About

You can find my resume/CV here, and a list of my speaking engagements here. If you prefer paragraphs to bullet points, you're in the right place.

Now

I work from Chicago as the head of Public Affairs and Advocacy in North America for Frontiers, the Switzerland-based STM publisher dedicated to promoting and supporting Open Science. I'm part of a global team guiding relationships among public, private, and governmental organizations, focusing on the US and Canada. And as a result of the August 2022 OSTP memo, I devote significant time to helping these groups understand and prepare for the US federal mandate on freely accessible research.

In 2011 I started a consultancy, Smarter Learning, to provide a variety of publishing services. I started out creating mobile apps for the trade and educational markets; today, Smarter Learning works with STM publishers and publishing startups, including Scite, an award-winning platform for discovering and evaluating scientific articles, and Integrity by iThinking, a knowledge graph of scholarly and scientific publishing information.

Since 2015 I'm a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, a US-based non-profit for the scientific and academic publishing industry. I volunteer with SSP's mentorship program and was a co-chair of their Community Engagement Committee for two years. I'm also a supporter of the SSP Generations Fund, an endowment to provide sustainable funding for SSP's Fellowship, Mentoring, and Diversity & Inclusion programs.

As of September 2020 I serve on the alumni advisory board for the department of communication at my alma mater, The University of Scranton, helping the university faculty and staff coordinate educational and mentoring opportunities for undergrads. I'm also a member of IAFAR, a music organization in the UK that advocates for performers' rights, and serve on their Education Committee.

Then

Most recently (2020-22) I managed large and strategic accounts for the Copyright Clearance Center, which helps publishers and other copyright holders coordinate content delivery, licensing, and Open Access workflows. I also served as a liaison to CCC's Government Relations team, which works to guide policymakers on copyright modernization and related topics.

For four years prior (2015-19) I was manager of Publisher Relations for the Web of Science Group of Clarivate Analytics, the former IP & Science business of Thomson Reuters. Based in Clarivate's London office from 2016-19 (and in its Philadelphia office prior), I helped coordinate content and communication strategy on a variety of topics, such as the Web of Science's editorial and evaluation criteria; how the Journal Impact Factor is calculated; and why some journals are suppressed from the Journal Citation Reports. (A few of these presentations are collected here.)

I worked briefly in newspapers (for the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader and the Pottstown Mercury as a copy editor and freelance writer, respectively) and extensively for F.A. Davis Company, one of the few remaining independently owned and family-operated medical publishers in the US. As an acquisitions (commissioning) editor at F.A. Davis I developed new medical textbooks and helped bring some print-only resources into the digital world.

Always

I play a number of instruments, none well but all enthusiastically. Other pastimes include US politics, Chicago (and New York) baseball, Mexican food, and Irish stout. Happy to chat with you about any of these; I keep Twitter and Instagram public if you're interested in short bursts or blurry photos.