Work done as a Cap Gemini employee.
Goal:
Houghton Mifflin, a large US publisher based in Boston, has a division devoted to creating college textbooks. In 2001-2002, like many publishers, they needed to reduce the time-to-market & publishing costs for their textbooks, in order to stay competitive. The market was changing, and educators were demanding that ancillary course content to be available for use in multiple mediums – online, DVD, software, eLearning – at the same time of the textbook. By implementing a DAM that was able to streamline the publishing process, and allow them to be responsive to new products and market demands, they were able to stay competitive.
Focus: business process re-engineering, publishing, eLearning, metadata, taxonomy
Technologies/Tools:
Documentum, Artesia DAM (now OpenText), QuarkDMS, RUP, UML
Responsibilities:
- Planned, developed and delivered JAD requirements sessions with all of college division
- Developed future state publishing process flows, in collaboration with business
- Team publishing and process SME to develop UML use cases and activity diagrams
- Developed and implemented the college division taxonomy and metadata model for all assets
- Developed and wrote user manual and materials
- Designed and delivered 2-day training course for new users