Agate Development came into being three years after the founding of Agate Publishing. Agate Development partners with publishers, associations, universities, K–12, career assessment entities,and corporations to develop online courses, training assets, classroom resources,and high-stakes assessment formats—from digital delivery to finished printed materials.

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Identifying new business opportunities, building and maintaining client relationships, and driving company growth via lead generation, conducting market research.

Drives business development by researching and locating potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring opportunities. Identifies strategic partnerships and maintains relationships with business partners in educational publishing and workforce training market sector. Performs comprehensive review of Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) and Scope of Work (SOW) documents, prepares proposals and responses to RFPs. Develops marketing and sales material as needed including social media outreach. Coordinates with the Project Director on the management of projects, including updates, budgets and deliverables.

I am a Product Owner for the Second Avenue Learning. Drove business development by researching and locating potential business deals by contacting potential partners; discovering and exploring opportunities.Drove these projects by working collaboratively with an agile team development, providing requirements including: use cases and user stories, wireframes on business needs.with multiple stakeholders including: program management, design, editorial, development, external partners, to define and refine client requirements, manage the product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical tasks.

Acquired an educational electronic medical record (EMR) iCare from the University of Tennessee. Since DocuCare’s launch, the site has generated $2.1 million in revenue in its first 12 months; and is tracking another $1.2 million in new sales over the next six months. Led the development from an IT to a web-based platform, managed product development, marketing and sales strategies.Created the Nursing Concepts website. Since the launch in 2010, the site has generated nearly $3 million in direct sales and supported nearly another $3 million in supplemental book sales.Unique site design allows faculty to fully customize their curriculum using LWW online assets including: pedagogical e-book linkages, audio and video assets, leading nursing and medical journals and quizzing all with in an easy-to-use instructor interface.Responsible for the implementation and launch of SimAdviser, combining Nursing Education and Nursing Professional assets into the first digital solution and exclusive partnership with Laerdal Medical, the leading medical manikin company. Streamlined Nursing Practice course generation (ClinSims), into an online generation tool speeding production and reducing error helping to save a multi-million dollar contract with Universal Health Services, Inc.

Developed media strategies and products to support Nursing Higher Education and Nursing Professional disciplines.Accomplishments:Created a new production template for LWW assets to be utilized in the creation of online course creation (ie Blackboard et al).Streamlined Nursing Practice course generation (ClinSims), into an online generation tool speeding production and reducing error helping to save a multi-million dollar contract with Universal Health Services, Inc.

Development of media assets to support the American ELT DivisionProduced full length DVDs and Multi-roms for the best selling American Headway and American English File series. Began development and licensing agreements on iPhone applications for AmELT products including the Oxford Picture Dictionary. Maintained all media development of AmELT including Test Generators, Audio CDs, LMS, student and teacher websites.

Designed and produced the PH Nursing Skills video product, the six products; have combined over $1,000,000 in sales since 2005.Oversaw creation of EMT Achieve – the first “pay” online test prep site for any Higher Ed. division.Managed and produced industry-leading Medical Terminology books: Turley, Rice, Fremgen and Wingerd (Student CDs, Web-sites, LMS)Developed a low cost, flexible CD shell for PH Health Student CDs used in over 30 textbook CDs in all). Designed the Student CD and Instructor assets to support Limmer Emergency Care 10/e, (PH Book of the Year 2005), over 150,000 units sold.In addition, created CD and web support products for Criminal Justice and Culinary lists.

Areas of focus: Sociology, Political Science, Psychology and Anthropology. In 2001 the Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science lists all up 20%, a Prentice Hall sales record.Developed the web and CD assets for Macionis, Sociology, the best selling Sociology textbook in the industry.Contacted Penn State University which led to the creation Classics in Psychology Video CD, first of its kind, eventually went to a franchise product of a 4 DVD set. Created PoliSim1 & 2 (Prentice Hall’s award winning political science simulations CD). Forged alliances with key vendors and content including ABC, Penn State Video archive, NJN Public television and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Managed two production staffs of 12 people each, hired 15 full-time employees and managed a stable of over 30 freelancers.Production teams produced a yearly average of 10,000 art pieces, 5,000 4/c print pages, in 1998 – the staff produced over 40 websites a year.Created a Formatting Style Sheet which socialized to company-wide standard for its XML coding structure.