I am the Creative Director and eLearning Developer at Learning Design Company LLC (and for our prior company Black Dog Learning LLC), a learning and development company my husband and I started up in 2013. I bring to the team nearly 24 years of experience managing and designing for the graphics arts department of a publishing company. Over the past eight years I have been busy developing e-learning, graphic media and training presentation products for the electric power industry and am a Adobe Suite graphic applications expert. I am quite at home with Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign and more recently the Lectora and Storyline e-learning authoring applications and Microsoft’s PowerPoint.Please visit our website: http://www.learningdesigncompany.com

Recently, I have been working on designing PowerPoint presentations for classroom teaching, creating PowerPoint templates and many projects converting older Toolbook CBT courses to Lectora X courses. Conversion included new format, user interface and graphics throughout.Currently looking for new assignments.Website: http://www.blackdoglearning.com

Over 15 years of experience as a Graphic Arts Department Director, managing department personnel including graphic artists, proofreaders, and free-lance employees.Managed all aspects of the department including; project coordination, work-flow, department budgeting, internal and external client relations, training, quality control, creative direction of graphic design and the purchasing and troubleshooting of computer hardware and software. Also responsible for the hiring and firing of the department employees. Responsible for all prepress, and direct contact with printing companies when print jobs are outsourced; Omaha Print, Regal Printing and Perfection Press. Also designed covers, brochures, promotional pieces, flyers, business cards, letterheads and logos for self promotion and for outside customers.