A flowchart diagram illustrating client application interacting with a payload CMS REST API via HTTP requests. The API handles retrieving, creating, updating, and deleting data in a database, and connects to third-party APIs and a database. The diagram uses colored boxes to represent different components, with arrows indicating data flow and HTTP methods.

Engaging Learning Experiences Through Professional Solutions.

Unique Skills

Video Editing

Animation, lighting, scripting, narration. You name it, I’ve done it.

A collage of educational infographic slides about skill development, project management, and problem-solving strategies. The slides feature illustrations of a bearded cartoon man with a cap, diagrams, charts, and step-by-step instructions, with a color scheme of blue, pink, and green.

Visual Learning Design

I create instructional visuals designed to simplify complex concepts, guide understanding, and focus learner attention.

Professional Level Project Management

"I hold a PMP® certification to ensure every project—from technical roadmaps to full-scale video production—is backed by professional-grade governance.

Edutainment Design

By using edutainment and office humor, I’m able to translate dense professional jargon into
high-retention assets that people actually want
to engage with.

Course Creation

An online course webpage with an orange background. The course is titled 'Snelgrove New Hire Onboarding' by Ricky Garcia, with a black 'Start Course' button.

Rise360 Course Creation:
Ice Cream Station Setup

This module is part of Snelgrove’s Icecream onboarding process, designed to quickly educate new hires.

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A man with a beard wearing a gray polo shirt giving a thumbs up in an office, with a digital graphic of a clipboard with a checkmark next to him.

Techincal Documentation
Full Course (free Access)

Built a complete documentation course from the ground up — designed, scripted, shot video, and structured lessons to teach teams how to create clear, reliable knowledge systems on any platform.

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A man with a beard and bald head wearing a dark sweater, sitting in a cozy room with wooden ceiling beams and a large window, looking at the camera.

Micro Learning Course

A quick, focused 10-minute course on microlearning. Quick video modules and interactive activities were used to engage the learner. Created in Rise 360.

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An infographic titled "Know Your Audience" with tips for tailoring communication to different groups, featuring three sections: Executives, Peers, and Customers, and partly showing a person with curly hair and casual clothing on the right.

iSpring Training Module:
Tone And Audience

Rapid-development iSpring module teaching tone and audience awareness. Includes audio narration, a guided role-play scenario, and a short assessment. Hosted on AWS S3

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StoryLine360 Training Module

A learner-centered Storyline module that simplifies the history of insurance. Designed to make complex origins easy to understand through thoughtful triggers, layers, and states. Hosted on AWS S3.

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Supporting Skills

A city skyline with tall buildings, mountains in the background, and a lake reflecting the sky. Overlaid text introduces Ricky Garcia, a Salt Lake City-based frontend engineer, with a call-to-action button labeled 'Learn About Me'.

Technical Portfolio
(Hand Coded)

Fully responsive hand-coded website made with React, SCSS, and Typescript. Deployed to AWS on an S3 bucket.

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Illustration of a white game controller with purple, yellow, orange, and red buttons on a teal background, alongside a presentation slide titled 'Controllers' with bulleted points about routing and endpoints.

NEST.JS Introduction Presentation

Designed an introductory presentation on Nest.js, simplifying concepts like controllers, routing, and decorators with clear visuals.

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Screenshot of a detailed storyboard for a course on virtual meeting management for business success, including slides titled 'Intro Slide Welcome to Virtual Meeting Management' and 'Overview Preparing for a Virtual Meeting' with sections for voiceover and on-screen text.

Story Boarding

Developed a narrative storyboard for virtual meeting management training, integrating voiceover scripts, on-screen text, visuals, and animations to deliver a clear and engaging learning experience.

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