Judson Drennan Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Managed a team of product managers and analysts for the back-end content- and user-management system for a large ed-tech company.Responsibilities
• Prepare roadmaps for my division, coordinating between the various teams
• Lead meetings with internal stakeholders to gather input and communicate current roadmaps and changes
• Meet with major publishing and institutional partners to gather requirements for new product initiatives
• Responsible for the overall product direction, output, and performance of three product and engineering teams
• Direct product management of the company's platform and API team, responsible for ensuring that our applications deliver at scale

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Lead product development for a content-management and back-end system that connects hundreds of publishers to more than 7,000 institutions globally, delivering educational materials to millions of.
• Translated senior leadership’s vision into actionable software, laying out the product roadmap for the company’s back-end CMS
• Worked with internal stakeholders to identify areas for operational efficiency
• Provided daily leadership and direction to an Agile team of eight to 10 developers, QA and business analysts
• Prepared and maintain the team backlog
• Coordinated efforts with other product managers who depended upon my team’s system to provide a dependable, scalable back endAccomplishments

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Directed three teams working on a new Web content management system for the McClatchy Company that replaced an in-house-developed solution being phased out. I also served as product owner for a group of backend.
• Worked with end users and business stakeholders to identify new features and improvements
• Outlined and communicate the product roadmap for McClatchy's digital publishing system and adjust priorities as business strategy changes
• Prioritized ticket backlog
• Worked with other project teams to coordinate timing of feature development and ensure compatibility among products
• Worked directly with developers and communicate acceptance criteria

Raleigh, North Carolina

• As senior product owner (and as a product owner before that) I was responsible for a home-grown web publishing system that, at that time, was being used by 30 McClatchy newspaper markets to power their online news.
• Collaborated with end users and business stakeholders to identify new features and improvements
• Prioritized ticket backlog
• Led training sessions about our productsAccomplishments
• Helped create a standardized set of web templates, which still power many of McClatchy’s websites
• Under tight deadline, headed a project to semantically tag all story content on McClatchy’s websites

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

See Senior Product Owner, above

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• While working at McClatchy Interactive, I was asked to teach a couple of classes at the UNC School of Journalism.Classes taught
• Information Graphics (JOMC-484) in Fall 2011
• Introduction to Multimedia (JOMC-187) in Spring 2010

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• In this role, I created newsroom-facing innovations that improved storytelling and internal workflows. I also collaborated with the N&O’s internal development team to ensure what was developed would meet newsroom and.
• Identified newsroom needs; design and implement workflows and products to meet those needs
• Coordinated with web designers and programmers to present content more effectively online
• Managed newsobserver.com for several hours each day, selecting, prioritizing and enhancing content
• Edited breaking news stories filed by reporters; write original news items
• Developed reusable interfaces for displaying unique content, such as elections data and large special projects

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• After joining he N&O graphics department in 2004, I was promoted to assistant editor (2006) and then editor (2007). I transitioned the department from a print-focused shop to a modern multimedia department producing.
• Managed allocation of department resources to maximize impact of visual storytelling, balancing journalistic value against production time and staff resources.
• Worked with reporters and editors to identify story elements best presented as graphics and then with page designers and online producers to create more effective visual displays with those graphics.
• Represented graphic department interests in inter-departmental meetings
• Reported and created A1-display, special-project and interactive graphicsAccomplishments
• Co-won McClatchy President’s Award for “Mental Disorder” (2008), “Pounding the Pavement” (2005) and “N.C. Water: Safe to Drink?” (2006)

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• While Graphic Editor, I was pulled into a year-long special assignment to help the paper adopt CCI Newsgate, a news-focused CMS. During this time, I handed off much of my day-to-day duties to other department members..
• Helped implement the CCI CMS at the N&O
• Trained entire newsroom staff in series of two-week classes
• Oversaw integration of CCI and McClatchy’s online CMS

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

See Graphics Editor, above

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

See Graphics Editor, above

Beaufort, S.C.

• The Chancellor of USCB asked me to be her public information officer to help communicate her mission to convert USCB from a backwoods university branch offering associate degrees to a vibrant four-year-degree-granting.
• Advised senior leadership on how to respond to public criticism of the university
• Wrote press releases and internal communications
• Represented the university in interviews with the press
• Served as the university’s content webmasterAccomplishments
• Improved local media relations, doubling university-related news articles

Beaufort, S.C.

• At a small paper, editors wear many hats. My unofficial duties included things like pulling CAT5 cable through the ceiling and, when it crashed, rebooting the ancient Mac that fed AP news wires into the system. But.
• Reported and designed infographics for daily stories, as well as long-form investigations
• Led special project teams of reporters, editors and photographers for breaking news, elections and in-depth news features
• Designed section fronts for several weekend sections and special tab publications
• Toned photographs for printAccomplishments
• Redesigned newspaper to a cleaner, more contemporary look, headed team to reduce paper width and trained production staff in redesigned workflows

Beaufort, S.C.

• Fresh out of college, I joined The Beaufort Gazette, a McClatchy paper, as a reporter. I was excited to have landed a writing job and ready to start changing the world. However, my time as a staff writer would be.
• Wrote seven to 12 articles per week covering local education and community issues, including the weekend cops reportAccomplishments
• Won two first-place S.C. Press Association awards

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism, 3.4 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Editor in Chief of senior practicum paper, designer in student services publication office Student by day.

Mass Communication/Media Studies

Activities and Societies: Editor in Chief of the Second Sun student newspaper, pep band, jazz ensemble While at FMU, I helped relaunch the.