- Manage a department of 30, including VP of Metadata Standards & Bibliographic Control, two Indexing Managers, and one Technical Content Processing Manager. Team includes the indexing staff, MARC catalogers, video and audio encoding staff, and image / text conversion staff. - Text: Convert 100k+ pages per year to JPEG and METS/ALTO or proprietary DTD.- Video: Fully transcribe and convert 10k+ hours per year to 2.5 Mbps H264/MP4.- Audio: Convert audio tracks to MP3 format. - Indexing: Maintain authoritative controlled vocabularies for key index fields, including Person, Subject, Historical Era, Genre, Instrument, Organization, Location, and Cultural Group.- MARC: Original and copy cataloging of over 100k+ records annually.- Strategy: Member of executive team responsible for five-year strategy and operational plan. - Manage relationship with text conversion, DVD fulfillment, and indexing vendors.- Achievements: (a) Replaced out-dated workflow for video encoding with cost-effective alternative (60% savings). (b) Resolved inherited 12k+ hour video transcription backlog. (c) Resolved inherited 125k+ digital audio track backlog. (d) Re-energized demoralized department via redefined staff roles, better cross-company alignment, and established career progression.

- Manage a team of 30, including a Director of Serials Metadata, Sr Managers of Metadata Services, and a Development Manager. Team included Metadata Specialists, Catalogers, Developers, QA staff, and systems analysts. - Knowledgebase Management: Introduced tool based on use of regular expressions to support automated harvesting of journal and ebook metadata from the web, resulting in annual expansion of content offering (growth from 678K tracked titles 2007 to over 7.5M in 2011). - Mediated Linking: Lead technical team responsible for development and release of new connectors for both OpenURL and Federated Search products. Resolved inherited 3k+ federated search connector backlog with no increased budget through better vendor management and team retooling.- Vendor Management: Introduced broader use of 3rd party development resources, including negotiation of contracts and management of vendors.- MARC: Introduced automated MARC ebook delivery solution based on algorithmic analysis of ebook holdings information compared to available ebook bibliographic records. - Globalization: Responsible for identifying content required to support expansion into new markets, including Japan, China, Germany, and Turkey- Strategy: Key member of strategy council charged in 2010 with redefinition of the organization’s strategic vision and reshaping the company’s culture from product-driven to customer-focused. - New Business development: Signed six-figure deal to expand MARC solution to new market.

- Managed team of 21, including two Managing Editors and a Principal Analyst. Team included assistant editors responsible for end-to-end production of books, journal, and online CE courses.- Responsible for $34M product line, including author management, new product development, and operational budget for delivery of titles (staff, vendors, and royalties).- Implemented project management discipline to support on-time delivery of titles; the Books line exceeded goal by $1M, and Continuing Education exceeded goal by 100%.- Customer Research: Initiated customer research projects to support main product lines.- Redefined P&L review process for key product lines.

The Gale Group, a $300M unit of Cengage, publishes reference materials for the library market. • Defined metadata management policies and standards for delivery of content to citation tools.• Lead operational transition to the new standards and workflows.

Senior role leading teams charged with delivery of high-profile strategic programs, with typical budgets of $2M+, and teams of 30+ including onshore, offshore, and outsourced technical resources. Significant projects included:- Thomson Labs Initiative: Delivered Syllabus Builder tools for large universities. - PowerSearch: Responsible for initial release of organization’s new cross-search platform. - Gale Virtual Reference Library: Introduction of Gale’s eBook platform.- Integration Gale content initial release of Microsoft Office 11 research panel

Lead development of new online offerings; responsible for market release of award-winning History Resource Center: US, generating $3.8M in new billings (surpassing $2M initial target).

COMTEX markets business information services that serve the corporate, financial, institutional investor, personal investor, and web markets.Member of the executive team during a bootstrapped turnaround. - Developed annual strategic product plans by market; supporting growth from $4.5M to $8M- Defined cultural and workflow changes, enabling the team to triple the number of distributed publishers; attracting marquee publishers of of electronic financial content.- Established requirements for platform migration from VAX to NT- Established a Quality Assurance Department, and defined the Product Development methodology. - Managed team of 10, including managers of product development and QA departments.- Introduced new offerings based on market trends, for example an XML option for delivery.

Roles representing growth in responsibilities and skillsAccount Manager Product Development Manager, Corporate Marketing Product SpecialistManaging EditorAssistant Editor