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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Leads the creation of design vision, strategy, workflow, and talent to build world-class educational products. Manage and inspire a team of product designers, instructional designers and media designers. Collaborates across the company to develop effective and engaging teaching and learning experiences in multiple content domains. • Foster an environment of design excellence that is rooted in user empathy and produce designs that meet needs in surprisingly simple ways. • Set and execute comprehensive strategy for product design from conceptualization to implementation using an iterative approach, focused on a human-centered, digital-first design approach, resulting in efficient and replicable processes.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Led in an education environment that relied on technology and digital interaction by delivering innovative solutions, such as, accelerating outcomes through Virtual Reality. Responsible for digitally scaling a startup and turning around the existing business. Driving the organization’s technology vision, strategy and execution for the end-to-end customer experience. Envisioning and productizing digital solutions to enable future growth for B2B & B2C offerings through a multifaceted platform. Producing results that increase engagement and enhance the scale of offerings across existing and new markets.

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Led the vision, design and roadmap for a highly scalable digital disease management engagement platform with the power of high-tough. Engaging consumers though facilitated small group sessions and self-paced exercises to promote better understanding of the complexity of managing chronic conditions, resulting in consumers who are able to more clearly identify behavior changes needed to improve overall health.

Herndon, Va, Us

Created a completely new entity and a new revenue stream outside of existing core products. Drove digital transformation, development and launch of RightSkill’s online portal that solves clients’ hard-to-fill job challenges with verified, job-ready candidates, guaranteed. Created new products fueled by a 45-day development cycle that accelerated time-to-market. Digitally transformed and optimized online experiences for employer clients and end-user customers. Drove the automation of internal processes allowing the business to rapidly scale and meet demands of large clients.

Herndon, Va, Us

Started a new business line of B2B corporate training. Created custom learning SaaS venture that increased employee productivity and lowered training costs for client companies. Drove creation of rapid development capabilities for clients seeking a turnkey product, including content and platform. Served as product and technical Lead for FlexPath, a self-paced degree which was the first of its kind in the online education industry. Positioned the product for commercialization and initial revenue generation.Created and designed the end-user experience through wireframing and prototyping. Pioneered and integrated Agile design tools to create user personas, use cases and testing methodologies. Embedded KPIs, including user satisfaction and product/business goals for MVP releases, full product lifecycles and continuous quality improvements.

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Created numerous new revenue streams via product extensions.Designed and managed a new business model that generated revenue from Learning System sales and certification registration fees. Advised clients on Holmes' capabilities during sales presentations. Created product roadmaps based on market demands, including new features aligned with current and projected industry trends.Launched a new assessment business that increased profit margins by eliminating the “middle man” and guaranteeing customer success. Developed and delivered numerous product line extensions comprised of additional certification test prep and assessments.Developed a product proposal estimation tool, which resulted in three partnerships and multiple product sales. Created the roadmap for custom learning tools in Python. Converted existing clients and brought on new clients with an extended feature set.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Hired, trained and coached teams that scaled rapidly to meet company growth. Reduced management overhead by consolidating multiple teams. Established strong outsource relationships and negotiated reduced costs. Developed secondary team that successfully performed R&D, piloted, tested, measured and expanded ventures.Led creation of award-winning design for the industry leading online learning platform.

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

Created visual designs and developed the front end of websites that drove customer traffic and converted ecommerce sales.

Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Us

Created visual designs and developed the front end of websites that replaced print catalogs.

Bs, Graphic Design

Ms, Instructional Design