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Laustsen
42R Prospect Street, Marblehead, MA
617.905.2864, sachajl@yahoo.com
Summary
Passion for accessible educational technologies, combined with extensive experience producing
interactive content for the educational publishing industry. Enthusiasm for working with others—
technical, creative, or otherwise—toward a set of common goals. Talent for identifying market
opportunities and reacting with purposeful tenacity.
Professional Experience
1999-Present Thomson Higher Education/Thomson Learning Boston, MA
2006-Present Product Manager: Mobile Content, Ebooks, Thomson Higher Education
Responsible for the development of market-driven media product lines and line extensions for digital and
mobile content, e.g. e-Books, Audio (iPod and MP3), to be sold into both traditional adoption-based markets
and direct-to-consumer markets. Responsible for life-cycle management of products from content development
and customer functionality to strategic marketing.
Achievements:
• Product Managed the launch of iLrn Spanish from concept to campus. Responsible for overseeing all
aspects of the feature set development, user interface, instructor and student workflows, content
production, and customer support site.
• Presented iLrn Spanish to Thomson Investors at the annual Thomson CEO Exchange hosted by Dick
Harrington.
• Managed technology for a $24 million list with the highest growth rate (12%) in the Humanities
specialization of Thomson Higher Education in 2005.
Achievements:
• Pioneered development of products combining multiple highly acclaimed interactive platforms
including multimedia CD-ROM interactivities; mark-up engines; interactive texts with animated
examples, audio and video; and on-line course management tools.
• Developed and implemented modular, templatized, XML-based, interactive CD-ROM authoring
system credited with significantly reducing development time and cost. Later pioneered migration of
authoring environment online for language software products.
• Designed digital and print graphic assets for CD-ROM interfaces, DVD menus, video graphics, and
silkscreen/sticker labels.
Education
1995- 1999 Indiana University of Pennsylvania Indiana, PA
Bachelor of Arts, French for International Business, Dean’s List