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Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Center City, Minnesota

General manager for the publishing business unit with overall responsibility for strategic planning, editorial, product development, sales, marketing, technology, and business development. Charged with advancing the Hazelden mission by developing, marketing, and selling high-quality publications in multiple formats that include print and digital publications, curriculum, social media, videos, and related training that reflect “best practices” in the treatment of alcohol/ substance abuse and related fields.Focused on leveraging the combined strengths of the Foundation to create new solutions for consumers and professionals to combat addiction and support wellbeing.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed product development and editorial functions charged with re-defining and re-invigorating the Business Law Solution strategy for Westlaw.• Successfully drove the integration of product, editorial, technology and commercial teams with the core Westlaw business• Responsible for creating practice area development strategies spanning information, software and specialized legal workflows. • Product and Tech liason in drivng acquisition strategy and coordinating integration teams• Calibrated investment to meet the strategic priorities of the overall information business.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead product and technology organization in support of the creation of Thomson Reuters Accelus – delivering Governance Risk and Compliance solutions to the legal, insurance and financial communities.• Directly managed product, technology and commercial teams responsible for the suite of transactional, board governance, and corporate compliance solutions.• Acting CTO during formation and creation and re-alignment of technology team focused on building and supporting complex information delivery platforms.• Managed the strategic planning and capital prioritization for a large organization with cross-functional stakeholders.• Lead the re-platforming of the Boardlink corporate governance product as a mobile-centric iPad solution.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Drove the acquisition and integration of disparate transactional law content and technology assets into a single product solution set. • Directly managed product, technology and commercial teams in the creation of new business unit focused on the needs of transactional lawyers.• Responsible for creating and managing overall product strategy, road map, capital plan and implementation.• Lead the integration of internal and acquired teams into broader Legal Business• Specific emphasis on information and software solutions targeting legal workflow for Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Corporate Governance.

Zug, Switzerland

Managed a portfolio of product and technology assets for licensing and leverage across the entire Thomson Reuters organization.• Specific responsibility for the development of the global platform technology leverage strategy for Westlaw outside the United States. • Laid the foundation for future successful development in South America, Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for building a team to drive the product expansion and platform strategy for the rapid extension of the Westlaw product line into new geographies. • Formed and lead the product development and user experience organizations for the initial build out of Westlaw Canada, Westlaw UK, Westlaw Australia, Westlaw La Ley (Argentina), and Westlaw Hong Kong.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for leading the product design and requirements process for Westlaw International and Westlaw UK - the first extensions of the Westlaw product and brand outside North America.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsible for product requirements and implementation planning for integrated Westlaw information solutions. Including Intranet/Extranet Delivery, automated citation checking software, and automated citation link recognition and resolution.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Supported Westlaw Customer Service, Marketing Product Development and Editorial functions in a variety of roles with particular focus on:• Creation and roll out of 2nd tier (expert level) customer call center support for Westlaw • Development and testing of Natural Language search algorithms specific to legal information• Content acquisition, licensing, and self-sourcing• Business requirements capture and management for new products and features

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Law Clerk and Contract Attorney (post Bar Admission) supporting Commercial Transactions lead attorneys in Corporate Counsel's office. Responsible for legal research, writing, contract drafting and revision with specific focus on alarm company acquisitions and spin-off of defense business (now Alliant Techsystems)

Doctor Of Law (J.D.), Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law

Bachelor Of Science, Finance And Marketing