Thomas Kauer
About
Thomas Kauer is from Fremont, California, United States. Thomas works in the following industries: "Automotive". Thomas is currently Global XR Program Manager at Tesla, located in Fremont, California, United States. In Thomas's previous role as a Instructional Designer, Operations and Training at Tesla, Thomas worked in Fremont, California, United States until Feb 2021. Prior to joining Tesla, Thomas was a Program Manager (Online Learning, Corporate Innovation & Personal Leadership) at Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Education and held the position of Program Manager (Online Learning, Corporate Innovation & Personal Leadership) at Palo Alto. Prior to that, Thomas was a Composition & Literature, Hmong American Peace Academy at Milwaukee Public Schools, based in Greater Milwaukee Area from Aug 2014 to Jun 2017. Thomas started working as Composition & Literature Teacher, Challenger Middle School at Sunnyside Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona Area in Aug 2013. From Apr 2011 to Jun 2013, Thomas was Social Studies, Composition, & Literature Teacher at Tunis International Academy, based in Tunisia.
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Thomas Kauer's current jobs
• Internally market, consult, design, pilot, and scale global XR projects (VR, MR, AR, etc.) • Collaborate with global sites (China, Germany, and the U.S.) • Partner with IT to develop internal workflows for systems such as InTune, Cycles, and Azure • Leverage design thinking and human-centered design to "fail fast" and pivot both programmatically and in terms of simulation design • Product manage internal simulation design • Forecast and place orders for HMDs and licenses from external vendors
Thomas Kauer's past jobs
• Instructional Designer for lean manufacturing and factory floor training. • I am actively creating e-learning, blended learning, and instructor lead training (ILT) solutions • I am leading a team of 4 software engineers and asset designers to build a simulation to execute a pilot on comparative outcomes for MR (Microsoft HoloLens II) and VR (Oculus Quest II) • I am using powerful design methodologies and technologies: Adobe Creative Suite, Qualtrics, ADDIE, Workplace, Articulate and Rise 360, and Design Thinking
• Duties: Managed 6-11 direct reports across multiple timezones to deliver online business courses to 600+ participants through live session production, instructional design and iteration, and LMS administration • VR Simulation Prototyping & Design: Explored use cases for VR in executive education programs across departments and topic • Instructional Design & User Data Analysis: Used course and user data to iterate on instructional content, resulting in course rating records for “Negotiations”, “Design Thinking”, and “Leading Effective Teams” • Webinar & Live Session Production: Wrote, produced, and edited highly interactive and scalable live webinars
• Curriculum, Assessment & Instructional Design: Designed innovative, research-based content for 200+ students, resulting in proven gains as demonstrated by leading scores on national assessments • Program Management: Introduced 50 students to coding and digital design through running “Tech Club” in 2014 and 2015 with special emphasis on engaging female students in STEM resulting in 1 female student winning 1st place at the “TATA App Competition”
• Instructional Technology Implementation: Increased student engagement and motivation as observed through time on task and qualitative observations by implementing a 1:1 laptop program
• Instructional Technology Implementation: Increased student access to high-quality learning resources by introducing iPad and Android apps to language arts and history classes resulting in a more engaging classroom experience while increasing intrinsic motivation • Cross-Cultural Experience: Broadened cultural understanding and contributed to community rebuilding after the Arab Spring by learning Arabic, participating in local life, and completing humanitarian aid projects in Libya and on the Algerian border