Sr. Lead Instructional Designer

Posted on: 2006-02-02

Rebecca A. Slagle 505 Baygall Rd. Holly Springs, NC 27540 919-395-6763 [email protected] Education: 12/1998 Master of Education Degree Curriculum/Instruction: Specialty in Educational Technology Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD 5/1997 Bachelor of Science Degree Early Childhood/Elementary Education Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD 5/1995 Associate in Arts Degree Elementary Education Garrett Community College McHenry, MD Experience: 1/2006-Present Sr. Instructional Designer NC State Veterinary College Raleigh, NC • Responsible for the instructional design component of an interactive web based course on the regulation of Glomerluar filtration. • Designed the User Interface for the student and lecturer sides of the course. 9/2003 – 1/2006 Sr. Lead Instructional Designer American Research Institute (ARI) Raleigh, NC • Organized initial instructional, graphical, and course direction of several eLearning projects for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), eBay, Microsoft, and Sprint/Nextel. • Consulted ARI on several projects for BLM, John Deere, Nextel, and Dell using my personal instructional design philosophy, ADDIE design model, and best practices in instructional design. • Supplied the creative direction for an interactive flash timeline used for marketing ARI and a project deliverable. • Spearheaded and managed a new ILT presentation design using Flash instead of PowerPoint for a sales bid for NASA. • Ensured eLearning designs followed SCORM, AICC and Section 508 compliancy. • Responsible for numerous scope and proposal designs for clients such as NASA, Navy, John Deere and Sprint/Nextel. • Project Lead on numerous Nextel projects providing cutting edge simulation web-based training and instructor-led training. 4/2004- 9/2004 Graphic User Interface Designer - Complementary Worker Modis – GlaxoSmithKline • Designed a dynamic and intuitive web based interface for GSK internal scientific software. • Responsible for collaborating with business units and inter-departmental project teams to drive usability. • Collaborated with lead and core developers on the construction of a client-side application using the .Net framework. • Responsible for the look and feel and general graphical direction of the client side application as well as the web interface. • Responsible for creation of forms using data grids, toolbars, buttons, navigation bar in C# using .NET. RTP, NC 10/2003 - 4/2004 Graphic User Interface Designer - Complementary Worker TekSystems – GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) RTP, NC • Designed functional user interfaces (UI) for gadgets within GSK\'s eIT Global Intranet using Dreamweaver MX, ASP, ASP.Net, JavaScript, DHTML, and Plumtree. • Critically focused on meeting GSK GUI and WP3 standards for all UI designs. • Performed comprehensive UI reviews for gadgets in testing. • Spearheaded efforts and initial prototypes for implementation of internal eLearning training using RoboDemo. 10/2001 - 3/2003 Instructional Designer Tech Resource Group Raleigh, NC • Designed interactive user interfaces and engaging storyboards for several web-based training courses for companies such as Eisai Pharmaceuticals. • Effectively and efficiently executed the phases of instructional design methodology for internal and external projects. These phases included: needs analysis, task analysis, objective generation, course outlining, test development, page layout, WBT interface designs, content development and review, technical editing, post-assessment design and knowledge management. • Performed scope and sequence of external projects to determine hours needed for potential WBT. Some elements of a scope include instructional design hours, multimedia and programming hours, and project management hours. • Spearheaded and implemented for potential client a sales demo demonstrating a new modular design not used at this company. 6/2001 - 9/2001 Academic Technology Specialist Meredith College Raleigh, NC • Provided Workshops and hands-on level training for supported computer software and hardware. • Worked closely with assigned departments to provide vertical focus to department level requirements. • Acted as liaison between technology services and the assigned departments. • Educated assigned departments regarding available technologies and campus guidelines. • Coordinated with other groups within technology services to provide coherent support of departmental technology objectives. • Prepared, proofed, and delivered public presentations for campus events and conferences. 9/1999 - 2/2001 Curriculum Developer/ Instructional Designer CheckFree Investment Services RTP, NC • Researched, designed, developed and programmed a series of Web-Based training modules and lessons for a current financial planning product by utilizing HTML, Composer for Windows, Photoshop and Shockwave/Flash in the development. • Project manager for the Web-based training project and Learning Management System. Responsible for setting user names and managing the academic progress of users as well as hiring needed staff and keeping lines of communication open between the Subject Matter Experts and Instructional Designer. • Initiated, researched, designed, and taught numerous internet-based instructional training sessions for our financial product using WebEx technology. • Designed and developed an introductory paper and online tutorial for our financial planning product. • Traveling software trainer for the financial planning product. • Responsible for delivering product knowledge to small business clients and larger institutions such as New York Life. 2/1999 - 9/1999 Training Specialist/ Instructional Designer Growing Smarts Raleigh, NC • Collaborated with the Subject Matter Expert to create and develop PeopleSoft business process flowcharts for the new baseline web-based product. • Conducted instructional reviews of PeopleSoft End-User training guides and online reference library for Anderson Consulting to ensure instructional integrity and usability. • Responsible for initial marketing and technology research of the new web-based HTML Help system. • Performed QA testing on PeopleSoft End-User Training Inventory module against the PeopleSoft database for the Texas Children\'s Hospital project. 2/1999 - 4/2000 Teacher Huntington Learning Center Raleigh, NC • Responsible for instructing and evaluating students using the Huntington Learning Center Curriculum. • Taught elementary and secondary students one on one in math and reading to improve their skills. 5/1996 - 11/1998 Business Assistant Deep Creek Outfitters McHenry, MD • Data entry in FOX-PRO, Microsoft Works, Quickbooks. • Experience instructing novice PC users on WIN 95 platform. • Customer service skills (2+ years). • Experience training new employees on all software used in the business. Software and Application Skills: TrainerSoft 7 Dreamweaver UntraDev4/MX Composer for Windows Authorware JavaScript MS Office Suite 95/97 Xtivity Microsoft HTML Help ASP.Net WebEx RoboDemo/Captivate Hot Potatoes Viewlet Builder Illustrator 9.0.1 Adobe Acrobat Reader/Writer PeopleSoft 7.5 HTML PowerPoint Photoshop 5.5,6.0,7.0,CS ImageReady 7.0 PageMaker Paintshop Pro 4/5/6 Fireworks Allaire HomeSite Bulletproof FTP WinZip Doc-To-Help RoboHelp Access FOX-PRO FileMaker-Pro 4.0 Publisher 2000 Quicken Quickbooks Flash MX,2004 Flash Pages