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• Manage and serve as the strategic decision-maker for pyschology programs to accurately identify, evaluate, and address existing and potential strategic and budgetary opportunities and barriers to optimize the health of the product portfolio.• Manage financial P&Ls for digital products, franchises, and titles, and new product models working closely with development, production, finance, and others to control costs and ensure profitability.• Ensure that launch of products are timely to market, competitive, and creative, and meet their financial and sales goals.• Interpret data to tell a story and make decisions• Serve as the primary contact for authors, content developers/advisors, and resource team members.• Recruit a diverse group of reviewers, thought leaders, faculty advisory boards, and key decision-makers and plan the development of products in the portfolio.• Research, plan, and execute the development and integration of multimedia-based teaching and learning resources to provide for a robust program.• Ensure that product strategy takes into consideration the needs and abilities of all students and reflects human diversity.

Burlington, Ma

• Continuation of the role below following the acquisition of Wolters Kluwer Legal Education by Transom Capital Group in December 2021.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

In addition to the continuation of responsibilities listed for the Managing Editor role below:• Owned the full product lifecycle through acquisitions/business development activity.• Regularly conducted research and engaged with customers to identify thought leaders in growth areas and maintain a robust acquisition and new product pipeline.• Traveled to industry conferences to discuss WK products and visited qualified leads on campus (as permitted during the ongoing pandemic) or via video calls to discuss interests in authoring new content and secure new publishing agreements.• Negotiated contract terms with author partners for new and existing projects.

Waltham, Massachusetts, United States

• Directed content strategy and managed P&L of education product portfolio, exceeding YoY revenue growth bonus targets by 15-20% while continuously iterating to achieve profit maximization.• Oversaw 5 development editors as well as external author-SMEs and production vendors.• Established schedules, budgets, and roadmap for product portfolio, ensuring successful and strategic releases as well as optimal marketing and support of all existing products.• Worked closely with development team and authors to articulate the unique value proposition of each product; produced marketing copy and delivered internal presentations to sales team 2-4 times per year to ensure a successful selling season; partnered with sales team on customer calls to secure new business as needed.• Managed relationship with directors and COO at co-publishing partner; oversaw the editorial content strategy of a revenue sharing agreement with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.• Partnered with human resources and senior leadership to plan and execute “Great Place to Work” program activities to boost employee morale and engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic, and managed blog content on the company intranet (additional elective position, Feb 2020-Oct 2021).

Boston, Ma

• Player-coach/dotted-line-manager overseeing the training and development of 5-6 production editors.• Managed the roster of freelancers hired for production tasks; tracked quality across projects; supervised the progression of all production team projects in JIRA.• Hired and assigned vendors for each project, oversaw team through the production and distribution processes, and helped production editors navigate author personality and scheduling challenges.• Implemented process improvements and managed process documentation on Confluence wiki.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• In addition to Production Editor duties, managed relationships, project transmittal, and invoicing with manufacturing partners.• Onboarded two new manufacturing partners for improved pricing and/or cycle time on certain projects.• Created and updated production team process documentation to ensure successful collaboration with all manufacturing partners.

Boston, Ma

• Produced book and courseware releases in a timely and cost-effective manner.• Iteratively early-released new content during the final stages of manuscript development (pre-production), following Agile best practices.• Managed freelancers working on copyediting, proofreading, illustration, indexing, and design tasks.• Supported marketing team efforts in the production and manufacturing of one-off custom content for partner organizations in conjunction with Managing Editor of Sponsored Content for conferences, major software releases, etc.

Boston, Ma

• Assisted three editors to contract and develop statistics and data science textbooks, supplements, and courseware.• Served as lead editor on selected textbook products and ancillary digital learning materials.• Represented the company at conferences and demoed learning software at colleges in New England.

Brookline, Ma

Ithaca, Ny

Hired, trained, and managed a staff of 30-40 part-time student employees in maintaining, along with RAs and campus police, the safety and security of campus residential buildings during nightly patrols, as well as managing traffic details for campus events.

Ithaca, New York Area

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Writing, Theater

Master Of Business Administration - Mba