Anna Mosca Email & Phone Number

New York City, Ny, Us

• Proven record of building high performing teams with great retention of top performers and high level of commitment and motivation. Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI): 100%. Currently leading an engineering group of about 20 engineers ( i.e.: offshore vendor resources, and LexisNexis India engineers) • Aggressively led the Agile transformation from Waterfall to Lean Agile integrating resources in Scrum and Kanban teams to reduce feature cycle time. In 2019 Lexis Advance became the #1 preferred USA service provider for next generation lawyers in the highly competitive field of legal research. • Partnered with product owners to deliver business value exploring advanced new technology in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence; partnered with editorial staff to increase productivity and quality through process standardization, innovation, and 24x7 tool support. • Managed system assets and provided data center migration strategy for legacy and strategic applications. Complied with inventory practices and licensing, security requirements, and eliminated over $100K of lifecycle yearly cost through the adoption of open source (i.e.: Open JDK, MySQL).• Managed $10M yearly budget for the functional area (i.e. resource allocation, contractors, travel and training, software licenses).

New York City, Ny, Us

Successfully led the outsourcing and offshoring of the editorial systems to reduce overall engineering cost and implement 24x7 support • Managed offshore team of 30-50 resources for application maintenance and new feature implementation • Applied industry best practices in offshore partnership development to ensure quality business solutions through SLAs and partnered with vendors for continuous improvement. • Insured deliverables’ adherence to standard Software Development Life Cycle and architecture standards at program management gate reviews • Played active role in the Enterprise Architect Board in the development and evolution of the systems architecture and technical standards.• Defined processes for disaster recovery planning and business continuity for editorial systems and participated in bi-annual data center testing

New York City, Ny, Us

Supported the needs for applications and tools of the diverse editorial staff (originated through mergers and acquisitions of Matthew Bender, Martindale Hubbell, Shepard’s, Congressional Information Services) • Provided software maintenance and new features development with a team of 10-12 engineers (located at 6 different locations across USA), and augmented by offshore staff • Championed the development and implementation of global content creation, management and production systems to improve operational effectiveness and migrate to XML content among acquired publishing businesses • Promoted standardization of editorial practices and tools to drive operational efficiency and minimize engineering support costs • Provided evaluation and comparison for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and in-house tools

New York City, Ny, Us

Led a small team of engineers (2 to 5) to implement applications and tools for the MB editorial staff (i.e.: schedule and tracking cycle for the 500+ publications, manage SGML content in Documentum content management system, create filing instructions for customers, etc.)

Carlsbad, Ca, Us