Chad Kirchner Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

Lead the OER (Open Educational Resources) digital product portfolio, "OpenNow". Determined the content strategy, business strategy, learning design, and market development for this new product family. Nominated for a Codie award for best new digital education solution.

Greater Boston Area

Lead the learning design and research for Open Education Resource (OER) course solutions. Informed the content strategy for adaptive learning outcomes, assessments, and narrative.

Boston

Responsible for Product Management, UX, Research, and Instructional Design for market leading digital products.Disciplines included: Art, Design, Music, Computing, Film, Literature, and ancillary Digital Offerings such as Apps, Games, Video, Quizzing, and other interactive assets.Responsibilities include:- Overall: Defining and managing the delivery and.

Greater Boston Area

• Hire, train, and manage authors for textbook support products;
• Budget, plan, schedule, and manage development of digital ancillaries; introduce cost and time efficiencies.
• Research and evaluate competing products and present findings to executive management;
• Work closely with authors to communicate course needs and recommend product enhancements;
• Assist with creating better test questions and question creation process.
• Manage administration of K12 Computing team, including maintaining product databases, drafting contracts, invoicing, and handling sales and customer queries. Achievements:

Greater Boston Area

• Assisted CIO and Global Head of Research with the transition to an upgraded email system for a 5000 seat biomedical research community.
• Managed administration of 20 individual consultants, maintained document database and handled employee logistics.
• Maintained IT documentation using SharePoint and made accessible to 200 key stakeholders across six sites worldwide.
• Introduced, recorded and edited the first podcast available to BT and for all meetings.

Mokpo, Jeollanam-do, Korea

• Taught classes of 30 students, 5 times per day, grades K-6, English as a Second Language.
• Prepared and delivered a specific curriculum for each class, grade level and adult class.
• Instructed ESL for 48 adults at teacher training immersion camps for Korean elementary teachers.
• Was the first foreign teacher at Seosan Elementary and started its first English library.

Alm In Information Technology, Digital Media And Instructional Design

Activities and Societies: Co-Founder IDIEM. Started a design collaborative that focuses on using design principles to incorporate.

B.A., Literature, Music

Activities and Societies: Captain of the Rowing Team, WNMC Bluegrass Radio Host, University Writing Center - ESL and Writing Tutor