Professional History

Contractor, Program Manager for Private North American Power Generation Company. Leads Learning and Development Strategy and Program Development. Programs include EHS, technical role qualifications, job description manuals, Site-Specific Orientations, New Hire Safety Orientation, and contractor safety management.

• Partner with business leadership, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Subject Matter Experts, and Power Plant Management to ensure alignment of strategic operational plans by supporting Programs, Development and Systems content.

• Project Manager for New Hire Orientation, Video Production and E-Learning content

• Absorb Learning Management System Advisor and Administrator

• Developed strategies aimed at improving Operations Staff’s competence and effectiveness Technical Qualification Program for Power Plant Technicians.

• Provided support regarding Qualified Electrical Worker program.

• eLearning Course Developer utilizing the Articulate 360 Toolkit and the Absorb Create AI System to produce courses such as an Introduction to Fire Protection and Prevention, Hot Work, and other course work.

Technical Training Manager, ION Geophysical

November 2001 - July 2022

Leads learning and development of staff regarding project management, resource management, remote work, software applications, scientific theory, and workflows. Promoted to Technical Training Manager in 06/2010.

• Managed New Hire Development programs that reduced employee development time by 50%.

• Partners with Executive Sponsors, Stakeholders to manage learning objectives. 

• Collaborated with Sales staff regarding managing client programs. 

• Developed multiple programs to deploy new software products and services, which allowed us to continue to generate over $50,000,000 in revenue year over year.

• Managed Training Staff and directed Subject Matter Expert, SME, network.

• Using feedback, created, validated, facilitated Administrative Budget Management and Reporting.

• Facilitating and scheduling SaaS training services for proprietary software packages for clients. 

• Collaborated with Marketing team regarding branding, and new product initiatives.

• Train, Coach, Mentor and Developed Technical Trainers via Train the Trainer Program.

• Developed continuous learning programs using agile and waterfall approaches to reduce the timeline for employees to be prepared to run their projects by 50%

• Client management and collaborative business sales partner for instructor led course content helping to satisfy contractual obligations for over 15 unique clients

• Improved delivery by overseeing growth of over 100 Instructor Led Courses (ILT)

• Directs development, production, and deployment of online courses via company's Learning Management System (LMS) including over 50 hours of SCORM certified content

• Taught on over 1000+ hours of technical and soft skill topics

• Created, contributes, and manages continuous learning platforms via Atlassian’s Confluence project workspace which includes over 300 unique video recordings of courses, power point visual aids, course theory, workflow theory, tips, tricks, and best usage

• Lead development of internal competency management system to improve organizational effectiveness via analytics platform approach to improve employee performance

• Creates, validates, and facilitates yearly training budget

• Acts as external training vendor/ university professor liaison

• Provides yearly statistical analysis for executive and senior management regarding strategic impact of employee learning engagement

• Developed and deployed Train the Trainer program and Peer Review program

 
Processing Geophysicist         Nov. 2001 – June 2010

• Project management and delivery by testing, production, and quality control on over 20 independent seismic surveys

• Leads client meeting data presentations and discussions for project direction and improvements

• R&D development team associate member for internal and external software systems