Does adopting AI build genuine organizational capability in emerging-economy firms, or does it create a new form of dependency on tools designed elsewhere?
That is the question behind the doctoral work I am pursuing. It draws on dynamic capabilities theory and organizational learning theory, and reads both against a critical view of how technology transfers into institutional contexts it was not built for. Ten years spent building curricula, learning systems, and now evaluating AI-generated instructional content have shaped this question directly, rather than being reframed to justify it after the fact.
Target departments: Management, Information Systems, and Educational Technology — not general AI-labeled positions.
Advising international clients on instructional design while building toward a PhD position in Europe. Completed an Advanced Machine Learning and Deep Learning certification in 2025 to close the quantitative gap between an MBA background and a data-driven research direction.
Led a four-person team to design and launch Rocketversity, a Moodle-based LMS with 120 SCORM courses, cutting new-hire time to productivity by 30% across a 100-plus person workforce.
Designed and governed a five-year, six-domain competency-based curriculum. Supervised more than fifty capstone thesis teams and delivered blended, competency-based instruction to 200-plus learners.
Directed a ten-person field and development team deploying a maternal and child health data system across sixteen districts, in partnership with PATH, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and the Lombok Health Department.
Thesis: Leadership on Flat Organizational Structures. Two years full-time, in German.
Thesis: Image Retrieval System using Geotagging Information.
Seven peer-reviewed papers and two books on curriculum design, workplace learning systems, and applied operations research.
Full list with DOIs: sites.google.com/view/devissaputra
ADDIE, SAM, learning experience design, competency framework design, training needs analysis
Moodle, Workday Learning, SAP SuccessFactors, Cornerstone OnDemand, SCORM, xAPI/Tin Can API
AI output evaluation, RLHF workflows, prompt engineering for instructional content
Bahasa Indonesia (native), English (C1, TOEFL iBT 101), German (B2)
Open to hearing from prospective supervisors and doctoral programs in Management, Information Systems, or Educational Technology.