Melanie Bartels Graw, Med, Emba is a Senior Exam Developer at National Restaurant Association. Colleagues describe them as "I have known Melanie as a friend and professional colleague for 25 years. Melanie has a very strong commitment to high quality work. She always gives 100+ percent to any project where we worked together. She has excellent person-to-person, team, and project leadership skills. She has many outstanding personal and professional characteristics. If there is one characteristic that sets her apart from others I have worked with, it is her professional and personal integrity. She is a very ethical and trustworthy professional. During the past 6 years I worked with Melanie on completing the massive revision, standardization and publication of the WJ IV battery of tests, as well as other projects with the Woodcock-Munoz Foundation. She was the primary person who insured high quality in all the test materials and manuals for the WJ IV test battery. She possess excellent written and oral communication skills, and strong attention to detail when editing materials. She is among the top 2 % of all individuals I have worked with over my 35+ years as a professional in the field of educational psychology and psychological test development." and "I had the opportunity to work directly and indirectly with Melanie for a number of years at HMH/Riverside Publishing. Melanie is a very talented leader and offers a very well grounded, pragmatic, and strategic approach to her work. She is thoughtful and has a honed ability to influence and lead product strategy towards positive outcomes and success while also managing a comprehensive and detail oriented plan. I remain impressed by her ability to manage such a large portion of the development effort for her product line while also still taking time to collaborate and influence the department and the company as a whole. Her leadership and contribution with her staff, peers and managers was highly regarded in the company and because of her leadership, experience, and expertise Melanie was able to build very strong, long-term relationships with partners and author teams which directly influenced the products ability to remain one of the top in the market. I hope for the opportunity to work together again and recommend her for future opportunities without reservation."