Andrew Gump, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Waynesburg, Pa, Us

Pursued a passion project at McGraw Hill by taking on a product design role to create impactful career and training education resources. Played a key role in developing comprehensive books and online courses, managing the entire product lifecycle from inception to launch. Worked diligently to ensure timely delivery and high-quality outcomes by overseeing all aspects of creation and development, managing external vendors at an accelerated pace, and leading programs correlation efforts.• Responsible for transforming educational concepts into practical and engaging learning materials. • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to produce industry-leading educational content. • Maintained a focus on aligning products with best practices in career education and training, addressing the needs of diverse learners and instructors.• Conceptualized and developed books and online courses that effectively support career and training education initiatives.• Designed and implemented innovative learning strategies to enhance learner engagement and success.• Coordinated with internal teams and external vendors to ensure seamless product development and delivery.• Created detailed project plans, timelines, and milestones to manage product development at an accelerated pace.• Developed and maintained relationships with subject matter experts to ensure content accuracy and relevance.• Oversaw the design and production of interactive and multimedia elements to complement traditional learning materials.• Ensured all products met high standards of quality, consistency, and educational value.• Managed feedback loops and iterative development processes to refine and improve products continuously• Supported grant writing and funding proposals to secure resources for new and ongoing projects• Led programs correlation efforts to ensure alignment of all educational materials with relevant standards and learning objectives.

Remote

Instruct multiple online sections for Education Graduate School, specifically for Master's and Doctoral courses in Educational Leadership. Teach material from approved curriculum ensuring student satisfaction.• Motivates students to actively participate in all aspect of the educational process.• Participate in school retention initiatives by maintaining productive contact with students and by getting in touch with and offering assistance to absent students.• Provide regular and timely feedback to students.• Advises students in matters related to academics, attendance, and behaviors.• Maintains and reports student grades and attendance in accordance with university policies.

Online

Instruct multiple online sections for The Graduate School at University of Maryland University College, specifically for Master's courses in Learning Design and Technology. The sections are 6 credit hours each.• Teach material from approved curriculum ensuring student satisfaction.• Enable students to achieve completion of objectives and learning outcomes.• Provide regular and timely feedback to students.• Participate in school retention initiatives by maintaining productive contact with students and by getting in touch with and offering assistance to absent students.• Advises students in matters related to academics, attendance, and behaviors.• Motivates students to actively participate in all aspect of the educational process.• Maintains and reports student grades and attendance in accordance with university policies.

Ensured that PennDel School of Ministry maintained the highest standards of academic integrity and excellence by overseeing curriculum development, faculty training, and academic policy adherence. Managed a diverse team of educators and academic professionals to deliver quality theological education and ministry training, ensuring alignment with institutional goals and standards.Responsible for upholding the academic quality and rigor of all courses offered at PennDel School of Ministry. Worked collaboratively with both internal and external stakeholders, including faculty, students, denominational leaders, and educational committees, to support the institution's mission and vision. Regularly engaged with trends and research in theological education to keep the institution at the cutting edge of ministry training.• Developed and implemented strategies to enhance the academic quality and effectiveness of courses and programs.• Designed and introduced new tools, templates, and resources to support innovative and effective teaching methodologies.• Responsible for the continuous professional development of faculty, ensuring they are well-versed in best practices and advancements in education.• Analyzed and refined course requirements and syllabi from a theological and pedagogical perspective.• Collaborated with subject matter experts, advisory council members, and accrediting bodies to ensure comprehensive and current academic offerings.• Researched emerging trends in theological education and ministry practice, integrating relevant findings into the institution’s curriculum.• Conducted and disseminated research on instructional design, educational technology, and ministerial effectiveness.

Ensured that Second Avenue remained in the forefront of thought leadership in education by publishing and pursuing grants, recruiting and managing domain experts for projects and ensuring that our projects accurately and effectively address desired learning outcomes. Responsible for aligning Second Avenue projects with educational best practices. Worked closely with both internal and external teams. Frequently collaborated and communicated with university faculty, students, game designers, and development teams to support company projects and ensure the highest level of value is delivered consistently. Maintained up-to-date knowledge about trends and research in relevant areas of higher education, in addition to establishing and ensuring adherence to Second Avenue’s Learning Design Philosophy.• Developed strategies to enhance learning experiences across online, blended and technology-enhanced initiatives• Designed new tools, templates, and resources that support innovation in digital education• Responsibile for internal skills development and understanding of Learning Design philosophy across the enterprise• Built and/or deconstructed project requirements from a platform and learning science perspective • Designed project specific, iterative feedback loops to apply to during project development• Collaborated with subject matter experts, research study participants, and advisory council members – building the advisory board concept for the company• Researched current trends in education technology including serious games and their use by students in varied settings. • Conducted and disseminated research and analysis on new and emerging technologies, instructional/learning design theories, and approaches• Lead and designed in-house and on-site playtesting and efficacy testing at all stages of design• Assisted in writing grant proposals

Remote With Onsite Visits To Baltimore, Maryland

Lead the design, development, and implementation of creative and forward-thinking learning solutions with our K-12 & Higher Ed Institution clients. Ensure programs are built based on learning science, design best practices, targeted content curation, and innovative academic technologies. Provides guidance and strategic oversight to the team that handles learning engineering, interaction design, and all aspects of instructional design.• Collaborate cross-functionally to create and maintain company-wide instructional standards and best practices for the design and development of scalable, multimedia-rich learning solutions.• Use design thinking principles to provide ideation leadership, facilitation, and consultation oneducational projects. Embed the design thinking process within the Learning Engineering and Design team to enable breakthrough ideas; innovation and high-quality learning design that meet learner, data, and business requirements.• Own the integrity of the end-to-end learning experience and high standards of quality for design by leading quality reviews across our production portfolio, facilitating lessons-learned discussions after completion of projects, coaching, and helping the team integrating changes as needed.• Establish roles, responsibilities, and expectations for the Learning Engineer Design team, stakeholders and SMEs in initiatives. Ensure continuous communication with stakeholders throughout the educational development process.• Build, lead, and communicate the vision to a high-performing team of learning engineers and designers, content developers and curators, and assessment developers.• Manage consistent performance of Learning Engineer and Design Team, set team-level KPIs to ensure exceptional quality learning products and production performance.• Responsible for integrating new learning design and production software, and determining if the solution is cost-effective and scalable.

Remote, With Onsite Visits

Manage 5-10 person instructional design teams in the design and development of cutting-edge online instruction and face-to-face training. Projects and contracts have included:• Supervised the creation of complicated and very specific content to train IBM's Watson to act as a virtual tutor in online college courses.• Researched and evaluated current Learning Management Systems, selecting the best fit for corporate requirements and training.• Developed custom learning model for corporate training for all internal and client-facing instruction to follow based on industry best practices and corporate need.• Acquired, developed, and maintained a high-performance team meeting stringent deadlines.• Managed vendor relations and ensured vendor production exceeded company standards.• Managed multiple projects and teams simultaneously with successful completion of tasks within timeframes and budgets.• Performed assessment enhancements.

Remote, With Onsite Visits In Pittsburgh, Pa

Provided instructional design expertise for the Center for Excellence during a new initiative for health care professional's training.• Evaluated current Content Management System; researched and recommended new Learning Management System based on the best fit for corporate requirements and training.• Developed custom learning model for corporate training for all internal and client-facing instruction to follow based on industry best practices and corporate need.• Implemented new software for engaging content and interactive learning style to better assist hospital and health professional needs.• Designed interactive client-facing training for software use and best practice implementation.

Remote, Work From Home Near Pittsburgh, Pa.

Managed conversion of 350 courses, from 1 custom content management system, to built just-in-time learning management system of largest educational management organization in terms of enrollment. • Designed and delivered $5M+ in migration plans, delivering companies entire online catalog on time, saving untold millions on LMS contract extensions.• Estimated resource requirements for multiple migration builds, leading to efficient, effective, and successful projects.• Developed onboarding and technical training for non-native English speakers, resulting in no downtime and fast, almost instantaneous, high quality team performance.• Designed and developed 200+ pages of training resources utilized by offshore vendor and internal team, completing highly technical tasks in custom-built systems.• Managed and maintained external partnership with offshore vendor, consisting of 150+ member team, with success extending through 5 distinct projects.• Evaluated knowledge gaps and technical aspirations in ever-changing environment, adapting leadership styles, meeting fluid needs, resulting in daily problem solving and decision making affecting future of company’s entire online catalog.• Designed and applied customized quality assurance processes for internal team, methodology, and tool sets, allowing 350 courses to be migrated and instantly utilized in seamless experience for customers.• Defined and tested methodology for integration and functional testing.

Remote

Employed variety of design techniques and theories, such as ADDIE and rapid prototype modeling to create innovative and effective online instruction.• Designed interactive learning objects, maximizing effectiveness of instruction across variety of online courses in all subject areas.• Utilized current, best, and evolving pedagogical practices, planning and designing online mobile friendly courses.• Applied advanced understanding of assessments practices, designing relevant and responsive course assessments.• Trained instructional designers on various custom systems, including digital asset management system, learning management system, document sharing tools, and ticket tracking system (JIRA).

Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

• Instructed multiple online sections of graduate level classes covering instructional technology methodology and application. • Responsible for course setup, delivery, student-teacher interactions, and grading.Courses included:EDU 6610 Introduction to Technology in the ClassroomEME 6613 Development of Tech-Based InstructionEDG 6627 Foundations of Curriculum and InstructionEME 6936 Virtual Worlds Research SeminarEME 7458 Research in Distance LearningEDG 7667 Analysis of Curriculum and Instruction

Served as integration lead for new acquisitions, as design team was created to bring entire eLearning catalog in-house, (previously contracted to 3rd party source). Acted as Project Manager of Learning Management System conversion from WebCT to eCollege platform. Created course rubrics for graduate assessments.• Analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented online course content based on most recent research and pedagogy, applying University’s new model for instruction.• Trained faculty, as subject matter expert (SME), on best practices for teaching online, as well as custom model for instruction.• Designed teacher facing job aids, maximizing course effectiveness and student-teacher interactions, using information mapping software.• Analyzed, designed, developed, and implemented online course content based on the most recent research and pedagogy while applying the University’s new model for instruction

Greenville, North Carolina Area

• Instructed one section of undergraduate pre-service teachers in a face-to-face educational technology course (EDTC 4001)

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Curriculum And Instruction, Instructional Technology

Concentration; Cognate in Measurement and Evaluation. Dissertation: Facilitating Motivation in a Virtual World Within a Second Language.

Master’S Degree, Instructional Technology, 4.0/4.0

Bachelor Of Science, Information Sciences And Technology

Business Minor