VaitkusLearning Experience & Technology ENLT

Welcome to my point of view

I am Shas and I make learning… that works. So, , and start exploring how my point of view can help your point of view!

Give me the messy learning brief.

Your experts know the subject. I work out what people need to learn, make sense of the content and systems, and design a practical path to launch. From a single course to an entire learning experience.

I build the course and the platform it runs on.

From multilingual e-learning and interactive media to LMS/LXP architecture, custom tools and AI-assisted workflows. I connect learning design with UX and technology, then leave your team able to run what I built.

New system? People need to use it.

New systems and AI tools are easy to buy. Getting people to use them well is the hard part. I start with the people who own the problem, then check the difference in your own numbers.

Tell me about your project

Working since 2000 · UN agencies · International organisations · Global businesses

Šarūnas Vaitkus · Learning Experience & Technology · EU | UK | Australia

Availability

Available for defined consulting and delivery projects. I work remotely, or on site by arrangement, where I can legally work: the EU, the UK and Australia. I normally reply within two working days.

Tell me about your project

Latest project

UNECE SITCIN. I redesigned the public experience, rebuilt the Drupal assessment workflow and helped three countries complete a pilot. Live since 10 June 2026.

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Selected clients

  • Advanced Learning Company

Where I have worked

Projects across Australia, the UK and the Middle East, plus remote work for teams in Geneva and Vienna. Locations follow the project or client, not always where I was based. Explore the interactive globe.

Engagements and projects by country
Country Engagements Projects
Australia (Sydney and Melbourne) 16 23
United Kingdom (London) 9 9
Switzerland (Geneva, remote) 3 3
Saudi Arabia (Riyadh and remote) 3 3
Austria (Vienna, remote) 2 12
Qatar (Doha) 1 1
Total 34 51

Services I offer

SAP, Dynamics, a new process or Copilot. Every new system pays off only when people use it in their daily work.

The licence is paid on day one. The value comes when people can do their real work with it. I build the learning and practice layer that gets them there, end to end: change, training, e-learning and practice on the job, as one package.

Case studies

Four detailed projects showing the brief, the choices, what was delivered and what I learned. Each includes relevant demos or evidence.

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Tell me about your project

Client work

Selected courses, platforms, videos, interfaces and learning-related applications. Open any item to see the brief, my contribution and the result.

  • UN and international
  • Companies
  • Education and learning
  • Government and public

How I work

Four stages, from the first conversation to the day your team runs the work without me. You can start small, with one course or one team.

  1. 01

    Agree the scope in writing

    I start with your problem and the systems you already have. I talk to subject matter experts, managers and some of the learners, and I look at the current platform and its data.

    You get a short scope to sign, and every later change is checked against it. On the Advanced Learning World build, one Excel scope sheet was the master document for the vendor.

  2. 02

    Design around what you already run

    Learning design and technical design run together. I map the learner journey, the content and the integrations (LMS, SCORM, xAPI, sign-in) at the same time, so no design depends on a feature your platform cannot deliver.

    I adapt proven platforms before anyone writes new ones, and I prototype early in the real tool so reviewers can click through it. In 2019 I advised Advanced Learning Company against a long build from scratch. Their Open edX platform went live in September 2020, 3.5 months after delivery started.

  3. 03

    Pilot with real users before launch

    I build in Storyline, Rise, Open edX, Moodle or Drupal, depending on what you already run. AI tools such as Synthesia and text-to-speech come in where they save time and budget. Translation covers the navigation, messages and prompts as well as the script.

    A pilot finds what reviews miss. The three-country SITCIN pilot showed silent data loss and overwritten records, so I set one National Focal Point per country and moved the pilot to Excel import with verification. All three assessments were submitted and closed.

  4. 04

    Hand it over documented

    Launch covers the communications, testing, publishing on your LMS and the first round of fixes.

    The work is finished when your team can run it without me. On SITCIN the original developer had left no admin documentation, so I wrote the QZ Manager guide, handed the git repository to UNECE IT and worked through the deployment blockers with them.

In their words

Selected recommendations from people who commissioned or managed my work. Full references are available on LinkedIn.

  • Sarunas joined Advanced Learning Company at an early stage in the development of this education services company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He played a key role in shaping a novel service providing digital education for school students across the country. This extended to formulating the strategy for the business assisting with the selection of partners and being involved in numerous other start-up activities. Sarunas has an excellent understanding of the design and implementation of digital education solutions and showed great flexibility by providing valued assistance in several other areas, including website and portal design.

    Alan Carr (opens in a new tab)CEO, Advanced Learning Company

  • I had the privilege of working with Shas over a few years at KPMG, where he held the position of Instructional Designer on the project team. Diligent, creative and capable of working to tight deadlines, I'd have no hesitation in working with him again in the future. His structured approach to course design and knowledge of his craft, enabled us to to produce high quality E-learning modules to suit the client's various roles and processes impacted by the implementation of a new Opportunity and Risk Management system.

    Brian McGowan (opens in a new tab)Training Manager, KPMG UK

  • Sarunas' combination of skills, including graphical and instructional design, was superb for our needs. He also has an excellent knowledge of the tools he employs, as well as trends within the fast-moving eLearning industry. I highly recommend Sarunas' work, skills, and professionalism.

    Gerald Keating (opens in a new tab)e-Learning Manager, NSW Community Services

  • Sarunas worked for me as a contractor on the Sidra Medical Research Centre (SMRC) project, where he produced great work in a challenging work environment and to very tight deadlines. His work culminated in the production of quality ELearning materials for SMRC's library system. He is extremely capable and dedicated to producing a good quality product.

    Nick Shepherd (opens in a new tab)Dell Services, Sidra Medicine project

Tools I build and run

I use my own products to test AI-assisted research, content design and app development on real use cases. The learning value is practical: understand what the tools can do, where they fail and what people need to check before using the result. Projects remain subject to my review.

Want to explore AI-assisted development for a learning team? Open a practical workshop

Let's talk about your project

Tell me what people need to learn or do, what systems are involved and the deadline. A short brief is enough to start. I normally reply within two working days.

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