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Austin, Tx, Us

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Leads a team of project managers, interactive content creators, and content operations specialists who help build, maintain and deliver STEM courses.

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

—Manages a team of project managers, providing oversight, direction, and career development —Provides leadership and helps develop a mature and scalable project management framework tailored to our unique and established processes of authoring and review —Creates a positive, collaborative environment focused on continual improvement —Helps develop and refine processes to support growth and innovation —Oversees projects from initial market research and product definition to final implementation and delivery as well as ongoing maintenance and enhancement —Defines project requirements, goals, and schedules —Recruits, schedules, and manages internal and external teams —Manages the content development and review process, ensuring quality at every stage —Manages relationships with external clients and vendors as applicable —Coordinates with marketing, sales, engineering, and operations —Conducts basic review of content to ensure quality and adherence to zyBooks' authoring guidelines —Helps train and support teams to ensure they can utilize zyBooks' authoring framework and project management tools —Manages resources and resolves issues as they arise to ensure projects are on track and meet quality standards —Reports regularly on project progress

Austin, Tx

—Responsible for projects to deliver Smarter Sorting products/technology to customers—Defined and implemented best practices for project management and product management —Drove regular goal-setting initiatives and reported on progress toward goals across internal teams—Served as ScrumMaster for development teams, as needed—Directly managed customer implementation projects, as needed

Austin, Texas

—Owned planning and execution on internal and external projects, assisting in defining project scope, success criteria, costs, risks, and other key details—Created and maintained project dashboards and documentation—Established best practices for project management—Took initiative to create product packaging, training videos, and other key project deliverables as needed

Austin, Texas

—Collaborated with cross-functional teams to increase visibility into project progress and finances across Macmillan Learning titles—Worked with teams to define and improve the editorial development lifecycles for a variety of educational products—Served as ScrumMaster for content development team experimenting with agile methodology—Monitored alignment of editorial work to companywide goals and initiatives—Created data visualizations to provide insights on project progress and finances

Austin, Texas Area

— Managed scope, budget and schedule constraints on a portfolio of digital education products totaling $70M in annual revenue, ensuring projects met deadlines and business requirements— Worked with editorial, science and math discipline leads, developers and company leadership to develop educational technology products— Helped teams create and execute detailed work plans that identify and sequence the activities needed to successfully complete the project— Acquired, organized and interpreted project data to inform decision-making about future initiatives — Led regular project progress meetings, and maintained documentation and work-tracking tools— Transformed company vision and strategy into real, tactical plans for execution

Austin, Texas Area

— Produced editorial and content marketing for print, web and social media to promote Texas tourism destinations— Planned, executed and managed full production lifecycle for quarterly Texas Highways Events Calendar— Acted as project lead for development and operation of two content management databases— Led effort to revamp calendar content in 2015, contributing to a 20.5-percent increase in ad sales— Served as co-editor of the official Texas State Travel Guide, writing and editing as needed— Engaged readers by contributing blogs and other content to social media and TexasHighways.com

Austin, Texas Area

— Provided clothing selections and style guidance to clients via a web-based start-up platform— Built relationships with customers and managed customer service issues

Waco, Texas Area

— Wrote headlines and edited stories for a 44,000-circulation newspaper— Provided expert guidance on grammar, punctuation, content, style and accuracy— Planned and designed multiple news and feature pages on daily deadlines, including front pages— Performed quality-assurance checks on pages before print and enforced deadlines

Austin, Texas Area

— In charge of all printed material, websites and media for a major affordable-housing nonprofit— Produced marketing and informational materials to engage a variety of stakeholders, including residents, donors and the general public— Collaborated with internal groups and external vendors to revamp brochures and websites, and to create an informational video— Planned and executed campaigns to raise awareness and participation for multiple programs — Wrote, edited and designed newsletters, yearly reports, brochures, mailings, fliers and more

Austin, Texas Area

— Served as managing editor, assistant managing editor, assistant news editor, copy editor, wire editor, general reporter, associate editor and columnist— Recruited, hired and managed a staff of about 100 students as managing editor

Austin, Texas Area

— Assisted students and faculty with computing needs, including support for ArcGIS, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and other applications— Provided customer service for technical equipment, printing and plotting services

Austin, Texas Area

— Wrote, edited and designed a quarterly newsletter aimed at social work professionals— Juggled various office duties from several supervisors, including mailings and surveys

Master'S Of Community And Regional Planning, Transportation Planning Specialization

Bachelor Of Journalism, Journalism

Activities and Societies: The Daily TexanCompleted a Dow Jones Newspaper Fund internship at the Deseret Morning News in Salt Lake City.