Jess Resig, PhD, serves as the Vice President of Solutions Innovation at ARI (Applied Research Institute, Inc.) and the Deputy Program Manager on the DARPAConnect initiative. Prior to joining ARI, she served as a senior instructional designer for Penn State University where she spent over a decade collaborating with business and engineering faculty and program directors to design, develop, and offer a variety of online, hybrid, and executive-style programs. Resig also served as a lecturer at Penn State and at the University of Virginia, teaching courses in instructional design, multimedia design, and management information systems.