Maria Jernigan
Scaling high-quality, student-centered learning with technology
- Role
- CEO & Founder at Redshift Education
- Location
- Roanoke, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Maria Jernigan
As a systems-thinker, I love solving complex learning challenges. Got some organizational…
Experience
CEO & Founder
Oct 2017 — Present · Roanoke, VA, US
Founded independent game development studio that creates immersive, multi-player, quest-based games for teaching the Spanish language to secondary and post-secondary students • Designed holistic User Experience (UX) for educational games in virtual reality and WebGL formats: designing curriculum, game scoping, storyboarding, creating visual and audio effects, iteratively testing and providing usability feedback on prototypes, and overseeing single-user and group external usability testing of product from wireframe to released product• Translated educator needs into technical plans for immersive games, based on 100+ interviews with teachers and educators• Codified proprietary product-development pipeline from inception to shipped product, then on-boarded and led team of 10+ team members of programmers, 2D and 3D artists, user experience designers, authors, engineers, and teachers to execute the design and development of new games• Outlined custom-event analytics strategy to collect real-time user data and evaluate design decisions• Developed and launched content marketing and user-acquisition campaigns, growing YouTube watch time by 145% in 90 days and increasing size mailing list by 240% in 30 days
Education
Richmond American University London
Fulbright UK Summer Institute
2015 — 2015
Virginia Tech
Bachelor's, Philosophy; Spanish; minor in Theatre Arts
2014 — 2018
Virginia Tech
Master's of Education, Instructional Design & Technology
Princess Anne High School
International Baccalaureate Diploma, Higher-Level Exams: Computer Science, Spanish, English, European History
2010 — 2014
Steger Center for International Scholarship in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland
Presidential Global Scholars
2017 — 2017
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