Amanda Lehman Email & Phone Number

Missouri, United States

Leawood, Kansas

Mandy was responsible for the development of exams for multiple business units within Ascend, including ATI Nursing, NHA Allied Health, and NASM and coordinated with various teams to ensure that assessments were created to the highest standard of quality and could be used to adequately assess student knowledge. Reduced the assessment delivery timeline by approximately 40% and more than tripled product output while reducing cost of product creation and maintaining qualityo Implemented a language similarity indexing program to automate the identification of enemy items o Transitioned first exam from fixed-form to LOFT assembly, enabling more efficient item bank maintenance and enhanced test securityo Transitioned exams from manual to automated test assembly• Direct a team of 15 Test Developers who create over 100 assessments annually o Assessments consist of low-stakes, high-stakes, and accredited certification examso Administer approximately 1.5 million assessments annually• Develop overall strategy for test development team, including plans for future systems and functionality enhancements, procedural changes, long-term resource needs, and business need fulfillment • Drive assessment production operations and delivery to achieve organizational objectives in alignment with business strategy through effective leadership, prioritization, and execution while focusing on timely delivery.• Collaborate with, support, and motivate cross-functional product, psychometric, content, security, and platform teams to build, execute, and release projects and resolve schedule and other interdependency challenges• Plan annual budget for both capital and operational spending• Perform capacity planning, coordinate with vendors for flex capacity, work with project management teams to stay within budget, identify and mitigate project risks• Work with accrediting agencies and businesses to ensure accreditation of both high- and low-stakes exams: NCCA, ACAP, ACE, AMA, ACCME

Leawood, Kansas

• Led and coached a team of nine direct reports, including two Test Development Leads • Collaborated with multiple business unit stakeholders and project managers to establish product requirements, create project schedules, estimate project budgets within 10% accuracy, communicate project status, and create and launch assessments • Communicated product requirements, deadlines, and expectations to team members while tracking and ensuring timely, quality work • Managed all ongoing projects related to development of high-stakes, certification, and practice assessments while meeting or beating deadlines • Maintained all procedural documentation and checklists for the test development team • Coordinated with project management, business unit stakeholders, psychometrics, IT, content, and security teams to enhance current processes, technology, products, and product output • Product Owner of item banking system, responsible for logging bugs and steps to reproduce, prioritizing open tickets, providing acceptance criteria, providing new functionality requirements, and coordinating with IT teams • Provided estimates for project budgets, monitored budgets, and coordinated with the Project Management Office to adjust budgets

Ascend Learning

• Led a team of up to five Product and Test Developers while maintaining personally assigned projects and coordinating across multiple departments • Integrated and managed the workflow of products attained through acquisition • Maintained internal style guide

Leawood, Kansas, United States

• Maintained relationships with both internal and external content experts as well as multiple contacts from internal departments • Managed the content development and creation process for assigned assessments, tutorials, and books, ensuring all necessary steps were accounted for, appropriate content reviews and edits had taken place, and each product met the specifications and requirements • Led the initiative on learning and integrating product and test creation procedures upon company acquisition.