Sharon Wynne, CEO
William J. Grace Publishing Consultant
Thomas J Flaherty, Director of Sales
Harte Weiner, Ph.D. - Editing Consultant
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Sharon Wynne, CEO
William J. Grace Publishing Consultant
Consulting Projects since 1998
Executive recruiting for more than a dozen companies in all areas and functions of publishing. Successful placements of Editorial Directors, National and Regional Sales Managers, Field Sales reps and consultants, Marketing Directors, Production Managers, Chief Executives.
· Consultant to Association of American Publishers on textbook pricing and funding issues, creating annual forecast of financial resources needed by key states.
· Consultant to numerous educational publishers and educational software developers on issues of product development, marketing and sales strategies, business development, compensation policy, and corporate integration.
· Create sales compensation plans to fit needs of companies at different stages of growth.
· Interim on-site manager for pre- and post-acquisition for divisions in corporate acquisition. Managed Silver Burdett for six months during Pearson Acquisition; managed Saxon Publishing, Norman, OK, for three months during Harcourt acquisition.
· Consultant to several international consortia for evaluating publishing acquisitions. Clients included Reed/Elsevier and Carlyle Group.
· Broker for sale of Baseline Development Group for Vista Higher Learning.
· Expert witness on publishing practices.
· Clients include Harcourt, Holt Rinehart Winston, Harcourt Achieve, McGraw Hill Companies, Hampton-Brown, Sundance, Houghton Mifflin, Zaner Bloser, Peoples Publishing Group, Steck Vaughn, Rigby, Wright Group, Pearson Supplemental, Celebration Press, GoodYear Books, Saxon Publishers, Boyds Mills Press, Robert Leslie Publishing, Chelsea House, Voices, Triumph Learning, Abrams Publishing, Vista Higher Learning, The Learning Company, McDougal Littell, Mondo Publishing, Horizon House, TechBooks, Mazer Corporation, American Guidance Services, First Choice Publishing, The Wicks Group.
Prior Experience in Educational Publishing
October 1992 to April 1998
· Publisher, Corporate Vice President, School Division, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Managed editorial, art, production, manufacturing operations.
· Publisher, Sr. Vice President, School Division, D.C. Heath Company, Lexington, Mass., a division of Raytheon, subsequently sold to Houghton Mifflin. Manager of editorial, art, production, manufacturing.
February 1985 to October 1992
· Vice President, Director of Sales and Marketing Administration, Silver Burdett Ginn School division of Simon and Schuster. Managed sales planning, forecasting, compensation, pricing, field policy.
· Vice President, Publisher, Prentice Hall High School Division of Simon and Schuster. Managed New England development staff of editors, designers.
· Vice President, General Manager, School Division of Allyn and Bacon Company, a Simon and Schuster Company. Managed development, sales, finance and operations.
April 1977 to February 1985
· Business Manager, School Division of Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Managed financial and operational areas
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September 1970 to April 1977
· Assistant Vice President, Operations Manager for Prentice Hall School Division, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
· Production Manager, Prentice Hall School Division.
· Production Editor, Prentice Hall.
Other Publishing Industry Experience
· Chairman, Association of American Publishers, Statistics Program, 1983 to 1995. Worked with all major and minor publishing companies to define and collect sales and expense data in all publishing markets and produce annual report of results.
Prior Educational Experience:
· Teacher of English, Grades 9, 11 in New York City, three years.
· Volunteer teacher of English as Second Language, Cape Cod area, 1999-2002.
· B.A., M.A., English and Communications, New York University.
· M.B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Thomas J Flaherty, Director of Sales
BA Catholic University, Washington, DC, ‘64
38 years experience in sales management, marketing, product development and distribution in the higher education publishing market.
In ’67, started in college publishing with Rand McNally College Division and was sales rep and Regional Manager..
In ’78 moved to WC Brown Publishing as Regional Manager for eastern US.
In ’81 joined DC Heath Publishing Co, Lexington, MA as National Sales Manager for the college division.
In ’83 became Editorial Director for Math, Science, Computer Science and Business disciplines. Developed new programs in these disciplines that are still some of the best revenue producers currently in the Houghton Mifflin College Division. and developed the strategic plans to drive their entry into their marketplace. Some examples are the 1st edition of Larson Precalculus series, Larson Calculus text revisions, 1st edition of Zumdahl General Chemistry, and Pascal programming. Worked closely with DC Heath high school group to develop college product in Math and Science that would be user friendly within the AP marketplace.
In ’86 moved into position of Senior VP and Director of Sales and Marketing. Built first marketing department for DC Heath. Increased sales compounded annually by 12%.
In ‘95 DC Heath was sold to Houghton Mifflin. Recruited by Houghton Mifflin to start a marketing department for the College Division. Worked on plans to combine the sales and marketing staffs of DC Heath and Houghton as well as plan out the strategies and hire personnel for the new marketing group.
In ’98 took 1st retirement, but continued at Houghton as consultant for newly burgeoning dot com industry. Served as bridge between the dot coms and higher educational publishers to develop synergies and ecommerce plans between the traditional publishing model and the new model presented by the internet. In ’99 moved from consulting position to Director of National Accounts. With time, became more involved with all segments of distribution – bookstores, major distributors and bookstore chains, such as MBS, Barnes & Noble, etc., and evolving non-traditional channels, such as ecommerce, digital delivery and ebooks. Negotiated bulk quantity sales of textbooks to distributors.
Active with AAP – Association of American Publishers – on several committees: Higher Ed, Faculty Relations, Marketing Services.
Harte Weiner, Ph.D. - Editing Consultant
Dr. Weiner joined XAMonline Oct. 2007 as managing editor and editing consultant. Her vita is listed below.
Education
Stanford University Ph.D., English Literature, British and
American Poetics, Criticism, Fiction, 1890-1950.
1990 Conferral.
Harvard University Exchange Scholar, Graduate School of English and
American Literature, 1985.
Columbia University M.F.A., Poetry, 1981.
Harvard University B.A., Philosophy with English, 1979.
Teaching Experience
University Teaching Positions
Brown University, Assistant Professor (1993): Taught advanced classes on Modernism and American
Expatriates. Featured authors included Claude McKay, James Baldwin, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and Radcliffe Hall.
Harvard University, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English (1985-1993): Taught Modernism seminars for Sophomore Honors Majors.
Tufts University, Lecturer, Department of English (1985-1992): Taught English Composition One and Two, with an emphasis on finding a voice and subsequently reviewing and perfecting forms of college prose writing. Interactive workshop environment, also taught through a thematic rubric of “Differences as Explored through Literature.”
Stanford University, Head Teaching Follow, Instructor, Department of English (1982-1985): Courses titled “Freshman English and Expository Writing,” “The American Novel 1917-1950,” “Shakespeare.”
Secondary and Enrichment Instruction
CambridgeEditors Advanced Poetry Workshop (Summer 2008): Organizing and teaching advanced poetry seminar for poets who are looking to polish work for submission and publication. Offering unique expertise because of studies with award-winning writers including Seamus Heaney, Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Marie Howe, Lucie Brock-Broido, Jane Shore, Ruth Whitman, Henri Cole and Joseph Brodsky.
Newton South High School, Feature Editor and Faculty Associate (Spring 2007): Edited and advised spring issue of award-winning school newspaper, Denebola.
Cambridge Center of Adult Education, Instructor (1993): Courses titled “Virginia Woolf” and “Feminist Criticism.”
Harvard University, Academic Non-Resident Tutor (1985-1992): Directed Junior and Senior Honors English individual and small group tutorials and culminating in departmental Junior Papers and Senior Theses, with specialties in 19th and 20th century literature and gender, racial and cultural theory.
Stanford University, Co-director of the Writing Center (1985): Training first year TAs, private tutorials with drop-in students, revision, drafting and editing supervision.
Andover Academy Summer Session, Teaching Fellow (1980): Courses titled “Existentialism” and “Philosophies of Man.”
Harvard University, Summer School for Foreign Students (1977-1978): Teaching Fellow, ESL, Multi-cultural exchange
Upward Bound, Brandeis University, Curriculum Coordinator and Teaching Fellow (1975): American History.
Professional Editing
Current Lead Editor, CambridgeEditors: small business experience editing dissertations, manuscripts, creative work, and non-fiction. Developing and guiding each writer through a personalized process of revision, editing and polishing.
Current Contributing Editor, American Journal Experts: Recruits former and current GSAS students from MIT, Harvard and Yale to edit scholarly articles for non-English students.
2007-2008 Managing Editor, Xamonline: Nationwide Leader in state-specific Teacher Certification Study Guides. Oversaw more than 300 study guides and the 2008 re-edit of the seventy-two best selling guides. Wrote sections of the guides as well as demonstrating exemplary edits in each subject. Selected, assigned and communicated with editors, designed guidelines for Copy Editors and Senior Editors. Responsible for the final stylistic, factual and grammatical corrections on finalized guides. Supervised in-house staff and oversaw budgeting operations.
1984-1990 Contributing Editor, The Paris Review: Chief poetry reader under Jonathan Galassi,
current Editor-in-Chief of Farrar, Straus and Grioux. Director of slush-pile readers. Coordinator, 30th Founding Anniversary Celebration.
1984 Assistant Director, The Academy of American Poets: Alongside the Director, MacArthur award-winning poet Henri Cole. Co-Host, 50th Anniversary Reading Series, Director, Book Prizes and College Prizes (The Whitman, The Lamont, and The Landon).
Selected Edited Works
Dissertations “Feasibility Study of Korea Biocluster with Real Estate Perspectives,” Junghun Choi for MIT (September 2008).
“The Malian Body: Dance as Sculpture; Roots, Impact and Political Motion,” Genevieve Hyacinth (2008).
“How Professional Women Use their Mental Models and Theories-in-Use to Achieve Career Success,” Teachers College, Columbia University (June 2005).
“NGO’s and INGO’s: Which Route for Nepal?” (Spring 2006).
“From Different Centerpoints: How Public School Parents Choose Schools,” Brandeis University (Fall 2006).
“In the Name of Equity: From Racial Integration to Cultural Defense,” Fulbright Fellow, Harvard University (Fall 2006).
Websites Edited the entire site content for “Planetary Emissions Management, Inc.” http://www.pem-carbon.com/ (2008)
Books Deliver a Mistaken Identity, Agron Belica (2008)
Brochures Various brochures for Boston University’s Law School: “Health Law”, “Judges”, “IP”, “The Scholar” and their alumni magazine, “The Record” (2008).
Study Guides The Texas Generalist; The Florida Integrated; MTEL Communication and Literacy; FTCE Students with Disabilities; MA; NY Social Studies et al.
Awards and Publications
Prizes
The Grolier Bookshop Prize for Poetry, First Prize
The Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Poetry, University-Wide First Prize, Harvard University
The Mademoiselle Magazine Prize for Poetry, National, Honorable Mention
Publications
The Radcliffe Quarterly, Interview with Diana Middlebrook, author of Her Husband (2005)
Sixth Annual Virginia Woolf Conference: Virginia Woolf and the Arts (Clemson University 1996): Conference Paper, “Real Rocks: Jacob Flanders as Object of Art”
Postmodernism, (University of Maine, Orono 1995): Conference Paper, “The First Post-Modernists: John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate”
Stanford University English Department Forum (1985): “T.S. Eliot, The Materialist?”
Fellowships and Appointments
Four year Ph.D. Teaching Fellowship, Stanford University
Exchange Scholar, Harvard University (1985)
Two year Writing Fellowship, Columbia University (1980-1982)
Shows
Image/Text: Four poems etched in glass, GASP Gallery, Brookline, MA (2005)
Collaborative show, created by Guggenheim-recipient Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship
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