I help technology companies turn complex products, launches, and software changes into clear, scalable learning experiences that drive adoption. With nine years of experience across SaaS and K–12 education, I bring expertise in learning strategy, customer education, product enablement, curriculum architecture, and data-driven needs analysis. I design the systems and learning experiences that help customers understand products, confidently adopt new workflows, and get more value from the technology they use.

Available for fractional Learning & Development leadership and project-based consulting.

Fractional Learning Partner for SaaS Teams

Ways to Work Together

From focused project engagements to ongoing fractional leadership, I offer flexible support based on your team's learning and customer education needs.

Services

Learning Strategy & Architecture

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Customer Education & Product Adoption

Let’s build scalable learning systems aligned to business goals, customer needs, and product adoption.

Let’s turn complex products, launches, and software changes into learning experiences that help users adopt and apply new workflows.

Learning Experience Design

Let’s turn strategy into scalable learning with eLearning, video, microlearning, assessments, job aids, and customer academies.

Content Operations

Let’s fix what’s not working with content audits, LMS/academy optimization, learning analytics, and content governance.

Impact

Explore the impact of some of my past projects. Each project reflects my drive to deliver thoughtful, effective training.

Training Strategy for Enterprise Software Overhaul

Led the end-to-end curriculum design and training strategy for a large-scale SaaS product overhaul, where thousands of nonprofit customers needed to successfully transition to new workflows without disrupting their operations. Poor adoption would mean increased support costs, customer churn, and damage to retention.

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Challenge
A major SaaS product overhaul was going to disrupt thousands of nonprofit customers.

Business Risk
Poor adoption could increase support ticket volume, create customer friction, and affect retention.

What I Did

  • Analyzed support and adoption data

  • Conducted skill-gap analysis

  • Prioritized high-risk workflows

  • Partnered with Product, Success, Support, and Marketing

  • Designed the learning architecture

  • Built multimodal learning library

  • Created reusable/updateable assets

Results

98% adoption
9.17 CSAT score
Reduced customer support requests

Scaling Customer Education to 15,000+ Users

This curriculum comprised 50 instructor-led, eLearning, and microlearning courses that have been consumed over 94,000 times by more than 15,000 customers, making it one of the highest-reach training programs in Blackbaud's customer education portfolio.

Understanding the audience shaped every design decision. Learners were busy accounting professionals operating across global time zones, balancing compliance demands with day-to-day responsibilities. That context drove a deliberate choice toward efficiency and clarity.

The curriculum was built using a modern, lean production stack chosen to balance quality with maintainability:

  • Articulate Rise for responsive, self-paced eLearning

  • Articulate Storyline for branched software simulations

  • Camtasia & Audacity for video and audio production

  • Descript for captioning and accessibility compliance

Every tool choice was intentional, keeping content easy to update as the software evolved.

50

instructor-led and eLearning courses developed

15,000+

number of customers who consumed the courses

30%

increase in renewal rates for those who took training

Year
2022-2026

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NASBA/CFRE Compliance Program Management

Blackbaud's Continuing Education program offers customers the ability to earn professional credits toward two highly regulated credentials — NASBA (National Association of State Boards of Accountancy) and CFRE (Certified Fundraising Executive). For customers in accounting and fundraising roles, these credits are a professional requirement.

When I took ownership of the program, it was at risk of noncompliance. With 1,500 courses, webinars, and conferences requiring accurate credit tracking, the cracks in the system had real consequences for customers, and for Blackbaud's standing as an approved credit provider.

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Year
2022-2026

WCAG 2.1 AA Compliance Accessibility Audit & Remediation

As a customer education team serving tens of thousands of users globally, Blackbaud's learning materials needed to be usable by everyone, including learners with visual, auditory, and cognitive disabilities.

I conducted comprehensive accessibility audits across the full content library, spanning eLearning courses (Articulate Rise and Storyline), PDFs and job aids, videos, and instructor-led materials, evaluating each against WCAG 2.1 AA standards.

Impact

  • Remediated a broad content library against WCAG 2.1 AA requirements

  • Made learning materials accessible to a wider range of customers across ability levels

  • Reduced legal and compliance exposure for Blackbaud at enterprise scale

Office or meeting room with a wooden table, a cactus in a metal pot, a silver laptop, a notebook, and a pen. In the background, there is a bookshelf with a camera, some boxes, and a framed picture of a dog on an orange background. A blue office chair is visible on the right, and a window with natural light is partly visible.

Sample Training Course

How to Write Effective Assessments in Articulate Rise

Explore this eLearning course I built in Articulate Rise about How to Write Effective Assessments. This course includes learning objectives, lively graphics, clear sections that divide the content, practical examples, and assessment questions that measure whether learners grasped the key concepts. 

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Articulate Rise

Year
2025

Sample Learning Design

Free K-3 Math Assessment Tool for Teachers

Explore this intuitive, beautiful, and highly functional assessment tool designed so that educators can quickly access quality math assessments without a paywall. The layout reads top-to-bottom in exactly the order a teacher thinks, and has a strong visual hierarchy with one clear primary action.

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CSS/HTML

Year
2026

  • "Annie consistently transforms complex, dry topics into engaging learning experiences. Her curriculum design is strategic, well-structured, and focused on measurable outcomes. Programs she builds are easy to implement and immediately impactful for both teachers and students."

    — Alex P.

  • "Annie knows how to take big, complex training needs and turn them into learning systems that actually work at scale. She’s practical, organized, and always focused on outcomes that matter for teams, not just polished content."

    — Barbara N.

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End-to-End LMS Migration

Migrated and developed 280 items for homeschool science curriculum.

This project included the end-to-end LMS migration of science curriculum from Canvas to Publish Anywhere for a K-12 publishing company. BookShark needed to urgently transfer their virtual curriculum from one LMS to another. I designed and developed over 280 lessons and assessments with an easily-navigable visual design to ensure that young students stayed engaged while completing their coursework.

Designing for young learners was a priority. With an audience of students ages 8-12, it was important to use UX/UI principles to design intuitive lessons and assessments with no distractions.

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HTML/CSS, Standards Alignment, UX/UI

Year
2021

Get in Touch

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Education and Conferences


NASBA Summit

2025


TechLearn Conference

2024

2024
2023


SXSW EDU


Bachelor of Arts / St. Lawrence University


Master of Education / Plymouth State University