I’ve overseen the direction and design for a variety of top-ranking portal, publishing, search, e-commerce and content subscription products; including Britannica.com, TLC, Curiosity.com, HowStuffWorks, Discovery Fit & Health, and Animal Planet. Have also managed large content and creative teams in the development and distribution of online, social and mobile-based experiences that support a variety of public interfaces and global/international markets.
Worked extensively with various types of organizations in B2B or B2C models including universities, libraries, museums, K-12 schools, consortiums, non-profits, medium to large-sized corporations and start-ups.
Core Competencies:
- Blend of direct, multi-layer, and cross-functional leadership
- Strategic planning
- Change management and organizational re-engineering w/ focus on culture
- Product development (agile, lean start-up, and kanban) lifecycle
- Digital Media content strategy and research
- Building online communities and gamification
- Managing large remote teams (creative, technical, and content)
- Merger and acquisition integration
- Customer acquisition and retention
- Volunteer recruitment, training, and retention
- Serving International english and non-english markets
- Ad-driven, freemium, SaaS, billable consulting, subscription, non-profit, and start-up revenue models
- Large scale content creation, management, distribution
- User experience & interaction design including usability for software, web, mobile
- Speaking engagements, workshops for educators, librarians, non-profits and small businesses
