Welcome & Introductions

Hi everyone! I'm Taylor Sakinsky, and I work from the comfort of my home in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I'm a Senior Instructional Designer with I-CAR (shoutout to my fellow teammates in this cohort!👋), and I just hit my 2nd anniversary on February 12th, so I am fairly new to instructional design, but I have loved every second of it!

Our organization develops training for the collision repair industry, so we work closely with various vehicle manufacturers and subject matter experts to get quality information out to the industry. We use Storyline for all new courses and we're dipping our toes into Rise for the future as well, so I'm excited to see how the various AI features can help us even further!

My husband and I are a typical millennial household with two dogs who rule our world. We just bought a house, mostly so they can have a backyard 🤣 It's their world, and we're just living in it! 

Kiki is our brindle baby on the left. She's 2 and utterly obsessed with bananas and her big brother. Duke is our sweet boy on the right, and he just turned 5. He loves getting cozy under blankets and loves to play fetch with his ball (although he doesn't quite get the whole "drop it" concept, so he holds onto it like a pacifier).