I am contracted to lead the ICOR community by bringing together like-minded individuals and projects that enable and incentivize open and collaborative research. I develop, organise and host our ICOR public meetings, convene the ICOR strategists and catalogue ICOR's body of evidence for open scholarship in ICOR project library. I am responsible for building connections between registered ICOR initiatives and connect them in our ‘solution spaces’ to encourage collaboration on implementing solutions with an eye toward standard practices.

Freelance consultancy available for project and contract work. Through successful leadership roles in publishing my expertise is in open science, open data, open peer review, open infrastructure, community building, open science publishing operations and policy development.I have significant experience working at senior management level which has provided me with skills in designing and managing end-to-end open research solutions, including platform technologies, best practices and workflows. I am also skilled at building communities around open research and forging strong relationships to secure funding and meaningful partnerships. More info here: https://open-science-freelancers.gitlab.io/experts/MichaelMarkie/

My main roles as Publishing Director at F1000 centred around developing, managing and leading F1000's publishing portfolio, community outreach, and editorial teams. My major tasks were overseeing the development and performance of F1000's publishing platforms; portfolio and editorial strategy; open data innovation projects; global content commissioning; community outreach plans; budget and resource management and being responsible for open access revenue. I worked in close collaboration with our with Managing Director, Chief Technology Officer, and Director of Strategic Partnerships on developing future strategies and innovations for open research publishing. I led and line managed a diverse team of Editorial staff, Publishers, Editorial Community Managers and Head of Data and Software Publishing with a track record of high staff satisfaction and retention. I successfully built and managed a team of 20 people through individual staff development, team motivation, cross-departmental collaboration and knowledge sharing and training. I was responsible for F1000's high level relationships with flagship publishing partners including the European Commission, Wellcome, NIHR, Science Foundation Africa and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Through my role as Publishing Director, I gained extensive experience in understanding global publishing trends and open science policies and developing new partners and researcher communities across The Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.