Cheryl Watt Email & Phone Number

Brookfield, Wi, Us

Brookfield, Wi, Us

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Design learning solutions, training media, and educational experiences related to investment products and services (IPS) for field audiences (national sales force). Learning solutions include elearning, explainer videos, virtual training, and investment-related microlearning content. Specialize in video editing and motion graphics.

Lead design projects for freelance instructional design consultancy for corporate, agency, and higher education partners. 2019 projects included instructional design, development, and delivery for clients in the healthcare, marketing, and banking/credit union industries. Designed, wrote, developed, and rolled out a series of interactive elearning modules/simulations that introduced a new marketing management platform to thousands of bank branch managers. Advanced Flash-to-HTML5 conversion of legacy modules designed to onboard and upskill critical care nurses. Designed and developed blended learning solutions that combined interactive elearning modules, instructor-led training, virtual webinars, mobile-friendly microlearning, performance support materials and media. Learning activities allow students to practice skills, increase knowledge, think creatively, collaborate with peers, apply concepts in real-world scenarios, test comprehension, and encourage long-term behavior change. Wrote clear, concise, engaging instructional content including narration scripts, on-screen text, and print materials. Logically organized ideas and present concepts to target audience in an effective, efficient, and memorable way to aid comprehension and retention. Created and curated visuals and multimedia assets including photos, vector illustrations, video, animation, infographics, slide decks, audio, job aids, user interfaces, and templates in Articulate Storyline 360, Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, Vyond, and the Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, After Effects, XD, InDesign).

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

ELEARNING• Developed web-based training modules to support corporate, departmental, and field training needs with the goal of increasing employee knowledge, bridging job performance gaps, and improving overall engagement. • Produced online courseware that integrates a variety of technologies including software demonstrations and simulations ("show me" and "try me" exercises), audio narration, animation, printable job aids, and interactive quizzes.• Leveraged authoring products--such as Articulate 360/Storyline, Photoshop, Illustrator, Captivate, and Lectora--to translate storyboards into effective and engaging courseware. • Utilized instructional design, graphic design, and technical programming skills to explain difficult-to-understand concepts with accessible language, images, animation, knowledge checks, and reinforcement activities. • Helped define and implement usability standards, apply industry best practices and adult learning theory to e-learning courses. • Analyzed quality and effectiveness of training content and interfaces through piloting, course evaluations, and reinforcement assessments.VIRTUAL TRAINING: • Designed and managed all aspects of live virtual training courses and webinars in Adobe Connect: Determined learning objectives, designed course content/assets/activities, wrote facilitator guides, set up virtual classroom layouts, populated pods with engaging media, managed attendee registration/confirmation, set up audio bridge line/teleconferencing, hosted and produced rehearsals and live events, edited/posted recordings, sent reporting metrics to stakeholders. Utilized Adobe Connect's features and functions to increase engagement and achieve learning outcomes. MOBILE LEARNING• Managed and designed mobile learning reinforcement program for people leaders across a large organization using the Mindmarker mobile app technology.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

• Primary infrastructure contact for enterprise search engine and taxonomy systems. Determined server architecture of enterprise search environment to include load-balancing/mirroring of query servers and indexing servers. Defined search collections, configured exclusion filters, scheduled how often and when spidering runs. Determined how heavily to weight metadata, file type, and file location in relevancy ranking. Monitored query and usage reports and determine “recommended links” based on most popular click-throughs.Customized user interface and result list presentation using a combination of HTML, CSS, Python, Javascript, and XML. Assisted and trained users in search options include keyword, wildcard, domain, URL pattern, document type, implied Boolean and advanced operators. • Installed, troubleshooted, and managed dozens of web servers including Apache on UNIX and Internet Information Server (IIS) on Windows. Planned and built new web instances, server upgrades/migrations, and third-party plug-ins and modules. Determined IP addressing and defined domain names in DNS server. Purchased and installed SSL certificates from third-party certificate authority. Built system utilities for log rotation/purging, consistent environment build-outs/upgrades, global configuration changes, and monitoring. • Installed and configured new Java applications in Websphere Application Server. Guided web developers through Solution Delivery Process, mapping their needs to our infrastructure, assisting with integration and deployment, defining and enforcing standards, and promoting best practices. Troubleshooted Websphere application errors and provided on-demand performance analysis for problematic applications using monitoring tools, thread analyzers, and triage support systems.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And Secondary Education

Master Of Science - Ms, Instructional Design And Technology

Graphic Design (Layout, Typography, Illustration, Digital Imaging)

Associate'S Degree, Web Development

Radcliffe Publishing Course