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Florida, United States

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Teaches the "EME2040: Technology for Leading and Learning" class and enables students to establish a technology leadership strategy to poise them as leaders and innovators in their field of study.• Investigates how achievement emotions predict, mediate, and affect cognition to improve performance in virtual learning and work environments.• Develops emotion-aware AI-Augmented Learning Systems and learning design principles.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Taught the EME4390-Digital Identity class which enables students to establish online digital identities.• Research focuses on academic achievement and human performance improvement in technology-based learning environments such as online learning, game-based learning, and virtual reality learning modalities. • Studies how achievement emotions mediate, moderate, and predict cognition, learning, and performance.• Achieved initial breakthrough research finding that activity emotions predicted, mediated, and affected academic achievement in the Community of Inquiry framework.

Shanghai, China

• Founded the Cloud Valley Business School to enable companies for accelerated growth through the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) innovation model using learning solutions. Customers include industry #1 companies such as BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Haier, Alibaba, Tencent, Exception de Mixmind, etc. Haier's people-outcome ecosystem small-team implementation became a Harvard business case study.• Served as Board Director for Worldunion Group, responsible for its workforce and talent strategy.

Beijing, China

• Responsible for the curriculum design, marketing, student recruitment, and delivery of all non-degree executive education programs for the entire business school. • Designed, developed, and delivered the well-known "CKGSB CEO Global Entrepreneurship Program" to train future global business leaders. This two-year-long program enabled students to travel to different continents to study from the best professors at Harvard, Stanford, INSEAD, London Business School, etc. Graduates of this program included entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma from Alibaba, etc.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Responsible for IBM's talent and workforce strategy in 147 countries in 5 regions: Asia, Middle East, Africa, East Europe, and Latin America.• Produced the 5B model for talent and workforce management. The 5Bs were: Baseline, Buy, Build, Borrow, and Bridge. • Collaborated with IBM Research Lab and found salary increase over a threshold decreased performance in IBM India. As a result of this study, IBM India produced and implemented new talent management and compensation strategies that improved the bottom line while achieving employee satisfaction.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Managed four teams to design, develop, and deliver training to 50,000 employees. The four teams were New Employee Experience, Leadership Development, Sales Training, and Technical Training. • Established the IBM India Learning Center (similar to IBM India Corporate University) with a physical campus. • To curtail the high attrition of new hires in India, initiated a new hire experience study and mapped out key moment experiences resulting in launching a new hire experience program.

Beijing, China

• Responsible for scaling the learning programs in IBM China to enable the year-after-year double-digit business growth. • Initiated the IBM China Future Leader's Summit and revamped/scaled the G100 leadership acceleration program. G100 stood for Generation 100, and its purpose was to develop 100 future business leaders. As a result, today, most of the China Future Leader Summit and G100 graduates hold top executive positions either within or outside of IBM.• Created IBM's first 3D game-based learning: SalesQuest, which made learning fun for the young generation, enabled dynamic learning analytics, increased engagement, and accelerated on-the-job performance. After the SalesQuest success, the game-based learning method was expanded globally in IBM into new hire training, technical education, etc. View the SalesQuest demo at: https://youtu.be/OxdWdabMLB8.• Invented MailCast, a bite-size learning approach developed using Adobe Flash but embedded in a manager's email workflow. Managers received a daily 5-minute animated and interactive Flash module in their email. At the time when HTML5 was not available, and interactivity within an email was impossible, this Flash-based MailCast Learning Content Management (LCM) system provided interactivity and increased learning effectiveness.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Co-lead designer of the IBM leadership development program: LEADing@IBM. This program was the most significant initiative in implementing the new IBM Leadership Competencies defined by CEO Palmisano after Gerstner's retirement. As a result, the LEADing@IBM program became a first-of-its-kind blended learning solution. • Created the PARR model (Prepare-Act-Reflect-Review) to realize the Work Enabled Learning concept. To scale the PARR model throughout IBM, I worked with technologists and created a Learning Content Management (LCM) system to automate the design, development, and deployment process. As a result, the PARR model became IBM's standard to create Work-Enabled learning solutions.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Managed the design, development, and operation of the AT&T Global Network Services Corporate University, WorldClass Campus.• Added Level 0 and Level 5 to the Kirkpatrick Evaluation Model and implemented it in the WorldClass Campus to automatically generate learning analytics. Level 0 was enrollment and completion rate. Level 5 was ROI.

Tampa, Florida, United States

• Created the first web-based Corporate Online University: WorldClass Campus, which became the first web-based learning management system (LMS) in IBM. • Led the e-learning transformation in IBM Global Network Service Division. Transformed IBM's traditional 100% classroom training into a complete blended learning model. • Created the first web-based learning solution: e-business primer, the first Web-Based Training (WBT) courseware using web technologies, and was the genesis of the e-learning revolution. To scale the development of WBT courseware, I created WBTAuthor, an authoring tool for designers and developers to develop WBT courses rapidly. • Developed a full curriculum of multimedia courseware on networking technologies to enable 5,000 IBM Global Network Services salespeople to learn anywhere and anytime.

Clearwater, Florida

• Taught English as a Second Language (ESL) courses to international students worldwide. • Used Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) method to teach vocabulary, reading, and English grammar.

Baoji, Shaanxi, China

• Taught Comprehensive English, Conversational English, English Reading, and English Writing classes to undergraduate students who majored in English. • Assistant to the dean responsible for curriculum design, class schedules, and faculty teaching assignments.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Instructional Technology With Cognates In Computer Science, Io And Educational Psychology

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Pi Phi Kappa Phi

Abd, Instructional Technology

Accelerated Executive Development, General Management

Ma, Applied Linguistics