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Instructional Design / Learning & Development Specialist / Educator

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Professional Experience
Education
Additional Skills
Presentations
Professional Experience

Team Lead in Education                                                   2025 – present

Asian Community Development Center in Aurora, CO

  • As a volunteer, remotely led a team which planned, designed, and storyboarded eLearning courses for high school students on college prep and wellness.
  • Assisted with the development of internal training materials and course templates; provided feedback on instructional design.

Personal Leave/Development                                             2023 – 2024

  • Designed this portfolio website using HTML, CSS, and WordPress.
  • Completed LinkedIn Learning courses on instructional design, adult learning theories, Articulate Storyline, and SCORM standards.

Instructor of Record                                                             2018 – 2023

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Lectured for in-person, asynchronous, and online synchronous sections of General Psychology and Social Psychology with 30+ students per section.
  • Responsible for the curriculum and multimedia aspects of the courses (presentation slides, video lectures, and data visualizations) while following university guidelines.
  • Utilized student feedback and newly published research in psychology/pedagogy to improve student learning experiences.
  • Integrated online textbook publisher materials with our learning management system, Canvas.

Lab Manager                                                                         2016 – 2018

Reasoning and Memory Lab; University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Managed a diverse, collaborative team of 4-10 undergraduate research assistants.
  • Redesigned lab policies to enhance communication and reduce lost work time.
  • Collaborated with team members on research projects while developing surveys and assessments using Qualtrics.
  • Trained students on lab practices and lab software.
  • Independently performed quantitative/qualitative data collection, encoding, and analysis using SPSS and Excel.

Teaching Assistant                                                                2017 – 2018

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  • Assisted with a graduate-level statistics class for first-year psychology Ph.D. students.
  • Completed classroom management, grading, and tutoring through our learning management system, Blackboard.

Audio Transcriptionist                                                          2016 – 2017

CGBiz Corporation

  • Worked remotely while independently creating, editing, and providing quality assurance for audio transcripts using proprietary software.

Research Assistant                                                                2014 – 2016

Charleston Southern University

  • Assisted Psychology Department professors with literature review plus quantitative/qualitative data collection, encoding, and analysis using SPSS and Microsoft Office.
Education

Master of Arts in Experimental Psychology – June 2020

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Emphasis in Cognitive Psychology

Master’s thesis: Memory and Stereotypes for Lesbian/Gay Characters

Bachelor of Science in Psychology – May 2015

Charleston Southern University

Minors in Biology & French

Additional Skills
Skills Viewable Throughout My Portfolio
  • ADDIE & SAM
  • Attention to Detail
  • HTML & CSS/Web Design
  • Microsoft Office
  • Science Communication
  • Video Scripting & Editing
  • WCAG 2.2 Standards
  • Articulate Storyline
Other Skills Not Listed Under Experience
  • Adobe Photoshop/GIMP
  • Audacity
  • Canva
  • Copy Editing & Technical Support
  • Google Suite
  • Grant Proposal Writing
  • Trello
  • Storyboarding
  • Survey & Assessment Development
  • Qualtrics
  • Workday
  • Zoom, WebEx, & Microsoft Teams
Presentations

Oral Presentations

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (April, 2019). Stereotypes Are Easily Recalled, Rarely Guessed. Presented in the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Psychology’s Research Fair. Las Vegas, NV.

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (October, 2018). Are We Better at Remembering Stereotypical Information About LGBT Individuals? Presented at the Rebel Grad Slam at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV.

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (March, 2018). Memory and Stereotyping of Lesbian/Gay Characters in Narratives. Presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference. Charleston, SC.

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (November, 2017). Three Minute Thesis Talk: Memory and Stereotyping of Lesbian/Gay Characters in Narratives. Presented at the Rebel Grad Slam at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV.

Panels

Student Involvement & Activities (November, 2019). Fall 2019 Developmental Workshops: President’s Panel Luncheon. At the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV.

Rouse, W., Williams, A., & Espinosa, N. (April, 2019).  LGBT Fanning the Page and the Screen: How We Read, See, and React to Queer Content. Presented at the Academic Lab at ClexaCon 2019. Las Vegas, NV.

Poster Presentations

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (November, 2020). Inhibition of Lesbian and Gay Stereotypes for Story Characters. Presented at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. Also presented at the 2021 LGBT+ College Conference (March, 2021). Murfreesboro, TN. Available for viewing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kPTKHBxsLs&t=125s

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (May, 2019). The Influence of Memory and Guessing Bias on Increased Stereotyping of Lesbian and Gay Individuals. Presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Conference. Washington, D.C.

Williams, A. R., & Copeland, D. E. (October, 2017). Research Proposal for Memory and Stereotyping of Lesbian/Gay Characters in Narratives. Presented at the Diversity Research and Mentorship Reception at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV. Also presented at the Annual Graduate & Professional Student Research Forum (February, 2018) at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, NV.

Green, A. S., Williams, A. R., & English, S. T. (March, 2016). Technology Withdrawal in College Students. Presented at the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference. New Orleans, LA.

Williams, A. R., & Sinisi, C. S. (March, 2015). How Gender, Age, and Other Factors Affect an Individual’s Perceptions of Vegetarians. Presented in the CEPO poster session of the Southeastern Psychological Association Conference. Hilton Head, SC. Also presented at the Spring Symposium (April, 2015) at Charleston Southern University. Charleston, SC.

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