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Skills:Training and Development,ILT,WBT,LMS,Inst Designer, Training and Development,ILT,WBT,LMS,Inst Designer

Senior Instructional Designer 01/2013 - current
IBM Ltd., Gurgaon, Haryana India
Industry: IT, Learning Development
As Portfolio/Senior instructional Designer, Pooja’s job responsibilities include, o Interacting with clients and proposing learning solutions based on initial discovery o Interacting with subject matter experts for requirements gathering, design walkthrough, audience analysis, and content clarifications o Reviewing eLearning modules, storyboards, media, and functionality o Mentoring team members and helping them develop skills o Designing and delivering learning and training solutions to suit the respective client/Business Unit needs
As a Leadership Development Project Manager, Pooja’s job responsibilities include, o Working in close association with the Director of Leadership Development in the organization to analyze, design, and implement leadership development programs o Manage the leadership development projects o Linking leadership development programs with the intended audience, analyzing gaps, and facilitate the designing of trainings to fill the gap.--
Manager Instructional Design 07/2011 - 12/2012
Genpact Ltd., Gurgaon, Haryana India
Industry: IT, Learning Development
As an Instructional Design Manager/Project Lead, Pooja’s job responsibilities include, o Managing teams including instructional designers, media developers, programmers, and project coordinators
o Interacting with clients and proposing learning solutions based on initial discovery o Creating project plans and milestones, managing resources, ensuring the deliverables meet the timelines o Interacting with subject matter experts for requirements gathering, design walkthrough, audience analysis, and content clarifications o Reviewing eLearning modules, storyboards, media, and functionality o Mentoring team members and helping them develop skills o Designing and delivering learning and training solutions to suit the respective client/Business Unit needs--
Learning Specialist 11/2007 - 06/2011
IBM Ltd., Gurgaon, Haryana India
Industry: IT, Learning Development
As a Learning Specialist with the Learning & Interactive Media Innovation Center, Pooja’s job responsibilities included, o Capturing client’s needs o Designing and delivering learning and training solutions (E-Learning) to suit the respective client/Business Unit needs o Applying accessibility principles (508 standards) to all project documents o Storyboarding for online trainings (ILT/CBT/WBT,QuickViews)
o Developing Articulate and Flash-based courses o Developing and maintaining instructional design specific documents, such as style guides, schedule and defect tracking sheets in conjunction with the overall project plan--
Instructional Designer 09/2004 - 10/2007
NIIT Ltd., New Delhi, Delhi India
Industry: IT, Learning Development
As the Consultant, Pooja’s main responsibilities were to interact with the SME’s and project stakeholder to identify the training needs, design solutions and strategies for implementing the solution, and then to develop training and self help nuggets for the target audience.
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Technical Author 04/2001 - 08/2004
Wiley Dreamtech, India, New Delhi, Delhi India
Industry: Publishing
As a Technical Author, Pooja’s main responsibilities included, developing the content of technical/computer science-based reference books and e-books for the university and high school level students and updating the existing content to match the technology updates.
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University of Delhi 06/1997 - 06/2000
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major:English Literature
Minor:Hindi
Bachelors degree in English Literature

Pooja Sharma Instructional Designer, Training Lead, Learnning and Development