Experience
Graduate from American University with a BA in Communications.
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Freelance as a Grip & Gaffer in Washington DC, notably Silkwood, HBO’s Not Necessarily the News and PBS American Playhouse.
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Start first job as a Stage Manager, Assistant Director, & Director for WUSA-TV CBS in Washington, D.C.
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Move to direct live TV Sports (like ESPN Sports Center) for the Sports News Network from the former studios of USA Today the TV Show.
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Graduate from Marymount University with a 3.8 average with a MA in Human Resource Development.
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Complete internship and hired by Xerox to start-up and help manage their distance learning network, Xerox Document University.
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Move on and work as a Program Manager and Instructional Designer for Convergent Media Systems distance learning network. One of the first interactive polling keypads pictured above.
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Create multiple custom training programs for BMW’s distance learning network using One Touch interactive keypad system.
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Join the Caliber Learning Network (owned by Sylvan Learning Systems) and become Director of Program Design managing instructional design team. Produce learning for Wharton School of Business and Fidelity Investments and others.
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Win two Telecon Awards for Distance Learning, Best Program Continuing Education & Best Corporate Distance Learning Training Program for the Caliber Learning Network.
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Start new company as second employee. Grow company to 33 employees whom I manage. Become VP of Program Development and develop custom training programs for federal government, private sector and trades.
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Presented with Golden Cine Award by film critic Roger Ebert for Producer of CORE Curriculum – Business - Safety Training & Employee Development. Created fictional soap opera training videos using many actors from the cast of The Wire.
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One of the first early adopters of DVD and CD-ROM technologies and programming to deliver multi-media training programs. Develop hundreds of training titles employing these platforms.
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Start developing custom training programs for the web with the advent of Flash.
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Partner with Sony to develop one of the first mobile training deliveries in the country. Distributed over 900 Sony PlayStations (PSPs) for Marriott hotel training.
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Author feature article in T+D (Training & Development) magazine explaining the success of implementing a widescale strategic mobile training initiative using the Sony PSP.
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Become an early adopter of using commercial off the shelf tools tool to deliver custom online learning programs using Adobe Presenter and Captivate.
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Recognize that Moodle as open-source software can be used to develop custom learning management systems for clients at a much lower price point than ASP LMS offerings.
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Awarded Certificate of Appreciation by Director of the Space Shuttle from NASA in recognition for the outstanding training programs developed for NASA’S Office of Diversity and Equal Opportunity.
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Develop a web-based phone App on Teen Pregnancy under a grant for the Center for Disease Control. Receive an outstanding rating for the quality and project management of the program by the CDC.
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Produce and direct first custom training program for Oculus and Google Cardboard viewing using VR technology.
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I go out on my own and start knowledgedrop, LLC. This is my very first Zoom with my first client.
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Create first deliverables for knowledgedrop. Perform strategic consulting, web development and instructional design for Give America Hope.
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Fast forward to the future. I retire and move to Nashville and record the number one country hit, “I Knew I’d Love My New Tractor More Than I Ever Could Love You”.