Robert Wheeler Email & Phone Number

New York, NY

Directed the strategy and feature development of AIP’s online publishing platform, Scitation. Gathered, defined, and finalized requirements, prioritized feature development, and set the release schedule. Managed product planning and execution throughout the development and product lifecycles for the platform and products. Led stakeholders and.

Managed the Scitation publishing platform: hosting content from 30 publishers, with >2 million records, ~200 journals, >11,000 conference proceedings, ~1,000 books, magazines, & standards, >5 million visits per month, and hundreds of thousands of institutional and individual subscriptions.Managed the Scitation Operations team on day-to-day priorities to.

Managed Production Operations Support Department and Graphics Production.Supervised production support specialists, providing operational and technical support to maintain cost-effective, timely production for print and online publication (~110 journals/300,000 pages annually). Team included following specialists/groups: XML (front-end conversion).

Small team devoted to the planning, design, implementation, and support of electronic initiatives across the enterprise to ensure final deliverables met or exceeded business/user needs, and were completed on time, within budget.Spearheaded a number of initiatives focused on XML content and digital workflows. Projects/tasks included Documentum Content.

Posted and tracked content for 165 online journals. Reviewed, validated, and processed all submissions from typesetters for online publication. Worked with vendors for corrections as required.

Managed Preproduction Department, received 200–300 volumes annually, performed quality and completion checks, organized/amended materials to ensure efficient production, produced design specifications, assigned books to Production, and maintained initial metadata. Developed and maintained style guides and camera-ready instructions. Organized offprint.

Prepared camera-ready volumes for production, evaluated and followed-up for required materials. Established Plenum’s first in-house book typesetting department.