Week 1 Welcome & Introductions

Hello, my name is Tracy Parker, and I am a Project Manager IV in Sales and Account Management at Kaiser Permanente, California Region. I have been in this role for four years, but prior to that, I worked as a Design & Delivery Consultant (instructional designer) for Kaiser. Although I stepped into a PM role, my passion has always been learning and development. Prior to my current role, I have worked as an instructor, technical writer, and instructional designer for more than two decades.

In reading through some of my cohort members' descriptions of their work, I get jealous because I long to be doing instructional design work again full-time. :(  Anyhow, I do get to do some design work in my PM role, which makes me very happy. Since knowing how to use AI tools is increasingly important in the field of Learning & Development, I wanted to use this opportunity to sharpen my eLearning design skills so that when I return to the field full-time, I won't be behind my peers.

I look forward to learning alongside the rest of the group and seeing and hearing how everyone will use this new tool in their work. 

No doggie picture. Sorry. :(