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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Supervised the implementation of a new agile process within course development to improveefficiency and better align to business needs.• Lead PM managing course development and key deliverables within the Strayer University (SU)portfolio. Assure completion of tasks, timeline, and standards for 55+ courses per year. Raise,mitigate, and reduce risks.• Manage the Project Online administration for the Program Strategy and Curriculum Development(PSCD) team.• Support, motivate, and advocate for SU project managers, instructional designers and managers,subject matter experts, and PSCD teams. • Collaborate with Course Design and Academic Operations Managers on determining SU investment,planning, and resourcing.• Consult on refining course development processes and integrating updated software, i.e.Smartsheets and Sharepoint.• Onboarded, trained, and advised 15+ Course Design Managers and Course Operations teammembers on SU procedures.• Facilitate all course development meetings with larger development team and document issues andprogress, and make recommendations when needed.

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborate with presales, editorial, production, and development teams to determine project’s scope of work and cost for digital education products.• Contract and manage subject matter experts (SMEs), regulatory contractors, and copyeditors. Create guidelines and provide training and video walkthroughs of project requirements. Review content and provide feedback.• Create and maintain workflow and schedules. • Track project costs and manage budget. • Initiate, own, and oversee the receipt, preparation, organizing, tracking, and delivery of assets in accordance with agreed standards and criteria to project schedule.• Work with production team during the development of project.• Provide key stakeholders with daily/weekly updates on project status.

Greater New York City Area

• Create and curate content for 14 online courses in a new competency-­based education program. • Collaborate with faculty, subject matter experts, vendors, editorial colleagues (other project managers, instructional designers, and the VP of Content) • Work with other FW teams (engineers, marketing, sales, etc.). • Establish detailed project schedules. Communicate status of projects, including risk remediation recommendations. • Responsible for maintaining budgets• Provide design input for platform features. • Review content within the new platform and test functionality of the platform on iPad• Travel monthly to client locations for team workshops.

Hoboken, Nj

Create, manage, and edit content for Wiley Plus, Book Companion Sites, Respondus, Diploma, and LMS Resources within budget. Responsible for QA of these products. Hire and manage vendors and SMEs to create and edit media assets, questions, and online courses. Generate mapping/linking documents for course build. Handle production of HTML wrappers and close captioning videos. Created and produced nearly 150 Camtasia videos for the Culinary WP course. Collaborated with vendor to create www.psychologyinactionblog.com.

Bergenfield, Nj

Provide editorial and production solutions to educational publishing companies and developers. Responsible for business development and internal operations. Supervise a team of independent contractors experienced in the publishing field. Hire and manage content providers, authors, and vendors for product material. Develop and copyedit content for websites, videos, CDs, DVDs, online course applications, ebooks, and various other media products in all disciplines.

Greater New York City Area

Responsible for managing the successful publication of a folio of up to 30 books each year, 15% of the company’s total output. Work with authors from the early contract and writing stages through final print and electronic publication. Create and enforce production schedules. Maintain author relationships and ensure that each book publishes with quality and according to the schedule. Work closely with the authors, technical reviewers, editorial and production teams to coordinate and ensure on-time chapter delivery, copy edit, art, proofing, indexing and composition stages, and coordinate with freelance resources to achieve the publication goal.

Upper Saddle River, Nj

Managed media projects, such as CD-ROMs, websites, videos, and online courses within scheduled parameters. Assessed and determined, new media needs and developed and created cost-effective media in collaboration with acquisition editors and marketing managers. Researched competitors, and attended media and publishing exhibits and conventions. Coordinated and supervised focus groups. Worked with production in the creation of products. Analyzed and edited content. Determined design, layout, and functionality of media projects. Forecasted budget requirements for media for each copyright year. Maintained budget and tracked expenditures for projects. Hired and managed content providers, freelancers, and vendors.

Ms, Clinical Nutrition

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