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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Defined future and strategy for academic support products in the Bootcamps vertical.
• Specialized in Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) with the Learning Management System (LMS).
• Reduced live-agent costs while innovating industry-leading AI academic support.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Solutions architect for large EdTech company dedicated to improving asset management for university degree partners.
• Wrangle messy, complicated, ambiguous requirements into big value-adds with workflows and scripts.
• Reduce tedious manual content management processes by designing and writing quick Python scripts
• Decrease delivery times for hefty digital asset requests (10TB+) by automation and cloud-based applications (Python, Remote Desktop, AWS Workspaces)

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Team lead and solutions architect tasked with setting up a brand new squad of content technologists specializing in academic assets and management
• Trained and mentored team with Agile and Scrum methodologies
• Designed, formalized and implemented documentation strategies (JIRA, Confluence, GSuite)
• Designed and implemented cross-functional workflows for tracking the life-cycle of new features and reported issues

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Business Analyst and de facto product owner in mid-size education technology company responsible for finding and implementing solutions of all forms for streamlined and effective content management.
• Managed requirements and implementation of a new CMS migration of university course assets
• Managed LTI integration of the CMS with LMSes (Canvas, Moodle)

New York, New York, United States

Greater New York City Area

• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) in a mid-size digital product development group working on multiple projects dedicated to improving children's literacy.
• Product owner and business analyst for development team which delivered the on-time and highly lauded release of a high-profile children's reading application, BookFlix.
• Implemented JIRA and Confluence tools exclusively to drive scrums, manage expectations, analyze requirements, write stories and acceptance criteria.
• Full adoption of Agile Scrum methodology for all projects.

New York, NY

• Managed team of ebook specialists responsible for the innovation, development and trouble-shooting of ebook production for one of the largest publishers in the world. Trained and mentored the team within an Agile.
• Designed, implemented, authored and edited an entire documentation strategy that revolutionized information-sharing and established transparency across all production teams, vastly increasing trust and workflow.
• Formalized shared job-tracking system within the team to drastically increase our turn-around and reliability in responding to fast-changing job requests.
• Implemented a formal issue-tracking system which introduced accountability, reliability and transparency to my team’s workflow.
• Formalized, trained (and constantly policed) best-practices for time-management skills for meetings, emails, bug-writing, etc. which guaranteed productivity while highlighting a respect for colleagues’ time.
• Fostered collaboration and camaraderie by listening closely to the team to create a respectful, honest and safe team environment.

New York, NY

• Managed Agile development team of the Scholastic Achievement Manager software, a learning management system that coordinates a suite of highly successful literacy intervention software products sold to schools.
• Quickly embraced and mastered Agile principles to minimize team stress during the larger, department-wide shift to an Agile methodology.
• Successfully leveraged tact, authority and diplomacy to smoothly navigate the constant challenges that a highly interdependent and highly integrated management app requires.

New York, NY

• Technical ProducerTechnical Producer for digital archive/content management system. Managed features, requirements and specifications for the ingestion of digital assets into the content management system, as well as.
• Balanced technical background with people-skills to successfully translate high-level business requirements into clear, testable development tasks.
• Leveraged powerful QA experience and attention to detail to reduce production time and increase trust and reliability of releases.
• Independently mastered Perl to design, code and implement XML-writing tool for ingesting digital assets into content management system.Documentation Analyst
• Studied and implemented persona-based approach as technical writer to update user-facing documentation for proprietary API web-services.

New York, NY

• Technical Producer for the Scholastic Achievement Manager, a highly integrated and instructor-facing learning management system sold to schools. Gathered requirements from business owners and wrote functional.
• Explored and mastered a wide-range of documentation frameworks to produce clear and highly-reliable technical specifications that eliminated ambiguity during all phases of development from coding to QA to final.
• Invented a novel, and powerful backward-first approach to documentation and specification-writing which puts sustainable value first before a solution.

New York, NY

• Managed the collaborative production of content for Fisher-Price and Scholastic’s Read With Me DVDs.

New York, NY

• Gathered requirements and wrote functional specifications for feature development on literacy software, Read180. Managed the recording and asset production of new content CDs.
• Quality Assurance member of the production team for two important children’s educational titles: Math Missions & Little Bill Thinks Big.

New York, NY

• Mastered extreme data-integration techniques between Excel and Powerpoint to publish highly detailed financial reports.

New York, NY

• Programmer (1999-2001)
• Lead Scripter for two CD-ROM titles: Elmo's Deep Sea Adventure and Elmo's Preschool. Co-Scripter for third: Dragon Tales. Localization Manager (1999)
• Managed the review and approval of the conversion of CD-ROM titles into German and Dutch languages. International Editorial Assistant (1997-1999)
• Managed the review and approval of foreign print productions of Sesame Street magazine for Holland, Germany, Taiwan, Russia, Spain and the United Kingdom.

Immersive Bootcamp, Data Science

Graduate Work In Phd Program, Linguistics

Special emphasis on computational linguistics, phonology and phonetics.

Continuing Ed, C/C++ Programming And Computer Science

Ba, French Literature

Dl, Ds, French Language And Literature