Fran Simon Email & Phone Number

Dubuque, Iowa Area

• Manage 10 Product Developers across 20 disciplines with 100+ projects that contribute $112M annually to MHE• Adopt Senior Product Developer responsibilities with several projects, including the flagship Spanish A&P• Report directly to the Managing Director, partner laterally with Product Managers and Director of Product Development to institute efficacious processes for digital and print product development, ensure all 100+ projects are completed on time and under budget, and products three years forward are launched successfully• Lead for creating requisitions, sourcing talent, negotiating contracts, and ensuring fulfillment of deliverables for summer interns and 100+ subject matter experts, vendors, and development freelancers• Award: Marketing Campaign of the Year 2016 (#MHEhappiness)• Volunteering: Member of many IoWINS committees 2013-2016

• Project manage 8 products annually with budgets of approximately $100K each in partnership with Product Managers, Product Marketing, Assessment Managers, and domestic and international vendors• Lead on partnership with University of Toledo for development of award-winning Anatomy & Physiology REVEALED™ (APR) cadaver dissection tool, an integral component to the $52M annual Applied Biology pipeline • Source talent, negotiate/develop contracts, train, and direct authors, freelance personnel, interns, and ancillary content experts in conducting review panels, advisory boards, and facilitating print and digital revisions• Assist in development of sales and marketing collateral with Product Marketing and Product Managers• Plan and conduct product launches, as well as attend and present educational materials at national conventions• Maintain network of professors with adoption decision-making power, liaise those relationships with Product Marketing colleagues, and ensure marketing collateral reflects product revisions and includes professor crediting• Awards: MHE Team of the Year 2011 and 2013• Volunteering: Director of American Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days 2012-2013, Co-Chair of IoWINS 2013-2016• Promotions: 2002 (to Product Developer) and 2010 (to Senior Product Developer)

• Field all benefits questions from employees (insurance, stock purchase plans, vacation, sick time, payroll, etc.)• Handle all personnel files for Dubuque, IA office• Coordinate and conduct training seminars and first day orientation for all new employees

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor'S In Business Administration - Management, Management