Leslie Escobar Email & Phone Number

Kalamazoo, Mi, Us

Coordinated with faculty, learning designers, video producers, and external vendors to deliver new and revised graduate-level courses on time and within allocated budgetCreated milestone calendars for faculty to reference when submitting deliverablesMonitored submission of content and progress of builds to ensure course development schedule was being adhered toMaintained detailed status reports for each course build and worked with leadership and stakeholders to resolve project roadblocks.

Advised university faculty across 6 institutions and 11 master’s-level programs as they reviewed, maintained, and revised courses for upcoming termsTracked and managed the development and progress of iterative work (for ~75 term starts) from intake through implementation and QAEnsured all program-level and faculty-submitted revisions were implemented accurately and in advance of term startManaged program escalations to appropriate teams and levelsAssisted with migration of content from proprietary LMS to Canvas by ensuring parity between the two platforms, adjusting formatting and settings, and resolving faculty requests and questions

Mentored team of 4 content coordinators on course assembly best practices across all degree programsTracked and managed the development, progress, and completion of ~61 course buildsResolved technical issues that aroseEnsured all deliverables were submitted on timeCreated and maintained detailed workflow documentation of all stages of course builds to ensure consistency and accuracy

Built ~81 new and revised courses for various partner universities on both proprietary and industry-standard learning management systemsInvestigated and resolved ~400 instructor- and student-reported time-sensitive issues in live courses

Chicago, Il

Developed processes to streamline workflows and retain qualityLed onboarding and training of colleaguesManaged workflow and feedback to learning design teamOversaw creation of quality rubric used by QA team to evaluate courses in terms of course design and alignment to pedagogical best practices

Chicago, Illinois

Copyedited and proofread faculty-submitted online course materialsImproved user experience of courses by providing consultation to instructional designers, production team, and faculty in terms of pedagogical soundness, coherence, accessibility, and designBuilt courses in learning management systems and checked course settings for functionality, consistency, and adherence to standards and best practicesCompleted Quality Matters training, earning expertise in universal design best practices

Monterey, Ca, And Chicago, Il

Copyedited standardized achievement tests, instructional manuals, and various other educational materials; reviewed printed and online test items for correct grammar and accuracyDeveloped and maintained style specifications for items and ancillaries of various projectsManaged team of outsourced vendor editors who provided editorial reviews of ancillary materials such as examiner's manuals and study guides; performed read-behinds of ancillaries reviewed by vendors to ensure materials contained no grammatical errors and conformed to the project's style specifications

Salinas, Ca

Entertainment/features writer for daily newspaper and 411, a weekly features magazine. Also reported for weekly magazine INK, covering arts and lifestyles for young adult audienceHelped lead focus groups, plan content for INK before its 2006 launch. Assisted with weekly story planning and proofreading of pages as necessaryReporter for monthly bilingual magazine Family Time/Tiempo Familiar, a publicationfocused on family-friendly features, activities and events in Monterey CountyCo-editor of Our Eyes, a biweekly newspaper section written by local high school students. Supervised team of 12 writers, assigned and edited stories, wrote story headlines

Lansing, Mi

Staff writer for weekly entertainment/features magazine published by Lansing State JournalReported on features, music and events of interest to college-age readers