journey - dr jason t

# My Journey 🌄 You can find more information in my CV ([PDF](https://1drv.ms/b/c/13829E5D2EB238DE/IQBPRcnaS7nwTqSIYKi15WYCAaY6pHczk9eYqUUHektWs98?e=b3L73H)). <div class="timeline"> <ul> <li>2020 – 2025 <img src="gwu-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Director, Strategic Digital Learning Initiatives @ George Washington University <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Washington, DC Spent 5 years taking on multiple challenges while joining only 3 months into COVID-19. Transformed a team of creative professionals for enhanced roles and greater impact, reworked learning operations of online course development for greater value and sustainability, drove the Adobe Creative Campus initiative from the academic side, created and delivered programming to enhance faculty digital fluency, and led the response and development of programming with university partners to generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI).</li> <li>2020 – 2021 <img src="gift-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Learning Design Consultant @ Global Institute for Fiscal Transparency <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Washington, DC Shortly after starting at GWU, an old colleague connected me with GIFT as they sought someone that could help them quickly build their first MOOC. Over 3 months I fully designed a 10 module course, planned and drafted the multimedia, and gave guidance on both costs and how to produce the course with web developers and creative professionals.</li> <li>2018 – 2020 <img src="bah-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Manager, Finance Learning and Development @ Booz Allen Hamilton <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp McLean, VA Sought a shift after the IMF to gain some experience in the private sector and see how learning is done there. I managed the full finance curriculum, collaborated with multiple L&D teams, and was deep in learning operations daily. It was a lot and made me very effective operationally.</li> <li>2014 – 2018 <img src="imf-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Projects Officer, Instructional Designer @ International Monetary Fund <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Washington, DC Joined the IMF at the front-end of their effort to embrace digital learning and create a new program around Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for government officials and the general public. I led the design and launch of 8 MOOCs, establishing content standards, transformed media with some amazing creative professionals, and create a new project management system. This experience significantly shaped me and defined 'mission' in the best way possible.</li> <li>2013 – 2014 <img src="mit-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Instructional Designer @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Cambridge, MA Upon completing my doctoral defense, I joined MIT as part of an initiative to build a new university in Moscow, Russia — the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. I contributed to the programmatic vision and curriculum design for new graduate engineering programs, built interdisciplinary engineering curriculum, and worked across teams to integrate technology, business principles, entrepreneurship, and systems design into a hands-on education.</li> <li>2008 – 2013 <img src="ttu-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Graduate Assistant & Instructor @ Texas Tech University <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Lubbock, TX After returning to the US, I took some important time with family and decided that I wanted to build a career in education. So I started my graduate studies at TTU. Here I served as a graduate assistant synthesizing research findings and writing on educational technology applications for adult and child learners. Then later, spending 4.5 years serving as Instructor of Record for sections of an undergraduate course on integrating digital technologies in K-12 teaching.</li> <li>2005 – 2007 <img src="synu-logo.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Instructor @ Shenyang Normal University <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Shenyang, Liaoning, China Left rural China to join a university standing-up a new College of Business and leveraging foreign teachers from the US, Europe, and Australia. I served as Instructor of Record for first-year undergraduate business students, teaching conversational English and writing skills.</li> <li>2004 – 2005 <img src="china-flag.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Instructor (Grades 10-12) @ Pingdingshan #1 Senior Middle School <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Pingdingshan, Henan, China After spending the summer in the US, I returned to the same rural town I was previously at, but this time alone. Taught spoken English and American culture to high school students and rarely saw foreigners/老外. This was a full cultural immersion.</li> <li>2003 – 2004 <img src="china-flag.png" style="width: 5%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp Instructor (Grades K-9) @ Wellent Bilingual School <img src="map-pin-5.png" style="width: 4%; height: auto;">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp Pingdingshan, Henan, China Left the US for a planned 1 year in rural China to teach basic conversational English skills to kindergarten through grade 9 students. Little did I know that this planned 1 year would turn into 4 years that set a direction for my career and family paths.</li> </ul> </div>