Experienced instructional professional fostering a culture of self-advocacy, networking with stakeholders, and leading transformative changes for enhanced employee experience. Results-driven instructional designer with expertise in managing large-scale innovation projects, collaborating with faculty to enhance student success. Seeking an advanced role to leverage skills in instructional systems design, curriculum development, and educational technology for innovative academic initiatives. 

Project Management

• • Orchestrate large-scale continuing education initiatives for the School of Professional Studies, demonstrating proficiency in managing projects from initiation through implementation.

  • Execute comprehensive project management, overseeing continuing education classes from client engagement to evaluation. Responsibilities included contacting clients, gathering participant information, enrolling individuals in Destiny system, drafting class-related emails, invoicing, editing class materials, coordinating payment follow-ups, and managing the evaluation process.

  • Coordinate and communicate with multiple departments and units to ensure seamless project execution, fostering collaborative partnerships for successful program outcomes.

Instructional Design

• • Demonstrate advanced expertise in instructional systems design, curriculum development, and educational technology

  • Created dozens of Canvas classes with differentiated levels of instruction, showcasing adaptability and proficiency in online educational platforms

  • Tailored differentiated English curriculum for diverse proficiency levels among English learning students.

  • Actively contribute to the design, development, revision, and scaling up of multiple large-scale course redesign learning projects.

  • Innovated by creating self-paced classes for graduation support, addressing language barriers for students unable to take traditional classes.

Collaboration and Teamwork

• • Co-created the framework for the Cabarrus County ESL curriculum, ensuring comprehensive language learning standards.

  • Collaborated with subject matter experts to enhance classes in person and online using the Canvas platform.

  • Provided proactive assistance to colleagues by overseeing project timelines, ensuring timely completion, facilitating access to necessary materials, and contributing to the smooth execution of classes.

Organizational skills:  

• • Streamlined and coordinated the organization of 140+ stakeholder profiles with legal accommodations, ensuring adherence by employees

Communication skills: 

• • guided the instruction and development of over 100 individuals per year, spanning multiple proficiency levels and ensured compliance with state standards

  • utilized multiple communication methods to report on the progress and feedback of key stakeholders in the ecosystem, contributing to successful outcomes and empowering growth opportunities

Leadership skills: 

• • led and contributed to multiple committees that drove performance enhancements, increased completion  rates of stakeholders, and promoted a positive and inclusive culture for all employees.

Problem-solving skills: 

• • collaborated with the technology department to identify and implement cost-effective solutions for translation challenges, facilitating seamless communication between teachers and students despite considerable language barriers.

Adaptability: 

• • navigated the transition from an in-person to virtual Instructional environment without formal preparation or training. 

  • effectively delivered educational content in a hybrid format for a continuous period with a measured success rate of 95 percent

Interpersonal skills: 

• • created and led professional development initiatives to enable colleagues to comply with state and federal regulations regarding high needs stakeholders, resulting in successful outcomes and an increase in successful measurable outcomes

Technology skills:  

• • initiated and managed self-paced trainings for high-needs stakeholders in multiple Learning Management Systems (LMS) to achieve the highest level of success