And He Shall Die Before I Wake

Then, I laid me down to dream, my naive joy for life agleam, and when he died before I woke . . . my thriving heart was bashed and broke, my love for life reduced to joke, my childhood burned up in smoke.   Death stopped our hearts with one full stroke.   <3

How to Manage Someone Who Feels like a Fraud

Imposter syndrome, the feeling of being a fraud or not belonging, isn’t unique to any specific industry. It exists in technology, in medicine, and in students in educational settings, too: “[R]esearch suggests that students who feel they belong at their college are more likely to remain there . . . [and] first-generation and minority students are less likely […]

Virtual Team-Building Exercises

Team-building doesn’t require a physical water cooler or even sharing office space. There are plenty of ways your remote team can get to know each other and gain value from virtual team-building exercises. What value is there to be gained? How does team-building contribute to productivity? It’s all about building trust. As MindTools.com noted, “[a] team without […]

Human Kinetics

As the e-Learning Director for Human Kinetics, I managed the e-Learning Unit and the production of over 60 e-learning courses and hundreds of ancillary products including: instructor resources presentation packages, image banks, podcasts, video, SCORM-conformant test banks and student resources courseware, online study guides, flash cards   I worked together with Department managers to develop […]

UI/UX Case Study: Monical’s Pizza

Monical’s Pizza is a family-oriented pizza franchise with roughly 65 locations in the Midwest.  The franchise business has a single web site at MonicalsPizza.com to serve patrons of all locations.  While this helps the business to maintain a consistent brand across all franchises, it also adds to the complexity of finding a location and placing […]

Web Design: Wolf Creek Carvings

Wolf Creek Carvings needed a new web site to showcase the artist’s custom chainsaw wood carvings.  This site was created to be responsive: viewable on all device sizes and targeted for each platform.  The gallery of carvings provides the ability to view larger images for tablet and desktop and remains static for mobile.