Background
You can explore my experience, background, and education in this section. You will find my job roles under Career and contract, freelance, and other experiences under Opportunity. After that, you can explore my education background and also other certifications and professional development.
Professional Experience & Other Opportunities
Instructional Designer
Excelsior University (Oct.2023-Jun.2024)
Excelsior University (Oct.2023-Jun.2024)
Designed and Developed online courses, learning activities, and assessments within an LMS (Canvas), using instructional design principles and frameworks (UDL, Experiential Learning) and a variety of tools like Articulate Rise, H5P, Adobe Creative suite, Bootstrap/HTML.
Acted as project manager for course development, owning project scheduling, communications, coordination with media and quality assurance team collaborators, and work with Subject Matter Experts.
Evaluated course quality using the Quality Matters framework, including learning objectives, instructional alignment, accessibility.
Developed course materials, learning activities, storyboards for media content (video, podcast, infographics).
Course Designer & Developer
Christian Brothers University (Aug. 2008 - Oct. 2023)
Christian Brothers University (Aug. 2008 - Oct. 2023)
Assessed, Designed, Developed, Implemented, and Evaluated new online, in-person, and hybrid courses, both synchronous and asynchronous.
Created courses for specific needs (for example: Spanish for EMTs) and designed a program to address on-the-job requirements (Spanish for Professionals).
Transformed in-person learning materials for online and hybrid modalities.
Language Center Coordinator & Program Administrator
Christian Brothers University (May 2022 - Oct. 2023)
Christian Brothers University (May 2022 - Oct. 2023)
Duties and Responsibilities included: Scheduling, Tutor Training, Data Analysis & Reporting, Staff Supervision, Site Management, Curriculum Design & Development, Program Assessment, Student Assessment, Faculty Assessment, Mentoring, Faculty Training, Market Analysis, DACA, Heritage Speakers, International Students.
Assistant Professor
Christian Brothers University (Aug. 2005 - Oct. 2023)
Christian Brothers University (Aug. 2005 - Oct. 2023)
Duties and Responsibilities included: Instructor Led Training/Teaching, Online/Blended Learning, Course Design/Development/Assessment, Task-Based Design & Learning, Project-Based Design & Learning, Skills Assessment, Assessment, Content Development, Language Pedagogy, Multicultural Studies, Service Learning.
Learning Strategy Consultant
Freelance (Mar. 2023 - PRESENT)
Freelance (Mar. 2023 - PRESENT)
Conduct Needs Assessment, evaluate learning strategy, course and learning materials, activities, and assessments.
Build custom learning solutions for instructor-led, hybrid, and online training.
Interpreter & Translator
Freelance (Aug. 2005 - PRESENT)
Freelance (Aug. 2005 - PRESENT)
Duties and Responsibilities included: Medical and Legal Interpretation, Academic Translation, Language Assessment and Editing.
Organizer & Volunteers Coordinator
Mariposas Collective (Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2023)
Mariposas Collective (Nov. 2018 - Jan. 2023)
Duties and Responsibilities included: Operations Management, Volunteer Management and Coordination, Team Management, Scheduling, Strategy, Partnerships, Volunteer Recruitment, Social Media Communications, Multicultural Communication, Language Interpretation, Fundraising, Diversity Training, Community Engagement.
Board Member
Mid-South Immigration Advocates (Nov. 2019 - May 2022)
Mid-South Immigration Advocates (Nov. 2019 - May 2022)
Duties and Responsibilities included: Budget Oversight, Fundraising, Strategic Planning, Onboarding Training Design, Partnerships, Networking.
Education & Professional Development
Graduate Certificate in Instructional Design & Development
University of Memphis (May 2022)
University of Memphis (May 2022)
Associated Skills: Instructional Design Models, Project Management, Graphic Design, Needs Assessment, Task Analysis, Authoring Tools, Evaluation Methods.
M.A. in Romance Languages: Spanish & Spanish-American Literature
University of Memphis (Aug. 2004)
University of Memphis (Aug. 2004)
Associated Skills: Writing, Editing, Text Analysis, Language Pedagogy, Linguistics.
B.S. + M.S. in Psychology
Universidad de Granada, Spain (Sep. 1998)
Universidad de Granada, Spain (Sep. 1998)
Also, ABD in Social Psychology and Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences.
Associated Skills: Psychology, Assessment, Research Design, Research, Data Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Research Review, Scientific Method, Decision-Making.
Professional Certificates
Negotiation Professional Certificate
American Negotiation Institute | 7 hours - Jun 2024Essential Business Communication Skills Professional Certificate
LinkedIn Learning | 7 hours - Feb 2024DEI Awareness Professional Certificate
LinkedIn Learning | 7 hours - Jan 2024Applying the QM Rubric
QM Quality Matters | 2 weeks - Dec 2023Career Essentials in Project Management
Microsoft & LinkedIn | 14 hours - Apr 2023
Professional Development
Continuous learning is very important to me. You can find a full, updated list of Professional Development courses and certificates at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/federico-gomez-uroz-horst/details/certifications/