I help businesses achieve their learning objectives — using my background in project management and video production to build interactive learning environments that actually work.

Nicholas Tantillo — Instructional Designer & E-Learning Producer
Chicago, IL
Nicholas Tantillo

I started in Radio, Television and Digital Media at SIU Carbondale, then formalized it with Instructional Design Foundations at UIUC. Five years applying the ADDIE model across corporate, healthcare, nonprofit, and small-business training — MedSpeed, Abbott, AgeGuide, Sparrow Coffee, 2Discern.

Needs analysis, curriculum design, video production, and LMS administration — one person carrying a course from interview transcript to finished build.

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Services

Learning Design

To create an engaging and lucrative learning experience you must start with a great blueprint. I'll map out an efficient design process to achieve your learning goals.

E-Learning Videos

I create noteworthy and industry standard videos through my background in graphic design, audio engineering, voiceover and video production.

Development

E-Learning courses built with Articulate 360's suite of apps including Storyline and Rise and Talent LMS. Creating the format that your learners enjoy the most.

Quality Systems Build

I build the standards behind the course — documented playbooks, approval workflows, and a consistent QA pass, so every module meets the same bar before it ships.

Case studies

MedSpeed

Corporate operations training

EOS-based goal-setting training, Blue Shirt Certified onboarding, and Salesforce-based Control Center training — plus LMS administration and QA standards.

Abbott

Warehouse learning & OJT

Interviews and surveys with warehouse staff to find training gaps, then role-based learning paths across CBT and OJT for four operational areas.

2Discern

Purpose & career course

Applied ADDIE to help learners align career paths with a personal mission statement — built in Thinkific, produced in Premiere, branded in Canva.

Sparrow Coffee

Barista onboarding

ADDIE-built barista curriculum — three Articulate Rise modules, a filmed step-by-step demo, and course content wired into the site's HTML backend.

AgeGuide

Dementia Friendly education

A 10-video Dementia Friendly training series, filmed and voiced in-house, plus a new brand, landing page, and TalentLMS system — nationally recognized.

Waveland Productions

Video work

Personal video production work outside client instructional design — more on the way.

Course Library

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