Summary & Skills

High impact multimedia instructional content author with extensive experience in the various stages of curriculum development and website analysis and design.

Employment Experience

Freelance Instructional Design (2003-Present)

• Provide instructional design services and eLearning development for several clients including Career Resources Inc., New World Applications and AlliedBarton Security.
• Design and market a line of laminated quick reference guides on crafts, hobbies, sports, home and other topics
• Designed and manage website for Alta Training (altatraining.com)
  

Senior Instructional Designer (2005–2007)
InterBay Funding (Ft. Washington, PA)

• Design, develop internal and external training programs to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
• Created a series of online (HTML/Javascript/Flash based) training programs
• Sales Training Curriculum (Basic, Intermediate and Advanced)
  Loan Products Training
• Online certification training for external clients responsible for $18 million in new loans under-written
• Implemented and managed SCORM-based LMS system
• Coach and mentor other instructional designers in department

Senior Instructional Designer (2002-2005)
Radian Guaranty (Philadelphia, PA)

• Develop a variety of training products to meet internal and external adult learning needs of the organization.
• Classroom/self-paced course on Fraud Prevention, Appraisals and Underwriting the Self-employed Borrower
• Redesign and revamp of New Hire Orientation Program
  Extensive series of Job Aids to aid in knowledge retention

Training Manager (2000–2002)
Destiny Web Solutions (Conshohocken, PA)

• Formulated the training mission, strategy and implementation for a web development firm focused on the financial services industry, including the development of internal training programs for organization methodology and soft skills worth approximately $150,000.
• Obtained state grants to save the company $18,000 in technical training.
• Developed Access-based CMI in house system to save $25,000.
• Created a Return on Investment formula to measure training effectiveness based on retained learning.
• Implemented skill assessment tools and training action plans – increasing efficiency.
• Increased training enrollment from 10% to 80%

Multimedia Training Lead (1997–2000)
Litton PRC (West Conshohocken, PA)

• Created a variety of web and CDROM based technology training solutions for military and government clients including the US Navy, US Marines, FBI and NATO.
• Increased training development by $200,000 per year with new business and enhancements to existing business among several Navy SPAWAR program offices.
• Designed and managed development of training programs for government and military client base, including the U.S. Navy and NATO, on TC4I programs
• Managed varied development teams of 5 to 10 people, with an average project size of $100,000 to develop training programs for Windows, UNIX, CDROM, Internet and Intranet, on both SECRET and UNCLASSIFIED systems.
• Designed a training component registration system (TSMARTS) and an XML-based documentation management system used by contractors on the GCCS-M platform – worth over $250,000 in business.

Multimedia Developer (1995–1997)
Effective Media, Inc. (Exton, PA)

• Developed over 100 hours of multimedia training products for companies such as AMP, Incorporated and Air Products and Chemicals.

Adjunct Professor (1999–2000)
Cabrini College Bryn Mawr, PA

• Taught course on Internet research and digital information management four semesters.
• Assisted in the creation of an Information Technology graduate studies program.

Education

Boston University, Boston, MA (1993–1995)
M.A., Master of Science, New Communication Technologies (GPA 3.74).

Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ (1989–1993)
B.A., Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Summa Cum Laude

Computer Skills

Work with several computer software tools for use in instructional design.

• Adobe Photoshop - up to version CS3, over 10 years experience
• Adobe Illustrator – up to version CS3, 7 years experience
• Adobe Premiere - up to version CS3, 4 years experience
• Articulate Suite, up to current version, 6 years experience
• Adobe Acrobat - up to version 8.0, 6 years experience
• Adobe Captivate - up to version 3.0, 5 years experience
• HTML - up to version 4.0, 8 years experience
• JavaScript - 4 years experience
• Macromedia Dreamweaver - up to version CS3, 6 years experience
• Macromedia Flash - up to CS3, 4 years experience