Instructional Design Portfolio
As an instructional designer, I'm skilled at taking quotes from highly technical SMEs and constructing narratives that can appeal to learners of all experience levels. Check out these videos for examples. Also, I have a sample Articulate Storyline course!
Vega Launch
Fan expectation for the Vega series of AMD graphics cards was extremely high, and the company was riding that hype for all it was worth. To stoke the fires even higher, they added a countdown timer for the next drip of details about the new chips.
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There was a lot of expectations riding on this video, so the higher ups sent my crew and I to interview SMEs about the new chips at an internal AMD conference. We scheduled, staged, and shot our footage at the conference, then I pulled quotes from the SMEs, animated imagery from the official Powerpoint, and cut together this video before the conference was over and just in time to meet our deadline, racking up more than 80k views.
A New Era in PC Gaming
The R9 390 series launch wasn't just a new product launch: it was, as AMD called it, the beginning of a "New Era of PC Gaming". Alongside revolutionary new products, AMD was promoting new technologies that would change the way Windows PCs ran and displayed PC games, and AMD had to explain why people should be excited about that. So our team was called on to create a blitz of more than 10 videos that would all launch on the same day. A big lift for a handful of video creators!
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Once the SME interviews were filmed, I acted as post production lead, setting expectations with our team and building a common brand design that all the videos would follow, as well as coordinating with our producer, tracking progress on the videos to ensure nothing fell through the cracks. Collaborating as a team was also essential, as we could save time by sharing material that we generated for one video across the entire launch stack, allowing us more room in the schedule for polish.
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After a very busy couple of weeks, all the videos were completed with plenty of breathing room before launch!
The Gray Summers Family Tree
- Storyline Course -
When I started learning about instructional design, my wife, a very talented writer who had no interest in learning new software, told me that firms were always looking for folks who knew Storyline. So I decided to learn the software and build a Storyline course to show off to possible employers.
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Of course, I needed images and text to fill the course, and I surely wasn't going to be able to generate all that content out of nowhere. So I decided to explore a topic that had generated oodles of premium visuals and no amount of frustration from my friends and I: the ongoing story of Jean and Scott Summers of the X-Men and their family full of science fiction fantasies.
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