Joe Greenwald

About Joe Greenwald

As a veteran senior technical trainer, instructional designer, architect and business analyst, my expertise is in encouraging and enabling developers to quickly and effectively adopt and implement application development tools, frameworks, SDKs and methods. • A reliable, consistent self-starter who can manage all phases of training product development from inception to production, including storyboarding, scripting, content and practice creation, lab configuration, recording, editing and marketing messaging. • My strengths are in successfully relating to clients at all levels - from developers to senior IT management - to craft a succinct, yet compelling story to make complicated concepts simple and accessible. Liaison between customers and product management to improve developer-centric products and ensure their successful adoption and implementation. • Present at local, regional and international user conferences, design and deliver hands-on labs and support product adoption through writing developer community blogs, white papers, and posts on community forums.

Experience

1. Sr Principal Instructor

   Oracle

   Feb 2011 — Present

   Develop complete Instructor-Led and eLearning training courses and MOOCs for programming languages and developer tools and frameworks from scratch - within budget and deadlines - which required self-motivated project management for development of materials, slides, lab practices, configuration of Linux and Windows environments, creation of student demonstrations and recording and editing of the final product. • Deliver highly technical training and mentoring, in-person and over the web, tailor materials on-demand to specific student and company needs, develop demonstrations and lab exercises, manage classroom experience and solve customer problems, often involving product management.• Create and present compelling product demonstrations and solutions to a wide variety of audiences, from developers to senior executives in a variety of forums: Oracle Open World and local and regional user groups and sales presentations.• Consistently maintain instructional delivery quality above 95%.• Ignite student enthusiasm and excitement by sharing real-world development experiences to enable students to more quickly generalize training to successfully overcome friction to using new tools and techniques immediately on the job.• Develop white papers, education and consulting job aids, blog posts, community forum messaging and marketing collateral to support tools, frameworks, SDK and product adoption.• Actively partner with Java product management and developer community relations to develop and promote technical roadmaps and reference architectures for Java SE, EE, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).

Education

• Emory University

  BA