Kathy Lopez Email & Phone Number

Plymouth, Michigan, United States

• Oversee Pre-Production department, which includes Illustration team, Production Editor Team, Permissions, and Editorial Assistant team. Responsible for training, coaching, and development of the team, as well as ensuring content received from external authors is prepped and ready for the Print Production team and/or Digital Tools team. This includes completing a myriad of tasks and ensuring that schedules are met, shuffling assignments when necessary. • Manage internal and external resources to meet company needs. Includes collaboration with internal Account Managers, Content Production Associates, and Digital Tools Associates, as well as external independent contractors and freelance vendors. • Utilize systems such as JIRA, Trello, and Box to manage projects and schedules, analyze data, and communicate with internal and external resources.

Plymouth, Michigan

• Oversee a portfolio of 75 authors and more than 110 print and digital projects across higher education-level STEM and Humanities disciplines. Responsible for retention, execution, pricing, project health, and maintenance or increase of portfolio value. • Manage internal and external resources to execute custom publishing plans. Includes collaboration and interaction with Design, Illustration, Customer Service, Finance, Digital, and Production departments, as well as Field Sales team. • Utilize systems such as Salesforce and Microsoft Navision to manage projects, analyze data, and communicate with Sales team.

Plymouth, Michigan

Oversee high-performing team of Managing Editors. Responsible for training, coaching, and development of the team; overseeing project execution, including project assignments and hand-offs; and promoting author relationships. Update and monitor status reports and communicate about progress towards goals. Conduct portfolio reviews and identify areas to improve profitability or set other targets to improve project health and enhance author relationships. Manage author retention rates and metrics. Perform post-season review and identify areas for process and workflow improvement. Increase digital conversations with authors and collaborate and build relationships with sister companies.

Farmington Hills, Michigan

Delivered quality products to customers in a fast-paced, budget-conscious environment. Led a high-performing team of twelve staff members who handled multimillion-dollar product lines. • Consistently met or exceeded aggressive publication goals while providing ongoing leadership in the areas of process improvement and content enhancement. • Implemented massive change effort to completely re-vamp team work processes, which reduced costs by $700,000 annually and improved productivity by freeing up five staff members for additional challenges. • Challenged by Vice President to reduce costs and accelerate delivery schedules: analyzed data and team processes to articulate and clarify consequences of business decisions on data and products. Presented effect on content quality, publishing plan, and revenue to proposed schedule and vendor changes and recommended a course of action.• Reduced costs by 10% annually by working exclusively with cost-efficient permissions vendors and eliminating unnecessary content in products, as determined by customers.• Led several teams over the course of my career, ranging in size from eight to 21 people. Successfully coached more than ten employees to promotion.• Ongoing contributor to Vice President’s departmental blog, which reached more than 100 employees. • Led cross-departmental taskforces, clarifying job responsibilities for multiple editorial positions.• Selected to lead and present task force findings at upper management-level meetings; and coached junior level staff one-on-one.

Farmington Hills, Michigan

Project managed and edited the Gale Directory of Databases.• Successfully met all budget and quality requirements and publication deadlines, ensuring $500,000 in annual revenue• Improved P&L by being the first editor to utilize outsourcing solutions, such as hiring freelance editorial staff, and implementing new processes that reduced in-house staff hours. • Displayed strong editorial skills, including copyediting, proofing, writing to style guidelines, and all other required tasks. Recognized by management as a subject matter expert with an exceptional eye for errors who approved final runs prior to production.