Lynette Skinner Email & Phone Number

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Washington, United States

Managing, designing, and developing learning solutions for the Microsoft Worldwide Learning and MCAPS Academy organizations.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Co-founded Well Told Tales, LLC, providing artful instruction and blended online offerings for creative writers, including the first online Master Class for Hedgebrook’s women writers’ community.

Redmond, Wa

Designed and developed award-winning blended learning solutions for the global engineering audience at Microsoft, supporting leaders, teams, and engineers through business-driven change, career transitions and discipline-specific skilling.Managed a wide range of projects from large-scale curriculum to team-specific engagements. Excelled at performance analysis to identify critical outcomes, and designed learning strategies that emphasized continuous learning to bolster performance improvement.Highlights included creating highly interactive simulation experience for first-time managers, driving emerging curriculum to build engineering capabilities in cloud services, and piloting immersion learning program to support in-tact organizations shifting to agile engineering practices.

Delivered learning strategies and solutions for company-wide employee, manager, and leader development programs. Specialized in online informal learning solutions aligned with continuous learning framework. Incubated first enterprise-wide community learning portal to support company-driven culture change to increase management excellence. Created online toolkit for curriculum development to increase efficiency, consistency, and effective planning across the organization.

Defined and led Content Management function for newly formed eLearning group in Microsoft Learning organization. Managed cross-functional high-performing teams, responsible for course design and development, quality assurance, project management, and vendor training and management. Scaled business to support significant yearly growth, drove cross-org volume vendor strategy, and managed large-scale vendor companies responsible for end-to-end title development.

Managed Editing teams for Microsoft Official Curriculum. Led hiring effort to build new FTE team, defined core processes, and established performance metrics. Excelled at change management, performance development, and process optimization.

Master Of Arts (M.A.)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.)