I love teaching. It took me years and a pandemic to realize it, but I’ve been actively shifting towards academia. I’ve learned there’s little better than someone telling me they’ve always struggled to understand a concept, but because of me, it “suddenly makes sense.”In 2018, I joined GoDaddy’s Professional Web Services (PWS) in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was here that I started to feel like teaching was my future. GoDaddy was making a massive push into their WordPress offerings, and that was where I excelled. I went to work developing training. For the web design team, I helped expand what our team could do with WordPress. I presented novel ways to integrate Gravity Forms, WooCommerce, and other plugins to create new scalable features for their site offerings. I became a bridge for the department. I formed a weekly after-work training program for project managers who wanted to transition to web design and developed desktop reference materials to help them communicate better. I also took on the responsibility of teaching the web design services new hire training.In 2019, Embark Behavioral Health approached me to join their new teen mental health startup in Tempe, Arizona. While there, I would develop their project management process and establish “The Academy at Embark,” an asynchronous online training hub for their nationwide staff. Together with subject matter experts (SME), we created courses for human resource training and therapy practice.Then, the pandemic hit. As the first year of COVID-19 dragged on, I found myself questioning my professional happiness. Marketing-based web design rarely brought me joy. That’s when I looked back to school and found myself excited at the prospect of pursuing a post-graduate degree.2023 was big for me. I graduated summa cum laude with my master’s in Learning Design and Technology from Arizona State University. I also became a first-time father to a beautiful baby girl, and my capstone led me to my current job working with Chroma ATE.During my capstone, I was responsible for developing an instructional design project for Chroma ATE’s production team. For six months, I worked with SMEs to develop a quality and assurance training program. This included an hour-long asynchronous online Articulate Storyline 360 course and two procedural manuals.Following my internship, I was offered the role of Technical Writer. I’ve been developing user manuals for their new custom-built electronic testing equipment working alongside Chroma ATE's Chandler’s brilliant production team, software, and electrical engineers.