Nicole Bowen Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Work on daily news production, expanding Newsela’s history, economics, and geography archives. • Explore new content streams and the ways Newsela’s social studies content will shape the way students learn how to write, read, and interpret social studies.• Contribute to ensuring educators are equipped with the content and tools necessary to deliver representative, culturally responsive instruction and, in turn, help deepen the impact of our mission to make reading accessible and engaging for all learners.

New York, New York, United States

Managed output of 500–800 e-books/year and quarterly updates to core subscription collections.Supervised my team and developers on many content migrations from legacy backend to CMS, in the process standardizing data, adding metadata and taxonomy; responsible for content conversion and ingest of never-used legacy content and new licensed content.Worked in varying capacities over time on iterations of custom CMS, developing new features and functionality, working with cross-functional teams to build-out, maintain, debug, and update.Worked with the platform team to add new content, features, and functionality; redesign; and for new products added to the platform.Managed multiple projects in Jira in an agile environment; organized necessary tasks and improvements into manageable sprints.Troubleshot and acted as supplemental QA analyst as needed for the CMS, database platform, e-books, and legacy databases.Problem-solved bugs and issues with the development teams to ensure they were addressed and corrected as quickly as possible.Worked with marketing, editorial, and development to ensure content was complete and on-time for monthly e-book deadlines.

New York, New York, United States

Oversaw and managed the total redesign and rebuild of 12 reference databases (including six history databases, science, literature), as well as the creation of several new ones.Supervised team of up to 10 fulltime staff and 10 in-house freelancers; responsible for annual budget for department and products; negotiated contracts with third-parties for licensed content, including video, graphics, statistical data; managed, negotiated, and liaised with offshore suppliers for conversion to digital of print content; coordinated with sales, marketing, and publicity departments.

New York, New York, United States

Developed, acquired, edited, and managed adult and young adult reference titles in American history.Served as Content representative for four online history databases; developed, shaped, and refined search and browse features to correlate with national history curriculum standards; selected and oversaw conversion of several hundred print references into digital format; worked closely with Product to create budgets and identify and prioritize roadmap tasks.

Woodbridge, Connecticut, United States

Acquired and edited nonfiction books for young readers (grades 2-8)

New York, New York, United States

editor, associate editor, project editorAcquired and edited adult and young adult nonfiction reference books; developed new book series; worked with authors, agents, packagers, and foreign publishers

New York, New York, United States

assistant editor, deputy copy chief, copyeditor, editorial assistantEdited and copyedited young adult nonfiction books