Publishing Workflow Operations
Over nine years at Cell Press, managed multi-stage publishing workflows for multiple scientific journals, coordinating scheduling, handoffs, and quality review across editorial, production, design, and vendor teams. Built and maintained workflow documentation, templates, and reference materials that strengthened institutional knowledge across the organization.
Launched iScience — CellPress's first open-access journal — from scratch. Built all workflows, managed the full publication pipeline, and cut acceptance-to-publication time by 5 days.
Employee Engagement Programs
Designed and ran engagement programs at two organizations: wrote the initial proposal, drafted and maintained the budget, and executed the programming. At Cell Press, launched the Offsite Social Committee to keep 28 distributed staff connected. At HRSAW, launched the Employee Engagement Team and created Waffles & Wisdom: a branded virtual social series with a themed format each session, from custom Jeopardy boards to music trivia and more. The games facilitated getting to know each other through casual conversation, and prizes were awarded to winners. The rule was: no work talk allowed, only fun!
Team Celebrations & Recognition
Championed a culture of recognition by coordinating team celebrations for birthdays, milestones, and farewells using KudoBoard — a collaborative digital card platform where colleagues add personal notes, photos, and GIFs. (Like passing a birthday card around the office, but for remote teams.) Every birthday was marked, every goodbye honored, every win celebrated. The kind of thing people screenshot and keep.
