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Melissa Matthews
Junior Learning and Development Specialist with experience in skills gaps, role-based learning design, facilitated practice, and workplace effectiveness. Practical work includes Skills assessments, Instructional design, Training, Learning effectiveness.
Experience
Walmart
Bentonville · United States
Junior Learning and Development Specialist
Jul 2025 - now
- With a senior colleague reviewing the change, used skills assessments and manager interviews to identify a handoff gap in a logistics team, then applied instructional design to build role-based training with realistic dispatch cases; replaced a general presentation with practice tied to the decisions learners needed to make.
- Within an assigned workstream, evaluated learning effectiveness by comparing scenario assessments with manager-observed handoffs after training, separating attendance from demonstrated job application; identified where follow-up coaching was needed instead of declaring success from completion rates.
- Within the assigned scope, used task observation to identify a performance gap, wrote scenario-based learning objectives, and compared post-training work samples with the pre-training assessment.
- Within the assigned scope, owned the practice-assessment rubric using observed learner errors, completed manager calibration and released revised training after a repeat task confirmed fewer instruction-related mistakes.
- Within the assigned scope, owned an instructional-design pilot using observed task errors, resolved confusing practice instructions and completed a coaching guide for manager review.
- Within the assigned scope, published training revisions using performance-management data analysis, increased correct first-attempt task completion from 62% to 81% in the follow-up practice cohort.
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington · United States
Learning and Development Specialist Project Contributor
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
- With supervisor review, facilitated workshops with mixed-experience teams and adapted practice prompts from observed misunderstandings; made difficult handoff decisions explicit enough for peer feedback.
- Within the assigned scope, prepared a structured facilitation guide, tested the instructions with a small internal group, and revised ambiguous prompts before using the material in a hiring or employee-development session.
- Within the assigned scope, reviewed an employee-facing process with HR and the responsible manager, separated mandatory policy steps from local team habits, and rewrote the guidance around actual questions received during onboarding.
Selected project
Business-linked learning plan
Project team member
Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
- With supervisor review, maintained a learning plan linking business priorities, course owners, and scheduled manager follow-ups. kept outdated modules from being reused after the operating process changed.
- Used Skills assessments and Needs analysis to compare the source record with the proposed result; documented exceptions, the reviewer, and the acceptance decision before handoff.
- Built a fictitious employee-case set with a policy question, an incomplete record and an escalation need; defined access limits and separated evidence collection from the decision reserved for an authorized adviser.
- Prepared a manager guide with scenario-based questions and a review checklist; tested whether a reader could choose the correct next step without seeing confidential employee information.
- Owned the independent lesson trial using observable learning criteria, resolved an ambiguous instruction and completed revised practice materials after a peer walkthrough.
Education
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington · United States
B.S. Business Administration
Sep 2021 - Jun 2025
Relevant coursework: Financial accounting, statistics, operations management, organizational behavior
Skills
Role expertise
Skills assessments · Instructional design · Training · Learning effectiveness · Facilitation
Publications
- Published a personal teaching reflection using the practice observation log, explaining differentiated instructions, feedback choices and the limits of a small classroom exercise.


