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Greater Chicago Area

Manage teams to produce educational publishing books in Math, Science and Humanities. My team partners with Suppliers and internal departments to create unique workflows for each project while streamlining processes to maximize efficiencies.

Greater Chicago Area

Direct and mentor full-time and contract staff to meet the demands of client projects, strategize best workflow process for specific projects, create project resource plans, coordinate with HR for suitable candidates, manage daily workload to ensure deadline compliance, lead status meetings with the team to discuss projects and resolve potential issues and collaborate with a large team including project managers, proofreaders, internal and external contractors, marketing, sales and IT.

Greater Chicago Area

Provide consulting services for a wide variety of companies in need of project management expertise combined with a thorough production background in both print and digital models.Recent consulting work: Quad Graphics | Senior Project Manager; QBS Learning | Project Manager; National Marine Manufacturers Association (NMMA) | Creative Production Manager

Chicago, Il

Manage the production of various widely-circulated Social Studies textbooks. Collaborate with other departments and managers to produce detailed schedules, track program components and ensure on-time delivery of products; reconfigure staff to efficiently handle multiple projects simultaneously; manage the budget for the department and each project, mentor staff, participate in improvement initiatives, establish best practices and provide training.

Grayslake, Il

Taught intermediate desktop software class Advanced Electronic Graphic Publishing

Chicago, Il

Manage and oversee the production of various textbooks for this Fortune 500 company. Responsible for meeting with department leads to plan, review and discuss projects. Manage staff to produce and coordinate all components of textbooks to offsite national and international vendors; reconfigure staff to efficiently handle multiple projects simultaneously; manage the budget for the department and each project ensuring we stay within or under the budget; mentor staff to increase proficiency in software techniques and problem solving. Earned the 2009 Silver A.C.E. award for quality and innovation.

Chicago, Il

Began as freelance work and then accepted a full-time position. Manage small staff in the development of design materials and textbooks; collaborate with design, photo research, stakeholders and clients to meet project deadlines.

Chicago, Il

Design and Production work including logos, t-shirts, newsletters, textbook publishing. Clients included Houghton Mifflin, ScottForesman, McDougal Littell, Ligature, Preface, TSI, Women’s Healthcare Consultants, Curtis Design, Three Communication Design, Navta Associates, Motif retail store, John’s Place restaurant.