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Bangor, ME, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

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.

Burlington, MA, US

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

Burlington, MA, US

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

Remote, US

• 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

Remote, US

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.

New York, NY, US

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.

New York, NY, US

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.

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.

Dublin, IE

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

Athens, GR

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.

Sanford, North Carolina, US

- 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

London, GB

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.

Bloomington, MN, US

- 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

Bloomington, MN, US

- 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

Bloomington, MN, US

- 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.

- 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

White Marsh, MD, US

- 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

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