I’m an instructional designer who brings video and audio production experience into the design process. For a couple of the courses I’ve built, I’ve also produced the accompanying video and audio myself.

10+ years of experience in digital media production and visual design.

Currently a Lead Mentor at CU Denver; previously a Senior Instructional Designer at RMPHTC through August 2026. Actively seeking my next instructional design or multimedia role.

Tools: Canvas, Rise 360, Premiere Pro, After Effects · Standards: WCAG 2.1, UDL

I’ve always felt that learning should be engaging, not a passive exercise in sitting through a lecture and hoping something sticks. Boring is not an option.

That belief took root during my undergraduate years studying digital media design and video and film production, under an instructor who expected nothing less than excellence, a standard I’ve held myself to ever since.

In that same program, I assisted an instructor leading a five-day faculty workshop on After Effects. Several instructors told me that I had been a genuine help, and I realized that I loved teaching. Around the same time, I completed a digital media fellowship focused on video production.

I transitioned into e-commerce, where I was assigned to convert complex scripts about RFID-based technology into instructional videos. Over nearly six years, I produced more than 95 videos, with the most popular one receiving over 242,000 views on YouTube. I aimed to make the technical content visually engaging and coached our talent both on camera and in the voiceover booth. One memorable moment came when I asked them to enunciate “today” more clearly, but they responded with “tooday,” which became a little inside joke. That’s how learning happens. Throughout those years, the company recognized my contributions with six certificates of appreciation for my work in graphics, video quality, and my ability to deliver projects on tight deadlines.

What I had been doing instinctively was called instructional design. This realization led me to pursue a Master’s degree in Learning Design and Technology at CU Denver, where graduate school provided structure to my years of experience. Alongside some of the nicest faculty I’ve worked with, I helped enhance the visual design and accessibility of Canvas courses, ensuring they were effective for all students.

My capstone was the T-PREP Undergraduate Handbook. T-PREP trains students at rural Colorado colleges to become teachers in their own communities, and the Canvas handbook is where those students go for requirements, deadlines, and everything else. Dr. Valerie Sherman, the program director, and I read all 29 pages together like a student, flagging broken links, out-of-date information, and content that was accurate but hard to find. I rebuilt it around what we found: restructuring how students move through it, building an expandable menu and read-more components in Canvas’s HTML editor when the standard tools couldn’t produce them, designing icons to break up long stretches of text, and running every page through the accessibility checker. It’s live in Canvas today.

Danny Twieg’s considerable Instructional Design expertise, collaborative nature, and exemplary work ethic transformed the T-PREP Undergraduate Handbook housed within Canvas from a lengthy, difficult-to-navigate resource into a clear, accessible tool that is perfectly aligned with instructional design best practices. His guidance improved the organization, readability, and usability of the handbook, making key information easier for students to find and understand. The result is a more effective, student-centered tool that better supports undergraduate success.

– Dr. Valerie Sherman | Director, T-PREP | University of Colorado Denver

My father is the most brilliant man I know: witty, funny, humble, one of the best problem solvers I’ve ever seen. Now retired, he spent his career as a biomedical engineering professor who cared deeply about his research and his students. My mother taught blind and partially sighted children before I was born. I come from a family of teachers, and somewhere along the way, that became my story too.

From January to August 2026, I served as a Senior Instructional Designer at the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center, which is part of the Colorado School of Public Health. In this role, I recorded narration, edited instructor presentations into training videos, and added captions to courses for the public health workforce across six states and 32 tribal nations. Unfortunately, my grant-funded position ended in August due to funding cuts.

Currently, I am a Lead Mentor and technical teaching assistant for a graduate course at CU Denver. Additionally, I edit the podcast and manage the website for The Teacher Leader Press. I am now seeking my next instructional design or multimedia opportunity.

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