Stephen L. Torpie

Experience

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  Reed Elsevier; LexisNexis; Martindale-Hubbell

  Jan 1997 - Jan 2012

  Senior Managing Editor

  Reed Elsevier; LexisNexis; Martindale-Hubbell; New Providence, NJ 1997 - 2012Worldwide provider of information solutions for professionals (scientific, legal, medical, financial, investigative). Senior Managing Editor, Client Development Unit, LexisNexis, 2008 – 2012• Used offshore data-mining vendor to find law firm prospects. o Added 16,700 new law firms to Lawyers.com generating $900,000 in downstream revenue.• Improvised complex match evaluations (using SQL and MS Excel formulas), against a stream of I.T. generated possible matches.o This facilitated data point connections between law firms, attorneys, federal case dockets, plaintiffs, defendants, patents, trademarks, and merger deals. o It also eliminated some fraudulent attorney listings and reduced risk of lawsuits.Senior Managing Editor, Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest, 2003 – 2007• Migrated content to CD and the Amazon Print-On-Demand service in tandem with business development. o All migrations were completed on time and on budget. Senior Managing Editor, Martindale-Hubbell Attorney Ratings, 2001 – 2003• Ratings unit facilitated highly sensitive, confidential, peer review ratings among attorneys.o Raised productivity 12% by implementing production metrics, and re-inventing the software interface.Senior Managing Editor, Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, 1997 – 2001• A century old directory of law firms and attorneys which evolved into ‘Lawyers.com’.o Supported a $7 million software migration of the Martindale-Hubbell editorial system to Oracle as part of wider Y2K initiative.• With a solid budget, requirement specs, and programmers, the migration kept falling behind schedule.o I made game-changing suggestion to move a power user, into the programmer bullpen, to act as a ready touch point for any questions on process, terminology, interface, and tables.o After that, the software releases improved dramatically. Show less

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  Assisted Transition

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2014

  Business Owner

  Service franchise which provided residential health care solutions for seniors in need. Significant personal interaction with seniors and their families under sad and stressful circumstances.Start-up of individual franchise included purchase of territory, formation of corporation, implementation of QuickBooks, hiring accountant, and publishing a website.Developed significant industry network in assigned territory. Built extensive inventory to offer multiple solution choices to clients.

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  Information Today, Inc.

  Dec 2014 - Feb 2017

  Managing Editor

  Respected publisher of book trade oriented reference books, and magazines.Managing Editor: American Library Directory; Annual Register of Grant Support• Worked with I.T. to devise several dozen Excel based QA audits on two print directories.o Eliminated 70 workdays of manual review, expanding update durations and improving freshness.o Corrected 1,300 legacy errors.• Control email blast update utility and maintain several data-control tables.• Drove ideas to modernize the web site, web link update tool, and downstream database products. Show less

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  IEEE

  Feb 2017 - Apr 2023

  Senior Conference Data Quality Analyst

  A large, not-for-profit association of scientific and technical professionals. IEEE hosts scientific conferences worldwide and publishes technical papers presented at those meetings on their ‘Xplore’ website.Senior Conference Data Quality Analyst; MCE & Business Intelligence• Evaluated entire conference paper quality review processes.o This helped the QA team to identify choke points, improve tracking, and devise a dashboard.• Productized intensive QA on hotel contract metrics, generated by offshore vendor, using an Artificial Intelligence application.o This has streamlined the process for downstream analytics.• Improvised a data normalization methodology, whereby affiliations can quickly be mapped to name and business-type standards.o Enabled powerful downstream metrics.• Remediated ISBN data, and related media, between data platforms.o Total corrective actions were 19,656,• Remediated a gathering code between two data platforms which aggregates website search results.o Total corrective actions were 4,288 involving 1,723 distinct series.• Streamlined Journal Entry billing calculations using extensive Excel macros.• Analyzed ISSN data intake, processing, and deficiencies.• Delivered over 200 ad-hoc requests for Tableau reports and diagnostics. Show less