Multimedia Producer

Welcome to My Website!

Hello! I am Dr. Brenda I. López Ortiz. Nice to meet you!

On This Website...

you will learn about my

instructional design skills,
teaching/training experience,
multimedia production skills
web design and development work
academic background,
scholarship, and
career highlights.

My Role in Its Development

I...

installed and configured Drupal, its themes & modules,
modified the theme CSS styles, and
entered and organized the content.

Please Bear with Me!

As I

renew some of the content,
- (some old files may have design styles I don't use anymore but still thought one or more aspects were worth sharing)
remediate files, and
ensure pages are formatted correctly for mobile devices.

Do you want to get a taste of my creativity? Check out this LinkedIn post where I share the lyrics I wrote to the tune of We Don't Talk about Bruno as I reviewed the Universal Design for Learning guidelines!

Thank you for visiting!
I hope you like what you see and are inspired to consider me for a remote senior-level instructional design position! :)

Instructional Design

Learn about my instructional design skills, and how I approach the design process.

Teaching

Discover my teaching experience at various levels and educational contexts.

Web Design/Dev

Explore my job positions as web designer/developer and work samples.

Highlights

Obtain information about my awards and honors, fellowships, and grants.

Multimedia Production

Read about where I have worked and what I have done as a multimedia developer.

Scholarship

View my scholarly work including research, degrees, certificates, & certifications.

Professional Experience

Educational professional with 30 years of experience

Job Positions

Throughout those 30 years, I have worn many hats!

Instructional Settings

I have designed learning experiences in 4 different types of settings: Professional Development, Higher Ed - Undergraduate and Graduate, and Middle School.

Modalities

I have designed learning experiences for face-to-face, online and hybrid modalities using a wide range of instructional technologies to share information, for communication and collaboration.

Commendations

Multiple stakeholders have commended my work over the years.
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Certificate of Recognition for Service Excellence

Dear Brenda, thank you for your leadership, your sense of urgency and the great work you do every day as an instructional designer for our team. You are very talented and exceptionally competent and prompt. You are very creative with your solutions for our clients and improving our internal processes and websites. I look forward to working with you because I always learn something new. I particularly appreciate your improvements to our websites and use those pages constantly as takeaway resources to my workshop participants. Thanks again for your exemplary work and stay safe!

Rafael Perez | Co-worker
Florida International University
May 2020

Multiple stakeholders have commended my work over the years.
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I must say how much I like what you’ve done. Your work has made me realize how absolutely essential an instructional designer is. I’m sure that if some of our failing students at UWI had the benefit of such input into courses, they would have had greater success. ...

Your work is absolutely essential to the improvement of learning outcomes, I believe. Thank you for the opportunity to have collaborated!!! It has been a huge eye-opener.

Heather Ricketts | SME
University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Multiple stakeholders have commended my work over the years.
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I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to Instructional Designer extraordinaire. She is a hard worker, committed to the task, self-motivated and I believe would be an asset to any organization.

Elizabeth "Ely" Rios, Ed.D. | Former Academic Dean
UNAD Florida
October 2015

Multiple stakeholders have commended my work over the years.
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The course redesign process you showed me was very sound and I learned a lot from you. You have a gift for doing that kind of work. I hope you continue.

Jorge Yinat, PhD | Subject Matter Expert – Business Administration
UNAD Florida
January 2016

Multiple stakeholders have commended my work over the years.
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…I believe FIU is a great place with great people like yourself. Whether you realize it or not, you played a role in me enjoying my time serving FIU... I SINCERELY APPRECIACTE [sic.] YOU and think FIU has a star worth highlighting.

Mark Green | Former Compliance Manager & SME
Florida International University
June 2020

Professional Objective

And all of that just to “see the sparkle in the eyes” of learners who “get it”.