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Columbus, Oh, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Experienced supervisor of K-12 STEM and Social Studies product development. Expertise in meeting key product/program deliverables, product management, contract discussions, and budget management. Demonstrated ability to lead agile delivery of products. Specialties: content development; operational management; team development; agile workflow analysis; workflow and product documentation.

New York, Ny, Us

Served as Team Lead for 19 AD in K-5 Department in development of science content for products. Ensured program cohesiveness, pedagogical consistency, and maintenance of partnerships within K-12 Science Editorial Unit. Worked with cross-functional teams (Project Management, Project Coordination, Creative, Digital Product Group (DPG), and vendors) to optimize schedules and workflows, along with developing and implementing content development schedules and workflows for Inspire Science components; updated AD Director weekly on component development status. Teamed with AD Director to forecast plant spending, manage operational expenses, and track financial status related to plant spend and operational expenses.Acted as liaison between vendors, internal engineering teams, authors, and AD teams. Worked with Digital Editorial and DPG to provide and implement solutions for issues arising during development. Held daily stand-ups with AD to ensure adherence to schedule; escalate deliverable issues. Led monthly meeting with teacher advisory board and authors to discuss production of program, and course corrective action; implement feedback on development. Created requests for proposal (RFPs), contracts (CFR), and writing guidelines for freelancers, editorial vendors, partners, and teachers. Provided and implemented solutions for efficiencies within workflows for digital build. Submitted concepts and ideas to marketing and sales within fulfilment parameters of AD Department. Worked conference booths to demo products and document suggestions for product improvements.

Boston, Ma, Us

Wrote manuscript for science components, ensuring compliance with National Geographic standards. Worked with and managed in-house and out-of-house developers of educational products to clarify, strengthen, and enhance quality. Teamed with experts in securing technology, photos, video, and labs to develop prototype lessons. Assisted with conceptualizing and developing plans for products, including workflows and schedules. Ensured content correctness, clarity, completeness, consistency, and legality, as well as ensuring it was current. Performed cost-profit analysis for digital science components. Prepared requests for proposals for video and simulation vendors. Worked to meet submission deadlines and requirements for state adoptions. Coordinated with technology teams to design and implement digital products.

London, Gb

Developed workflow, schedules, and guidelines for elementary science products. Wrote and edited science and social studies content for print and digital components. Supervised editorial, design, and compositor vendors. Prepared RFPs for academic and design vendors. Developed project budgets, schedules, guidelines. Approved vendor work; verified work quality and researched invoice variances. Maintained K-5 schedule and log for move from Flash to HTML5.

Compiled expense spreadsheets for server and network equipment purchases. Maintained media system supplying video and audio file transfer for course. Configured network for course development allowing for video conferencing.

Mba, Finance, Macroeconomics

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English / Biology