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Strategic Business Solutions Consultation
I take pride in contributing to the crafting and winning of multiple Small Business Initiative Research Grants from the Federal government. One standout achievement includes securing Phase 3 funding for a million-dollar CDC-funded custom mobile health initiative—a rare accomplishment, given the challenges associated with Phase 3 approvals. My role involved successfully developing a viable product during Phases 1 & 2, earning me high praise in the government’s overall performance evaluation. In another instance, I competed against various companies to secure a custom training program for the FAA on Next-Generation Systems for Aviation Inspectors. By thoroughly researching and engaging with a technical association representing aviation inspectors, I conducted insightful interviews, gaining a profound understanding of their needs. This effort resulted in winning the contract as FAA stakeholders recognized my unique insight into the mindset and training needs of the target audience.
Services Offered:
- Review and assess current materials
- Conduct informational interviews with stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Define a systematic business-wide design and development approach and process, providing innovative and targeted training solutions across diverse delivery platforms, including eLearning, Instructor-led, print, and video.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand and document exact business goals.
- Identify custom solutions within the customer’s budget.
- Creative Direction
Creative Direction
Services Offered:
- Engaging concepts
- Captivating themes
- Aesthetic Branding
- Creative storyboarding
- Creative motion graphics & animations
- Professional desktop layout
- Creative scriptwriting to inform, market, influence, instruct, or initiate a call to action.
- Compelling storytelling.
- Creative social media engagement.
Instructional Systems Design
Services Offered:
- Target Audience Analysis
- Gap Analysis of knowledge, skills, and abilities.
- Legacy materials review and analysis.
- Design Documents and Content Outline
- Instructor Guides
- Student Manuals
- Job Aids
- Video
- Graphics
- Animation and motion graphics
- Evaluation
- Certification
- Learning Management Systems
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Project Management
My extensive project management experience includes overseeing large-scale training initiatives, with projects budgets that have run between $10,000 to $1,000,000. As a Project Manager besides proactively managing the project plan and allocated resources, the most important thing you can do is constantly communicate with your stakeholders regarding their project’s status and deviations. Ninety-five percent of the time I can bring a project in on time and on budget.
Why not 100%, because let’s face it, there are many times when some projects get delayed. The delays are attributed to having developed an inaccurate project plan with not enough days of labor allocated to produce a deliverable to delays in review cycles by subject matter experts (that’s never happened before #!#$$#!!). So, somewhere in the 5% the delay in the project could be because of me, you, your subject matter experts, or all of us – the human element. The highest order of a project manager is to provide timely communication so that expectations are set early rather than dealing with the fallout later. I promise to strive to do everything in my power to provide you with excellent customer services that exceeds your expectations and delights you.
Services Offered:
- Budgeting for labor, time and materials including variable, fixed, other direct costs.
- Writing comprehensive status reports and listing project deviations and concerns.
- Managing teams and resources through effective leadership.
- Leading live progress meetings by writing agendas and facilitating discussions employing time management.
Video Production
I have produced hundreds of different videos in my career. I was a former professional TV and distance learning, and business television director and producer. I have won high-profile industry awards for the videos I have produced and directed, and noted film critic Roger Ebert presented me with the prestigious Golden Cine Award for best training video series using many of the cast from the famed TV program, the Wire. I can produce technical training, explainer, and influence oriented videos. Yes, I am the guy sitting behind the camera who yells, “and action!”).
Services Offered:
- Budgeting
- Video Treatments
- Scriptwriting
- Casting
- Location Scouting
- Hiring Crews
- Shooting Schedules
- Grip
- Prop Master
- Producer
- Director
- Post-production Supervisor
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Check out what other professionals say about us – Video Production
Doug has contracted me as an instructional designer for the development of numerous custom high-profile eLearning projects for which he was the Project Manager. Doug maintained excellent Project Plans and always kept things on time and on track to produce our deliverables for his clients.
Rosemary Peters President, Integrated Learning Systems, Inc