Professional Profile
Background and Approach
About
by Parker Dubé-Guest
Every product I build is centered around three commitments: suitability, adaptability, and sustainability.
Too often, products are created for the person who made them and not who needs them. I am fixing the standard one product at a time blending complexities of military and industry.
Executive Summary
I am a graduate of the Instructional Systems and Learning Technology (ISLT) Master of Science program at Florida State University, with a professional focus spanning instructional technology, data analysis, human-centered design, and the career development needs exploring the use of giftedness models. This portfolio brings together my resume, academic work, and selected artifacts to demonstrate how these interests translate into applied skill across the ISLT competency areas. The site is organized into four pages. The Home page introduces me and my four focus areas, and also reflects two things I care about beyond coursework: a growing collection of articles and philosophies that have shaped my thinking (a work in progress), and my guiding professional philosophy of “meeting people where they are” — an approach that shows up throughout my design and analysis work. The Resume page summarizes my education and experience directly on the site, with a downloadable PDF for anyone who wants a portable copy. The Sample Work page holds seven artifacts from coursework, each viewable or downloadable individually; this is where the bulk of the competency evidence lives, and it also links to a companion crosswalk document mapping each artifact to the specific ISLT MS competencies it demonstrates. The Academic CV page is intentionally selective rather than exhaustive, highlighting my more substantial analysis and research work, and includes a downloadable program of study. Across the seven artifacts on the Sample Work page, my strongest and most consistent evidence is in Design and Analysis (five artifacts each), followed closely by Communication (five artifacts). These reflect the core of my training: taking a learning or performance problem, analyzing it rigorously, and designing a solution that communicates clearly to the people who need to use it. Technology and Media and Evaluation and Research are each represented by three artifacts, showing range across tools (Airtable, Vega-Lite, PowerPoint interactivity, Canva, HeyGen, Scribus) and methods (Likert-scale instrument design, interview protocols, correlational analysis). Management and Personal & Interpersonal Skills have lighter, more indirect representation — largely surfaced through the two team-based projects — which I see as an accurate reflection of a program that emphasizes analysis, design, and communication most heavily, rather than a gap in my training. Two artifacts in particular illustrate the range I hope this portfolio conveys: a Pareto Principle analysis of military training data, developed with a team and now headed toward publication in the Small Wars Journal, showing my ability to move from raw analysis to a stakeholder-facing deliverable; and an original ability-personality profile framework for gifted adult career pathing, built independently using the Dick and Carey model, reflecting my interest in applying systematic instructional design to underserved populations. Taken together, this portfolio is meant to show not just that I can complete assigned coursework, but that I bring a consistent, curious, human-centered approach to instructional design and analysis — one that I hope translates into how I would approach this work professionally. I welcome the chance to talk further; a contact option is available at the bottom of the Sample Work page.
Practice Areas
Focus Areas
and Interests
Instructional Technology
Data Analysis
1) As a life long learner, I am dedicated to ensuring the training solutions offered are current and sustainable.
2) I approach my analyses with rigor balancing quantitative and qualitative data using experience management software.
Human Centered Design
Giftedness in Adults
3) Training is not always the answer. I provide expertise in systemic approaches to performance improvement examining environmental and individual factors to determine root causes.
4) Not everyone wants a promotion. I an intrigued with what happens to those identified at a young age as gifted and what can managers do now to ensure the aptitude and skills are properly vectored for exponential growth.
My Goals:
I am pursuing the ISLT M.S. at Florida State University to broaden my experience gained from 7-years in the U.S. Air Force in operations and training. After completing this degree I will still be in the Department of the U.S.A.F., but would like begin a transition into instructional systems as a civilian in the defense industry and intelligence community. I aim to bring my interests in data-informed decision making into a role focused one evaluating and optimizing training at scale. My long-term goal is to design an affective approach for government based on unconditional positive regard, self-authorship, and interference removal allowing operators to perceive his or her own capabilities--a system I aim to develop in doctoral studies.
Reading List
Leisure (L)
Approach (A)
Philosophy (P)
(L) "Transcend--The New Science of Self-Actualization" by Scott Kaufman
(A) "Beyond Employability: Work-integrated Learning and Self-authroship Development" by Calidott et al.
(P) "The pedagogical power of recognition in feedback" by Corbin, Tai, and Flenady