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Bonnie B. Hawkwood
Summary: Twenty-nine years of experience in the information
industry.
Experience
Consultant
April 2007 – present
Louisville, Kentucky
Working from a virtual office, my current consulting business extends my
expertise to companies and organizations that serve libraries.
Thomson Gale
Farmington Hills, Michigan
Program Director
July 2004 – March 2007
Promoted to this position in the Strategic Business Development Department, I
focused my efforts on growing the eBook program I started in 2002. My team added
25 partners and continued to expand the market presence of Gale Virtual
Reference Library. We were successful at formulating market-focused pricing
policies and adopting a business model that made sense for both libraries and
publishers.
Product Manager
July 1999 - 2004
Originally hired as brand manager for InfoTrac periodical databases. Each year,
the position was expanded to include increasing levels of responsibility. Among
my accomplishments at Gale are the following new products:
InfoTrac OneFile, a periodical database which achieved immediate success
(2000)
Four new print/eBook publications:
Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices (2001)
Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery (2002)
Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders (2003)
Gale Encyclopedia of Children’s Health (2003)
Gale Virtual Reference Library, a new interface and delivery system for
eBooks (2003).
Director of Editorial Operations
January 1996 - July 1999
MD Consult
St. Louis, Missouri
Established the editorial operations department for this new medical information
company, which was formed as the e-publishing enterprise of three publishers –
Wolters Kluwer, W. B. Saunders, and Times Mirror (Mosby). Elsevier acquired this
business a few years after its founding.
Hired, trained and directed the MD Consult editorial staff. Negotiated and
managed outsourcing contracts with six data conversion vendors. Was the
technical contact for licensing agreements with the National Library of Medicine
and National Cancer Institute. Wrote user requirements for a document management
system. My staff was responsible for acquiring source data from multiple
publishers and converting it to SGML for electronic publication.
Senior Managing Editor
1992 - 1996
UMI
Louisville, Kentucky
Managed 3 Associate Editors who were responsible for a database publishing
operation with 40 employees. Made product-level decisions for two information
services targeted to corporate and university libraries -- ABI/INFORM and
Pharmaceutical News Index. Managed the start-up process and assisted with due
diligence procedures in acquiring new products from the American Bankers
Association and the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The Accounting & Tax Database, which
resulted from the latter acquisition, won the first annual KPMG Peat Marwick
Global Information Industry Award. In my final two years at UMI, I was offered
and accepted a leadership role in a division-wide project to introduce the
databases on a state-of-the-art client server system called ProQuest Direct.
Managing Editor
1983 - 1991
UMI/Data Courier
Managed the growth of ABI/INFORM, a widely recognized leader among abstract and
bibliographic databases sold into corporate information centers and academic
libraries. All major American business schools subscribed to this service, as
did most of the Fortune 500.
Maintained high levels of quality, while improving efficiency. Reorganized the
department into self-directed work teams. Established a cross-training program,
allowing associates to learn all tasks performed in creating the product. This
eliminated artificial backlogs and increased flexibility.
Coordinated work with the publisher relations department to gain rights for 500
journals in full-text format. Adding full text to the file earned it a Product
Achievement Award in 1991 from the Information Industry Association.
Associate Editor
1982
Data Courier, Inc.
Supervised the day-to-day operation of the editorial department. Managed a
year-long project to reload the database, after revising it to new
specifications.
Indexer
1980 - 1981
Assigned subject-level indexing to database records in such diverse areas as
marketing, finance, economics, management, human resources, accounting,
advertising, and organizational behavior.
Assistant Editor
1978 - 1979
Entry-level position writing abstracts for the business database.
Education
Bachelor of Arts, Vanderbilt University. Post-graduate business coursework,
University of Louisville.