Vic Passion

Vic Passion

Sunnyvale, California, United States
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I use global consulting skills to ensure the success of teams, projects and programs…

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    Envision Pharma Group

    Sunnyvale, California, United States

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    Oakland, California, United States

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    Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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    Kornwestheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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    Karlsruhe Area, Germany

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    Redwood Shores, CA

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    San Mateo, CA

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    Walnut Creek, CA

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    Palo Alto, CA

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Education

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Project Management Institute Germany Graphic

    Relations, Southern Germany

    Project Management Institute Germany

    - 1 year 1 month

    Science and Technology

    Identify partnership and sponsorship opportunities with local volunteers to support PMI Southern Germany. Organize sponsor dinner to thank sponsors.

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    Events

    Project Management Institute Germany

    - 1 year 6 months

    Science and Technology

    Organize chapter events for southern Germany

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    Website Editor, translator

    PMI Southern Germany Chapter e.V.

    - 3 months

    Education

    Review English-language web pages and edit them in Joomla. Edit translated articles, translate articles from German to English (using tools such as Deepl) and prepare articles for publication.

  • Room Parent Coordinator

    San Mateo Park Elementary School

    - 10 months

    Education

    Recruited parents to serve as classroom parents. Oriented room parents. Created templates for them to use to communicate events to parents, such as parties. Reminded them of upcoming communication needs.

  • Beach cleanup volunteer

    Curiodyssey

    - Present 9 years 3 months

    Environment

  • Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA Graphic

    Wildlife volunteer

    Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA

    - Present 2 years 1 month

    Animal Welfare

    Caring for wild animals in need, such as abandoned, sick and injured birds, squirrels, raccoons and so on

Publications

  • Best Practices for E-Learning and ADDIE

    The Quality Management Forum

    A guide for those considering e-learning.

  • They’re Experts, But Can They Be Trainers?

    ATD

    There are several scenarios that drive a company to consider using its subject matter experts (SMEs) as trainers. This paper discusses the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that one must consider when preparing SMEs as trainers.

  • Learning Lessons as a Team

    ATD

    This paper discusses the benefits of doing a Lessons Learned session -- also called a post mortem or after action report -- during or after the completion of a project.

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  • An Ounce of Prevention

    ATD

    Risk management is more than a concern for top-level management. In fact, it’s a job everyone can own, and a powerful tool for trainers.

  • Earning Your Stripes

    ATD

    This paper gives an overview of the Project Management Professional credential.

  • Defusing Politically Charged Training Environments

    ATD

    This paper discusses how to let corporate politics and culture differences disrupt your project.

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Projects

  • Product care updates to cobas p 512/p 612 instrument documentation

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  • Oracle Demand Marketing Enablement (via Randstad)

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    Training assessment planning, design, and development

  • Cisco Systems

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    Complete analysis to locate training to recommend for retiring as part of a sales initiative to improve efficiency.

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  • Ericsson (Future State)

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    • Facilitate Nerd Lunches for Ericsson engineers to share their R&D activities with colleagues.
    • Coordinate the recruitment and preparation of presenters.
    • Perform post-production on Nerd Lunch videos in Camtasia and iMovie and post videos on internal Ericsson websites.
    • Performed analysis of attendee satisfaction, made, and implemented recommendations to improve program.

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  • Onyx Pharmaceuticals

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    Deliver instructor-led Livelink delta training to encourage company-wide adoption of this content-management solution. "We had 38 attendees this morning – 30 completed evals and all were ‘good’ or ‘excellent!’"

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  • Travel Company (Future State)

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    • Completed full-scale needs analysis and delivered recommendations for training for a mix of internal and external audiences for their new membership system and business processes.
    • Create training design blueprints.
    • Create virtual instructor-led training deliverables.
    • Fulfill a co-project manager role for the Future State team.

  • Joint Foundations (Future State)

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    • Helped with instructional design, development, and testing of a course titled Advocacy and Lobbying Rules for Private Foundations.

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  • Bank (Future State)

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    • Completed competency and gap analysis. Created course catalog of existing courses, off-the-shelf courses, and recommended courses to fill gaps.
    • Repurposed existing instructor-led Effective Writing course for virtual-classroom delivery. Coached client on how to deliver the course in the new virtual format.
    • Developed Compliance Management eLearning course.
    • Designed and developed Reputation Risk eLearning course.

  • Dolby Laboratories (Future State)

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    • Analyzed employee needs.
    • Designed and developed online onboarding experience titled Dolby Business Basics, which included videos, an illustrated video, and a matrix of products and technologies.
    • Analyze needs on an ongoing basis to maintain and enhance content.

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  • Biotech Company (Future State)

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    • Analyzed client needs and created Effective Technical Writing and Effective Technical Writing for Managers instructor-led training courses.
    • Co-delivered training to entire department of 90 scientists.

  • Genesys Telecommunications Laboratories (Future State)

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    • Made updates to existing eLearning courses as part of conversion to Articulate.

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  • Athens Administrators (Future State)

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    • Analyzed client needs and developed Salesforce.com job aid.

  • San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (Future State)

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    • Analyzed client needs and created scenario-based storyboard for Employee Emergency Action Plan course.

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  • Logitech Inc. (Future State)

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    • Analyzed client needs and created scenario-based storyboards for How Quality Systems Processes Inter-Relate and Protecting the Attorney-Client Privilege at Logitech courses.

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  • Cisco Systems (Future State)

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    • Developed, managed, and executed communication strategies and plans for key strategic projects, primarily for the implementation of Cisco Service Contract Center, a service-sales software program.
    • Ensured project communication strategy was successfully executed across multiple media channels (web, video).
    • Tracked project team status of communication deliverables.
    • Ensured that project messaging was consistent with messaging for the company and the organization.
    • Partnered…

    • Developed, managed, and executed communication strategies and plans for key strategic projects, primarily for the implementation of Cisco Service Contract Center, a service-sales software program.
    • Ensured project communication strategy was successfully executed across multiple media channels (web, video).
    • Tracked project team status of communication deliverables.
    • Ensured that project messaging was consistent with messaging for the company and the organization.
    • Partnered with Executive/Strategic Communication Managers to ensure alignment and integration with executive/functional communications and messaging.
    • Partnered with Change Management Lead to ensure seamless integration with organizational adoption plan for project including training materials and delivery.

Languages

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Elementary proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

Organizations

  • Project Management Institute

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