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=Lisa Kolakowski=

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==== My name is Lisa Kolakowski and I am in the Educational Technology master's program. This is my fourth semester in the program. I have already completed EDRM 723, SLIS 706, EDET 603, EDET 722, EDET 703 and EDET 709. I've been working at Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company in Columbia, SC for the last two years as a sales training and development consultant, or instructional designer. I develop classroom and online training materials for sales agents located across the country. I work on a daily basis with several different subject matter experts from across the enterprise. I love what I do because I can have several projects that are all different, and interact with different people for each project. I work daily with Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and Adobe Captivate. I also use Microsoft Project to track all my projects, as well as SharePoint to not only to share documents, but also to track weekly status updates and share best practices with my team. I am in this master’s program to further my skills at my current job, as well as provide opportunities for future career options. I want to have the opportunity to stay in the private business sector, or to move into higher education. I feel this degree will give me more opportunities in either market. I first learned about this degree program from a summer internship at a magnet school system in CT. I was a summer intern working on reimaging all the computers. It was there that I was able to interact with the instructional designer for the school system, and she explained the master's program. Since then, I knew this was a degree I wanted to have. ==== ==== I am originally from Wallingford, CT, and all of my family still lives there. I attended undergrad at Bentley University in Waltham, MA. I received a Bachelor's of Science Business Management with a minor in Computer Information Systems. After college, I moved down to SC with my fiance Vincent. We bought a house last year in Lexington with our dog Rocky, at boxer mix. He is our child and definitely an important member of the family. Vincent and I are getting married in September in CT and will be going to Italy on our honeymoon. ====