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Consulting providing support services for o Assessment program and project management o Assessment proposal/grant management, review and authoring o Assessment operational productivity analysis and solution design

New Hampshire, United States

• Working with Senior management and Business Development staff, identify Federal, State and District RFP and Grant opportunities aligned with corporate solutions.
• Craft and review opportunity capture plans, proposals and post submission documents.
• Lead proposal development team of writers, managers and coordinators crafting winning proposal documents.

• Provide strategic and tactical support to internal and external clients in assessmentpolicy and solutions to ensure delivery of the highest quality school improvement and K-12 formative, interim and summative.
• Define and develop capture plans and proposal solutions working with field businessdevelopment.
• Craft solutions, working with internal operations groups, in response to RFPs for stateand district proposals.

My position provides strategic and tactical support to internal and external clients in assessment policy and solutions to ensure the delivery of the highest quality K-12 formative and summative assessment programs and services. I assist our portfolio, program and project managers who are responsible for implementation of major, complex and.

• Responsible for execution, oversight and management of Parcc Inc.’s PARCC Program Management and Support Contractor (PMSC) contract with consortium states.
• Managing all aspects of Parcc Inc.’s responsibilities overseeing assessment development and test administration activities on behalf of the PARCC consortium of states, including planning, resource allocation, risk.
• Serving as key integration manager across summative work streams to assure vendor’s on-time and on-specification delivery of the PARCC summative assessments each year.
• Overseeing and managing the relationship between Parcc Inc. and the PARCC summative assessment vendor(s) on behalf of PARCC states.
• Serving as the lead point of contact with operational assessment vendor. Leads internal and external vendor management and project management meetings.
• Managing and leading the Parcc Inc. summative assessment program team.

• Lead and implemented large, complex assessment programs.
• Resolved and addressed complex contractual and operational issues associated with large-scale assessment programs.
• Served as an escalation point of contact for solutions among various key program stakeholders.
• Crisis management support and leadership helping to solve critical issues that arose during the implementation of state contracts.
• Contributed to developing and implementing high-quality assessment solutions in the large-scale state assessment marketplace.

• Client large scale and SPED solutions and business to business revenues.
• Leading and managing staff for all state-based large scale, SPED contracts and the business to business solutions.
• Provided leadership working with clients and partners providing both technical measurement consulting and contract fulfillment services.

• Lead, directed and oversaw business operations for multiple departments: Item and test development; Publications; Shipping, receiving and warehousing; Scanning; Hand scoring; Data processing and analysis; Psychometrics.
• Exercised broad oversight and responsibility for operational controls, administrative and reporting procedures, and staffing systems to ensure that market position, competitiveness, and operating efficiency were.
• Planned, designed, and lead continuous process improvement for organizational systems and operations.
• Provided strategic partnership management.

• Leading contract and program management team for the Massachusetts [MCAS] summative assessment contract division.
• Providing management support for three functional divisions comprised of Test Development, Publishing and Hand Scoring Services. Operational responsibilities spanned initial test design; item development through.

Overall leadership and management of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment Program. The program was the largest and most complex contract including all aspects and phases of a summative 3-11 assessment. Lead a team of 12 dedicated resources and a virtual team comprised of members of all functional operation groups.

• Management of four functional divisions comprised of Test Development, Publishing, Scoring Services, and Research and Analysis.
• Operational responsibilities spanned initial test design; item development through creation and production of testing forms and ancillary materials; the scoring of open response items; data analysis; psychometric.

• Refinement and enhancement of then current process within and between testing services divisions of test development, publications, data analysis, scoring and psychometrics.
• Overall leadership included definition and measurement of quality points and metrics.

• 19972000 Director, Client Services
• Providing management support and oversaw operations for multiple large-scale statewide assessment contracts.
• Supervising staff including project directors, test developers, database operators, and publications specialists.
• Assessment contracts in Arkansas, Louisiana, Maine, and Minnesota.

• Coordinating management of large-scale, performance-based educational assessment program testing for the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
• Overall administration responsibilities included coordination of complex operations spanning design and development, test production and distribution, test administration, scoring, scanning and data gathering, data.
• Coordinated the work of four large subcontractors and worked in close partnership with personnel from the Kentucky Department of Education and school district personnel across the state.

• Director, U.S. Consulting Learning Solutions (1993 1994) Senior Training Consultant (1992 1993) Director, Distributed Learning (1991 1992) Director, Training Consulting & Development (1989 1991) Director, Educational.
• Managed major projects and departments, administering programs and as a liaison to both customers and executive committees.
• Senior training consultant and Director of Learning Solutions for U.S. Learning Consulting Division, managed training consulting and customized project business line, involving strategic planning and program.
• Director of Distributed Learning, managed Distance Learning implementation plan, administered Open Learning Centers for self-paced instruction, and defined strategy for Distributed Learning education groups.
• Director of Training Consulting and Development managed design of complex technical training solutions and business line for training delivery group and provided consultation to major clients.
• Technical Director of Training Products Acquisition, created and managed self-paced training product acquisition process and resources.

• Taught doctoral and master level courses in
• Systems Approach to Mediated Curricula (Introduction to Instructional Design),
• Designing Interactive Courseware, and
• Graduate seminar in computer-based instruction.