Learning & Development · Instructional Design · AI-Enabled

I design learning that changes performance — and I build the AI that designs it faster.

Thomas R. Christian, M.Ed. — a training, instructional design, and quality leader with 20 years across regulated healthcare, insurance, and contact-center operations. ADDIE, SAM, Bloom's, and Kirkpatrick by training; an AI-assisted ID tool and a knowledge-management platform by hand.

200+
Contact-center agents trained
135K+
Provider operation supported
75%
Faster course builds with the AI tool I built
20+
Biopharma programs designed
5
Countries of onshore/offshore teams led
4.0
M.Ed., Adult & Continuing Education
The short version

Most instructional designers use the tools. I build them.

For two decades I've led training, instructional design, and quality functions inside large, regulated operations — healthcare, insurance, and high-volume contact centers — building full-cycle learning from needs analysis through Kirkpatrick evaluation. Then I did something most IDs never do: I built the technology. An AI-assisted design tool that cut course-build time up to 75%, and a knowledge-management platform with a custom taxonomy and natural-language search. The samples below are original, interactive, and mine — and they hint at the engine behind them.

Interactive samples

Original course samples — built scenario-first

Fully interactive, fully original pieces on neutral topics. Each is built the way adults actually learn: short, scenario-driven, with feedback at the moment of decision and a knowledge check that teaches rather than tests. Click any one and try it.

The rare part

Tools I built, not just used

I don't just design learning — I've engineered the systems that produce and surface it. These are production tools I architected and built personally.

AI-Assisted Instructional Design Tool

Designer & Developer · Production

An AI-native design assistant that takes a learning need and structures it the way an instructional designer would — objectives, modules, scenarios, and assessments grounded in ADDIE and Bloom's — instead of dumping generic content. Built to keep the designer's judgment in the loop, not replace it.

  • Cut course-build time up to 75% by automating the first-draft scaffolding designers spend the most hours on.
  • Structures output against real ID frameworks (ADDIE, SAM, Bloom's) so the draft is sound, not just fast.
  • Designed around the principle that AI drafts and the designer decides — verifiable, reviewable, human-owned.

Knowledge by Design — Knowledge-Management Platform

Creator · Production

A knowledge-management platform built to solve the problem every operation has: the answer exists, but nobody can find it. Custom taxonomy plus natural-language search so a frontline employee gets the right answer in plain English, not a folder hunt.

  • Custom taxonomy designed for how non-librarians actually look for answers.
  • Natural-language search — ask a question, get the governed, current answer.
  • Built from 20 years of watching tribal knowledge walk out the door — turned into a system that captures it.
Outcomes, not proprietary content

Where I've done the work

A summary of real programs and results — the story, without the protected material.

2024–2026

Guardian Life — Manager, Training & Quality Assurance

Led training, instructional design, and QA across a 135,000+ provider operation. Administered the Workday Learning LMS, built AI-assisted development workflows, and turned QA insights into targeted, data-informed training.

2022–2024

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield — Senior Manager, Training / ID / KM

Owned instructional design, knowledge management, and leadership development enterprise-wide. Built eLearning, blended, and ILT programs; managed the LMS and structured knowledge repositories; measured effectiveness and iterated.

2020–2022

ConnectiveRx — Manager, Training (Customer Care)

Designed onboarding, systems, and product training for 200+ agents across 20+ biopharma programs. Built eLearning, microlearning, and performance support; directed onshore and offshore teams using ADDIE/SAM.

Foundations

Earlier leadership

Training & QA at CIE Tours; Training & Development / Contact-Center Manager at TMP Direct (30+ national accounts); Customer Support & Training Manager at LiveProcess (SaaS). The contact-center floor is where the instinct started.

Let's talk

Open to L&D, instructional design, and learning-technology roles.

Healthcare, insurance, contact-center, or anywhere learning needs to move performance — and AI needs to be used with judgment, not hype.