Instructional Design Portfolio
Hi! Thanks for checking out my professional portfolio. This page refers back to a series of blog posts I’ve made over the years that highlight significant career milestones.
In my most recent role as a Senior Learning Experience Designer at Autodesk…
Brandon Hall Gold Winner
Instructional Designer Onboarding – a Multi-Modal Approach
Outlines the three-pronged onboarding program I developed for new Autodesk hires which increased time-to-productivity by 20% and was named a Brandon Hall Gold award winner for "Best Unique Workplace Learning Program" in 2021.
L&D Philosophy
Design for Forgetting: A Better Approach to Workplace Training
That Onboarding program is the best incarnation of my abiding philosophy of learning and development, which I call "Design for Forgetting." Rather than forcing months of training into a two day onboarding, find ways to surround learners with evergreen resources they can refer back to over their onboarding and into their daily work.
AI & Modern Pedagogy
Save The Planet! A Modern WebQuest
As a fun side project, I used AI tools to create A Modern WebQuest that exhibits the pedagogy best practices of that classic eLearning format, but updated with modern production tools and techniques.
IDEO CoLab Winner
Sleep Conductor | App Prototype for IDEO CoLAB Makeathon 2016
I won the IDEO CoLab Hackathon, where my team and I developed an idea from prompt to concept to clickable prototype in under eight hours. This post outlines the process and shows off the deliverables.