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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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