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Peter Pielaet-Strayer
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Peter Pielaet-Strayer
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M.S. Learning Design & Technology, University of San Diego · Expected Dec. 2026

Youth Career Coach · Learning Design · Learning Technology · AI-Assisted Development

I help people navigate what comes next, and build learning experiences and tools that make progress possible.

I'm a Youth Career Coach at the Hampton Roads Workforce Council, with a background in mentoring, education, and facilitation. Today, I combine that human-facing experience with learning design and AI-assisted software development to turn complex challenges into practical experiences, resources, and working tools.

Professional practice

Working with people. Designing what helps.

My current work in youth career development involves supporting learners, facilitating career-readiness experiences, and making practical decisions in changing environments. Those experiences inform how I approach instructional design and technology: start with people and context, identify the friction, and create something useful that can be evaluated and improved.

Instructional Design Case Study

Confusion Management Learning System

An instructional design case study designed to help learners diagnose confusion, choose the right support, and convert uncertainty into action through job aids, flowcharts, and an e-learning prototype.

Work

Selected projects

From real-world career coaching and workshop facilitation to graduate learning design and independent software prototypes, these projects show the problems I work on, how I approach them, and what I have actually built or delivered.
Actual PMBaseline MVP today command center screenshotActive beta

Product design · Working MVP

PMBaseline

A self-regulation tool designed around an honest check-in, a right-sized next action, and reflection rather than rigid productivity targets.

Explore: Working interface screenshots, product decisions, and the current MVP loop

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Original Wine With Pete project imagePractice

Experience design · Facilitation

Wine With Pete

Designed gatherings where food, conversation, and atmosphere create conditions for connection and meaningful exchange.

Explore: Experience-design approach and documented gatherings

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Research

Graduate research and inquiry

Formal research proposals that connect learning science to practical design decisions.
Research Proposal

Digital friction in learning environments

A formal research proposal on how digital tools, interfaces, and workflows introduce friction—points where attention, effort, or meaning break down—and how that friction shapes learning and action. The work connects those patterns to implications for design, not just usability polish.
Contact

Contact Peter

Open to selective conversations about learning design, instructional design, learning technology, AI-enabled learning, and adjacent education-product roles, including full-time and contract opportunities.