The McGraw-Hill CompaniesSenior IT & Management Consultant
Jan. 1991 - Dec. 2013Greater New York City Area I am a leading subject matter expert in the custom publishing field and provided IT consulting services to this learning science company that provides customized educational resources for pre-K through postgraduate education.
- Designed and managed the development of all textbook design, production, and delivery systems, maintaining those same systems for over 20 years
- Provided expertise regarding how to organize and implement distributed print models, personalized partner ecommerce sites, and data integration
- Developed and supervised testing including user acceptance testing, and validating all the test data with the users and other stakeholders KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
- Reduced lead time for book delivery, and shipping and manufacturing costs, by designing and implementing the first distributed network for the printing and shipment of custom textbooks around the country producing a fully on-demand, as you need it manufacturing and delivery model that resulted in an exponential growth in market share
- Migrated systems from a ten digit ISBN to thirteen digit ISBN that involved mitigation of approximately 500,000 lines of code across PC, web, and database applications while maintaining compliance with international standards
- Managed 3 complete transformations of the custom publishing systems, supported 3 global finance transformations, and 3 e-commerce systems for custom textbook ordering
- Protected copyrighted material from being distributed to students electronically by designing and implementing the digital rights management systems