Sarah Seidl
Tiffin,IA
Summary
Highly-motivated manager, leader, and mentor with desire to take on new challenges. Exhibits strong work ethic, is analytical, and meticulous in delivering cost effective solutions for multimillion dollar projects and products. Uses exceptional interpersonal skills to encourage collaboration and the success of others.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Manager, Multimedia Services
Pearson
01.2018 - Current
- Identify and address documentation gaps in collaborative teams.
- Update processes as technology changes to stay relevant.
- Procure, create, and deliver high-quality products.
- Develop project plans across departments, and set goals for the team.
- Track progress using metrics, allocate resources, and improve overall efficiency and impact.
- Track and report on critical customer deliverables in weekly change control board meetings.
- Forecast and plan all future work for over 30 projects each year.
- Review schedules with the master scheduling team, plan and allocate resources, identify and secure vendors as needed, monitor task completion, and quality performance.
- Develop creative solutions to scheduling conflicts.
- Collaborate and promote communication with the project team through regular 1:1 meetings and team meetings.
- Establish performance expectations, and mentor staff on professional goals.
- Mitigate when quality or performance issues arise.
- Provide direction on the implementation of quality controls.
- Lead cross-functional teams to improve stakeholder involvement.
- Perform a post-mortem after each development, and identify lessons learned.
- Active listener with excellent written and verbal skills.
- Strong analytical background with several master's level statistics courses.
- Ensure technology trends are followed, and propose actions, software, best-known practices, and other tools to raise productivity levels.
Principal Multimedia Artist
Pearson
04.2015 - 04.2018
Publishing Implementation Manager
Pearson
09.2014 - 04.2015
Senior Multimedia Artist
Pearson
12.2010 - 09.2014
Team Lead
Pearson
11.2007 - 12.2010
Item Development Associate
Pearson
03.2006 - 11.2007
Project Manager
Pearson
11.2003 - 03.2006
Designer
Pearson
09.1999 - 11.2003
Education
MBA -
Creighton University
01.2019
VR Development Bootcamp Completion -
XR Terra
01.2023
BA - Art Education
Mount Mercy University
01.1995
Masters in Educational Measurement And Statistics -
University of Iowa
Skills
- Microsoft Office Suite
- JIRA
- Adobe Creative Suite
- Acrobat
- VR Design/Unity/C#
- InDesign
- Cinema 4D
- After Effects
- CSS
- Pluralsight
- Xml
- Html
Awards
- 2017-2022, Co-chair Pearson LGBT+ ERG
- 2014-2022, Co-chair Pearson Women’s ERG
- 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018, Nominated for Pearson Employee of the Year
- 2009, Pearson All-Star Award
- 2008, Pearson Team Player (3 times)
- 2006, Pearson Gold Medal Performance
Timeline
Manager, Multimedia Services
Pearson
01.2018 - Current
Principal Multimedia Artist
Pearson
04.2015 - 04.2018
Publishing Implementation Manager
Pearson
09.2014 - 04.2015
Senior Multimedia Artist
Pearson
12.2010 - 09.2014
Team Lead
Pearson
11.2007 - 12.2010
Item Development Associate
Pearson
03.2006 - 11.2007
Project Manager
Pearson
11.2003 - 03.2006
Designer
Pearson
09.1999 - 11.2003
MBA -
Creighton University
VR Development Bootcamp Completion -
XR Terra
BA - Art Education
Mount Mercy University
Masters in Educational Measurement And Statistics -
University of Iowa
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