Professional Summary

Award‐winning Learning Experience Designer/ Developer with over 15 years experience building online learning programs that achieve learning outcomes. Rapid e‑Learning development, multimedia design, pedagogy consulting, and strategic vision planning using next‐generation techniques and tools. Committed to outcomes‐aligned, data‐informed design that delights and transforms learner performance.

Core Competencies

Instructional Design & Leadership Experience

Senior Learning Experience Designer | Autodesk | 2017 – 2026

• Learning Strategy & Enablement: Designed, developed, and delivered sales enablement programs for a global 2000+ person sales organization, aligning learning outcomes with business objectives and learner experience requirements.

• Led Authoring Innovation Initiatives: Founded and led the Authoring Innovation Meeting, a community of practice for upskilling learning designers and disseminating best practices in content authoring across the company. Implemented systems and processes to onboard and continuously upskill new hires and experienced designers alike, leading to a 20% reduction in “time to readiness” for new hires.

• Multimedia Learning Asset Development:Designed interactive courses, video motion graphics, games, simulations, podcasts, graphic design assets, and job aids for a global sales organization using a wide variety industry standard (and next‐gen) multimedia design tools. Innovated with new AI‐enhanced workflows for more efficient and effective development cycles.

• Platform Change Management: Led platform transitions for both LMS and eLearning authoring systems, implementing change management strategies and novel training modalities to ensure smooth adoption of new technologies.

• Instructional Strategy Consulting: Partnered with senior sales leadership and product SMEs to ensure enablement programs are aligned with best practices in adult learning theory and performance‐based learning. Developed informative guides for non‐educators in how to make their live and online training more engaging and effective. Consulted on aligning learning performance data with program level outcomes dashboards.

Senior Instructional Designer | Pearson Learning | 2014 – 2017

• Strategic Solution Design: Spearheaded Pearson’s Competency‐Based Education (CBE) strategy, designing scalable solutions for higher education partners and presenting at national education conferences.

• Curriculum Optimization: Led the redesign of self‐paced online curricula, integrating critical thinking frameworks and performance‐based assessments across multiple disciplines.

• Digital Transformation: Directed the technical implementation and training strategy for a large‐scale transition to a new Learning Management System (LMS), ensuring minimal disruption for institution and end users.

Instructional Designer | Samuel Merritt University | 2009 – 2014

• Educational Technology Leadership: Served as System Administrator for all online learning technologies, ensuring 99.9% uptime and optimal user experience for faculty and students.

• Institutional Strategy: Co‐chaired the University Technology Committee, influencing long‐term technology roadmaps and instructional methods.

• Change Management: Led the university’s transition to a new LMS, managing vendor relationships, technical migration, and faculty professional development.

• Innovation Research: Evaluated and implemented emerging technologies and instructional methods to maintain the university’s competitive edge in online healthcare education.

Professional Honors & Achievements

• Brandon Hall Gold Award for Excellence in Learning (2021): “Best Unique or Innovative Learning and Development Program” for my multi‐modal instructional designer new hire onboarding program.

• Winner, University of California Learning Mode College Ready Hackathon (2013): Created a winning app from concept through prototype in under eight hours. Went on to lead a team of UC Berkeley students to develop a minimum viable product app for college readiness.

• Winner, IDEO CoLab Makeathon (2016):Collaboratively developed an app idea from concept to prototype in one day.

• Guest Lecturer, University of Kochi, Japan (2012): Presented best practices in distance learning strategy to Japan’s Minister of Education to inform the development of the Disaster Nursing Global Response program.

• Education Technology Blogger, TedCurran.net, (2009‐present): Writing articles on instructional design and effective pedagogy techniques and tools, with over 250 published articles.

Early Career: Classroom Instruction and Television Production

• Teacher, English Language Arts & Digital Design| Envision Schools | 2005 – 2009

• Teacher, English Language Arts | MACSA | 2003 – 2005

• Early Career Roles: Instructional Assistant (Special Education) and Substitute Teacher | 2001 – 2003

• Television Producer: Assistant Video Editor, Content Researcher, Research Assistant, Post Production Assistant | Paramount Domestic Television | 1997–2001

Education & Professional Development

• Master of Arts in Education | National University | 2008

• Bachelor of Arts, Interpersonal Communication | Arizona State University | 1997

• AVID Certified Video Editor | Los Angeles Mission College | 1999

• Certifications: LUMA Facilitator Training, Duarte Visual Storytelling, Neuroscience of Learning (LinkedIn), JavaScript Essential Training (LinkedIn), HTML/CSS/JS (CodeCademy)

Special Skills

• Bilingual: Fluent in Spanish and English

• Technical: WordPress, Adobe Creative Cloud, Audio/Video Production, Agile/Scrum