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Leader of Agile Scrum team responsible for ensuring the value of products by establishing the vision through the creation of user stories based on customer requirements.

Work with clients to design, develop or convert existing learning programs for delivery via the Amplifire learning experience platform.

Owner of learning strategy and consulting offerings for client services, new product development, external partnerships, thought leadership and industry award submissions. Assist in the creation of RFPs and sales presentations. Highlights• I worked with the solutions team on scoping, pricing, and response creation. My contributions focused on learning technology, aligning business strategy to learning programs, and recommended learning strategies. • Responsible for content marketing and thought leadership. I became very good at LinkedIn Elevate to submit daily postings to LinkedIn and Twitter of current industry trends and practices. I also submitted a couple of blog posts to the corporate blog site and wrote articles for three magazine publications. I represented the company by presenting at two learning conferences, participating in a podcast for Brandon Hall and a webinar for Training Industry. Also notable was my contribution to an industry award submission which resulted in Conduent Learning Services selection as a Training Industry Top 20 Content Development Company• I managed technology vendor relationships and reviewed and evaluated a wide variety learning technologies. I also managed our academic partnership with Stanford mediaX. • One interesting bit of work was the creation of a new product offering — Deep Analytics: Machine Learning and AI for Business Insights. This solution is unique in that it relies on xAPI as a standard to extract, transform, and load data from a variety of learning and business systems to provide predictive and prescriptive analytics to help drive learning and provide insights to the business. • I’ve long felt that our traditional methods of performance consulting while good, are also a bit stodgy. To update our practices I put together a methodology and activities for Design Thinking for Learning Innovation to take a more creative look at learning solutions with the objective of creating personalized learning experiences.

Responsible for learning strategy, management of teams in the design, development, and delivery of large and complex solutions. Highlights• For a large global airline, I put together an enterprise mobile learning strategy as well as a business strategy, design, and recommended technology for a personalized learning portal aimed at mechanics • A big challenge was a project that called for creation of a new learning program for a population of 80,000 leaders, managers, and individual contributors at Xerox Services. In this work I created the strategy, sourced the technology, and acted as art director. The result was a comprehensive learning program with 26 online courses, peer mentoring, and collaborative communities. One unique feature of the program is that xAPI was implemented to track and manage social learning activity. This project was awarded a Gold Medal for Learning Innovation by the Brandon Hall Group.• Following the launch of the Xerox Services learning program, I acted as the social learning community manager. In this capacity I grew participation to 12,000 active learners. Key to this effort was the creation of a Community Manager Certificate program which was recognized with a Silver Medal for Social Learning by the Brandon Hall Group.• I also did a number of projects for Xerox Enterprise Learning including the design and managing the development of mobile learning template, an e-learning style and standards guide to govern all learning products hosted on the LMS.• Other Xerox internal work included the design strategy for the Lean Six Sigma group to transform the Green Belt training from a week long lecture with 300+ slides to a blended learning program with interactive virtual learning sessions, e-learning, and a dynamic online group simulation. For the New Hire Sales Training program I conducted analysis and made recommendations for changes and update to the entire curriculum that included e-learning, instructor led and virtual sessions.

Designed and delivered content and media for on-line graduate level program in web-based learning environments and project management at the University of Colorado at Denver.

Responsible for consulting with clients to define training solutions aligned with business needs and managing the subsequent design and development of courses and programs.Notable Projects • Created and delivered an enterprise-wide innovation program including a social network, eLearning, and Virtual ILT that was recognized with a Gold Medal for Blended Learning by the Brandon Hall Group and ACS Hustle Award for Innovation• Created and delivered the ACS manager and executive development program including, mentoring, action learning, symposia, coaching, and stretch assignments that was awarded a Gold Medal for Blended Learning by the Brandon Hall Group.

Responsible for consulting with clients in the design of training to solve business needs and managing teams in the design and development of courses and programs.Highlights• Led a large team in the design and development of the Enterprise Credit Curriculum for large global bank consisting of over 20 web-based courses• Deployed on long-term European assignment to lead design and development of global auditing curriculum for top 4 global accounting firm

Responsible for design of media rich e-learning courses for a start-up that was a pioneer in the e-learning business.Highlights• Designed, developed, and led change-management workshops in support of e-learning initiatives for Canadian telecommunications provider• Served as instructional designer for a series of high-end, multimedia, Web-based, off-the-shelf courses

Middle School Visual Arts (drawing, painting, printmaking and ceramics) and technology teacher.Highlights• Art Department Chair• Adams 12 Visual Arts Coordinator• Member Colorado Dept. of Education Task Force for Model Content Standards for the Visual Arts

One of three elected officials responsible for policy making, administration, and the county budget.Highlights• Following the closure of the Sunnyside Mine I wrote and won a Mineral Impact grant for $500,000 that helped the county and town of Silverton transition to a new economy.