over 10,000 students through a unified personal start page web application by leading design, development and acceptance testing activities across registrar and development teams Developed online faculty pay software to support piecework assignment model praised by faculty and development teams by leading requirements gathering, functional design, QA testing, product acceptance and release phases Developed enhanced Datatel Colleague implementation supporting over 10,000 students through a unified personal start page web application by leading design, development and acceptance testing activities across registrar and development teams
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Learning Environment Project Manager
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Jun 2000 - Feb 2003
Developed real-time whiteboard learning environment with voice over IP and custom learning management system for math and reading instruction. Hit 3 month runway to launch by driving Java developers, QA, deployment and failover processes Supported software that delivered over 60,000 tutoring sessions in 2002 and generated over 2.6 million dollars in gross revenue for the company Delivered three major software releases including a scalable version capable of supporting 5000 simultaneous users by managing design, programming, QA and deployment in Java Awarded inventor on (4) strategic software patents for Sylvan granted by USPTO in 2004 through innovative software design and development contributions Show less
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Director of Interactive Technologies
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Jun 1995 - Aug 1998
Established web development capability and led software and graphics teams creating custom web properties for clients such as Miller Brewing and ESPN. Innovative applications developed in emerging technologies such as HTML, VRML and Java. Established web development capability and led software and graphics teams creating custom web properties for clients such as Miller Brewing and ESPN. Innovative applications developed in emerging technologies such as HTML, VRML and Java.
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Education
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1993 - 2000
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Curriculum and Instruction -
1989 - 1991
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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1983 - 1987
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science
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