Collaborate with assessment service providers and certification/licensure bodies. Specializing in:- Process optimization, especially with regards to content (item) creation, storage, and security all with an eye to minimizing time to market while assuring legal defensibility.- RFP authoring and process management especially for item banking, test delivery, result management, and psychometric analysis.- Business analysis to support build/buy decisions regarding tools such as item banks, test drivers, etc.- Product/Service Management and/or Agile Product Owner for development and deployment of assessment authoring, delivery, result management, certification management, and psychometric analysis systems- Data migration planning and management- Advanced/innovative item type conceptualization- Support agile processes

Consult, design, and support implementation and adoption of enterprise test development platform.

Lend industry expertise in planning, development, and implementation of new item banking/authoring/delivery and assessment authoring platforms.

Responsible for strategic direction of the development and implementation of sustainable common digital platforms necessary for delivering great experiences for customers interacting with ACT. • Lead high level teams focused on implementation of strategic objectives• Manage platform and adoption and sunset plans by managing change through the organization• Anticipate internal and/or external business challenges; recommends process, product or service improvements• Solve unique and complex problems that have a broad impact on the business• Contribute to the development of functional strategy• Support Agile operating model in the delivery of services and the programs that implement those services

Accountable for the strategic direction of the Service (Software Product) Lifecycle which includes holistic business services, managing the end-to-end service as perceived by the customer and ensuring service is delivered consistently across the organization. This position anticipates and manages the risk of operating the service, serves as a point of contact for escalation for major incidents and ensures customer benefit is understood and measured.- Oversee design, development, documentation, integration, enhancements, management and maintenance of the Assessment Creation Platform and its operational processes- Collaborate across Research and Test Development to optimize platform interactions and efficiencies.- Manage TCO of the platform ensuring metrics are communicated and goals are met.- Support alignment with related assessment capabilities (registration, test delivery, scoring, reporting) including roadmap alignment and integration strategies

Product management of Questionmark's authoring platforms including item banking systems, item editors, and test development tools. Includes both cloud and client server applications. Responsible for product road maps and approval of software development activities. I work closely with internal stakeholders and external clients to identify, prioritize, and implement software.

Responsible for developing Questionmark’s value proposition, a combination of products and services that will resonate with a customer/partners’ requirements, that will yield material benefit for the customer/partner, especially in the Certification and Licensure market sector.I work across product zones (Portal, Authoring, Delivery and, Analytics) to develop and offer value propositions that are driven by market segment requirements. I focus on end‐to‐end capabilities including features within Questionmark's product range as well as integration with 3rd party products and services.

Work with assessment service providers and certification/licensure bodies. Specializing in:- Process optimization, especially with regards to content (item) creation, storage, and security all with an eye to minimizing time to market while assuring legal defensibility.- RFP authoring and process management especially for item banking, test delivery, result management, and psychometric analysis.- Business analysis to support build/buy decisions regarding tools such as item banks, test drivers, etc.- Data migration planning and management- Advanced/innovative item type conceptualization

Helped map Learnosity item type data structures to QTI 2.1 data structures to enable better interoperability

Comprehensive review/analysis of PeopleCert assessment authoring and delivery systems relative to the global competitive landscape. Identified functional gaps and made priority recommendations to address.

- Work with existing clients to manage and grow their testing programs- Identify new business opportunities and develop them- Identify technological solutions to problems using existing software products or custom development- Provide guidance and input for improving existing products and for the creation of new ones

Pearson VUE delivers high-stakes assessments (tests) worldwide for numerous organizations from sectors such as IT (Cisco), finance (FINRA), education (GMAT) and medical (Nursing Boards). My current role is composed of the following:- Product management of Pearson VUE’s test development technology including item banking systems, item editors, and test development tools. Primary responsibility is for the Pearson VUE’s proprietary enterprise application, “CERTS®”.- Lead a team of approximately 35 developers, SQA, Business Analysts, and product support personnel- Product roadmap- Work closely with internal stakeholders and external clients to identify, prioritize, and implement requirements. Approve all software development activities.- Respond to client RFP/RFI documents- Work with Pearson VUE marketing to market and promote product - Maintain close relationships with key clients- Position requires approximately 25% travel

- Support and consult with clients on their use of the CERTS® application- Pre-sales vetting & product demonstrations- New client implementation including data identification/mapping, data loading and configuration, and on-site product installation and training- Consult with the software development team on feature implementation

- SQA team lead for VUE’s Windows-based test driver components- Technical Project Management for Microsoft Certification & Assessment group’s “Microsoft Innovative Item Type”- QA Lab design, hardware/software support & maintenance- Top-level technical support and troubleshooter for production software issues

- Published computerized certification exams for Microsoft Corporation- Quality assurance of software applications including test driver, compiler, and web deployed applications; directly responsible for QA of new software relating to Microsoft requirements.- Maintained high sensitivity to client needs and tight scheduling while adhering to quality standards and exam content security

- Responsible for all aspects of import and wholesale distribution of decorative marine fish and invertebrates- Purchasing, pricing, accounting, marketing and sales functions- Implemented technology solutions to streamline processes and inventory management

- Used proprietary markup language (TDL) to build certification tests for computer-based delivery; clients included IBM, Adobe, Cisco & others - User acceptance testing of proprietary test driver and compiler software