Bluedrop and Raised are taking a huge step forward in creating a simulation environment that is educationally sound, visually impressive, functions seamlessly, and emerges the student into a realistic world.  The simulation will test the student in a nonlinear series of events and provide an interactive storyline taking the student through the day’s worth of stresses and difficulties to assess the student’s ability to engage in a real work-day scenario, how to deal with urgent situations and how they understand the protocols and responsibilities related to the learning objectives.   The simulation environment will become part of a much bigger experience that will allow for easier learning and improved testing of decision-making and reactions within an environment.

Raised and Bluedrop have had a very successful business relationship with Pearson over the past five years and distinguished themselves with dozens of complex programs that have been well received by tens of thousands of students.  Bluedrop is the exclusive eLearning provider for a consortium of 12 teaching hospitals and has developed dozens of healthcare training programs for college students, technicians, processors, nurses and physicians.  Raised is powerhouse in creative design, simulations, gaming, and emerging technologies and has developed robust single and multiplayer simulations for such clients as Discovery, Target, Spike TV and MTV.  Both Raised Media and Bluedrop work with other publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Scholastic, and HarperCollins and other premier companies in a wide variety of industries. 

About Raised Performance Media

Raised Media collaborates with all facets of industry ranging from entertainment to publishing and provides solutions for all unique challenges. They enjoy long standing partnerships with their clients because they put a lot of care into both their work and their relationships.

When you choose Raised Media, you give us the opportunity to make an impression and substantiate our genuine enthusiasm. You give us the chance to exercise our ingenuity which in turn allows us to provide you with an exceptional experience.  We strive to make you successful because in doing so we are successful. That, in a nutshell, is our mantra.  For more information on Raised Performance Media please visit www.raisedmedia.com

About Bluedrop

Bluedrop Performance Learning is dedicated to helping its clients create a culture of true performance learning. Founded in 1992, Bluedrop takes a partnership approach with its clients to ensure their desired outcomes are achieved and validated. Bluedrop focuses on training in the areas of health and safety, products and systems, and corporate compliance. Bluedrop clients are broadly based, but are concentrated in the government, technology, oil and gas, aerospace and defence, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial, and publishing industries. In fact, in seven different industries, Bluedrop boasts the world leader as its clients and was awarded the 2005 Silver medal Excellence in Learning award from Brandon Hall.  For more information about Bluedrop visit www.bluedrop.com.

For more information contact:

Eric Kedrosky

Bluedrop Performance Learning

18 Prescott Street

St. John’s, NL, A1C 3S4

Tel.: 1-800-563-3638

EricKedrosky@bluedrop.com

President and CEO, Bluedrop Performace Learning

www.bluedrop.com

Drawing from his more than 17 years experience at the helm of a successful and award-winning learning development firm, Mr. Rizkalla will be giving a presentation entitled “Training Needs Analysis & Managing a Training Budget”. In this lecture, Mr. Rizkalla will examine in detail not only the importance of, but also the most effective and efficient methods for, successfully analyzing your organization’s training needs and implementing and managing a training program that maximizes your organization’s Return On Investment.

“Providing training within an organization is a business investment – organizations proactively create for themselves a more informed, engaged, and productive workforce – and as with any investment there’s an expectation of a positive return” says Mr. Rizkalla. “Yet a study by the Canadian e-Learning Journal found that while fully 95% of organizations that implement training programs diligently measure learner satisfaction, only 5% to 20% of these organizations measure business outcomes. Organizations are investing a great deal of time and money into learning initiatives and then overwhelmingly failing to evaluate the success of this investment, often because they don’t have the knowledge and tools to do so. I provide that knowledge. Bluedrop has been building and continually improving upon these tools for well over a decade.”

The two day conference, which takes place February 1st and 2nd in Toronto, provides a unique opportunity for attendees to learn first-hand from Canada’s foremost training and training management experts. Course highlights include lectures and workshops on a broad range of training-related subjects, including: best practices in optimizing both the effectiveness and efficiency of organizational training programs; the importance of, and methods for, accurately evaluating the effectiveness of e-learning and e-learning ROI; and ways to incorporate and leverage the positive aspects of informal learning in organizational training.

Additional information regarding Federated Press’s 4th Managing the Training Function conference, including registration details, is available at: http://www.federatedpress.com/pdf/MTFT1001-E.pdf

About Bluedrop Bluedrop

Performance Learning is dedicated to helping its clients create a culture of true performance learning. Founded in 1992, Bluedrop takes a partnership approach with its clients to ensure their desired outcomes are achieved and validated. Bluedrop focuses on training in the areas of health and safety, products and systems, and corporate compliance. Bluedrop clients are broadly based, but are concentrated in the government, technology, oil and gas, aerospace and defence, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, financial, and publishing industries. In fact, in seven different industries, Bluedrop boasts the world leader as its clients and was awarded the 2005 Silver medal Excellence in Learning award from Brandon Hall. For more information about Bluedrop visit www.bluedrop.com.

For more information contact:

Eric Kedrosky

Bluedrop Performance Learning

18 Prescott Street

St. John’s, NL

A1C 3S4

Tel.: 1-800-563-3638

EricKedrosky@bluedrop.com

Responsibilities

• Work from an established code base
• Develop new widgets and plugins
• Deliver accurate work estimates
• Take initiative and ownership

Qualifications

• 3+ years developing for the web
• 2+ years with PHP and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
• Strong knowledge of XHTML, XML, JSON, CSS, AJAX and Javascript
• Experience with the Zend PHP Framework and Object-Oriented programming
• Experience developing rich web applications using Javascript Libraries (jQuery preferred)
• Knowledge of SVN
• Experience working and collaborating with a team of passionate developers and following coding standards/conventions
• Strong communication skills

Definite Assets

• Experience with eLearning, LMS and SCORM
• Experience with Unit Testing
• Experience with Doctrine

As the ideal candidate you have:

• 5+ years experience selling business solutions (versus products) to the oil & gas and construction industries
• A working background with e-learning, sales, marketing, and/or corporate training and have a comprehensive, solution-orientated, highly methodical approach to sales
• Strong relationship-building and account mapping skills, the ability to achieve targets, and understand the sales pipeline and sales cycles
• Excellent webinar and presentation skills

As the ideal candidate you have:

• 5+ years experience selling business solutions (versus products) to the oil & gas and construction industries
• A working background with e-learning, sales, marketing, and/or corporate training and have a comprehensive, solution-orientated, highly methodical approach to sales
• Strong relationship-building and account mapping skills, the ability to achieve targets, and understand the sales pipeline and sales cycles
• Excellent webinar and presentation skills

• Reviewing, understanding, and managing the contract;
• Preparing project plans that will deliver contract requirements;
• Assembling resources required to execute project plans;
• Scheduling project kick-off meetings (internal and external);
• Providing updates regularly, including written status reports, noting that any deviations from project plan must be explained (estimate of accomplishments to date, problems to date, estimates to complete, whether the milestones are going to be achieved or not, etc);
• Monitoring project progress and reviewing status provided by project team members;
• Keeping client informed of project status;
• Negotiating changes and change orders when necessary;
• Using formal methodology, procedural knowledge, and budget management experience to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget;
• Overall quality control of client deliverables;
• Coordinating, planning, and scheduling production resources, and deliverables with Production Managers; and
• Other related duties as required.
• Qualifications:
• A Degree in Business, Computer Science, or Engineering
• 5+ years experience in production/project management
• PMP Certificate (a definite asset) 

• Reviewing, understanding, and managing the contract;
• Preparing project plans that will deliver contract requirements;
• Assembling resources required to execute project plans;
• Scheduling project kick-off meetings (internal and external);
• Providing updates regularly, including written status reports, noting that any deviations from project plan must be explained (estimate of accomplishments to date, problems to date, estimates to complete, whether the milestones are going to be achieved or not, etc);
• Monitoring project progress and reviewing status provided by project team members;
• Keeping client informed of project status;
• Negotiating changes and change orders when necessary;
• Using formal methodology, procedural knowledge, and budget management experience to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget;
• Overall quality control of client deliverables;
• Coordinating, planning, and scheduling production resources, and deliverables with Production Managers; and
• Other related duties as required.
• Qualifications:
• A Degree in Business, Computer Science, or Engineering
• 5+ years experience in production/project management
• PMP Certificate (a definite asset)

Key Skills and Experience:

• HTML, XML and CSS
• Photoshop and Flash
• LMS, LCMS or CMS (a definite asset)
• Thorough understanding of the Web
• Ability to resolve technical issues quickly in a multi-user environment
• Keen eye for detail and quality

Qualifications:

• A Diploma/Certificate in Multimedia or equivalent
• At least one (1) year experience working within an LMS environment as an administrator or developer (must be able to provide work references)

Key Skills and Experience:

• Analyze, edit, and review content
• Develop instructional design plans
• Develop storyboards in various storyboarding tools and media
• Consult and collaborate with client Subject Matter Expert

Qualifications:

• A Diploma in Instructional Design or equivalent (Certification Adult Education)
• At least 3 years experience developing instructional courseware in a technical software environment
• Thorough understanding of the Web as an instructional medium with background designing content for e-learning courses (Web-based)

A proven ability to assess content design and document development processes