• Summary

    Learning and development professional with six years’ experience designing and building eLearning courses and (V)ILT for Fortune 500 companies and other clients in life sciences and pharmaceuticals, utilities management, financial services, college athletics, etc. Topics include sales enablement, product and compliance training, software training, onboarding, and customer success. Thirteen years’ combined experience in university-level teaching, administration, and faculty development. Experienced design thinking facilitator. Functional knowledge of Premiere Pro, Audition, Encore, Camtasia, Vyond, and Articulate 360. Currently a Training Specialist on the Genesys Customer Success and Services Employee Experience team collaborating with and developing internal content for multiple functions across various regions, all focused on delivering Experience as a Service.

  • Experience

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    Training Specialist/Content Developer

    Customer Success and Services Employee Experience Team, Genesys, Indianapolis, IN

    June 2021 - Present

    • Create internally facing content on topics including migrations, renewals, executive business reviews, value realization, customer success plans, and use cases.
    • Design and author courses, videos, and other learning assets using Articulate Rise and Storyline, Vyond, MS Office, SharePoint, and Camtasia.
    • Manage course catalog and review process.
    • Evaluate assignments with rubric and provide written feedback to learners.
    • Host internal webinars, edit recordings, and upload to internal LMS.
    • Drive internal initiatives by leading cross-functional and cross-regional stakeholder meetings using design thinking principles in Miro and Zoom Whiteboard.
    • Current projects include reimagining our learner surveys based on Thalheimer's distinctive questioning methodology and completing Genesys Design Thinking Coaches Program.
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    Senior Learning Consultant

    TiER1 Performance, Indianapolis, IN

    September 2019 - June 2021

    • Joined TiER1 when TiER1 acquired Bottom-Line Performance in September of 2019.
    • Promoted from Learning Consultant to Senior Learning Consultant in July 2020.
    • Led design workshops with client stakeholders to identify business needs, performance gaps, training goals, audiences, and learning objectives.
    • Analyzed workshop output and create design blueprints that propose a learning intervention—including instructional strategies, delivery modalities, and assessment methods—to secure client buy-in.
    • Worked directly with SMEs, writers, course programmers, and visual designers to fill identified content gaps and implement proposed intervention.
    • Wrote scripts and storyboards for videos and e-learning courses as well as facilitator and participant guides for instructor-led training (virtual and live).
    • Authored e-learning courses in Articulate Storyline and Rise using iterative process.
    • Reviewed and provided feedback on deliverables developed by teammates.
    • Led deliverable review calls with client SMEs and synthesize feedback to create subsequent deliverables.
    • Collaborated with different teams and roles on multiple learning projects simultaneously.
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    Learning Technologist / Instructional Designer

    Bottom-Line Performance, New Palestine, IN

    January 2017 - September 2019

    • Worked with Agile project team to design and develop computer-based and instructor-led training courses for corporate clients in multiple industries.
    • Assisted in client design and client review meetings as part of iterative development process.
    • Based on a design summary and identified learning objectives, scripted courses on topics that included safety and compliance, policies and procedures, and sales and product training.
    • Created content needs worksheets for SMEs to facilitate further course development.
    • Wrote scripts for graphic designers to use to create videos for e-learning courses.
    • Authored e-learning courses using Articulate Storyline and Rise.
    • Performed internal reviews of e-learning and instructor-led courses currently in development.
    • Completed graduate course in Human Performance Improvement through Boise State University.
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    Instructional Design Consultant

    Center for Teaching and Learning, IUPUI

    January 2014 - January 2017

    • Created and delivered workshops, webinars, presentations, and e-learning for IUPUI faculty on a variety of teaching, learning, and technology topics.
    • Developed web and print instructional design resources for distribution inside and outside CTL.
    • Reviewed proposals for CTL grant programs and assisted faculty awardees in establishing project timelines and monitoring their progress toward completion while providing design support.
    • Created videos for grant-supported online courses using Adobe Premiere Pro.
    • Conducted one-on-one consultations with faculty, academic staff, and academic units on designing face-to-face and online instruction, improving teaching methods, assessing student learning, evaluating instructor-led courses, planning curricula, and related topics.
    • Co-chaired annual planning committees for E.C. Moore Symposium on Excellence in Teaching and IUPUI Teaching Assistant Orientation.
    • Co-developed and co-led Certificate in College Teaching program for graduate teaching assistants.
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    Assistant Director of the Writing and Communication Program and Marion L. Brittain Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    August 2012 - December 2013

    • Co-managed WCP’s transition into a new, $3 million teaching and research facility.
    • Coordinated events, security, and space and resources scheduling with Institute and Program faculty, staff, administrators, and donors.
    • Supervised four undergraduate work study students.
    • Chaired committee in charge of revising WCP’s e-textbook published by Bedford St. Martin’s.
    • Recorded, edited, and produced first episodes of WCP’s teaching-focused podcast using Adobe Audition:<http://techstyle.lmc.gatech.edu/category/podcasts/>.
    • Taught Technical Communication courses using service-learning pedagogy.
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    Director of Technology

    Association for Talent Development, Greater Atlanta Chapter

    2012-2013

    • Served as webmaster for one year; promoted to Director of Technology effective February 2013.
    • Created and maintained ATD Atlanta’s website on Wild Apricot.
    • Delegated and oversaw tasks to be handled by website volunteers.
    • Generated and maintained SOPs for website procedures.
    • Reported to ATD Atlanta Vice-President of Marketing and Communications.
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    Instructional Designer

    MoWerks Learning, Athens, GA

    2012

    • Assisted in designing web-based training courses for private and governmental agencies.
    • Developed storyboards and scripts for e-learning modules focused on specific learning outcomes.
    • Collaborated remotely with subject matter experts in nursing and human development.
  • Skills

    Tools/Platforms

    • Articulate 360 (Storyline, Rise, Peak)
    • Genesys Cloud
    • Salesforce
    • Audition
    • Premiere Pro
    • Encore
    • Connect
    • Captivate
    • Camtasia
    • Vyond
    • Miro
    • Zoom
    • SmartSheet
    • MS Office Suite
    • Windows XP-10

    LMSs

    • Docebo
    • Canvas
    • Sakai
    • Moodle
    • Blackboard
    • Piazza

    Languages

    • German
    • Welsh
    • Latin
    • HTML

    Courses

    • OPWL 536 Foundations of Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning (Boise State University)
    • QM Peer Reviewer Course (QMPRC)
    • Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR)
    • Measurable Instructional Design (Strategic Training Consulting LLC)
    • TechComm101 (Society for Technical Communication)
  • Education

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    BAA,

    English / Broadasting

    Central Michigan University

    • Gained experience in
      • writing for multiple audiences
      • audio and video production
      • team and project management
      • public speaking
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    MA,

    Literature and History

    Western Michigan University

    • Designed and led 8 sections of 3 different courses in history, literature, and language.
    • Collaborated with fellow graduate student and Pace University professor to team-teach a blended course in literature using video conference technology funded by an NSF grant.
    • Maintained and re-structured departmental webpages using Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop.
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    Ph.D.,

    English

    University of Georgia, Athens

    • Designed 6 different English courses and taught a total of 9 sections using Blackboard and <emma>, UGA’s web-based suite of e-writing tools.
    • Interned with the editorial department at UGA Press.
    • Completed doctoral research at the University of Oxford as a graduate resident on the UGA at Oxford study abroad program.
    • Maintained English Graduate Organization website using Adobe Dreamweaver.
  • Sample Work

    Show off your projects, features, or clients in this section.

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    Storyline eLearning Sample

    One of several courses I wrote and programmed as part of a Scheduling Coordinator curriculum project for the California ISO. I gathered content from CAISO SMEs to script all interactions, knowledge checks, videos, and scenarios. As part of an agile team developing this curriculum, I collaborated with a graphic designer to determine what visuals she needed to create for the course.

  • Contact

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