Strategic Learning Experience Designer and former high school English teacher with over 6 years of experience building end-to-end learning solutions for SaaS and nonprofit environments. Expert in virtual facilitation, stakeholder engagement, and moving diverse adult audiences from uncertainty to confident action.
Instructional Designer
CandidJan 2024 – Feb 2026
Strategic Learning Lifecycle: Managed the end-to-end design and launch of scalable learning experiences, ensuring alignment between organizational change goals and learner needs.
LMS Change Management: Served as a member of the core team during the LMS migration from Bridge to Skilljar, successfully transitioning the full instructional video collection and content library.
Data-Driven Onboarding: Designed 40+ in-app Appcues flows reaching tens of thousands of users; Seals-focused flows achieved a 44% conversion rate for national transparency campaigns.
Production Efficiency: Streamlined the instructional video pipeline, reducing turnaround time by 50% and driving over 32,900 unique views.
Accessibility Framework: Standardized accessible design across all learning products by implementing an organization-wide framework, including eLearning checklists and presenter guides.
Instructional Design Specialist
CandidMay 2022 – Jan 2024
Live Facilitation & Gamification: Designed and facilitated high-energy gamified training sessions that raised participant confidence from 1/11 to 10/11 “very confident” ratings.
Curriculum Development: Built a comprehensive eight-part Rise 360 eLearning series that extended Seals of Transparency education to the full national nonprofit sector.
Engagement Analytics: Engineered embedded feedback mechanisms that boosted survey response rates to 60%, outperforming team benchmarks by 500%.
Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborated with cross-functional teams to deliver side-stage and main-stage presentations at major staff events, with sessions rated up to 4.9/5.
English Teacher
Warner Robins High SchoolJan 2019 – May 2022
Learning Continuum Lead: Led the transition to fully remote learning during COVID-19 closures, ensuring instructional continuity through student-centered progression.
Instructional Design Foundation: Built deep foundations in curriculum design and live facilitation, using performance data to refine learner outcomes.
Excellence in Instruction: Recognized as Teacher of the Year (2020) for excellence in instructional delivery and student impact.
Ready to build something impactful?
I’m open to discussing how human-centered design and strategic facilitation can move your teams forward.