Professional experience
2019-present: Chronos, Seattle, WA (HQ in Copenhagen, Denmark)
COFOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Develop and drive company strategy to bring products to the academic research market. Strengthen existing global partnerships and develop new relationships within the industry, which include private and governmental funders, publishers, institutions and researchers. Develop and lead marketing strategy, ensuring clear messaging across all channels. Drive community engagement with programs that build brand recognition.
2010-2018: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
SENIOR OFFICER, Knowledge & Research Services (2016-2018)
OFFICER (2015-2016)
MANAGER (2010-2015)
Strategy & Portfolio Management
External Partnership & Advocacy
Systems Innovation
2002-2005: VICE PRESIDENT, CLIENT SERVICES | WebFeat, Inc., Virtual Office (acquired by ProQuest)
2000-2002: ONLINE RESOURCES LIBRARIAN | King County Library System, King County, WA
1998-2000: TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
1996-1998: RESEARCH LIBRARIAN | Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington IN
1994-1996: LIBRARY MANAGER | Reams Asset Management Company, Columbus IN
COFOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Develop and drive company strategy to bring products to the academic research market. Strengthen existing global partnerships and develop new relationships within the industry, which include private and governmental funders, publishers, institutions and researchers. Develop and lead marketing strategy, ensuring clear messaging across all channels. Drive community engagement with programs that build brand recognition.
2010-2018: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
SENIOR OFFICER, Knowledge & Research Services (2016-2018)
OFFICER (2015-2016)
MANAGER (2010-2015)
Strategy & Portfolio Management
- Lead and managed the team’s portfolio, which includes driving internal and external change with the adoption of the Foundation’s Open Access Policy and managing the Foundation’s internal library service.
- Internally collaborated with key stakeholders to design the Foundation’s Open Access Policy, assessing risk and roadblocks that resulted in the immediate approval by the Executive Leadership Team. The policy has been heralded around the world for its bold objectives.
- Selected by Foundation executive leaders to lead its Open Access Policy initiative, which includes designing, leading and driving the development of significant innovations and “disruptive” models for the sharing of research across a broad spectrum of research fields.
External Partnership & Advocacy
- Created both internal and external key partner alliances in an effort to better understand opportunities and challenges for the sector. External partnerships resulted in the founding of the Open Research Funders Group. Feedback from this collaboration continues to be overwhelmingly positive.
- Built partnerships with global stakeholders and evangelized the Foundation’s policy through presentations (TEDx Seattle 2017 Speaker) and conferences (OpenCon, BioPolicy Summit) in order to move the sector towards openness. On Sept 4, 2018, the European Commission, European Research Council (ERC) and 11 other institutions, adopted the Foundation’s model.
- Negotiated high stakes agreements with top academic publishers (New England Journal of Medicine, Science Magazine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) enabling grantees to continue to submit research to their journals.
- Invited to join the European Commission’s Expert Group on the Future of Scholarly Publishing and Scholarly Communication and the DORA Steering Group.
Systems Innovation
- Envisioned, developed and launched Chronos, the first cloud-based automated workflow management tool to enable grantees to easily comply with the Foundation’s Open Access Policy. The product was built to scale to the research sector. Additionally, championed the creation of a $4M+ funding pool for any publication fees to meet terms of service. The Foundation uses the newly generated data by Chronos to make informed decisions about its strategies and to forecast spending.
- Lead the adoption of Gates Open Research, a new publishing model that enables grantees to rapidly share their research with openness and transparency. Educated Foundation grantees and staff on the value of the new model and gained a significant level of acceptance in an abbreviated period of time. The new platform disrupts the current traditional publishing model.
- Developed additional tools, including videos, press releases and other collateral, to promote and outline the initiative’s pioneering change.
2002-2005: VICE PRESIDENT, CLIENT SERVICES | WebFeat, Inc., Virtual Office (acquired by ProQuest)
2000-2002: ONLINE RESOURCES LIBRARIAN | King County Library System, King County, WA
1998-2000: TECHNOLOGY INSTRUCTOR | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
1996-1998: RESEARCH LIBRARIAN | Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington IN
1994-1996: LIBRARY MANAGER | Reams Asset Management Company, Columbus IN
EDUCATION
Graduate Degree, Master of Library & Information Science
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Journalism and History
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Journalism and History
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN