Robert Mitchell Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, Arizona Area

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Graphical Design
Web site development
Interactive media production

Strategic consulting and workshop facilitator:
• The critical differences of developing instructional designs for eLearning
• No dancing baloney (creating impactful educational media)
• Passive learning is so last millennium (eLearning interactivity and learner engagement)
• Adding music and art to your learning solutions; alternative instruction delivery
• Building a sustainable, engaging, online learning community

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Responsible for designing, developing, delivering and assessing success of strategic learning programs in the areas of executive/management development, sales development, service development and/or technical skills.
• Create training material and build engaging interaction based training.
• Provide proactive support to client groups, developing and delivering learning opportunities that meet business objectives.
• Internal consultant with human resources staff and senior managers to strategize, identify and define developmental needs which require an evaluation of intangible variance factors and metrics.

Gilbert, Az

• Instructed 70 students daily in the production of 2D and 3D animation, photography, video, illustration, graphical design, web site development, music, video game development, Machinima, 3D modeling, and associated software applications.
• Planned and developed media lab and curriculum that provided students with a safe, creative, and empowering experience to connect with their unlimited potential, find their voice, and tell their story.

Chandler, Az

• Conceptualize, educate, strategize, and direct the development of innovative, interactive, eLearning curriculum and technical solutions.
• Collaborate with executives to map and align company's quarterly and annual mission with Curriculum Media Development goals.
• Serve as the point of contact for the development of media-driven curriculum.
• Establish a customer service model for company-wide eLearning media production and educational technology production.
• Consult and collaborate with curriculum managers and instructional designers to develop new learning experiences, prepare project requirements and prototypes, production priorities, workflows, and schedules.
• Build, supervise, mentor, and retain diverse teams of illustrators, animators, educational technologists, instructional designers, and video production artists; collaborating to create impactful educational media in a safe creative community.
• Communicate, coordinate, and distribute production schedules and project updates for executive leadership, stakeholders, project managers, and development teams.
• Produce 19 innovative, stand-alone, and HTML5-compliant virtual science labs; assess existing science curriculum, develop instructional designs and game-infused learning experiences for each virtual lab.
• Redesign the Curriculum Development workflow model and organize critical contributing roles; instructional Design, authoring, copy-editing, program management, and media production.
• Collaborate with IT to plan next-phase educational technology goals, LMS improvements, and the integration of innovative game-based educational media.
• Conduct best practices workshops/webinars for eLearning curriculum, educational media, instructional design, and production.
• Introduce, mentor and guide the integration of innovative media and educational technology production methods.
• Transition media production from Flash media technology to an HTML5-compliant development and distribution model.

Los Angeles, Phoenix, Atlanta, London, Mumbai

• Conceptualize, direct, and manage the research and development of next generation eLearning interactive media, course-ware, certificate programs, and learning management systems.
• Develop Allied Health career education, pathways, programs, and coursework.
• Recruit, train, and manage a national team of Health Services curriculum experts, instructional designers, state standards copy editors, screenplay writers, video production artists, 2D illustrators, 3D illustrators and animators, programmers, website developers, and graphical designers.
• Internal consultant for product development and marketing strategies.
• Establish and maintain a satellite office in Mesa, AZ for on-site collaboration with the East Valley Institute of Technology
• Corporate Liaison between CORE K12 and EVIT, serving roles as project manager, consultant, and EVIT production coordinator.
• Prepare business plans, market analyses, project plans, needs analyses, and development specifications documents.
• Partner with local community arts theaters for the production of an interactive movie.
• Conduct quarterly company conference presentations and project updates.

Tempe, Az

Projects of Interest
* IDEAL (Co-inventor, Project Consultant, Research, and Development): Partnership with the Arizona Department of Education to create a comprehensive learning platform providing educational stakeholders with a rich library of professional and curriculum resources and peer-to-peer collaboration tools.*Justice Sandra Day O’Connor presents, Our Courts (Instructional Designer, Interactive and Educational Games Consultant): Partnership with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Georgetown University to develop an online civics education center for K-12.
* Global Grid for Learning (Project Manager): Partnership with Cambridge University, UK to develop a network of K-12 media-rich learning objects.
* 21st Century Distributed Learning Environment (Project Lead, Research and Development): Federal grant-funded research and development to investigate online learning and just-in-time training for federal agencies.

Project Manager
* Business rules and project requirements analyst with the Ready for Rigor project, Mary Lou Fulton Teacher's College; Agile Methods Manager.
* Serve as liaison, internal and external stakeholder manager, partner coordinator, and mentor.
* Conduct business and needs analysis, write development plans and requirements specifications.
* Evaluation design and reporting using online survey tools and embedded programming (Qualtrics, Survey Monkey).
* Develop and present conceptual and design prototypes to various audiences; partners, university
leadership, foundations, government officials, and at local, regional, and national conferences.

Scottsdale, Az

* Serve role as project manager, interactive instructional designer, game designer, animator, illustrator, UI graphics designer, sound designer, and programmer to develop cutting-edge, interactive, educational media and WAN learning resources software.
* Design, develop, maintain, and support a subscriber-based, WAN learning resources system called ‘Digital Explorer’ to distribute the custom interactive media to our national network of schools and teachers.
* Consultant for our national network of teachers, providing conceptual storyboards and/or game design, interactive instructional design for custom curriculum multimedia I produce then distribute through our Digital Explorer learning resources system.
* Developed and facilitated new product training for sales, partners, customers and help desk support.

Bachelor Of Science, Software Development, Instructional Design, Educational Interactive Multimedia

In 1992, an academic path to study computer-based instructional design and interactive multimedia technology didn't exist. I was, however.

Music Performance, General