Instructional Design & Learning Development

I design the moment where confusion becomes clear.

Eight years designing how people learn, a business degree, and a growing body of ID work built for corporate training and L&D teams — content that works without me in the room.

Try it — a real design decision

You're designing onboarding for new hires who are overwhelmed on day one. Do you...

Common instinct, costly result Covering everything up front feels thorough, but it front-loads cognitive load right when working memory is weakest. Retention drops, and the content that mattered on day one gets lost next to the content that mattered in month three.
This is the design move Sequencing by need-to-know respects cognitive load and gives people just enough, just in time. It's the same principle behind Brightpath, an onboarding module I built around what a new hire actually needs in their first hour — not everything the org wants them to know.

Two backgrounds, one practice

Most instructional designers come from one side of this or the other. The overlap is where the differentiation lives.

The instructional foundation

  • 8+ years designing and delivering instruction, most recently at College Achieve Public Schools (Plainfield, NJ), before moving into corporate and workforce learning
  • Post-baccalaureate instructional certification, Rider University
  • Fluent in how adults actually learn — attention, cognitive load, scaffolding, formative feedback
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The business foundation

  • B.S., Marketing & Management — Seton Hall University
  • Thinks in audiences, positioning, and outcomes, not just lesson objectives
  • Runs a freelance ID practice and a Teachers Pay Teachers store — comfortable owning a product end to end
The result: learning experiences designed with real instructional rigor and packaged like a product — built to reach employees and learners at scale, without me in the room.

Selected work

A working portfolio spanning branching scenarios, onboarding modules, and data-driven instructional analysis.

Format: Branching scenarioPersona: Maria Santos

Maria's Money Moment

A branching scenario built around a recurring persona, letting learners make financial decisions and see the consequences play out — rather than reading about them.

Tool: Easygenerator / H5PAudience: New hires

Brightpath

An onboarding module for incoming staff, sequenced around what a new hire needs in their first hour on the job, not a full policy dump on day one.

Format: Analysis deckSource: ANet data

ANet Misconception Analysis

A data-driven breakdown of student misconceptions from assessment results, translated into a deck that instructional teams can act on directly.

Tool: Articulate RiseAudience: Non-instructional staff

Building Your Financial Foundation

A three-lesson financial literacy suite for non-instructional school district staff, featuring persona Maria Santos across a full learning arc.

Format: StoryboardAudience: Corporate trainers

AI Tools Training Storyboard

A storyboard for training corporate trainers on using AI tools in their own facilitation — designed so the training itself models the kind of scaffolded, need-to-know sequencing it's teaching.

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How I approach a design problem

Most of my design decisions start with the same question: what does this learner need to know at this exact moment, and what can wait? That instinct, sharpened over years of teaching before I brought it into L&D, is what drives how I sequence an onboarding module, structure a branching scenario, or read assessment data for the misconception underneath a wrong answer.

The business side keeps that instinct honest — asking who the content is really for, what it needs to accomplish, and whether it still works once I'm not in the room to explain it.

"Designing learning experiences that reach people at scale — turning complex ideas into content that works without me in the room."