Summary of Qualifications
Content development, publishing, and management professional with a unique combination of traditional and Internet project management skills and an extensive background in the following broad-based competencies:
| Project Management | Training & Documentation | Internet Publishing |
| Product Development | Staff Management | |
| Presentation Delivery | Writing & Editing | Production Leadership |
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple project budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
- Skilled in the creation and implementation of effective training initiatives, materials, and programs.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of the Windows and Macintosh environments with advanced training and use of numerous applications including the MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Quark XPress, and many others.
Professional Experience
Thabit Lee Media, LLC – Airmont, New York
2007 – Present
Co-Owner 2007 – Present
- SQE Engineer for Pearson’s EPIC platform. Duties include consultation of testing methodologies and functionality, identification and reporting of defects, and corrective procedures for the system.
- Project managed software quality assurance testing of Pearson’s proprietary courseware Web Publishing System versions 6.4, 6.5 and 6.6
- Managed Software Quality Engineering for Pearson’s Companion Website 2.1 and 2.2 software updates, including Internationalization updates.
- Trained offshore vendor to use Pearson systems.
- Quality Assurance tested Pearson’s mobile Web site initiative for delivering education via mobile devices.
- Implemented graphic and CSS design for Pearson Italy’s Web sites and wrote documentation for use.
- Quality Assurance testing for internationalization (i18n) of Companion Website products in Dutch, French, and German.
Pearson Education – Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
1998 – 2006
Senior Media Editor, English and Communications, Humanities and Social Sciences Division 2005 – 2006
- Crafted media strategy for the discipline to solve problems for professors and students and meet the assessment objectives of the courses.
- Worked closely with acquisitions and marketing to devise media plans for the discipline, courses, and books.
- Traveled to campuses, conventions, and national sales meetings to visit with faculty to see how they use media and determine what they need for the future.
- Hired content authors for key technology products. Managed all content deadlines and ensured content was in order to send to media production.
- Provided web specifications and reviewed content and functionality for all websites, CDs, DVDs, and any other media product. Coordinated with media production team to hire vendors, oversee schedules
and manage budgets for completion.
Manager, Web Publishing System Production Services 2000 – 2005
Supported employees and departments spanning the world’s largest educational publisher in development of content for over 2000 product-promoting Web sites through a distinctive combination of traditional editorial skills and technological savvy.
- Directed and managed the flow of information between internal customers, developers and product managers in the course of supporting the firm’s proprietary authoring and content management tools.
- Created specification documents and designed illustrations to succinctly communicate editorial and production needs to tool developers, then collaborated with documentation team for help content creation.
- Strong communication skills demonstrated with resolution of a politically charged situation between several cross-departmental members of a project development team through focused meetings and discussion.
- Trained and delivered exceptional support to over 200 personnel.
- Proactively drove revision of the Browser Tune-Up diagnostic utilities that ensured proper content display.
Web Producer, Humanities and Social Sciences Division 1998 – 2000
Managed proofreading, editing, hypertext markup language (HTML) formatting, and entering of content into the Companion Websites of this Division of Pearson Education through a combination of hands-on work and supervision of outsourced personnel.
- Successfully complied with timelines and budgetary goals for all projects.
- Presented and demonstrated Companion Website technology to groups of 10 to 20 editors and production personnel.
- Designed and developed the Companion Website Help system for 1998.
- Wrote and edited the Internet-based portions of the Instructor’s Manual, Sociology on the Internet 1998-1999: A Student’s Guide.
- Received a Special Recognition Award for outstanding service, continuous commitment, and advancement of the Humanities and Social Sciences division’s media vision.
Simon & Schuster, Prentice Hall – Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 1997 – 1998
Online Production Coordinator, Central Media Group
- Wrote, edited and maintained the Companion Website Visual Guide, a user’s manual that was used to customize the generic Web template of the Higher Education division.
- Created illustrated step-by-step instructions that facilitated creation of Web sites that matched the style and character of each of the textbooks.
- Provided HTML formatting, proofreading, and copyediting to content in preparation for Web publishing.
The MASIE Center – Saratoga Springs, New York 1997
Freelance Web Editor
Recruited by learning and technology consultant Elliot Masie to apply editorial skills to improve the content, flow, organization and visual presentation of the Center’s Website, as well as add such technical features as online mail forms and a site-based survey. Personally recognized by Mr. Masie as being “tenacious” in the acquisition of skills needed to meet the challenges of the position.
Skidmore College – Saratoga Springs, New York
1992 – 1995
Editor-in-Chief, Folio
1992 – 1995
Achieved rapid promotion from Assistant Editor to Editor-in-Chief of Folio, the student journal of literature and art at this small, private Liberal Arts College.
- Managed all phases of journal production, including solicitation for submissions, submission evaluation, proofreading, copyediting, Quark XPress layout, and coordination with the printing company.
- Successfully reduced printing costs by approximately 15% while also delivering the finished journal ahead of schedule, an unprecedented feat at that time.
Expository Writing Tutor
1994 – 1995
Tutored five assigned first-year students and over 60 walk-in students at Skidmore’s prestigious Expository Writing Center after completion of an Advanced Composition class that taught effective instructional and training techniques.
- Skilled in critique of student work, as well as delivery of advice on punctuation, grammar, usage, and style.
- Chosen to participate in revision of the Writing Center Guide To Documentation.
Education
Skidmore College – Saratoga Springs, New York
1995
Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative Writing
- Overall GPA: 3.52/4.00
- Selected to join the Periclean Honors Society.
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