About Me

Natalie Storey is a Los Angeles-based instructional designer with deep experience designing, developing,and delivering specialized technical training in both online and in-person formats. She is broadlyexperienced in creating and applying digital interactive and automated training programs for high valuecurricula, and in providing reporting on training compliance and completion. She is an experienced classroom trainer and has supervised distribution of training and train-the-trainer sessions and programs.

For BART, Ms. Storey has created training materials for instructor-led training of public transit maintainers, including presentations, facilitator guides, and participant guides covering complex railcar software systems. For LA Metro, she performed in-depth needs analysis and training plans for a fire safety training program.

As an Instructional Designer at Evolve Solutions Group, an industry leader in training solutions, Ms. Storey has created training materials for a wide variety of client and subjects including workplace safety, new software implementation, and management training. She creates e-Learning materials using Articulate 360 Storyline and Rise and video trainings using Camtasia and Vyond. She also created PDF job aids to accompany instructional videos. Additionally, she has experience editing educational videos in Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro and creating visual materials in Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign and in PowerPoint.

As a Learning & Development Project Manager at Aspire Bakeries, she created e-learning training in Articulate 360 Rise and Alchemy Creator for warehouse and office employees. She also created PowerPoint decks for in-person instructor-led training. In addition, she helped to manage courses in the Alchemy learning management system.

As Research & Development Project Manager at TestMasters, she wrote and edited materials for flagship LSAT preparation eLearning and instructor-led courses, including comprehensive explanations for LSAT

questions. Her team created a digital testing system that mirrored the official digital LSAT, allowing students to take practice tests in the new digital format even before official digital practice tests were available. To do this, she and several team members applied an immersive technique of attending digital LSAT field tests. She led her team’s work to create the digital testing system based on their experience of the test.

Ms. Storey is experienced creating accessible learning materials. She spearheaded a project to develop a Braille version of curriculum so that a visually impaired student could participate in the in-person course. She sourced a Braille printer and translation software, translated and created the Braille lesson materials, and learned Braille to proofread the materials. She also worked with visually impaired students to adapt TestMasters methodology. Furthermore, she worked on a project to add closed captions to educational videos, including sourcing a speech-recognition captioning service and editing auto-generated captions for clarity, accuracy, and brand standards.

Natalie is a graduate of Barnard College with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. She has completed a graduate certificate in e-Learning Instructional Design at UC Irvine, where she expanded her abilitieswith e-learning development technologies.