Keep in touch with meI'm using Intch to connect with new people. Use this link to open chat with me via Intch app
Work Background
Advisory Board Member
StarlingAdvisory Board Member
Jun. 2023 - Jun. 2024Proud to have served as a member of the inaugural advisory board at Starling, a home for those who question the status quo at work and actively seek to improve it.
Director of Learning Experience
HyperionDevDirector of Learning Experience
Mar. 2023London, England, United KingdomI lead the Learning Experience team, which consists of three functions: Learning Design, Delivery, and Career Services. We're accountable for course design, development and maintenance, lecturing, mentoring, general academic support, and career coaching.
Senior Director, Learning Research Development
edXSenior Director, Learning Research Development
May. 2022 - Feb. 2023I led a cross-functional team that served partners through consultation on the platform and pedagogy. We developed and tested hypotheses about what differentiates 2U/edX’s teaching and learning model, and what results in the greatest return on investment for learners. Our mandate was to further entrench 2U/edX as a thought-leader in online education, advance the pedagogical quality of its learning experiences, and support the delivery of meaningful learner outcomes.
Senior Director, Learning Experience
2USenior Director, Learning Experience
May. 2019 - Apr. 2022Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaI scaled and managed the course design and development team (90+ people) to meet the pandemic-inspired surge in online course demand. During my tenure, I oversaw and helped to enable the production of 170+ online courses with the world’s best universities, and co-led the conceptualisation and rollout of an inclusive pedagogy framework that was deployed in the production and maintenance of the Executive Education course portfolio.
Director, Learning Design
2UDirector, Learning Design
May. 2018 - Apr. 2019Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaThrough relationship-building and academic portfolio management, I helped to set up and grow executive education course portfolios with MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, UC Berkeley, Stanford CHE, Northwestern Kellogg, and Rice. I also led and commissioned initiatives, product enhancements, and process overhauls to improve the total quality score for courses and programmes within these universities’ portfolios.
Lead Learning Designer
2ULead Learning Designer
Nov. 2016 - May. 2018Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaI managed a team of 4-6 learning designers working across 40+ projects over roughly 2 years. I led the design and development of courses and programmes with several of 2U/GetSmarter's top-tier partners, including the LSE, MIT SA+P, MIT Sloan, the University of Cape Town and Yale SOM.
Learning Design Specialist
2ULearning Design Specialist
Feb. 2016 - Oct. 2016Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaI conducted quality assurance and provided functional and team leadership across several courses and programmes with top-tier university partners, including the MIT Media Lab's Future Commerce online course.
Learning Designer
2ULearning Designer
Jul. 2014 - Feb. 2016Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaI designed and developed four online courses with top universities in North America and South Africa, including the University of the Witwatersrand's Teaching with Technology short course.

Requests

Touchpoint image
0
Looking for a Job
Director of Learning: A Visionary Leader
Intch is a Professional Networking App for the Future of Work
300k+ people
130+ countries
AI matching
See more people like David on Intch
Education
427561 people
19
Project manager @ Zois Energy limited
121
Investor Relations Manager @ ExxonMobil
33
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President @ ExxonMobil
EducationProfessor
85395 people
121
Investor Relations Manager @ ExxonMobil
33
Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President @ ExxonMobil
15
CFO/ Senior VP @ ExxonMobil Corp