Laura Stark

About Laura Stark

Experienced and enthusiastic senior learning and development specialist passionate about empowering teams to excel. Adept at LMS administration, curriculum management, instructional design and managing end-to-end L&D strategic programs, fostering cross-functional collaboration with leaders, stakeholders, and subject matter experts. Skilled in guiding and driving learning operations, including LMS administration, learning platforms & portals, helpdesk mgmt, curriculum and content management systems. Successful in developing, and delivering dynamic learning solutions for technical, sales, support, employee, manager, and partner domains. Key contributor to global learning program rollouts with high-quality outcomes and high customer satisfaction for initiatives and transformative programs, demonstrating agility to pivot and adapt to evolving business requirements quickly and with high energy.Highlights:• Created engaging technical training content for Apple\'s Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning (AIML) Annotators to ensure high-quality data at scale. Met tight deadlines.• Drove adoption of HR extended workforce policies by managing the design, development, and deployment of multiple training and certification programs for new and existing Google managers of extended workforce.• Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) LMS Admin Lead for Facebook/Meta L&D team. Efficiently migrated over 40 Manager and Leadership high-touch programs from the current Learn LMS to CSOD.• As the program manager for two critical technical onboarding learning programs at Google (a quarterly 3-day Search Features Boot Camp and a 3-day Knowledge Engine University), drove the adoption of coding best practices for over new search feature SWEs and knowledge engine SWEs.• Led the implementation and maintenance of internal Yahoo Manager and Tech Training Learning portals, accelerating expertise.• Managed and operated a high-volume Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD) LMS Helpdesk, supporting users across the US.• Planned, defined, and deployed role-based training deliverables for employees as the training deployment lead for Sun’s worldwide Oracle 11i Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program.• Improved sales teaming through the development and delivery of a monthly Sales Field New Hire Training program at Sun, accelerating product knowledge and competitive advantage for over Sales, SEs, and Consultants annually.

Experience

1. Content Specialist Iii

   Apple

   Dec 2024 — Present

Education

• San José State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Business Administration: Marketing

Skills

• Lms (Successfactors, Ilearning, Plateau)
• Opentext
• Curriculum Management
• Html (Basic)
• Panopto
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Taleo
• Training
• Human Resources
• Photoshop
• Business Development
• Instructional Design
• Ilearning
• Technical Training Programs
• Wikis
• Coursera
• Google Docs
• Learning and Development
• Vendor Management
• Event Management
• Strategy
• Vi
• Content Management Systems (Oracle Ucm, Maple)
• Enterprise Software
• Microsoft Project
• Project Management
• Dreamweaver
• Saas
• Webex
• Process Improvement
• Google Drive
• Management
• Leadership
• Windows
• Oracle
• Mac Os
• Jive
• Program Management
• Adobe Fireworks
• New Hire and Onboarding Programs