Instructional designer /eLearning Project Manager Resume




Title
Instructional designer /eLearning Project Manager

Primary Skills
Project management, instructional design, quality assurance in elearning

Location
US-NY-New York (will consider relocating)

Posted
Jan-08-09

RESUME DETAILS
Summary
* Four years of experience with instructional design for corporate training and undergraduate courses
* Extensive experience in Project Management: leading teams and communicating with client, contractors, overseeing deadlines and deliverables
* Designed innovative instructional materials by providing increased interactivity, customized user content control, simulations, mini-games, and storyline.

EDUCATION
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Master of Arts in Instructional Technology and Media, December 2008
Masters Thesis: Personality, learning styles and video game player types among adult learners

Catholic University of São Paulo | PUC-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Bachelor of Arts in Technology and Digital Media, December 2004

LANGUAGES
Bilingual in Portuguese and French; Intermediate Spanish

www.juliaitani.com

PPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College Columbia University - New York
Research Assistant, October 2007 - Present
* Assisted graduate students to find data and publications needed for their researches
* Helped students and professors with the retrieval of rare archival educational materials for their studies
* Supported internal clients with technology issues and concerns
Result: The instructional materials created for retrievals and traces processes and technology support improved the execution of these performances

Nanowarecyber do Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Project Manager, November 2006 - May 2007
* Instructionally designed learning games and simulations project, using cutting edge instructional gaming
strategies to meet client's desired training outcomes.
Results: Games improved training completion rates up to 30% added to higher employee motivation and ownership of knowledge.
* Managed game projects: maintaining balanced client rapport, leading project teamwork by communicating goals and timelines, synchronizing deliverables to optimally attain a final product, and managing contractors.
* Created a new process methodology for Nanowarecyber to develop simulations and games projects better structured, organized and communicating clear variables to reduce project miscommunications.
Result: The Nanowarecyber process methodology consisted of a comprehensive iterative process allowing flexibility to changes in the projects and saving budget up to 8%.

CiaTech | eLearning Solutions, Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 2003 â?“ December 2006
Project Manager, January 2005 - December 2006
* Managed e-learning projects from needs analysis, plan, design, development, implementation and evaluation
to effectively communicate with client, meeting deadlines, and promoting internal team satisfaction upon completion.
Result: Additional US$ 7,000 for project modifications.
* Led teams of junior instructional designers and managed team work collaboration to reach project completion.
Result: Team worked highly motivated and engaged in the project increasing daily productivity reducing cost men/hour.

Instructional Designer, December 2003 - December 2004
* Designed on-line instructional courses for corporate training to deliver training 2 months faster than face-to-face training and reaching a larger number of employees by 20%.
Result: US$ 150,000 worth of new contracts.
* Administrated LMS for each four accounts at a time, providing technical support to clients and administrative support.
Result: Client developed enough knowledge to self-generate monthly e-learning reports.

Catholic University of Sao Paulo | PUC-SP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Research Assistant Intern, February 2003 - May 2003
* Translated papers and articles from English to Portuguese in Semiotics, Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences
* Analyzed research data for use in Excel spreadsheets for publications and prepared presentation material for
conferences.
Result: Usage of spreadsheet facilitated the analysis of empirical data by other research assistants, reducing the need of learning or problem-solving for data reading.

COMPUTER SKILLS
Software: MS Project, MS Visio (and many other commons from MS Office) Adobe InDesign CS3 (Flash,Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks), Mind Map, Free Mind, Inspiration, Captivate, Breeze, SPSS,
FTP, Authorware.
LMS/LCMS: WebCT, Lectora, Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai, ANGEL, Centra
Programming Languages: ActionScript 3; JAVA.

Certifications
See above

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