Instructional Designer & Project Director
Tempe, Az
College of Information Systems and Technology • Developed new undergraduate courses aligned to CompTIA Healthcare HIT-001, CompTIA Desktop Support, Cisco CCNA, VMware vSphere, Cryptography, and other IT industry certification standards.• Mapped strategic professional certification standards as an academic course pathway (e.g., from Microsoft MTA through MCSA/MCSE and ISC2 SSCP through CISSP)• Integrated technology tools form key vendors (Lynda.com, SkillSoft Learning modules, TestOut LabSims, Toolwire Personal Student Desktops, and Toolwire interactive lab environments).• Oversaw vendor relationship management between the college, academic publishers, and technology solution providers (e.g., Wiley & Sons, Pearson, Cengage Learning, McGraw-Hill, and others)• Served as liaison between with multiple internal academic project teams including internal Quality Management, Technology Evaluation, Procurement, and Contracting. • Coordinated with external industry advisory board, publishers, and textbook authors to identify long-term curriculum development needs (e.g., changes in Cisco CCNA certification standards v1.0 to v2.0, Healthcare IT changes from HIT to AHIMA CHTS 2015, and Microsoft MTA to MCSA/MCSE certification mapping)• Represented the college at strategic academic conferences (CompTIA Educators Conference 2013 and 2014, ITSM 2014, ACM Special Interest Group for Information Technology Education 2012).• Software skills: Microsoft SharePoint, Visio, Project, Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat, HTML, Adobe Connect, WebEx, Moodle, Wiley Plus, and proprietary LMS systems.