Professional Experience

Adjunct Faculty, August 2014 – December 2014
Digital Media Department, Utah Valley University, Orem, Utah 84095
Teaching one evening class on “Interaction Design.”

Adjunct Faculty, March 2014 – May 2014
College of Humanities, Snow College, Ephraim, Utah 84627
Taught three sections of ENGL 2010: Research Writing to over 70 students. (Took over for a faculty member who became unavailable early in the semester.)

Managing Director, September 2010 – present
InquisitiveDesign, LLC
Part-time owner and proprietor of a small consulting, design, and publishing firm that does instructional, informational, and experience design. Two fiction books published.

Assistant Director, Instructional Design & Development, August 2013 – November 2013
Salt Lake Community College, 4500 South Redwood Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84130
Oversaw the work of instructional designers, instructional support specialists, and instructional media developers for the division of eLearning and Instructional Support.

Instructional Designer, April 2009 – July 2013
University of Phoenix, 1625 West Fountainhead Parkway, Tempe, Arizona 85282
Instructional design consultant and advisor on hundreds of courses in a large variety of subjects; coordinated development efforts with dozens of college administrators, developers, and production specialists. Most courses developed for both online and live delivery. (For a full list of courses designed, see “Courses” under the heading “Productivity,” below.)

Adjunct Faculty, August 2008 – December 2008
Digital Media Department, Utah Valley University, 800 West University, Orem, Utah 84058
Taught undergraduate classes on User Interface Design, eMarketing Utah Valley University for Digital Media, and Project Management for Digital Media; 3 credit hours each.

Instructional Designer, June 2000 – August 2008
Brigham Young University, BYU Center for Teaching & Learning*, 3800 HBLL, Provo, Utah 84603
Designed and produced instructional media materials, consulted on 3800 HBLL projects, wrote grants, taught inservice in the use of media in instruction, Brigham Young University conducted research, produced BYU Independent Study courses, etc. Provo, Utah 84603 (Center renamed Center for Teaching & Learning in June 2007.)

BYU-Related Positions:

Assistant to BYU Testing Center Director & Tech Support Manager, September 2004 – September 2006.
BYU Testing Center Applied design techniques to improve traffic flow of large testing center Brigham Young University (>800,000 tests given annually) thru redesign of signage, etc.; also Provo, Utah 84603 assisted with information design for testing center software.

Manager, BYU Instructional Media Center, November 2002 – March 2004
Directed the work of student instructional media consultants in a) 1st-tier user support for 1,500+ faculty users of the Blackboard LMS and b) the production of multimedia projects for faculty.

Adjunct Faculty, BYU Instructional Psychology & Technology, etc., August 1997 – December 2008
Taught 2-hour graduate course IP&T 655: “Instructional Print Technology Design,” Fall Semesters (I also taught undergraduate multimedia production courses for the department of Visual Arts and Design.

Multimedia Designer, June 1994 – June 2000
BYU Instructional Technology Center*
Designed and produced instructional media materials, wrote grants, consulted on projects, conducted research, etc. (Center was renamed BYU Center for Instructional Design in June 2000)

Project Director, March 1992 – June 1994
Orem High School / Alpine School District, “New Century Schools” Project
Brought in at the halfway point of a struggling 3-year, $500,000 grant project given to the school by RJR Nabisco. Successfully re-designed and completed the project to both the school’s and the sponsor’s satisfaction.

Library Media Teacher (Certified & Endorsed), August 1991 – March 1992
Newman Elementary School, Salt Lake City School District
Taught the school district’s “Information Literacy” curriculum to students in grades 1 6, and managed school library media center; assisted students with book selections, read to Kindergartners, etc.

Regional Educational Technology Specialist, February 1989 – June 1990
Northeastern Utah Educational Services
Supported sponsoring districts with training, technical support, and grant writing and represented the region in state technology meetings. (NUES is a nine-district regional service center serving all rural districts in northeastern Utah.)

Documentation Designer & Manager, August 1985 – December 1988
AIS, Inc.
Supervised the production of all user documentation. Designed and developed new documentation formats, style manuals, and processes and procedures to produce software user documentation. (AIS was a university bookstore management software developer.)

District Educational Technology Specialist & “Tele-learning” Project Director, August 1982 – June 1985
Garfield County School District
Conducted inservice training for teachers in the use of computer Panguitch, Utah 84759 technology in teaching, maintained district computers, made district technology purchasing decisions, wrote grants and directed resulting projects. In particular, wrote and directed the “Telelearning System” a electronic distance education system for rural schools funded by the Utah State Office of Education. (½ FTE with next position.)

School Library-Media Specialist, August 1982 – May 1985
Bryce Valley Schools (K12)
Oversaw library media for both elementary and secondary school libraries. Implemented a project to combine and completely re-catalog both libraries into a single facility and improve operations. (½ FTE with previous positions.)

Language Arts Teacher, August 1980 – May 1982
Bryce Valley Schools (K12)
Taught Language Arts and reading classes, for all secondary grades, 6 12, and extracurricular activities as assigned (newspaper, drama, etc.)