Experience

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  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Senior Director, Compliance, Contracts, and Licensing

    • Mar 2014 - Sep 2020

    Directed team of 16 intellectual property leaders and experts in supporting global sales and development initiatives and opportunities; outbound licensing; compliance standards for copyrights, trademarks, and protection against infringement; content development agreements, vendor sourcing, master licensing agreements with strategic third-party content providers, and licenses with font foundries.

  • Senior Manager, Rights and Permissions

    • Mar 2007 - Mar 2014

    Unified the rights and permissions departments for elementary and secondary publishing programs related to the re-organization of K-6 publishing operations and established cost saving boilerplate negotiations for broad rights and management efficiencies. Integrated and executed rights and permissions staff post-merger of two behemoth basal educational publishers, representing four legacy companies into the transformed K-12 organization. •Led permissions acquisitions for two 5 million dollar basal elementary reading programs on budget; supervised, trained and mentored permissions editors in negotiating strategy to achieve maximum cost savings•Chaired an interdivisional rights and permissions working group for the Chief Publishing Office to blend best practices companywide.•Set the standards and established, implemented, and maintained organizational guidelines for best practices in the acquisition of third party content.

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  JRC Interiors

  • Owner

    • Jan 1994 - Aug 1998

    Custom interior home decorating and antiques business, including the design, sale and installation of soft home furnishings, furniture and antiques for the residential market, specializing in color mixing and insuring beauty and quality within customer budgets. Maintained target profitability fr...

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  Houghton Mifflin

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Manager of Subsidiary Rights, Trade Division

    • Jan 1987 - Feb 1991
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Negotiated Subsidiary Rights licenses for adult and children’s mass market paperback, reprint, and book club rights: conducted auctions for record advances and licenses for the sale of motion picture, television, audio, video, software and merchandising rights to all adult and children's fron...