Faculty

• Dec 2014 - Present

Developed recommendations and guidance for a redesign of the Health Information Management program. Lead Instructional Designer for courses in a wide variety of programs. Instructional Design for Health Information Management and Health Informatics courses. Development of course content, learning plans, assessments, and rubrics. Acted in a faculty role, guiding and evaluating students in a distance education model. Developed recommendations and guidance for a redesign of the Health Information Management program. Lead Instructional Designer for courses in a wide variety of programs. Instructional Design for Health Information Management and Health Informatics courses. Development of course content, learning plans, assessments, and rubrics. Acted in a faculty role, guiding and evaluating students in a distance education model.

Education Consultant / Course Development

• Jul 2014 - Present

Instructional Design for Integrated Quality Management program and Health Information Management programs. Development of course content, learning plans, assessments, and rubrics. Acted in a faculty role, guiding and evaluating students in a distance education model. Instructional Design for Integrated Quality Management program and Health Information Management programs. Development of course content, learning plans, assessments, and rubrics. Acted in a faculty role, guiding and evaluating students in a distance education model.

Faculty

• Aug 2015 - Aug 2019

Instructional Design for Health Information Management courses. Development of course content, learning plans, assessments, and rubrics. Acted in a faculty role, instructing and evaluating students in a classroom environment. Instructional Design for Health Information Management courses. Development of course content, learning plans, assessments, and rubrics. Acted in a faculty role, instructing and evaluating students in a classroom environment.

Project Manager

• 2004 - Feb 2013

• Managed multiple cross-company projects concurrently both within General Motors (GM) and Electronic Data Systems (EDS)/Hewlett-Packard (HP). • Employed team-building and motivation to develop high-functioning teams, including members at levels from technical to senior executives. • Operated in a global project environment at GM, leading geographically and culturally diverse virtual teams. • Led people and high-risk projects and recovered projects that were under-performing in both Software Development and Infrastructure. • Modernized GM Time & Attendance hardware and software, deploying Kronos and implemented significant changes to existing mainframe systems. • Instituted changes to legacy mainframe Payroll systems to make them compliant with updated Canadian Auto Workers Union agreements. • Headed the transition of CAMI Automotive computer infrastructure and systems (including PeopleSoft Payroll and HR) into GM. • Deployed 802.1x network access control to sites in North America, Germany, and China; • Managed the consolidation and moves of GM Zone Offices across Canada, including networks, satellite, home office strategy and management of facilities construction. • Responsible for management of all phases of client-facing and internal projects in areas of information technology, software development and business systems engineering. • Designed “Plant Critical” Active Directory architecture and piloted in compressed timeline at select GM plants and deployed “Plant Critical” Active Directory to 49 GM assembly and fabrication plants. • Developed key project documents with emphasis on requirements determination, scope, risk analysis, deliverables, and testing in order to meet GM Systems Development Process methodology and EDS Project Management Institute based methodology. Show less

Quality Manager

• 2002 - 2004

• Deployed Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) for diverse organizational groups within General Motors Acceptance Corporation.• Developed Best-in-Class ISO 9001:2000 strategy and deployed to 280 employees across diverse groups in EDS Service Delivery and 160 employees in Application Delivery.• Motivated diverse teams during the development of detailed work processes, developed and delivered training.

Organizational Change Manager

• 1997 - 2003

• Developed Enterprise Change Management model for GM Canada and trained all employees.• Solved critical issues in a time-sensitive environment where down time related directly to lost engineering hours.• Acted in the role of Organizational Change Manager, overseeing the coordination of changes throughout GM Canada and reporting to the Canadian Chief Information Officer and United States GM Director.

Program Manager

• 1997 - 2002

• Developed a new centralized support model for Engineering support and transitioned geographically separate groups, driving cost reduction.• Expanded Engineering Design facilities from 20 to 200 engineering work stations and transitioned to the newly constructed Canadian Regional Engineering Centre.

Advanced Systems Engineer

• 1995 - 1997

• Managed Quality Improvement Process (QIP) activities within the account, including review of plans,implementation of quality measures and training of employees.• Handled the conversion of all infrastructure components (network, IP re-addressing, voice, PC, software builds and servers) as part of the split of Delphi from GM.• Provided Project Management and Infrastructure Architectural guidance to 3 GM Fabrication plants.

Systems Engineer

• 1990 - 1995

• Lead Technical Support team, providing computer and network support to GM Fabrication plants.• Developed and implemented new internal network for the GM Fabrication plant.

Mainframe - Midrange Operations

• 1987 - 1990

Project Manager

• 1986 - 1987

Mainframe Operations

• 1985 - 1986

Mainframe Operations

• 1981 - 1985