Denise Lewis Email & Phone Number

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Support the South regional office at Defense Acquisition University (DAU), assisting with all of their instructional design needs. Also support the overall DAU backlog of instructional design work. Mentor and aid other.
• Led blended learning design and development efforts for three engineering curriculums.
• Partnered with SMEs to write learning objectives, develop assessments, and ensure learning content meets 508 compliance.
• Converted contracting curriculum into new Composica template while executing a complete redesign with additional interactivity and graphics.
• Managed the adjudication of hundreds of change requests for various online courses in Composica.
• Conducted interviews of potential ISD candidates for our contract, providing written and verbal feedback to managers and Human Resources (HR). I also consulted with HR on ISD role-specific questions.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Lead and support team of ISDs in developing and performing a wide variety of instructional activities to create interactive and engaging learning assets that enhance user experience. Provide company-wide consultation.
• Successfully grew ISD team from three Huntsville-based ISDs to a team of six ISDs (including three remote positions) in 1.5 years tenure.
• Implemented a guest speaker program to expose ISD team to all areas of company operations (Information Technology, Payroll, Human Resources (HR), Contracts, Quality/Process Improvement, Safety/Security, Software.
• Instituted monthly one-on-one program with the ISDs to discuss current projects, goals, and any issues/concerns.
• Manage multiple reoccurring administrative functions for ISD team, including timesheets, paid time off approvals, estimated-time-to-complete (ETC) forecast data, and employee performance evaluations.
• Cultivate collaborative, team-building work culture via weekly ISD meetings and brainstorming sessions to review standards, consistencies, lesson interactivity ideas, software enhancements, and more.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Served in supervisory/lead role for team of four ISDs. Provided strategic guidance and direction to ISDs, offering expert knowledge on workflow optimization, continuous process improvement, and procedure.
• Managed and coordinated workload for a five-year, $65M Interactive Multimedia Instruction (IMI) development contract in addition to multiple short-term contract assignments.
• Established hours estimates and basis of estimate criteria for storyboard analysis, design, and development for an 18-month, 55-hour IMI project as well as various 12-month initiatives.
• Improved consistency of asset production and reduced errors in deliverables significantly by standardizing processes and procedures that included peer review of storyboards and online assets to identify grammar.
• Conducted peer reviews of multiple deliverables to improve accuracy and reduce grammatical, spelling, and consistency errors, including 1300+ slide storyboard series, IMI courses, test plans, Instructional Performance.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Designed and developed interactive, engaging learning assets across various learning media, including e-learning, instructor-led training, live webinars, on-demand webcasts, user guides, job aids, and more.Key.
• Led instructional design initiatives for 200+ individual learning assets, and conducted necessary updates based on continuous testing, customer response to reported issues/incidents, and support of system change.
• Interfaced and consulted with internal/external customers as a trusted advisor to determine needs/goals, identify performance gaps and inefficiencies, and recommend customized learning solutions.
• Collaborated with team to a successfully deliver new hire training on a newly rolled-out product line; resulted in exemplary customer satisfaction rating and the awarding of an exclusive, follow-on instructional design.
• Championed initiative to incorporate programming competencies into instructional design process; resulted in improved project support efficiency and decreased resolution turnaround time on learning asset issues.
• Key participant in onboarding of new peers into department and on assigned project teams.

Huntsville, Alabama Area

• Managed delivery of optimal blended learning solutions at 30+ national and offshore client sites. Key Accomplishments:
• Developed and implemented standard tools and templates as guidelines to SMEs presenting complex technical content.
• Designed and rolled out rigorous change management strategy and communication plan to support learning management system upgrade that impacted 1500+ users.
• Met/exceeded targets of 90% on learner satisfaction and post-training assessment scores.

Jacksonville, Florida Area

• Managed all membership and monthly billing activity for three major group accounts. Key Accomplishments:
• Ensured complete and accurate membership records for 25,000+ members by coordinating with group administrators on member additions, updates and terminations.
• Reconciled monthly group billing spreadsheets and reports for group invoicing.
• Contributed claims expertise to the membership department, accelerating the resolution process when troubleshooting problems between the membership and claims systems.

Guntersville, AL

• Assisted customers with financial transactions, including deposits, withdrawals and account balancing. Key Accomplishments:
• Coordinated monthly mailing of customer bank statements.
• Organized and filed financial documents, handling multiple local business accounts.
• Served as backup switchboard operator, routing calls to individuals and departments, as appropriate.