Kevin J. Gray: President and Chief Content Officer
Kevin J. Gray, President and Chief Content Officer, leads the education team, drawing upon decades of experience working with clients across the education spectrum. He collaborates with clients to develop innovative solutions to complex problems. A former literacy and social studies editor and teacher, Kevin also previously held leadership roles at a variety of development houses. Read this informative post which provides comprehensive detail about Kevin's background.
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David Bailis: Senior Director of Operations
David Bailis, Senior Director of Operations, oversees the day-to-day operations of the division. Dave has years of experience creating content and managing service providers for a number of publishing companies. He has held leadership roles at National Geographic, Symmetry Creative Production, and Tighe Publishing. Before moving into his current role, Dave was Westchester’s Content Director for STEM. This interview shares more about Dave's extensive background in education.
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Laura Cunningham: Content Director, STEM
Laura Cunningham, Content Director, STEM, leads the content development groups that focus on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. With a diverse background in multiple content areas and grade levels within STEM, Laura brings her experience developing high-quality, custom curricular programs for a variety of learning environments gained from experiences collaborating with publishers and content developers.
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Jennifer Cole: Content Director, Literacy, Humanities, and Languages
Jennifer Cole, Content Director of Literacy, Humanities, and Languages, comes to Westchester Education Services with more than twenty years of educational publishing experience. She has led teams to produce hundreds of thousands of hours of student and teacher content for learners at all grade levels. Her passions include children’s literature, language acquisition, and ensuring all students voices are represented in today’s educational products. Jennifer has worked both in-house at publishers such as Houghton Mifflin and Sundance, and for educational vendors including MPS and KGL. She is skilled at helping clients dream products become reality.
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Jada Bradley: Senior Editor, Culturally Responsive Education
Jada Bradley, Senior Editor, Culturally Responsive Education, has over twenty years of trade and educational publishing experience, both on staff and as a freelancer. She has also studied translation and taught English language learners. Her passions include children's literature, language acquisition, and amplifying the voices of underserved communities. She is concerned with creating culturally relevant educational projects that connect with students and offer opportunities for differentiation.
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Tara Hlavinka: Senior Editor, Math
Tara Hlavinka, Senior Editor, Math, develops, manages, and serves as the editorial lead on math projects. With more than 20 years’ experience in mathematics educational publishing, both in content development and in management, Tara has helped produce materials that address the whole learner and use authentic, hands-on, collaborative, and adaptive learning.
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Sandra Colmenares, Senior Supervising Editor, Languages and Translation
Sandra Colmenares, Senior Supervising Editor, Languages and Translation, brings a nearly 30-year background in the educational publishing industry to the projects she leads. She has worked for education publishers, including McGraw-Hill Education, Encyclopedia Britannica, Benchmark Education, and for various publishing vendors. Sandra has managed translation and dual language education programs in the core subjects of mathematics, science, and ELA and has developed core Spanish materials for SLA.
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Mark DaGrossa: Director of Creative Services
Mark DaGrossa, Director of Creative Services, sets the design direction for Westchester Education Services and oversees all art, illustration, and design work. Mark worked in Mazer’s design division for 20 years before starting his own studio, Folio Designhaus, which serviced clients in the educational and commercial markets.
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Chris Herrfurth: Education Production Manager
Chris Herrfurth, Production Manager, manages production work for Westchester Education Services client projects. He leads resources in the U.S., as well as offshore teams in Chennai and Noida. Chris spent years on the production teams at Mazer and TSI and is adept at leveraging technology to streamline production workflows. Read more about Chris' experiences prior to joining Westchester in this blog post. This background enables Chris' team to implement complex workflows with precision, processing thousands of pages efficiently and accurately.
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Roger Market: Director, Project Management
Roger Market, Director, Project Management, oversees project management for Westchester Education Services, including ensuring projects stay on schedule and within budget. Prior to joining Westchester Education Services in 2017, Roger held editorial and project management roles at several other development houses, including Wisewire and Cenveo. Roger is passionate about quality data, and builds tracking systems to ensure he can report out status to our internal teams and external clients seamlessly and efficiently.
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Christina DeYoung: Director of Client Solutions
Christina DeYoung, Director of Client Solutions, came to Westchester after serving as the Interim Executive Director of Harvard Education Publishing Group, where she also ran their sales and marketing initiatives. She had previously developed marketing for WGBH Education, supporting projects in CTE, literacy, and STEM, while leading social for PBSLearningMedia. Christina’s background also includes work at Random House, Houghton Mifflin, and HarperCollins. Her roles have included design, project management, production, editorial, operations, and finance. A dedicated life-long learner, she has completed two master’s degrees at Harvard in museum studies and creative writing, and plans to attend school in her free time forever.
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Kevin Schroeder: Director of Client Solutions
Kevin Schroeder, Director of Client Solutions, has over 14 years of experience working in the educational publishing industry, most recently at Hazelden Publishing and with It’s About Time, which is currently known as Activate Learning. Previously, he worked in the EdTech space with SMART Technologies, and is a former Social Studies classroom teacher with a degree in Social Studies Education and a minor in Athletic Coaching. Kevin's background in the market provides him with extensive knowledge to help clients develop solutions to ensure all students succeed.
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Tyler M. Carey: Chief Revenue Officer
Tyler M. Carey, Chief Revenue Officer, joined Westchester in 2014 and is responsible for generating new revenue and strengthening the relationships with Westchester’s clients. Tyler’s technical expertise combined with his stellar people skills enable him to thoroughly understand his client’s objectives, helping them secure the best solution to meet their needs. Key Westchester partners supported by Tyler include American Society for Microbiology, Bloomsbury, Crooked Lane, The MIT Press, Twelve Tables Press, and Brookings Institution Press.
Tyler has worked in publishing and technology for over 20 years, with a background including work at Wolters-Kluwer and Harris Connect. His roles have included account management, sales, marketing, product development, social media management, and technology consulting. He is an experienced conference speaker, often presenting on the impact of technology on different industries, sharing strategies to adapt emerging technologies into more traditional organizations. In 2017, Tyler was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing the company’s sales, marketing, and business development efforts as well as the growing staff supporting those initiatives.
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