Rick Huebsch

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About Rick Huebsch

Expert Senior Instructional Designer, Curriculum Developer, and Senior Project Manager capable of leading the design, development, and delivery of learning solutions that substantially improve standards of excellence, reduce time to performance and decrease cost of implementation; • Ten years of experience designing and developing eLearning courses, games, game and scenario-based learner-centric experiences using state of the art applications, including Storyline, Rise, and Camtasia; • Five years of experience in sales and sales management; • Twenty-five years of experience designing and developing training that improves sales performance; • Formal education related to instructional design, adult learning theory, change theory, and leadership; • Twenty-two years of experience in leading standardization initiatives, such as ADDIE, reusable information objects, and the transformation of traditional instructor-led courses into interactive eLearning solutions; • Capability to lead teams to accomplish project and business imperatives, and produce performance metrics that demonstrate ROI; A track record of success working virtually and leading distributed teams. INSTRUCTIONAL AND GAME-BASED LEARNING DESIGN AND DELIVERY HIGHLIGHTS • Create engaging game-based, case-based, and scenario-based learning solutions that contributeS significantly to the achievement of revenue and customer loyalty goals • Lead content developers in the redesign of learning models for sales audiences, from product to sales-centric • Design curricula and courses to address knowledge and skill gaps, and required business competencies • Collaborate with Product, Marketing and HR Managers to improve “time-to-money” and “time-to-productivity” • Design systems that enable a target audience to achieve a baseline of knowledge and skills competence • Apply emergent technologies to improve efficient and effective design and delivery of learning • Build “fast-track” end-to-end development processes, from needs assessment to level four evaluation • Implement strategic and tactical levels of evaluating, planning, and implementing eLearning systems • Repurpose existing instructor-led content for online delivery to reduce new-hire and sales training expenses