Matthew Grunewald Matthew Grunewald

I am an English Language Fellow with the U.S. Department of State, placed through the U.S. Embassy at the Armed Forces Academy of General Milan Rastislav Štefánik in Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia.

Founded a Washington nonprofit for accessible, evidence-based learning and run it end to end: state incorporation, IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, governance, and financial operations, launched on $2,500 of my own seed capital and since carried past that by donors.

Designed, developed, and published native iOS and Android apps, applying UX/UI design and clearing each store’s review guidelines for live release. Most learning leaders can describe a mobile roadmap. Fewer have shipped one.

Lead all instructional design myself: self-paced, live virtual, and blended programs in Storyline, Rise, and Adobe Creative Suite, with AI-assisted workflows doing the production lifting. I also teach the guided meditation sessions, which keeps me in the room with learners rather than only designing for them.

Supported onboarding and professional development for 500+ seasonal, tax-season-only accountants nationwide by refreshing instructor-led and digital learning experiences.

Audited and modernized 50+ compliance courses, implementing 1,000+ content revisions across all 50 states and D.C. to reflect evolving federal and state tax regulations.

Used Google Chat Spaces to coordinate real-time curriculum triage and rapid course-update deployment across 500+ seasonal tax staff, and built a multi-stage AI-assisted quality assurance process to catch errors earlier and keep style and wording consistent across courses.

Designed and deployed Slack adoption training for ~154,000 employees, driving one of Apple’s largest collaboration tool rollouts. Led generative AI training, onboarding, and upskilling programs. Built end-to-end solutions from needs analysis through delivery, meeting Section 508 and WCAG requirements throughout.

Mentored five new instructional designers, one of them an incoming manager, through Apple’s delivery tools and brand standards. Deliberate bench strength, so the team did not depend on any one person, me included.

Built a reusable storyboard template so instructor-led trainers who suddenly had open capacity could convert their own material into eLearning. It multiplied what a small team could produce.

High-consequence aviation and defense training. Conducted needs analysis with SMEs and matched delivery format (simulation, VILT, eLearning, OJT) to the actual performance gap and operational context. Created detailed storyboards and assessments.

Supported conversion of ILT into SCORM- and Section 508-compliant VILT for registered nurse surveyors. Designed regulatory and workflow training with clinical SMEs, ensuring accuracy and consistency across healthcare audiences.

Designed and delivered pilot, aircraft maintenance, safety, and anti-terrorism training aligned with U.S., NATO, and ICAO standards. Led cross-cultural training between U.S. personnel, Afghan pilots, and ATC teams.

Classroom English blended into on-the-job aviation radio calls, tracked on a dashboard of exam scores and instructor feedback.

Led a cross-functional international team of educators, designers, programmers, and technical specialists through Agile workflows (JIRA, Confluence, Kanban) to deliver large-scale learning initiatives from concept to launch.

Developed professional and customer-service training for international teams across hospitality, aviation, and maritime sectors. Designed scenario-based learning to practice cross-cultural communication in realistic work contexts.