Areas of Expertise
Product Management: Work with cross functional teams to define product roadmap and strategy.
Curriculum Development: Develop compentency-based curricula in technical training and higher-ed.
Educational Technology: Work with content, design and engineering teams to build technology enhanced education solutions.
Technical Skills
Adobe Captivate, Advanced HTML/CSS, Camtasia, Python / Django and Javascript Experience, Final Cut X, Photoshop, Audacity.
Experience with Content Management Systems including Jira, Wordpress, Wagtail, Alfresco, Moodle, Canvas, Sakai, D2L and Google Classroom.
Professional Experience
Product Manager - Knewton
- Designed and led usability study with over 50 participants for product discovery redesign.
- Launched assignment platform redesign project to expose adaptivity value-prop in product, addressing top cost drivers in customer feedback tickets.
- Worked with Design, Engineering, Data Science, and Sales teams to develop and monitor product area KPIs for Assignments, Assessments, Analytics and Content.
- Leverage product data utilizing Looker, Product Board, Jira and Mixpanel, and design customer outreach strategies and interviews to prioritize roadmap based up-to-date feedback and research.
Instructional Designer - NYU College of Public Health
- Produced 10+ online courses working with faculty SMEs, design teams to support a 26-course program
- Accelerated standard course production schedule from 3 courses in 9 months to 4 courses in 6 months by formalizing workflow, identifying roles, responsibilities, and levels of support through design and implementation processes.
- Managed faculty technical training and ongoing course support for over 10 courses per semester.
- Reduced training needs by developing Ed Tech department website and online support resources.
- Evaluated course format efficacy through analysis of student and faculty surveys measuring student performance and engagement in online, hybrid, and face to face courses.
Project Manager - Pearson English
- Codesigned and led product specification training for authors, SMEs, vendors, and graphic design teams.
- Built digital prototype and ran user studies for online activity development, resulting in activity format redesign and saving downstream production costs. (Adobe Captivate)
- Managed vendor training, created deliverable schedules and coordinated project goals for pilot releases.
- Built new asset management tool using python, reducing the need for temp staffing by 50%
- Provided feedback and QA testing for digital materials and features for platform roll-outs.
Projects
Seeking Sierra
Deliverable: Virtual Reality Program for English Language Learning Prototype
- Managed design, content and platform development, production, and pilot programs for 4-hour virtual reality english curriculum.
Ready Makers Inc.
Deliverable: Graphic-Based Programming: Intro to Unity Training Package
- Collaborate with stakeholders and game designers to create Computational Thinking curriculum.
- Co-designed collaborative games and projects for the platform, mapping activity learning objectives to recognized compentencies of the Common Core and Computer Science standards of the ACM.
Institute of Play and Quest to Learn
Deliverable: After-School Course Curriculum Package
- Collaborate with game designers, and faculty to identify desired course outcomes.
- Co-develop scalable and modular course curriculum package and facilitator guide for technology tool after school course. (littleBits, Tinkercad, Scratch, MakeyMakey, Vinyl Cutter, IFTTT)
- Co-facilitated 3 iterations of the course and oversaw course transition to afterschool program listing.
Wikiotics
Deliverable: Language Learning Curriculum Package built on Wikiotics Platform
- Collaborate with instructors to map course learning objectives for hybrid Adult Spanish course
- Translate instructionl needs to software developers for platform customization.
- Manage on-site user studies to prototype and inform instructional design strategies for educational software integration