I design and build learning for people who have to perform — clinicians, students, and staff working under real constraints. My work runs from needs analysis through development and evaluation, in academic and corporate settings alike.

 

My graduate work at the University of Tennessee was project-based rather than theoretical. I built courses, prototypes, and media for defined audiences: asynchronous course design, multimedia production including video and podcasting, accessible and assistive-technology design, gamification, human-computer interaction and usability testing, and applied artificial intelligence. Most of it was team-based and client-facing, with the deadlines and scope negotiations that come with that.

 

I pair that with a clinical career. Years in practice, and now teaching, assessing, and signing off on the competencies that determine whether a student can be licensed, mean I design from inside the work rather than from a content outline. I know what a learner faces when the training ends and the task starts.