Forest LyttonProduct Ranger
Key values Ownership, wholistic view, link actionable outcomes to strategic goals, both customer and user-focuse, value cross-discipline collaboration, delightful experience in a neuro-divergent world, and above all else, kindness.
What is the focus of this product role My most common title is “product manager." I work solely in the digital space and have come to specialise in Education Technology, aka EdTech. I coined the term "product ranger”
EdTech Product Experience
Since 2014, my product work has focused predominantly on educational technology
- Technology from Sage: Talis Aspire reading lists
- Preservica: metadata & search
- The National Trust: accommodation booking, online shop, my account, membership & donations
- Kortext: normative assessment for student engagement
- Cengage Learning EMEA & Gale, now part of Cengage Group, Assessments, EPUBs, eBook pricing updates, distributor metadata, copyright clearance, library digital collections of modern newspapers, 17th Century journals such as Nicholls Newspaper Collection(Bodleian Library, Oxford University), & Early Arabic Printed Books (British Library)
- University of Phoenix Online (student): Proquest & EBSCO digital libraries search, metadata, citations, anti-plagiarism checks: 2004-2005, 2012-2013
- Contracting 2002-2004: CIGNA Healthcare: Managing content releases for a corporate programme management practice, authored eLearning modules
- Contracting 1999 - 2002: Hartford Life Annuity and Mutual Funds, B2B, B2C End-to-end content management collaborating cross-discipline to deliver Product Marketing updates, and new products. Data Analytics & Reporting.
- Contracting 1998 - 1999: CIGNA Healthcare: Implemented Contact Us eService98 ticketing system, workflow, and network monitoring jobs on IIS Microsoft webserver to automate web requests for customer support team, replacing printing and interoffice mailing.