Qualifications
- Experience designing and developing instructional material for blended and fully online courses in higher education.
- Strong project management, organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent communication skills and experience working within a global community.
- Ability to quickly learn new technologies and take charge of projects without hesitation and supervision.
- Solid conceptual, graphic and user interface design skills.
- Ability to effectively integrate the best practices of instructional design and instructional technology.
Skills
Web Authoring: HTML, Adobe Dreamweaver, CSS, JavaScript
eLearning Software: Articulate, Impatica, Wondershare
Graphics Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Fireworks
Multimedia Software: Flash, iMovie, Quicktime
Course Management Systems: WebCT, Blackboard v9
Microsoft Software: MS Publisher, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Operating Systems: Windows, Mac OSX
Professional Experience
University of Connecticut
Instructional Designer/eLearning Developer – UConn eCampus
May 2008 – Present | Storrs, CT
- Collaborate with university faculty and instructional designers to design, develop and revise online courses within Blackboard:
- Work with faculty to design course matrices using the ADDIE model of instructional design.
- Develop instructional material for online course pages.
- Create and edit graphic images and course banners.
- Build online assessments, assignments and discussion forums.
- Conduct faculty development seminars, focusing on best practices in the design and development of online instruction.
- Review online courses using the Quality Matters Rubric and provide feedback to the Instructional Design and Development team, identifying problem areas and making recommendations for improvement.
- Design and develop interactive learning objects for online courses.
- Research trends in technology for online learning.
- Maintain web sites and provide web development consultation regarding various departmental web pages within the Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning.
Oracle Corporation
Sr. Web Designer – Oracle University
October 1999 – June 2003 | Redwood Shores, CA
- Webmaster for Oracle University’s global internal employee training website. Managed front end content, site organization, and strategic vision of the university’s online presence through collaboration with members of key university organizations.
- Responsible for UI design and content management of all internal training web sites.
- Served as lead liaison to the Oracle University community in planning, coordinating, developing and implementing internal online training sites.
- Point of contact for Oracle University Education Sales for Latin America. Responsible for creating corporate templates and updating external education sales site for the Latin America division.
- Designed and implemented user interface standards, system usability and design guidelines, GUI prototypes, HTML page design and management. Redesign projects resulted in an increase in accessibility, improved quality of communications to the internal audience and compliance with federal ADA laws.
- Developed documentation and online training in content management, information architecture, site design and deployment in order to support content owners.
- Successfully transitioned Oracle University’s internal organizational web sites to a portal environment as part of the strategic plan to move toward a more portal-centered, personalized communications model.
Oracle Corporation
Web Designer – Global Sales Practices
September 1995 – May 1999 | Redwood Shores, CA
- Development, design and content management of intranet web sites for internal sales support and training organizations selling Oracle’s Applications, Database and Decisions Support products. Emphasis on providing time critical material to field sales to increase revenue.
- Collaborated with back end developers to deliver web based applications and dynamic web content.
- Led training sessions for sales force on functionality and value of web-based support tools.
Education
Master of Arts, Information and Learning Technologies
Emphasis on eLearning Design and Implementation
University of Colorado Denver
August 2014
Bachelor of Science, Environmental Horticulture
University of Connecticut
May, 1986
Betsy Guala 