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Led product strategy, planning, and product development processes. Organized product, design, and engineering teams into squads to improve product development and scale.Shipped major product initiatives including native mobile apps for iOS and Android, unified user accounts, and platform integrations. Mentored and grew product and design team from four to seven, with a focus on establishing user research and continuous discovery practices.

Newsela is a personalized reading service designed to help students in grades 2 to 12 master non-fiction literacy by providing daily news articles at five reading levels. I led the product management team designing and building an instructional content platform to nurture young citizens and empathetically support educators in their craft.

* Built a prototype digital learning companion that fosters delight, supports deeper learning through creative, playful projects, and that learns over time in collaboration with IBM Watson Research.* Lead digital strategy for a museum dedicated to supporting creative learning experiences to children, parents, and educators worldwide.* Launched 5 iPad apps with over 1M downloads worldwide - noticing.nysci.org

• Led product strategy, research, and development of ambitious, tablet-based, adaptive middle school science curriculum.• Established processes and nurture collaborative environment for cross-disciplinary team of over sixty colleagues across two organizations, resulting in highly functioning curriculum, research, and software development teams. • Articulated product vision, mission, and work to high-profile external and internal audiences.• Developed multi-year strategic plan and product roadmap.• Sourced, evaluated, and selected external partners in content, media, and software development to augment and optimally leverage internal teams.• Recruited and managed product team of four employees to drive adoptions of current science curriculum product and build capacity of newly-formed division to launch products.

• Led new handheld-to-web observational assessment products in early childhood and elementary math through full life-cycle from initial research, field trials, design, prototyping, launch, and implementation.• Supported hands-on consultative engagements with strategic accounts to ensure successful product implementations and license renewals.• Drove sales and marketing efforts for math assessment to win adoptions in over 25 states, including the company’s first statewide product adoption.Provided thought leadership and enhanced product visibility at national conferences and customer presentations. • Collaborated with Columbia University research team from initial field studies through four-year validation study funded by $1.5MM grant from U.S. Department of Education. • Built the first product in company history to concurrently develop new assessment methods, content, and software for administration and reporting.• Stimulated innovation by rapidly developing and testing in classrooms prototypes of new methods for teachers to analyze student work and plan instructional adaptations.• Established usability research practices that enhanced user experiences through refined user interfaces and validated content.

• Delivered innovative handheld-to-web assessment and observational products for early childhood and elementary school teachers on time, on budget, and under tight timelines.• Led cross-functional software development teams through all phases of design, development, quality assurance, delivery, maintenance, and revision.• Trained account management, support, sales, and professional development teams to effectively support customer implementations at scale.

• Supported outreach and advocacy work at Civil Society Institute (Newton, MA)• Designed and built websites for Island Press, Max Warburg Courage Curriculum

• Designed and developed database, middle tier, and presentation layers of web-based applications.• Collaborated on in-house revision of technical processes.

• Conducted statistical analyses and co-authored final reports for evaluations of childhood programs, graduate student training, low-income child care programs, and US WIC program.• Designed and maintained project databases using SAS, Excel, MS Access. • Researched, evaluated, and administered measures of early reading skills for nationwide literacy study. • Trained other staff in data management, analysis, and research techniques.