Category: DESIGNER

         INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER         Summary    Dedicated, efficient, and versatile professional credited with combining project management and data analysis, and grant writing expertise to lead companies toward improved collaboration, organization, and productivity. Proven track record of developing and implementing record-keeping and organizational systems that streamline operations. Demonstrated ability to create and foster strong working relationships with colleagues and clients. Strong communicator, with particular expertise in grant writing, new program implementation, and deadline adherence.      Highlights          Course Design   Project Management  Verbal & Written Communication  Payroll & Budget Management  Data Collection and Reporting  Grant Writing  Hiring/On-Boarding & New Hire Orientation  Event planning  Cross-Functional Collaboration  New Process Implementation  Deadline Adherence              Experience      Company Name    City  ,   State    Instructional Designer   11/2016   to   Current       Assist faculty in designing online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses.  Assist faculty in identifying, testing, and implementing innovative and new technologies.  Assist faculty in designing appropriate assessments mapped to course, program, or institutional objectives.  Assist faculty in in ensuring compliance with copyright, intellectual property, and accessibility.  Provide one-on-one faculty training and guidance on use of in-class and online technologies.  Attended workshops on learning goals, classroom management, student motivation and engaging learning activities.   Developed partnerships with industry and secondary education institutions.   Contributed to ongoing staff training sessions.                Company Name    City  ,   State    Grants and Contracts Coordinator   01/2007   to   01/2012       Associate recruited to manage students' financial accounts.  Reconciled new institutional loans and advances with financial aid, processed deferment and forbearance requests, verified new loans and advances for each term, uploaded borrower information to campus partners, and posted various transactions to appropriate software.  Facilitator in building successful partnerships with local community, industry and statewide organizations to assess skill and training requirements to fulfill community needs.  Coordinated the planning and preparation of grant proposals to include gathering required data and writing proposal.  Provided vision, direction and overall implementation of the grant to align with approved grant award.  Created and distributed all reporting to grant authority.  Coordinated additional continuing education programs as needed.          Company Name    City  ,   State    Marrow Donor Program Coordinator   01/2005   to   01/2006       Performed all duties of the Marrow Donor Program related to promotion, fundraising, recruitment, retention, search and management of donors.  Coordinated large annual fundraising event, the Miracle Match Marathon with Waco Firefighters.  Escort for donor and courier for stem cell donation.          Company Name    City  ,   State    Clinical Research Coordinator   01/1998   to   01/2005       Coordinated and implemented two large cancer prevention trials and various treatment trials.  Marketing, screening/recruitment of participants for the trial, Data collection and Reporting.  Creation of short articles for area publications.  Innovatively created and tracked research studies using Excel, easing the task of completing daily status reports.          Company Name    City  ,   State    Clinical Research Associate   01/1995   to   01/1998       Reviewed Research Protocol Institutional Review Board and Institutional Research Committee submissions assuring all guidelines were met prior to review by the board members.  Prepared agenda and minutes for Institutional Review Board Institutional Research Committee meetings.          Education      Masters of Education  :  Instructional Design   2016     Western Governor's University  ,   City  ,   State  ,   USA            Bachelor of Science  :  Health Sciences   2001     Texas A&M University Corpus Christi  ,   City  ,   State      Health Sciences        Associates of Applied Science  :  Medical Office Information Systems   1995     Temple College  ,   City  ,   State      Medical Office Information Systems        Professional Affiliations    Society of Certified Clinical Research Professional (SoCRA) 1998-2008 Big "T" Toastmasters, Vice-President of Public Relations 2012 Red Carpet Ambassador 2011/12 American Business Woman's Association, 2015- present Awarded Stephen Bufton Memorial Educational Fund (SBMEF) grant 2015       Publications    INVITED TEACHING, AND TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS L. Bunkowski, S. Scott, and L. Trusty. (Fall 2015). Invited Presentations. "Transition to Online Teaching and Learning." Texas Rural Education Association Fall Leadership Conference Series. Texas & New Mexico. RECENT MENTORING, TEACHING, AND TECHNOLOGY PRESENTATIONS L. Bunkowski, S. Scott, and L. Trusty. (Dec. 2014). Presentation. "Making the Journey Together: Mentoring, Women's Issues, & eLearning." U.S. Distance Learning Association - International Forum of Women in E-Learning. San Antonio. L. Bunkowski and S. Scott. (April 2014). Presentation. "Staying Afloat: Achieving Learning Objectives without Drowning in Deliverables." Texas Distance Learning Association Conference. Corpus Christi.       Skills    administrative, administrative support, Budget Management, budgets, cancer, Data Collection, direction, Event planning, finance, financial, Functional, fundraising, Grant Writing, grant proposals, Hiring, inventory, Marketing, meetings, Excel, Office, Multi-Tasking, organizational, Payroll, Project Management, promotion, proposal, publications, purchasing, quality, record-keeping, recruitment, reporting, Research, vision, Written Communication, articles