Multimedia Instructional Designer

A Filmmaker’s Eye, a Teacher’s Heart, a Designer’s Mind

I’m a multimedia instructional designer with over 10 years of experience across eLearning, digital media production, and visual design.

I’ve always felt that learning should be engaging, not a passive exercise in sitting through a lecture and hoping something sticks. Some of the courses I took as an undergrad were so dry I half-expected the syllabus to say “nap time encouraged.” 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 was already holding myself to. A Vince Lombardi quote has a way of coming back to me: “Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.”

A digital media fellowship centered on video production, but its defining moment came when I assisted an instructor leading a five-day faculty workshop on After Effects. Several instructors told me I’d been a genuine help, and I realized I loved to teach.

I carried that into e-commerce, where I was handed dense scripts for RFID-based technology and asked to turn them into instructional videos: more than 95 of them across nearly six years, with the most-viewed passing 242,000 views on YouTube. I framed each scene so technical content felt visually alive, and coached our talent both on camera and in the voiceover booth. I once asked them to say “today” more clearly; what came back was “tooday.” It became a little inside joke. But that’s how you learn.

What I’d been doing by instinct had a name: instructional design. That sent me to CU Denver for a Master’s in Learning Design and Technology. “Pedagogy” wasn’t in my vocabulary (I’d half-assumed it was some kind of ailment), but graduate school gave structure to years of instinct. Alongside faculty, some of the nicest people I’ve worked with, I helped refine Canvas courses’ visual design and accessibility, so every student had a genuine shot. For my capstone, I rebuilt a 29-page program handbook in Canvas, including a custom HTML menu I built for the homepage. The learning curve wasn’t smooth. I once accidentally deleted an entire page the day before the semester started. D’oh!

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 research professor who cared deeply about his students. My mother was a special education teacher. I come from a family of teachers, and somewhere along the way, that became my story too.

Today I’m a Senior Instructional Designer at the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center at the Colorado School of Public Health, where I record narration, edit instructor presentations into training videos, and caption courses for the public health workforce across six states and 32 tribal nations. My grant-funded position wraps up in August 2026, and I’m looking for my next instructional design role in higher education.

I wear a lot of hats. When I finish something I’m truly proud of, I can’t wait to share it. Those moments are few and far between, but they keep me pushing. If you’d like to see a few of them, they’re in my portfolio.