Andy Cummings Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lerner is one of the nation’s largest independently owned children’s publishers with more than 7,000 books in print. For nearly 65 years, Lerner has created nonfiction and fiction books for pre-school to young adult readers and for libraries, classrooms, and homes across the country. I lead our terrific content development, design, and digital teams that conceive of and create over 500 titles per year. At Lerner, we believe learning never ends. It's a constant process, a result of interacting with the world around you. You engage in learning and the more you know, the more knowledge will reward you by opening your eyes and your mind. We strive to do just that for you, our readers and customers.Please see our products at: www.lernerbooks.com

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Product Management, Publishing, Online Learning, and Content services with strength in education, technology, and Scientific. Services include:Branding • Content Strategy & Development • Digital Learning Solutions • New Business Development • Strategic Partnerships • Digital Strategy • Product Development • Talent AcquisitionCurrent Projects: Acquire talent for online learning expansion. Develop product strategy for underserved market segment. Develop market expansion strategy. Strategic Advisor.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Hired, developed, and led team of 34 editors to execute annual publishing plan of 110-120 retail titles, 80 custom titles, and 30 proprietary titles, in addition to video and interactive e-learning. Accelerated Revenue Growth: • Promoted to Dummies Tech publisher and grew revenue to $35 million:• Revitalized publishing program and grew revenue 20% while market declined by 30% (2005 to 2012).• Grew market share to 40% for Wiley Technology (Source: Bookscan Top 750 Technology Titles).• Developed marketing and sales strategies to create new revenue streams to offset retail contraction; established Dummies as the exclusive technology publisher for mass market.Global Brand Leadership: Strengthened global collaboration to develop local Dummies publishing programs and extend local Dummies publishing to over 25 countries, including Brazil, France, Germany, Holland, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Poland, China, Egypt/Middle East, and Israel: • Regularly consulted with publishing partners to establish new publishing programs and grow technology programs. Reviewed and approved new product launches.• Gained leading market share in Canada, Australia, England, France, Germany, and Brazil.• Led global launches for key events, such as Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Office 2013 and 2016, Apple iPad and iPhone; coordinated global content workflows and distributed printings to achieve simultaneous day/date publications in multiple languages and regions.• Presented twice annually at Dummies Round Tables at London Book Fair and Frankfurt Book Fair to learn from each other, discuss best practices, and set global brand goals.Business Management: Full P&L responsibility. Analyzed business costs and implemented significant cost savings measures for publishing program, increasing profit from 35% to over 45%.

• Content Curation: Focused acquisitions strategy through extensive category analysis to publish the right topics at the right time and developed an industry-leading technology publishing program. • Promoted: Grew individual program from $5 million to $15 million. Launched new customer-focused series. Promoted to Acquisitions Manager, Dummies Technology and General User Publishing Program. • Team Development: Hired, trained, and led team of editors responsible for content acquisition for $45 million program with annual title count of 150.

• Award Winning Editor: Developed best-selling and award-winning technology titles, including Mac Secrets by David Pogue, Photoshop Secrets by Deke McClelland, and Mac Networking Bible by Lon Poole.• Innovator: Developed and managed first non-technology titles in the Dummies program, Mutual Funds For Dummies and Taxes For Dummies. • Promoted to Managing Editor to lead the launch of new technology imprints.

Rocky Mount, North Carolina Area, And Kokomo, Indiana

• Learned all aspects of newspaper business by working in all key departments. Accelerated revenue growth by developing, marketing, and selling sponsorship of new products as well as custom publishing.• Promoted to Business Development. Responsible for developing, marketing, and selling advertising programs for Indianapolis customers.

Evanston, Il

Responsible for daily operations at Union

Evanston, Il

Managed team to execute telephone polling for public policy and political research firm. Worked part time as supervisor during college and full-time following college.

Bachelor Of Science, Journalism With Minors In Political Science And Spanish

Master Of Arts, Media Management And Journalism (Joint Program Business And Journalism Schools)

Activities and Societies: • Master’s Thesis: “Walmart and Community Newspapers: Advertiser or Adversary?” • Reader’s Digest Fellowship.