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Writing about reading issues, adoption and learning differences.

Provide freelance/consulting editorial (acquisition, electronic strategy, business consulting, development and writing) and project management services to the educational publishers and related organizations.Recommend product, pricing, positioning and packaging for electronic initiatives.Develop market research plans and initiate surveys and focus groups.Draft business plans for new initiatives in important product verticals.

iD8 provides a full range of editorial and marketing services for educational, STM, and scholarly publishers. Offers a separate review management service using state-of-the art software to collect, maintain and analyze reviews throughout the product cycle and beyond.

Responsible for the physical therapy and athletic training publishing programs for the following imprints of Elsevier: Mosby, Saunders, Churchill Livingstone, Butterworth and Hanley & Belfus.Drive the growth and strategy for a six million dollar publishing program.Initiated a core publishing program in Athletic training.Managed the department of a team of mid level managers.Motivated and coached over one hundred prestigious authors.Trained sales and marketing on new and revised products.Created new, innovative electronic products and courseware.

Initiated a new business model in HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability for the specific health care channels.Responsible for merging content and technology to develop products for the non-physician health practitioner and consumer. Managed the product from RFP stage to product launch. Implemented and organized the marketing strategies and communicated the information to internal customers. Created new markets for Delmar in the corporate space. Managed a new staff dedicated to new technologies and markets.Created and launched a new publishing program for the non-physician practitioner and consumer based on chunking existing content into PDA products.Contributed over $4.8 million in fast-cycle product.Developed the first on-line series of continuing education courses for nurses. Set up the infrastructure and marketing plan to bring the project to fruition.Implemented a strategic partnership for billing and coding books for complementary and alternative medicine providers to expand market share into the insurance industry.Worked with New Business Development Managers to close licensing deals and develop contracts with large web aggregators in the health care field.Managed and developed a drug database and implemented a vertical and horizontal marketing plan to maximize sales into channels and markets.

Worked for Appleton & Lange, currently part of Pearson, selling health professions, nursing and medical textbooks to colleges and universities.