I’m a Denver-based Learning Experience Designer and trainer, specializing in software simulation and interactive stories.
What I Do
Instructional Design and Development
LinkedIn Learning Instructor
Adobe Certified Instructor
Adobe Captivate expert
Interactive Stories and Interactive Video
Event Speaker
LinkedIn Learning Courses
Here’s where to find all current courses I’ve authored on LinkedIn.
Current Courses:
Extending Captivate with JavaScript (released Feb 10 2023)
Adobe Captivate Advanced Actions (May 2020)
Adobe Captivate Quick Tips (February 2020)
Retired Courses:
Visual Aesthetics for ELearning (released 2017)
Adobe Captivate for Systems Training (2017)
Building ELearning Games in Captivate (2015)
Captivate Projects: Quizzes (2015)
Learning Adobe Presenter 10 (2015)
Captivate Projects: Mobile and Responsive Design (2014)
Captivate Projects: Software Simulations (2014)
Captivate 8: Publishing for Mobile and the Web (2014)
Captivate Advanced Techniques (2013)
Flash Professional CS6 Essential Training (2012)
Flash Professional CS6 New Features (2012)
Up and Running with Flash (released 2012)
Best Practices for Flash-Based Banner Ads (2011)
Speaking Events
UPCOMING
None right now!
PREVIOUS
Elevate Your Branching to Interactive Stories
October 2-3, 2024, Las Vegas
Guest on The Visual Lounge podcast - 5/22/24
Alternate place to view - YouTube
Adobe Learning Summit 2023
Create a course with the all-new Adobe Captivate - Workshop
October 2-3, 2023, Las Vegas
Adobe ELearning World 2021
Screencast and Application Simulation - Workshop
September 21-23, 2021
View recordings
TrainedIn
An Introduction to Adobe Captivate
March 9, 2021
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Training Magazine Network
eLearning for Beginners: How to Get Started
September 17, 2020
View Recording (free account creation required)
Training Magazine Network
Learn How to Create Assessments for Interactive Video
August 26, 2020
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Adobe ELearning World 2020
Convert any On-Screen Content into Interactive eLearning
June 23-25, 2020
View Recording (free account creation required). Or, view the recording and the project used during presentation here (no free account required).
Work
Interactive Stories I’ve built:
Mountain Mayhem - Interactive story
Teddy! - Interactive video project created for an Adobe event. Teddy! - Alternate place to view
Adventures of the Leaves (children’s story, app on Apple and Google Play)
Just for fun - ‘Proverbs My Grandmother Told Me’ - in support of Assumption of the Theotokos Greek Orthodox Metropolis Cathedral of Denver 2021 Virtual Greek Festival.
eLearning Portfolio available
Please contact me. As many in L&D experience, most of my work surrounds proprietary content not appropriate to post publicly.
I’ve worked in instructional design and development since 2003 in Fortune 500 companies, higher ed, health care, government, corporate and non-profit, designing and building computer based and instructor delivered content, for audiences small to international. I have extensive experience as a stand-up and online trainer and currently teach Adobe Captivate online. I have extensive video creation, narration and LMS management experience. Detailed software simulations (where the user views the steps and also has a chance to perform the steps), and interactive stories are where my superpowers lie.
Interactive stories by far are my passion, and could be described as scenario-based training on hyperdrive. Do you remember books from childhood where you got to make decisions about what to do next? Interactive stories, which also take the form of interactive video, immerse the participant completely and simply stop time.
Here are two of my favorites that are relatively well known in this still-nascent genre. Each take about 10 minutes to complete.
Will You Fit into Deloitte, which communicates the core values of the company through your scenario-based decisions.
LifeSaver, where you make decisions to assist a person with a medical emergency and learn basic CPR along the way. This is also app-based on Android and Apple.
I am fascinated with this form of storytelling (which is really learning), and build these types of stories for adults in the form of eLearning, as well as a younger audience in the form of app-based stories.
I became an Adobe Certified Instructor in 2005, first teaching Flash (now Adobe Animate) and then adding Captivate. I currently teach Adobe Captivate online and maintain my Adobe Certified Expert certification for Captivate every time a new one comes out. I continue to occasionally speak in person and online.
In my free time I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, hiking, skiing, playing the piano, painting and gardening. I am also a private pilot, currently pursuing my instrument rating.
“Our thoughts determine our lives.”
— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica