Christine Bower

Design complex, highly-interactive blended learning solutions for LinkedIn’s Sales Readiness Learning Strategy & Design team.

Curriculum development, course creation, visual design, code, assessments, and QA for Blueprint eLearning, Facebook’s global training and certification program.

+ In under a year, delivered six net new courses and seven major course updates while managing and maintaining a slate of over twenty topic areas in total.
+ Closely collaborated with developers and translation vendors; assisted with onboarding colleagues.
+ Developed and sustained strong relationships with a shifting roster of over thirty cross-functional subject matter experts around the globe, while proactively monitoring ever-changing products and features.

Curriculum design and instructional content for Scaled Education/Creator Solutions at YouTube.

+ YouTube Certified: Developed educational content and defined success metrics for internal YouTube staff and large enterprise organizations in specialized areas such as data analytics, audience development and engagement, monetization, programming strategy, and rights management.
+ YouTube Brand Partner Program: Coordinated six remote SMEs to develop a branded content strategy curriculum for in-house and agency marketers. The in-person pilot workshop was presented in NYC to 80 account executives representing dozens of Fortune 500 companies. With feedback from this audience, built out content for four online courses that launched in June 2016.
+ YouTube Creator Academy: Wrote scripts for instructional videos; assisted on video shoots. Wrote and QAed written lessons to accompany videos. Designed and published graphics for online lessons, and for swag. Developed effective assessments. Created interface notifications, mediating content between SMEs/engineers/data scientists and users. Vetted localization of all content into 22 languages.

Designed, wrote, and coded content for online educational products. Collaborated and QAed with remote team of content producers, subject matter experts, designers, and engineers. Developed a deep understanding of pedagogical and adult-learner best practices. Led in-person coding workshops; taught an in-person Introduction to Adobe Illustrator course.

+ Circuits: Wrote scripts for instructional videos. Created Data Analysis Circuits slide decks and code challenges. Designed, coded, and wrote all Code Challenges for Web Design Circuits.
+ Dash for Tumblr: Worked with Tumblr team to design six Dash lessons that teach users with minimal HTML and CSS skills how to build their own Tumblr themes.
+ Dash: Designed, wrote, and coded lessons that teach people to make awesome websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.