Cambridge University Press Work Values

Daily Duties at Cambridge University Press:

Led the development and operation of flagship electronic books platform for Cambridge University Press.  Led technical architecture decision making and engineering team in an agile framework  Business model development that increase Press book revenue by 8% in first year of platform operation. Platform accounted for 12% of books revenue by end of second year.  Overall technical operational and development responsibility for Cambridge’s flagship Ebooks delivery platform (Java, SOA, Lucene, Solr)  Designed and led implementation of Press wide metadata distribution system for ebooks and electronic products that included XML schema design and database optimization as well as business process improvements.  ecommerce strategy and system architecture for ebooks and online products  Led effort to improve Google optimization that increase traffic by 30%  Mobile strategy and development of iOS apps  Training global sales team including creation of training materials, manuals, and detailed release notes.  Market development and proposal writing  Oversaw major transition to simultaneous print and electronic publication  Responsibility for electronic textbooks strategy development including DRM and technology partner selection  Managed product team of 12 engineers, QA staff, marketing, production and project mangers

What they like about Cambridge University Press:

Working in an organization that is technologically advanced, creative, and innovative is critical in your assessment of hiring companies. Less important to you are stability of the organization, the length of time an organization has been in business, and the business' plans for the future. You prefer a fast-moving company that will take risks to achieve its goals and objectives. The length of time the company has been in business is irrelevant. Maintaining status quo is unnecessary. You thrive on change, uncertainty and the upside of potential business risks, especially those associated with innovation. Stability for the long haul is not nearly as important as is working in an atmosphere that is charged with a sense of urgency and constant change.

Tags

SOAP, XML, SGML, API development, Oracle, Crystal Reports, Omnimark, SAML, Lucene, Solr, OpenID, OpenURL, Shibboleth, J2EE, Documentum, MarkLogic, UML, Cold Fusion, CyberCash, Microsoft SQL, Verity, Microsoft Internet Information Server, WebTrends, Home Site, Taxware, Vignette Story Server, Open Market Transact, BEA Weblogic, Advantage, eUnison, RightNow Web, Sealed Media, Personify, Verisign, Rational Rose, MS Project, Perl, TeX, XMLSpy, Turbo XML, Arbortext Epic, eRights, Merchant Space, Visio, iOS apps, ONIX, epub, Filemaker, Java, Java Script, STRUTS, REST, MySQL

Skills

Solutions Architecture, System integration, User interface design, User experience design , Project Management, Technical specification writing, Functional specification writing, Proposal Writing, and sales support, IP Networking VPN’s and Firewalls, Metrics and data analysis

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