Experience

ERB

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Program Director

  • Feb 2023 - Present



Council for Aid to Education, Inc.

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Content Editor, ELA

  • Apr 2021 - Feb 2023

  New York, New York, United States Content lead on a $2,950,000 contract. Manage the processes, staffing, and content quality in development of English Language Arts (ELA) test materials aligned to state standards across six grades in a client-facing role. • Work directly with client and state department of education, building trust and rapport • Train consultants with varying levels of experience in text selection and item writing • Edit high volume of texts and items on a tight schedule



The College Board

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, ELAL Assessment

  • Jan 2017 - Mar 2021

  Greater New York City Area Developed, monitored, and responsively adjusted content development workflow to meet deliverables' scope and schedule. Coordinated work with internal stakeholders including psychometrics, editorial, graphic design, database management, and digital transformation teams. Led the SAT Reading team’s collaboration with the vendor that developed 80% of the Reading section content. Managed direct reports. • Saved $40,000 in a fiscal year and $35,000 the following year by working with primary… Show more Developed, monitored, and responsively adjusted content development workflow to meet deliverables' scope and schedule. Coordinated work with internal stakeholders including psychometrics, editorial, graphic design, database management, and digital transformation teams. Led the SAT Reading team’s collaboration with the vendor that developed 80% of the Reading section content. Managed direct reports. • Saved $40,000 in a fiscal year and $35,000 the following year by working with primary vendor to rehabilitate rejected materials • Boosted vendor’s text submission success by 9% in each of two consecutive years by calibrating subject matter expert teams on objective criteria • Built Smartsheet tracking and invoicing system for smaller vendors to automate processes, reduce errors, and improve data collection • Recruited and developed training collateral for subject matter experts participating in review meetings • Led content and bias review meetings toward efficient, criteria-based decisions • Mentored inexperienced development staff to promotion

• Senior Assessment Specialist, ELAL

  • Apr 2014 - Jan 2017

  Greater New York City Area Planned and managed annual internal SAT development schedule and assignments based on handover dates and test specifications in an ecosystem of continually shifting priorities. Authored and edited SAT Reading and Writing & Language content for paper-and-pencil and Web-based tests. • Facilitated department-wide change by authoring process documents to transition from content development in Word docs and PDFs to content development in a proprietary digital content management system (CMS)



Oxford University Press

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Development Editor

  • Apr 2013 - Apr 2014

  Greater New York City Area Managed genre-based ESL Academic Skills textbook series development. • Recruited, onboarded, and oversaw the work of a team of subject matter expert consultants • Edited consultant content within tight deadlines, maintaining pedagogical quality and adherence to Chicago Manual of Style • Managed production of the series’ assessment suite, including formative and summative assessments, selected-response and constructed-response items, and an analytic scoring rubric



ETS

• Education Administration Programs
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assessment Specialist II

  • Sep 2011 - Apr 2013

  Princeton, NJ Set production goals and assignments for 4-person content development team. Supervised recording sessions with responsibility for actors’ tone, intonation, and pacing. Authored and reviewed TOEIC Listening and Speaking test content and assembled test forms for communicative authenticity, fairness, and validity • Cut recording costs by initiating meetings with 15 recording directors from various tests to coordinate voice actor and studio scheduling, ensuring ETS used each full hour for… Show more Set production goals and assignments for 4-person content development team. Supervised recording sessions with responsibility for actors’ tone, intonation, and pacing. Authored and reviewed TOEIC Listening and Speaking test content and assembled test forms for communicative authenticity, fairness, and validity • Cut recording costs by initiating meetings with 15 recording directors from various tests to coordinate voice actor and studio scheduling, ensuring ETS used each full hour for which it paid • Coordinated actor and recording studio schedules and invoicing, liaised with recording studio to deliver audio files within tight deadlines • Promoted from Assessment Specialist level I to level II Show less



New York University

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Faculty - ESL Communicative Language Skills

  • Jan 2011 - Aug 2011



Baruch College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Faculty - ESL Academic Composition

  • Jan 2009 - Aug 2011