Spokeo

Spokeo is a people search engine that makes the world more transparent with data. With over 14 billion records and 15 million visitors per month, we reconnect friends, reunite families, prevent fraud, and more.

Principal UX Writer

Laskie (acquired by Twitter)

Laskie is a job matchmaking platform that makes getting a tech job as easy as a dating app. Laskie was acquired by X/Twitter in 2023. 

$6M in funding from Bloomberg Beta, Peak State Ventures, AngelList Venture, Fourth Realm, Adapt Ventures, and more.

• Designed end-to-end user onboarding, messaging system, and flows to increase speed, conversion, and retention by 300-500%
• Partnered with engineering to build proprietary job matchmaking system (taxonomy, ontology, process) to make getting a job like a dating app
• Created product marketing materials: designed the Reverse Apply product to have jobs apply to people

Product/Content Lead

Cluster

Cluster is a vertical job marketplace that matches hardware and electrical engineers to companies like SpaceX and Tesla. Funded by Mark Cuban, ECMC Group, Dan Rosensweig (Chegg), Frank Britt (Penn Foster), Mark Pincus (Zynga), and Richard Sarnoff (KKR).

• Created unique values assessment tool and matching system to allow people to match to companies based on shared values
• Designed novel SMS onboarding process to 10x user engagement via text messages instead of in-app experiences
• Researched and pivoted company strategy to laser-focus on 3 core industries instead of 30 broader ones, leading to 5x increase in user engagement and successful user experiences

Product Operations Lead

Indeed.com

Indeed is the world’s largest job site, with over 300M unique visitors per month.

• Built Indeed Assessments, the largest assessments platform in the world (1B+ assessments completed per year)
• Designed and wrote end-to-end automated phone screen tool (5M+ completed per year)
• Designed assessments system, form factor, conducted market research and competitor intel to design unique product with product-market fit
• Designed quantified roadmap, proprietary method of calculating ROI of each assessment based on location, industry, and job title

Associate Principal Content Designer

Interviewed (acquired by Indeed.com)

Interviewed was a Y Combinator-backed assessments startup that we scaled quickly and was acquired by Indeed in 2017.

• Designed initial assessments library based on user research to quickly scale product from 10 to 1,000 customers
• Partnered with transition team at Indeed to redesign assessments form factor to prepare for successful acquisition and product merger
• Led content transition team efforts to ensure successful migration after acquisition by Indeed

Assessments Content Manager / Content Team Lead

Collegiate School

Collegiate is a top boys’ K-12 private school on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

• Designed new K-12 STEM curriculum (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) for top private school in NYC
• Researched cutting-edge educational and technological methods to make learning more engaging for students
• Produced and co-founded TEDxNYED, the first TEDx education conference in New York City featuring major speakers from USC, Columbia, and NYU

Technologist & STEM Faculty

Big Think

Co-created top-15 iTunes podcast “Think Again” with Jason Gots. Wrote various articles on politics, voting systems, and social issues for Big Think’s website.

Writer / Top-15 iTunes Podcast Co-Creator

The Thursday Problem

Wrote, directed, and/or produced over 20 plays in NYC. Wrote and directed a short film, “Cold Fusion.”

Playwright / Producer / Filmmaker

Round Seven Media

Co-founded film production company in NYC. Produced 4 short films which screened at festivals.

Co-Founder & Film Producer

The Center for Election Science

The Center for Election Science is the US’s pre-eminent voting reform organization, studying and advocating for better voting systems.

• Designed brand strategy for a pre-eminent voting reform organization, leading to 10x number of donors, increased engagement, and new chapters around the US
• Produced and presented events and talks such as The History of Voting Systems, featuring esteemed political scientists from NYU and UPenn
• Produced first video on “What Is Approval Voting”, leading to 295K+ views on YouTube

Director

Web2 is broken. I can help you fix it. 

Hi, I'm Eric! I make things that work, and I make things work. 

I’m a results-driven, highly-strategic, multidimensional Content Designer, UX Writer, and Digital Experience Strategist with 15+ years of experience. I built the content design system at Indeed that allowed us to quickly scale to become the largest assessments platform in the world (1B+ completed per year, $80M in revenue). 

I’m equally adept at building new experiences and fixing broken ones. I’ve helped build 3 successful startups (Interviewed was acquired by Indeed, Laskie was acquired by X), produced talks, videos, and conferences on technology, education, and voting systems (TEDxNYED, Left Forum, The Center for Election Science), created a top-15 iTunes podcast (Think Again for Big Think), and founded the STEM program at a top prep school in NYC (Collegiate). I've designed sports statistics, betting systems, and voting system algorithms since I was a kid. I've written multiple plays and films and associate-produced Broadway shows.

With my hybrid enterprise/startup/education/data/creative mentality, I thrive on cross-functional, multidisciplinary teams, and I can also roll up my sleeves and work alone to ship things. I write and design end-to-end flows, messaging systems, and product copy that maximizes conversion. I’m an expert in designing and running tests.

My expertise working alongside stakeholders includes: content design, UX writing, design systems, digital marketing, content strategy, product operations, mobile design, user research, A/B testing, QA, automation, user onboarding and education, project management, legal compliance, and accessibility.

Growth = UX + Content + Product + Data

esandmanLA@gmail.com

Eric Sanders

Quinnipiac University

I teach: "Understanding Film," Film History 1900 to 1970, Film History 1970 to the Present, and a Freshman Writing Seminar on the World Picture Essay.

Lecturer

Creative Learning Arts, LLC

SELECTED CONSULTING PROJECTS

(*) QA for the learning design on multiple projects for an international design firm, including 1200+ learning assets (video scripts, interactives, etc.) for a corporate client and Rise storyboards and finished interactives for a publishing venture.
(*) Designed flagship required graduate course for a top-ten MBA program in order to pilot new pedagogical and 
(*) Wrote scripts for 12 eight-minute educational videos for a top-30 national university. 
(*) Facilitated the instructional design process for up to a dozen graduate-level courses for a major national online program manager.
(*) Consultant for grant-funded educational research project at USC.
(*) Wrote test materials for a major academic publisher.
(*) Designed & facilitated day-long retreat for faculty development professionals at Salve Regina University.
(*) Analyzed 300+ pages of training materials for implementation of effective research-based learning strategies, recommended revisions.
(*) Analyzed online courses for an online education company focused on entrepreneurship, applied research-based learning techniques, made recommendations for program evaluation.
(*) SME/designer for a massive online course in learning science launched Summer 2017.
(*) SME for an online M.A. in Instructional Design launched Fall 2016.



WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

Designed and facilitated a daylong workshop "Instructional Design for the Absolute Beginner" for NERCOMP: 2014, 2015 & 2018.

Design thinking workshops:

New Media Consortium 2017 Annual Meeting. Boston.
NERCOMP: Norwood, MA. 2016 and 2017.
Educause Learning Initiative Annual Meeting 2017. Houston, TX. 
Bryn Mawr College: Bryn Mawr, PA.

Summer faculty development workshops for first-time online instructors at University of North Carolina: 2013, 2014, 2015.

Consultant

* Earned a Ph.D. from UCLA Film School.

* Studied screenwriting at UCLA.

* Have taught screenwriting for five+ years, including at San Francisco State University.

* My scripts have finished in the top 5-10% in national screenwriting contests.

* Also write and publish on film, notably a dozen 500-to-1,000-word entries in the Oxford History of World Cinema.

* Have coached aspiring screenwriters to complete their first spec script in three to five months. 

* Wrote a dozen six-to-eight-minute instructional video scripts for a graduate-level MBA course in marketing at a top-five B-school.

Screenwriting & Coaching

Lake Tahoe Community College

(*) Designed and taught seven plus fully online courses, including:

_ a sequence of three courses on world film history, 
_ two online screenwriting workshops (beginning and intermediate), 
_ a single "introduction to film" course (film analysis), 
_ the introductory theatre appreciation course, 
_ a micro-course on the horror film.

(*) Migrated courses from a Sakai-based platform to Canvas.
(*) Integrated blogging on WordPress into first-year humanities courses.

Adjunct Instructor and Course Designer

Stanford University

This is a nine-month-long fellowship terminated in a revised version of an online course I teach for a California Community College: "World Cinema Since 1965."

The fellowship runs through the spring of 2022, but owing to the way LinkedIn organizes profiles, I have used a shorter timeline. 

https://sgs.stanford.edu/outreachcommunity-collegefellowship-program/meet-2021-22-epic-community-college-fellows

EPIC Faculty Fellow in Global Studies 

ansrsource

Review other instructional designers' work, recommend revisions, make revisions.
Review instructional design work reviewed by the client, implement any additional requests.
Organize project-wide resources, such as glossaries.

Instructional Design QA

Noodle Partners

(*) Worked on special projects, including troubleshooting course design obstacles and bottlenecks, and mentoring colleagues on QA for online course design.
(*) Coached faculty new to online instruction about using Canvas and Zoom effectively.
(*) Taught Zoom pedagogy to groups of faculty new to teaching online.
(*) Developed multi-day online workshops on pedagogical techniques and tools, including problem-based instruction and building interactive learning experiences.

Instructional Design Consultant

Yale University

RESPONSIBILITIES

(*) Consult with faculty to support effective, efficient & engaging teaching with technology.
(*) Serve as internal consultant about instructional design on projects.
(*) Partner with intramural groups to knit together effective support services.
(*) Organize learning technology projects.

TYPICAL ENGAGEMENTS

(*) Produce podcast on teaching and learning at Yale.
(*) LMS support and planning support for an LMS transition. 
(*) Use information mapping/structured writing for analysis, planning, and communication.
(*) Build public-facing web site to support self-directed learning of algebra-based physics concepts.
(*) Consult on educational uses of a new digital edition of Eugene O'Neill's LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT.

RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

(*) Worked closely with instructional technologists to identify lower-tech, more-personal digital asset management tools and recommendation protocols for them. 

(*) Wrote use cases and business requirements for a $1.5M software development project to support the management, rights-management and publication of visual assets, especially images.

(*) Consulted with a team of professors on the to create a hybrid social, academic, alt-academic space for students in an introductory gateway course. Developed a prototype site using WordPress as a substitute LMS.

(*) Developed novel methods for tracking and visualizing the status and next-steps for 15 small projects lasting one to five months.

Senior Instructional Designer

University of Southern California

(*) Plan faculty support for, analyze and present internationally on a two-year upgrade of 100+ general use classrooms.
(*) Coordinate, co-plan, implement and support a $100,000+ grant program, including communication strategy.
(*) Coordinate grant-based phase-in for course continuity and emergency preparedness.
(*) Develop specialized document formats for comparing and selecting technologies and fitting them to teaching & learning, as well as institutional needs.
(*) Coordinate implementation of learning technology pilots.
(*) Develop supporting materials for instructional technologies.
(*) Use information mapping/structured writing for analysis, planning, and communication.
(*) Plan, draft and revise documents analyzing and summarizing institutional impact.
(*) Consult with institutional partners, fellow IT services units, on an as-needed basis.
(*) Consult with faculty to fit learning technologies to focused instructional goals and faculty comfort levels.
(*) Develop new instructional materials and strategies related to social media, ebooks, rss, cloud computing and other technologies.
(*) Deliver professional presentations on learning technology strategy, implementation and impact.
(*) Support administrative processes, notably writing and communication strategy.

Senior Consultant for Instructional Design & Learning Technologies

SUPPORT & LMS

(*) Support faculty with instructional technology for over 200 courses.
(*) Support faculty and staff in use a Sakai LMS.


PROJECT COORDINATION

(*) Project liaison for Oracle backend/serverside Java web project.
(*) QA testing for Oracle/Java web project.
(*) Support migration from legacy database to Oracle system.
(*) Write SQL queries for reporting purposes.


MULTIMEDIA 

(*) Edited videos promoting key courses to undergraduates.
(*) Edit and re-edit staff training videos.
(*) Train undergraduates on video editing techniques & software.
(*) Mentor peers on videography and editing of promotonal videos.
(*) Use information mapping/structured writing for analysis, planning, and communication.


WEB TOOLS

(*) Install and configure Drupal and other CMS options for testing.
(*) Install wiki's and support blogs for blended learning.


WEB SITE

(*) Manage department web site with Adobe Contribute.
(*) Write PHP and Javascript for department web pages.

Academic Technology Specialist

I support teaching and learning by creating engaging and effective courses and media. 

instructional designer 
screenwriter 
screenwriting coach 
video editor

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