Throughout the following few pages, you'll learn what makes me passionate about learning and development, processes I have used, and examples of products I've created.
Like many instructional designers, much of my prior work is proprietary and unavailable to share.
However, I love discussing elements of projects and the things I've learned from those experiences!
I'm a natural coach and cheerleader. I've always been passionate about helping others and creating safe and inclusive spaces. In every role, my leaders knew this and tapped me to train, mentor, and build the confidence of new hires or employees who needed extra support. At the end of a two-year project that involved training call center agents on the latest software, I decided to leverage my strengths and transition into a role in people development.
I love making complex concepts, systems, and processes easy to follow. I start with straightforward questions:
What are we trying to address?
How do we know there's a gap?
What is the desired behavior or outcome?
How do we know/measure whether we moved the needle?
Making the product fit the need is essential; not everything translates into eLearning. Sometimes, the solution must evolve, so curiosity throughout the analysis is critical.
I pursue progress over perfection. As I learn new information, I incorporate it into my work. I seek feedback and lean into continuous improvement. This often appears as project updates during reviews or applications in future work. I've recently started my accessibility journey and am adding elements to projects. I've also embraced AI voiceover to improve efficiency and minimize rework.
This image is from an interaction that creatively uses states and layers to display additional content, meeting the WCAG 2.1 guidelines under 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast (AA).
First star (Visited) - small orange star with a checkmark over the center
Second star (Hover) - large star with transparent center and solid orange border
Third star (Initial) - solid orange star
This presentation was used for a post-training discussion with the instructional design team. The prerequisite was an eLearning course that leveraged adult learning principles to transform complex SME-provided content into learner-friendly courses and job aids.
The monthly ID Collaboration Jam was participant-driven and included project demos, design challenges, skill sharing, feedback, and troubleshooting based on requests. This document defines timelines with examples of communications for rotating facilitators.