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Direct the end-to-end supply chain operations, from demand planning, inventory management, and manufacturing, through customer order management, logistics, and distribution.

Founded and direct the day-to-day operations of Treadwell Media Group, a consulting firm focused on helping companies scale their product development, go-to-market, and supply chain operations through the digital transition via people, process, and technology innovation.- Implemented AI-based semantic search capability augmenting existing keyword and category search for a trade-oriented publishing services provider.- Performed review of content development and production activities for a major international education, reference, trade, and test preparation publisher, resulting in over 20% reduction in cost, improved cycle time and simultaneous publication of print and digital editions.- Conducted review of global supply chain activities for a major international education publisher resulting in reduced spend of over $8M per year.- Assisted a major legal publishing company in outsourcing distribution through a comprehensive RFP and implementation process.- Assisted international content and technology services provider in analyzing potential new product ideas. The process resulted in three new product introductions to supplement their existing service offerings.- Developed ERP requirements for an online buyer and seller of high-end fashion accessories.

New York, Us

Founding partner of a consultancy focused on a broad range of strategic and operational technology issues in publishing. We work with all types of publishers and technology- and service providers, from small to global, to provide practical solutions in M&A, go-to-market, content development, product management, supply chain, and other domains. Each of us has over 25 years of experience as executives, consultants, and entrepreneurs in publishing technology.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Helping promote innovation, learning and sharing at one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world; a leader in publishing books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design.

Boston, Ma, Us

Gutenberg Technology powers the growth of some of the world’s largest education companies and institutions. It enables dramatic efficiencies in the creation, reuse, and transformation of content into engaging, innovative, and impactful learning experiences. As a member of the Advisory Board, I provide counsel on strategy, platform and service design, and partnerships.

Atlanta, Georgia , Us

Advise students and student teams subject, scope, practicality, and execution of semester-long projects in education technology. Notable projects included:- Development of a tool to assist in reading comprehension based on automated question generation- Development of a course on non-binary gender training for healthcare professionals- Development of a tool to learn Japanese based on Second Language Acquisition Theory- Creation of an Open EdX instance to host Georgia Tech content projects

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Directed strategy and day-to-day development and production for the education, reference, trade and test preparation publishing units encompassing all activities from author contract signing through product delivery of print and digital formats.- Sponsored numerous projects resulting in a 20+% reduction in development and prepress spend, improving cycle time and enabling the simultaneous publication of print and digital editions.- Implemented new title management system including cloud-based project management tools, reducing manual tracking, consolidating processes and replacing legacy system.- Consolidated multiple development and production vendors, rationalizing cost models and driving significant savings and cycle reduction.

New York City, Ny, Us

Supported CEO in the management of central operations and shared services groups with a primary focus on product development, supply chain, and technology management.- Implemented hybris (SAP)-based eCommerce capability in record time of 7 months. Project involved a business and engineering team of over 30+ members across sales, marketing, customer experience, distribution, tax, finance, business systems, and technology organizations.- Implemented Klopotek PPM, a concept-to-market / product development / publishing system to manage title financials, specifications, schedules, and vendor spend.- Consolidated sourcing of prepress and manufacturing services.- Managed outsourcing of infrastructure and legacy platform support.

New York, Ny, Us

Managed domestic and international supply chain operations including inventory management, manufacturing, distribution, customer service, and transportation.- Managed initiative to outsource distribution operations in seven countries to third-party logistics companies (3PL) to reduce cost and variabilize print-related fixed costs. Saved $2 million in first year.- Consolidated prepress vendors across categories and divisions achieving prepublication spend reduction and increased flexibility.- Consolidated 18 international business system instances into a single, cloud-based capability.- Implemented Sales & Operations Planning process including demand planning and inventory planning to reduce inventory levels, obsolescence, and backorder rates.- Implemented data analytics group within Global Supply Chain Management to drive continuous improvement in perfect order rates, cycle times, and other operating metrics.

Managed production, manufacturing, rights management and content management functions across all of the Cengage Learning divisions.- Launched and drove initiative with CL’s largest print supplier resulting in $50 million savings over 5 years.- Implemented comprehensive metrics program linking PP&B, plant, and OpEx outcomes to specific operational decisions.- Developed and implemented a learning content and metadata readiness strategy, leading to 90% of titles being created in an XML-first workflow, 96% with fully digital, worldwide rights, and 100% availability as production-ready files. - Directed the task force assigned to integrate eLearning platforms of multiple acquired companies as part of an initiative to merge the Higher Ed and Career and Professional groups of Cengage Learning.- Integrated print-on-demand into CL's supply chain, linking it directly into order processing, inventory management, and warehouse management systems.

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

Founded and directed the day-to-day operations of Publishing Dimensions, a digital content services company with the mission of providing innovative solutions to publishers in generating revenue through evolving digital content and rights channels.- Founded company, built it to $2 million in annual sales and exited profitably via sale to Groupe Jouve of France- Developed and implemented content strategy for the launch of a highly successful consumer eBook reading device by a name-brand consumer electronics company.- Developed a number of technology products for a major bible publisher including an application that allows readers to compare versions of the Bible side-by-side and another that allows a comparison of individual stories from the Gospels and display them on the web, or have them printed as print-on-demand versions.

Master Of Science, Computer Science, Machine Learning

Master Of Science, Industrial Engineering, Applied Statistics

Bachelor Of Industrial Engineering, Applied Statistics

Full Stack Developer Nanodegree, Computer Science