Scott Harris Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Direct the development of new digital and print products for the CQ Press / SAGE College team.-- Manage development of digital and print learning products for SAGE College social science disciplines, with current focus on CQ Press Political Science-- Collaborate with editorial, sales, marketing, production, and technical stakeholders to define product requirements and road maps based on evolving market needs-- Consult with eLearning and College Editorial teams on assessment best practices-- Recruited and trained 5 assessment vendors and more than 20 freelance editors-- Led development of proprietary database tool for digital assessment authoring-- Served as product owner for SAGE coursepacks: enhanced, customized LMS course cartridges * Q1 2016 launch resulted in over $1 million additional sales * Introduced efficiencies that reduced production time and cost by more than 50% * Received 2016 SAGE Editorial Cornerstone award in recognition of efforts-- Directed a high-visibility market research effort on open educational resources (OER)

Greater New York City Area

Managed development of Connect digital learning products for humanities and social sciences.-- Lead editor for all-digital front list of adaptive learning products for Skills courses (developmental English, English composition, and communication) for the Connect LMS-- Collaborated with brand management, marketing, and product management colleagues to define project scope, timeline, and budget; successfully prioritized around complex set of needs-- Engaged with Denmark-based software team to successfully manage QA and feature enhancement rollout for LearnSmart® online authoring tool-- Managed detailed content maintenance process for approximately 20 live digital products-- Recruited and trained over 100 freelance subject matter experts (writers, editors, and reviewers)-- Achieved 150% of goal for Connect Composition Essentials 3.0, the 2014 Product of the Year-- Completed development of first-ever integrated developmental reading & writing digital product, Connect Integrated Reading-Writing 1.0, in less than nine months

Greater Boston Area

Managed content team and Agile development process for Aplia online homework product. Delivered products for developmental English, college success, history, and political science course areas.-- Collaborated with Publisher to successfully establish the Aplia group in the Boston office location, growing team from 4 to 25 employees in less than 17 months -- Supervised and mentored up to 14 in-house content writers and project editors in the Boston, MA and Belmont, CA office locations• Led a high-visibility, cross-team initiative to produce diagnostic testing and reporting functionality for developmental English product line• Developed and monitored project budgets of up to $500K each

Greater Boston Area

Editor for award-winning digital component (Digital Path) for © 2011 Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 high school mathematics program, encapsulating all course material in online environment.-- Successfully wrote and edited over 500 animation storyboards for © 2011 on-level and Foundations Student Edition books-- Developed suite of storyboard templates that received company-wide recognition as the standard for Digital Path storyboards across all disciplines; wrote detailed 30-page storyboarding guidelines-- Trained and supervised 7 Digital Path editors and associate editors

Greater Boston Area

Supervised team of 4 project managers responsible for a wide variety of educational publishing projects. Successfully managed editorial and production phases for K–16 textbooks and digital learning products.-- Guided project teams to success via weekly status meetings, client calls, and issue resolution-- Ran daily leadership team meetings to allocate resources ensuring completion of deliverables-- Represented Argosy to more than 10 major publisher clients; generated weekly status reports; effectively resolved issues; monitored project budgets; ensured timely delivery of all products-- Hired and assigned writing, editing, copy editing, typesetting, proofreading, indexing, art, design, and technical resources consisting of more than 25 Argosy staff members and 50 freelancers

Greater Boston Area

Managed production of print and digital learning materials for over 40 college textbooks. Developed processes for converting ancillary content to XML.-- Managed 6 team members, 2 freelancers, and approximately 50 editors and media producers-- Trained editors and authors in proprietary XML authoring tool designed as plug-in for MS Word-- Wrote 100-page instruction guide for XML authoring tool designed for authors and editors

Greater Boston Area

Electronics engineer for diverse assortment of product development projects. -- Successfully managed 5 cases involving delivery of electromechanical compasses to U.S. Navy subcontractors with billable deliverables totaling more than $1 million-- Designed and developed object-oriented Java code modules-- Wrote production and quality control documentation to ISO 9001 standards.

Graduate Certificate, Publishing

Edited and produced prototype consumer magazine CHOICES, a novel publication for high school students focusing on career choice.

B.S., Applied Physics

Graduated magna cum laude