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Colorado, United States

Responsible for leading a Global Legislation and Regulatory teams, planning strategy, setting organizational priorities, and partnering with commercial product managers to support future product strategies and drive customer experience. This includes developing innovative solutions for global editorial tools, globally harmonized processes, global team structures, and automated solutions to create efficiencies for the editorial staff. Has full responsibility for the management of operations teams aligned with legislative content, with emphasis on operational efficiency and promotion of organizational values and culture.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Drove strategic vision and roadmap to create a modern, global, highly reusable content platform to realize customer and business benefits using advanced technologies, automation, and process excellence. Guided a group of product managers responsible to delivering digital transformation through agile teams and practices.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

Drove automation and process transformation program across Global Editorial Operations, using advanced technologies, machine learning, and AI to deliver innovative technology and process solutions. These solutions led to cost savings of $3.4m in 2021 and included strangling 6 legacy assets and redesigning 6 processes across 4 different content families. Led a group of business analysts focused on delivering advanced technology solutions and process reengineering. Applied agile methodologies to deliver solutions.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Led a global group of Enterprise Business Analysts and Business Analysts to support the implementation of the LexisNexis Global Content, Process, and Systems strategy. Drove content systems reuse strategy and solutions across all global business groups by working with regional Global Operations content leads and local commercial owners to understand, capture and prioritize business drivers and related requirements for content systems. Delivered 23 bets resulting in $6.2m in cost savings.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Lead global group of Enterprise Business Analysts and Business Analysts to support implementation of the LexisNexis Global Content, Process, and Systems strategy. Provide and manage ongoing business analysis support model. Develop business analysis Center of Excellence which includes best practices, behaviors, skills, and training programs.Drive content systems reuse strategy and solutions across all global business groups by working with regional Global Operations content leads and the local commercial owners to understand, capture and prioritize business drivers and related requirements for content systems.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Drive content systems and fabrication reuse strategy and solutions across all global business groups by working with regional Global Operations content leads and the local commercial owners to understand, capture and prioritize business drivers and related requirements for content systems.On a global scale, responsibilities include:--Mapping As-Is and Future states across process, content and technology--Owning and managing the prioritization of program scope items and related requirements--Documenting business requirements and derived functional requirements--Identifying common capabilities and reusable processes and ensuring software development efforts are clearly traceable to and prioritized against business requirements--Product Owner and partner with the technology teams to ensure solutions development efforts will enable the required commercial and operational drivers and business requirements--Partnering to create acceptance criteria and user acceptance tests to ensure any applications are fit for purpose--Partnering to ensure a successful change management process and implementation of any new systems and processes

Lead a team of Business Analysts on multiple large scale projects. Gather and write requirements, use case, business process flows, and business rules. Consult on various aspects of large editorial and content system development platforms. Provide system support to customers and engineering staff.

Provided project management oversight on small and medium sized editorial systems projects. Responsible for managing resources as well as scope, schedule, budget, and delivery.

Editorial Operations Lead for a multi-year, multi-million dollar project. Liaison between engineering group and editorial users in designing interface for case law editing system. Oversaw testing group on all aspects of new platform.

Managed editorial team consisting of 12-20 individuals responsible for case law content work from the federal district and appeals courts.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

Head Coach and General Manager of the Colorado Springs Thunder, a professional inline hockey team in the Professional Inline Hockey Association. Responsible for coaching a pro team and a minor league team, evaluating and selecting players and general administrative duties for the organization including website maintenance. This position is a volunteer position with the organization.

Master’S Degree, Information Technology Management

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Information Systems

Graduated Magna Cum Laude