Providing services on contract that drive the building of organizations focused on mutual success. The focus of my efforts continues to surround the relationships of Media Analysis organizations with the content creators that provide the foundational aspects of the audience impact work.

Working on assigned projects related to the media relationships for pressrelations globally as well as customer support for managed services media analysis clients.

Retained to lead the expansion of the media analysis practice in North America, I have now gotten a new leadership and sales team in place. I built on the success and in concert with the existing U.S. based team as well as the team in Germany to complete the search and mentoring of the hiring of a COO and Director of Sales. With the completion of the assignment the focus becomes special projects for the company globally.

License League was an advocacy, advisory, and licensing company focusing on the development of new revenue streams for media based on the monetization of content at the article level within aggregated formats. With a team of 8 people, License League owned the Compliant Article Program (CAP) product and was the exclusive agent for the administration of the Burrelles CAP licenses, which combined with those of LLI represented copyright licensing for 95 publishers with a catalog of 2400 titles for which we provided compliant content to end users and their agents.• Personally completed state registrations, payroll implementation, and accounting system setup.• led the set up of the reporting database structures to support fulfillment of royalties• Created Copyright, Licensing, and Compliance advisory group within SIIA consisting of 15 major publisher

Formulate and execute strategic plans for this 120 year old international provider of media analysis services to increase number of licensing agreements and strengthen relationships with content providers such as publishers, producers, syndicates, and digital media creators. Coordinate and lead all aspects of development, negotiation, and fulfillment of royalty and copyright licensing agreements. Led design and implementation of a data warehouse BI platform.Establish and cultivate client relationships. Direct acquisition of digital content from providers. Promote copyright compliance program. Manage 7 direct reports. As CIO, led 66 members in production locations in 6 states, and 1 office facility; included Online Development, Production Development & Quality Assurance (QA), Business Systems & Database Analysis (DBA), and Infrastructure & OperationsMajor Contributions:• Assembled team to create and launch new and innovative content delivery channel through a strategic partnership with Moreover Technologies to provide content owners with the opportunity to monetize content at the article level.• Eliminated $250K in ongoing costs in 1st year, renegotiating existing self renewing agreements with lower royalty costs.• Opened new revenue stream and covered total operational cost of department and all company royalty obligations, implementing client royalty charge program through creation of data warehousing BI reporting platforms.• Complied with board of directors request to take on CIO position to transition to online content monitoring and delivery..Highlights:• Initiated strategic relationships with newspaper and magazine publisher associations, Copyright Society of USA, and Software and Information Industry Association.• Identified opportunities to create revenue from copyright compliance promotion within public relations (PR) industry.. • Played key role in transitioning company from traditional press clipping to digital delivery.

I was responsible for the licensing and acquisition of content for customer use as well as the mitigation of infringement liability.

Directed staff responsible for systems supporting Advertising, Production, Finance, HR, Contract, Payroll, Billing, and Subscription departments for SF Chronicle and SFgate.com. Developed and managed budget. Led implementation of data warehouse BI reporting system. Major Contributions:• Secured contract for conversion of 4 Tandem mainframe systems; completed 6 months ahead of critical Y2K deadline.• Merged infrastructure of 4 companies, 1,200 employees, successfully within 6 hour window culminating 4 month project.• Orchestrated all aspects of replacement of all 15 major IT systems in company ranging from preparing strategic plan and budget to execution during 9 year tenure..

Led production departments including IT, Prepress, Press, and Packaging for print and online newspaper with 4 regional offices; prepared and administered all related budgets.

Mortgage Bank Licensed by the State of N.J. providing residential and commercial financing through a network of secondary conduits.

Responsible for the daily production and labor relations of the NY Post newspaper with full P&L for 10 unionized departments with 200+ employees and $30M annual budget $800K in annual savings with 18 month pagination install and integration of composing room into exempt departments.