Instructional Designer
Instructional Designer

Biography

Carl Nestor is an instructional designer in the National Security Directorate (NSD) of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Nestor joined PNNL in June 2022. He supports the International Nonproliferation Export Control Program (INECP). Nestor holds a MFA in visual communications from The Ohio State University and a MS in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College (now the National Intelligence University), and a BS in history from the University of the State of New York (now Excelsior College). He also graduated from the Defense Language Institute for Modern Standard Arabic.

Nestor previously worked at Cybermedia Technology and Ashland University as an instructional designer. He also taught visual communication at the Gulf University for Science and Technology (GUST) in Kuwait City. Before GUST, he served in the United States Marine Corps. His studies on the Southeast Anatolia Project to help assimilate the Kurdish people in the Turkish State were published in the International Journal of Kurdish Studies.  

Disciplines and Skills

  • Adobe creative suite
  • Instructional design

Education

  • MA in visual design and communication, The Ohio State University, 2003
  • MS in strategic intelligence, National Intelligence University
  • BS in history, Excelsior College