Stephen Brooks Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

Managing archival digital collections members in HE, as well as learning & teaching services for users in the FE and Skills sector.Design Thinking-trained practitioner, utilising techniques in product development and providing support and expertise to colleagues who wish to apply Design Thinking methodologies to their own work.Provider of paid consultancy.

London, United Kingdom

Engaging with stakeholders in the academic and information communities, as well as working closely with colleagues within Jisc, I work to shape the strategic direction of key platform services to ensure that they continue to provide researchers and users within the Jisc community with the tools and content they need to succeed in their goals.

"Helping information industry businesses to understand the market, evaluate opportunities and build strategy"With twenty years experience of planning and building online resources for higher education, I assist clients with the development of business plans, project proposals and strategy.From the outset I seek to understand (and - if necessary - assist.

Cambridge

- Charged with full ownership of an academic product line and delivery of tens of millions of dollars of ongoing annual business. In 2015, grew archival collection sales by 16%.- Develop, review and iterate strategic plan for Literature & Arts BU – building upon specialist knowledge of market and user trends and tying into Enterprise-wide corporate.

Cambridge

- Day to day product management across a wide range of disciplines – including history, literature, visual, applied and performing arts and fashion – and covering the sixth century to the present day.- Grew portfolio performance over several years.- Member of ‘ProQuest Leadership Team’.- Built relationships with customers, users and partner organisations.

Cambridge

- 16 month full-time secondment to project developing a major new database platform.- Worked with technical teams and product managers across the business to agree migration plan for more than 2,000 ProQuest/CSA-Illumina/Chadwyck-Healey databases sited on legacy platforms.- Defined business requirements for a number of project areas – in particular the.

Cambridge

- Initially managed 'History Study Centre' and 'History Online' collections, before adding responsibility for the historical periodicals product line.- Transformed the aging ‘PCI’ and ‘PCI Full Text’ databases into the successful 'Periodicals Archive Online' and 'Periodicals Index Online' publishing programme; which has delivered more than a decade of.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Role focussed on Content Development and Project Management.Joined as Editorial Assistant in 1994, then Editor, Senior Editor and finally Managing Editor for reference products. Developed skills in project management, team leadership, SGML-encoding and digitisation/data-processing.

Master’S Degree, English Literature And Language, Ma

Activities and Societies: Part time assistant at STELLA (Software for the Teaching of English Literature and LAnguage) laboratory. Student.

4 X A Level, 9 X O Level, English, History, Economics & General Studies A Levels

Activities and Societies: School Prefect, chorister, member of Raleigh house. Excelled at Oxford law studies aptitude test. Recipient of.