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Chandler, Arizona, United States

Applies principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to the transformation of student-and teacher-facing print content into engaging and accessible digital learning and professional development experiences. Digital products include Interactive Shared Content Objects (SCOs), Interactive ePubs, adaptive testing engines, and digital teacher wrap. Designs, develops, and maintains math curriculum content using company software applications and authoring tools. Collaborates with Product UX Designers in the creation of digital prototypes. Provides guidance on prototype creation to ensure scalability for development.Provides guidance to cross functional team members on best practices for authoring digital content to ensure adherence to established instructional design guidelines, design style guides, and accessibility requirements.Ensures all products meet the high QA standards and the latest WCAG Accessibility requirements for web-based content delivery. Assists with testing, triaging, and testing issues related to accessibility.Works on cross-functional team projects by providing leadership with a focus on cost, schedule, quality, scope, and communication toward the successful delivery of various types of technology products.Plans, documents, and communicates processes in collaboration with others.Follows current trends and research on innovations and educational technology.

Phoenix, Arizona Area

Sr. Instructional Designer3/2014 - 6/2021 Coached globally dispersed teams of instructional designers and freelance subject matter experts (SMEs) throughout development of high-volume content development projects, ensuring adherence to project guidelines and industry-standard instructional design practices.Functioned as the main point of contact with freelance SMEs for onboarding, scheduling, and monitoring quality of work.Served as the face to various clients with respect to instructional design, process improvement, quality, and project scheduling.Conducted synchronous trainings, developed video trainings, and adapted client guidelines to onboard a cross-functional team for a large-scale nursing content and assessment development project.Developed and implemented process improvements in collaboration with project and account managers that enabled adherence to aggressive schedules.Assisted pre-sales team with RFP analysis, estimations, and proposal development for multi-million-dollar projects.Created comprehensive learning objectives for nursing texts which served as the basis for an adaptive testing and content delivery platform.Developed and reviewed course design documents, storyboards, and media specifications for courses in nursing, business, and earth science.Served as a developmental editor on a variety of healthcare assessment projects, ensuring alignment to course objectives and adherence to style guides.

Acted as design lead on an e-learning print-to-digital conversion project for a major educational publishing vendor. Responsibilities include creating, reviewing, and revising storyboards, designing learner interactions, and providing feedback to writers.Providing learning design expertise for a 6-12 online math product which utilizes multiple instructional modalities. Responsibilities include contributing to unit brainstorming sessions, reviewing outlines for instructional integrity, and determining best practices for storyboarding content. Also providing detailed specifications for complex learning interactives which supplement the student learning experience.

Phoenix, Az

Scrum Master: Coached software engineering teams in Agile development practices to provide greater efficiency, quality, and accountability to the development and maintenance of student, faculty, and business-facing applications for the University of Phoenix.Led daily standup meetings and facilitated biweekly planning meetings, retrospectives, and software demonstrations. Coordinated the biweekly software release process, ensuring adherence to established change management processes and suggesting improvements.Created a detailed bug-tracking dashboard to assist the product owner and engineering manager in the prioritization of maintenance tasks.Coached team members in proper planning and time estimation techniques in order to establish more consistent metrics and on-time deliverables.

Chandler, Arizona

Serving in the scrummaster role, applied Agile principles to the management of internal and external development teams in the design and development of online courses for grades 6-12.Managed an external publishing vendor in the development of online secondary courses. Responsibilities included project management, vendor training, and quality assurance.Acted as a liaison between internal curriculum teams, the product owner, an offshore vendor, and internal QA team.Gathered content requirements from subject matter experts to create functional specifications and design requirements for online courses.Provided expertise in proprietary template design and authoring processes to enable offshoring of Flash template authoring at reduced cost.

Mesa, Az

Produced, reviewed and edited lesson storyboards for instructional design, user experience and content alignment.Led storyboard peer review meetings attended by instructional designers, curriculum specialists, and editors.Identified project risks and assisted management with process improvement.

Phoenix, Az

Lakewood, Co

Mba

Ba, Neuroscience & Behavior/Biology