Keys to Margie's Passion

Questions About Me

Who am I?

Professionally: I am a Certified Professional in Training and Performance (CPTP) instructional designer and educator with 20+ years of experience in the life science/pharmaceuticals, IT, insurance, and education industries. My expertise includes instructional design, eLearning, and curriculum/content development for life science, healthcare, and pharmaceutical compliance training, SaaS for cloud-computing and insurance, career transition, and education. I am recognized for curating technical content, implementing performance-driven learning design, streamling processes with generative AI and organizational skills, and fostering strong team collaboration to deliver impactful learning solutions that meet clients' needs.

Personally: I am a wife and mother of 3 young adults.

What do I do?

Professionally: I am currently a Senior Instructional Designer at LHT Learning, where I work with a team of instructional designers, medical writers, project managers, subject matter experts, graphic designers, editors, and strategists to design learning solutions for the life sciences, biotech, and healthcare industries. Additionally, one of my favorite projects was rapidly designing and developing 6 Articulate Rise courses for a SaaS cloud-computing company. Formerly, I worked for Red Nucleus as an Instructional Designer within its training institute division (RNTI/LSTI) for designing on-demand GxP products.

Personally: I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, hiking, biking, walking/running, skiing, reading, and watching movies. I also enjoy listening to music, singing, and playing my flute in a small ensemble, singing in a community choir, and serving my church community.

What are my interests?

Professionally: I'm willing and excited to unlock and open doors that lead to new possibilities and passions! Currently, I co-plan and lead our team meetings to discuss current trends in instructional design. I am fascinated by new AI tools and technologies that can enhance learning, streamline processes, and help stir creativity. I'm interested in exploring anything learning—AI, AR, VR, mixed reality, microlearning, video, graphics, and gamification—to provide exciting learning solutions!

Personally: If I'm not doing the activities already mentioned, you can find me reading and learning about many industry topics and using Canva and Amazon Photos to design cards, posters, photo books/calendars, and flyers!

Where am I going?

Professionally: My goal is to continue to work and collaborate with a team of professionals who are passionate about designing and developing learning solutions. My preferred industries would be in life science, biotech, and technology, but I am open to other opportunities. Regardless of where I work, I want to continue to hone my instructional design and eLearning developer skills, and lead with integrity.

Personally: I work hard. As a result, my goal is to improve my work/life balance, take more time to enjoy my family, do more activities that I enjoy, and cherish the simple things of life. Life is short, and the key to unlocking my heart to personal passions is important, too.

Professional Testimonials

LHT Learning and Clients

Lillian van Wyngaarden Richardson, Former Instructional Designer at LHT

"I’ve had the absolute pleasure of working alongside Margie on several internal initiatives on the same instructional design team, and I can confidently say she is one of the most talented, collaborative, and thoughtful instructional designers I’ve worked with.

Beyond her technical skills, Margie is a standout team player. She consistently fosters an open, supportive space for ideation, brainstorming, and candid conversations. She’s also deeply committed to the growth and engagement of her peers."

Jay Mikelman, Former Project Manager at LHT

"I had the pleasure of serving as the PM on several projects that Margie has been the Instructional Designer on. Margie has a strong work ethic, great attention to detail, delivers quality work, and is great at interacting with clients.

One particular project stands out in my mind when I think of Margie: A series of 15+ vILTs that Margie worked on. Over the course of the project, we had at least 6 different Instructional Designers do work. However, once Margie was put on the project, I made sure that she stayed on! She quickly took the initiative to run the project from the Instructional Design side.

Margie completed deliverables on time and routed them to the next person in the process. Her colleagues - including myself - enjoyed working with her, and she had a great relationship with the client. The project wasn't easy, and she crushed it!"

Julie Zeller, Revenue Enablement Curriculum Developer at Nutanix

Julie shared that the Nutanix Articulate Rise project I designed and developed with her team of SMEs went over very well in a corporate presentation for the company's technical systems engineers. She said, "PRISM went over like cherry-topped Gold, and it inspired a heck of a lot more projects for my department!" I really enjoyed working on this project!

Red Nucleus (RN)

LSTI/RNTI Department

This professional recognition was posted after completing six months with the company as an Instructional Designer.

Amanda Wollert, Former Senior Learning Strategist at RN

"Margie is a very hard-working, dedicated instructional designer. She carefully analyzes the need, asks questions to better understand the desired outcome, and makes sound suggestions for developing the content. I appreciate how Margie was willing to switch priorities and offer her ideas to address business needs."

After being let go due to company downsizing, Amanda also shared, I "appreciate all your hard work and dedication for building the on-demand content. You updated an entire GXP curriculum, which is the best available! That's a nice accomplishment you should be proud of. Thank you for all that you did!"

Bill Beyer, Former Director of Training at RN

"Margie was a tremendous asset to our GxP module development efforts with RN. She was able to quickly pick up complex subject matter and design content - with context - that is clear, engaging, and immediately actionable for the end user. Margie also possesses an ability to find subtle ways to improve training design, using metaphors in content writing and diverse mechanical tools to improve interaction. Truly a rare blend of skills for an Instructional Designer. Margie works hard and gets projects done on time, too. I recommend her without reservation."

Stephen Sciochetti, VP of Sales and Scientific Services and RNTI at RN

Stephen Sciochetti stated these strengths for Margie: