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Glen Ellyn, Il, Us

Glen Ellyn, Il, Us

As a senior business stakeholder, I am considered a change agent and have a lead role in company-critical initiatives that transform the Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. business. I lead a cross-functional team of product management, product owners, program managers, content architects, content strategists, and content SMEs to define and transform our company's product and content offerings, including the end-to-end technology transformation required to support the content and product strategy and vision for our U.S. legal portfolio. Working closely with technologists and team members, the best-fit native digital technology that supports the market needs, customer requirements, and product opportunities is identified and implemented to ensure growth targets are met and continue transforming the business to support future growth opportunities. The technology assessed includes new content tools, content management and delivery systems, large language models, data models, back and mid-office systems, platform micro-services, and micro-front ends.I am further responsible for managing the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch, including GTM and commercial strategy, and developing a core product program that tracks product performance and drives continuous improvement in content and product.

Greater Chicago Area

Leads the effort to create, define, and transform content strategy and offerings to align with expert solutions and a digital first approach to content. Casts and validates a content vision, translates the vision into requirements, and helps others turn the requirements into actionable plans. Focus is on identifying best practices, new content types, new technologies, considering operations, and being a change agent within the organization.

Riverwoods, Il

Leads the editorial staff of nearly 50 individuals to create and maintain content across multiple legal practice areas, including Securities, Banking, IP, Antitrust, Health Law, Cybersecurity and Legal Tax. Driver of operational effectiveness and efficiencies to create room for growth around emerging topics and technology.• Collaborate with Product Management to align strategies and ensure editorial and product expectations and deliverables are met. • Ensure there is a steady content acquisition and/or contributor pipeline to meet the requirements of the business.• Responsible for ensuring that the right editorial resources, both internal and external, are in place to support business plans.• Be a leader in transforming traditional products to timelier, strategic and feature-rich analytical products to meet the changing demands of customers. • Stay abreast of emerging industry trends and developments, and devise and execute plans to upgrade editorial accordingly.• Ensure adherence to established writing, editing, and quality standards. Key contributor in setting these standards.• Make sure staff is focused on high-value work and new products; work with content production and other teams to outsource maintenance of existing products and lower value-add work.• Implement best practices and KPIs to manage performance.

Riverwoods, Il

• Champion of change and innovation for publishing models.• Develops innovative strategies and action-plans and providing dedicated consultative and project support on transformative initiatives that enable and further new product development and product enhancements. • Directs the continued evolution of editorial competencies such as addition of practical content and increased efficiencies. • Assists product managers and editorial teams through ideation processes in understanding how to maximize existing infrastructure, processes and systems, and to maximize product enhancements and development.• Serves as a spokesperson, thought leader, and “face of the company” in a range of venues, including industry conferences, media interviews, webinars, white papers, marketing collateral, social media, client presentations, sales support, product demos, training sessions, and more. • Collaborates extensively with cross-functional teams internal and external to the company.• Supports the sales and training groups in client presentations and retention strategies.• Manages a core team of innovative and proactive individuals who drive the development of new editorial competencies, system capabilities, process improvements, and enables new product paradigms.

Riverwoods, Il

• Manages content and workflow solutions for a $26 million portfolio within the Health Growth division at Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.• Effectively manages 13 direct reports, including editors, data application specialists, and administration staff.• Collaborates with the Director of PR to implement a media relations program designed to showcase thought leadership in the legal and hospital markets; includes media interviews, whitepapers, and google hangout presentations.• Manages content direction and editing of white papers and newsletter articles focused on medical coding, health care compliance and health reform.• Successfully creates and implements strategic project plans for multiple overlapping NPD initiatives generally by or before deadline; monitors P&L, resource constraints, and mitigates risks to deployment schedule. • Proven abilities to identify, analyze and create efficiencies and increase effectiveness for existing workflow processes and client solutions.• Provides strategic direction for NPD and product enhancement priorities, utilizing market research, usage data and market trends.• Decision maker for software tools utilized for creation of high profile current awareness publications; analyzed strengths/weaknesses, risks, and conducted a cost-benefit analysis.• Collaborates with and provides strategic direction to executive staff regarding legacy print and electronic products; invest, harvest or sunset.• Created and established an internal workflow tool that automated manual processes across business departments in 2010 that is now being leveraged across the division for other editorial teams because of proven cost and resource savings.• Effective leadership, communication, motivational, and inspirational skills have led to the successful training and mentoring of over two dozen colleagues.

Riverwoods, Il

• Content and workflow solutions manager of a high profile health care growth product line within the Business Compliance division of Wolters Kluwer Law & Business. • Directly manged five editors and data application specialists; co-manager of eleven other editors within Health Editorial Practice Group. • Created and successfully launched new products including over 45 new workflow tools for the hospital and legal markets between 2010 – 2012; produced over $3 million in new sales.• Contributed to the development of The Coding Suite for the hospital coding, revenue cycle and compliance markets; inventory of $7.5 million in 2012.• Effectively engaged with Joint Commission Resources, a WK business partner, to create and develop a hospital accreditation product utilizing proprietary technology.• Recognized for providing quick, complete solutions that support the customer focus and follow a cost-benefit analysis structure.• Established and managed two Advisory Boards; includes board member contributions for webinars, white papers, podcasts, newsletter writing and beta-testing.• Established the Law & Health web site and blog offering current awareness for the legal and hospital markets with a consistent record of increased viewership and read times.• Produced competitive marketplace analysis and strategic responses for sales representatives, direct mail and catalogs; trained sales representatives and consumers for multi-media products.• Considered by sales colleagues as a “go to” for product demos, customer trainings and content discussions for the hospital and legal markets. • Created business plans based on user group feedback and self-identified market trends; developed, and launched successful new and enhanced existing multi-media products based on these business plans.• Presented new products and led knowledge exchanges with between 30-150 attendees at over a dozen user conferences and industry events.

Riverwoods, Il

• Created content for e-learning Compliance lessons.• Business analyst and product lead for software and web-based health care workflow tool development and maintenance; included writing business requirements, test cases, conducting quality testing, and informing technical and UI design.

Riverwoods, Il

• Analyzed numerous federal healthcare laws and regulations to create expert content for health care reimbursement and compliance auditing workflow tools and Medicare articles and books for the hospital and legal markets.• Developed content expertise in revenue cycle and health care compliance markets.

Riverwoods, Il

• Analyzed numerous federal healthcare laws and regulations to create expert content for Medicare articles and books for the hospital and legal markets.• Developed content expertise in Medicare reimbursement and compliance.

Medical Malpractice and negligence defense firm. Represented physicians' groups against med mal claims and large retail stores against negligence claims.

Mba, Health Care Administration

Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Delta, American Trial Lawyers Association competition team member, International Law Society

B.A., Political Science