Instructional Designer and Development Specialist

Tim Elliott

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Professional Experience Summary

15+ years of design, development, and delivery of state-of-the-art training that ensures maximum learner retention for Global Fortune 500 companies. Recognized by stakeholders for boosting engagement, retention, and performance through relevant content, video, role-play, storytelling, innovation, and engaging activities. Functioned as lead for team recognized by Brandon Hall with a Gold Award for excellence in curriculum design. Professional Skills

Instructor-led training development; virtual instructor-led training development; eLearning development; ADDIE; Blooms Taxonomy; Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction; curriculum development; training and needs analysis; learning experience design; Subject Matter Expert

(SME) interviewing; trainer; coach; storyboarding; video script writing; video editing; voice over acting and narration; agile workflow; Section 508; Project management; technical support; customer service; collaboration; emotional intelligence; active listening Professional Tools and Technologies

• eLearning: Adobe Captivate, Articulate and Rise, DominKnow, Desire2Learn (D2L)

• MS Office

• Coding: HTML, CSS

• Graphic editing: Photoshop

• Video editing: Camtasia, Adobe Premiere Pro, PowToons

• Audio editing: Adobe Audition, Audacity

• LMS: SharePoint

• Task management: Jira, Kanban

Work Experience

GDIT – Security Clearance: Entry on Duty (EOD) August 2024 – April 2025 Falls Church, VA (Remote)

Senior Instructional Designer

Supported Transportation Security Administration (TSA) with learning solutions

• Non-TSA tasks

o Upskilled curriculum development team’s knowledge of neuroscience and learning through research, design, development, and delivery of virtual instructor-led training

o Researched and designed training solution outline in preparation for development of Section 508 virtual instructor-led training for curriculum development team

o Updated GDIT’s Bloom’s Taxonomy list of verbs through research and ensuring verbs (all six levels) fit into measurable learning objectives Tim Elliott

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Accenture October 2011 – April 2024

Denver, CO

Learning Experience Design & Development Specialist Tasked to create innovative and engaging learning solutions using sound adult learning principles that increase learner retention and collaborated with subject matter experts and stakeholders

• Client Relationship eLearning – effectively collaborated with stakeholders to create eLearning curriculum through cost effective research of existing content

• Client Relationship eLearning – surprised and delighted stakeholder by innovating and building custom video learning interactions in Articulate Storyline

• Insurance eLearning – led design and development of course and coached numerous junior instructor designers in the process

• Insurance eLearning – successfully prepared 1,000 learners for their role as Customer Service Representatives through design and development of course

• Accenture Business MA curriculum – recognized by Instructional Design manager for composing scripts, creating Camtasia videos, and using voice over talent to record narration for enablement videos to help learners complete the course

• Sustainability eLearning – recognized by Instructional Design manager for successfully collaborating with challenging subject matter experts to create course

• Client Enablement eLearning – recognized by Instructional Design manager for completing major overhaul of existing course ahead of deadline

• Sales Enablement Virtual Instructor-Led course – recognized by stakeholder for successfully collaborating with numerous subject matter experts in managing the design, development, and release of 15 modules

• Sales Enablement Instructor-led Training – surprised and delighted Learning Experience Design manager and subject matter expert with design and development of engaging course using storytelling

Volunteer Work

Aftersight October 2023 – May 2024

Boulder, Co

Voice over narrator

Recorded voice over of various newspaper articles and uploaded to Aftersight server on a weekly basis for visually impaired individuals to access Education

MA in Adult Learning and Training (University of Pheonix) Graduate May 2010

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