Linn M.

About Linn M.

Executive, Program Manager and Senior Solutions Architect with over 30 years experience…

Experience

1. Senior Vice President, International and Operations

   Cricket Media

   Jan 2012 — Present

   Cricket Media is an education media company that provides award-winning content on a safe and secure learning network for children, families and teachers across the world. We believe that challenging children’s minds and connecting them to learn together does wonders for their confidence, creativity and curiosity. That’s why we are dedicated to providing award-winning media on a safe and secure learning network to engage, enlighten and educate children everywhere.We offer eleven award-winning magazines for toddlers to teens, including Babybug®, Ladybug™, Cricket®, Muse®, Cobblestone™, Faces™, Dig®, Click®, CICADA®, Ask®, and Spider®. Our popular reading bundle includes our printed magazines along with digital companions that can be read on all devices. We also celebrate the creativity of our young readers with regular creative challenges and contests featuring their extraordinary work. Our latest digital app, Story Bug™, allows children and their loved ones to “read together even when you’re apart”™. Through our partnership with Neumedias in China, a division of China’s largest IT services company, Neusoft, we offer dual English-Mandarin language versions of Cricket Media brands for toddlers and young children on smartphones, tablets and smart TV’s.Our ePals Global Community® pairs educators and students around the world in exciting project-based learning for language learning practice and cultural exchange. Our global challenges bring together learners to apply important concepts from STEM to cultural studies through events such as the Smithsonian Invent It! and Folklife challenges. Our acclaimed program In2Books® matches mentors and students to build reading, writing and critical thinking skills. Through these programs, we connect millions of students, parents and teachers in over 200 countries and territories worldwide to learn together–and from each other.For more information, please visit and

Education

• James Madison University

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Computer and Information Sciences, General

  1986 — 1990

Skills

• Business Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Billing
• IT Strategy
• Risk Management
• Sharepoint
• Invoicing
• Information Technology
• Vendor Management
• Quality Assurance
• System Architecture
• Program Management
• Project Management
• Itil
• Business Strategy
• Pmo
• Business Intelligence
• Mobile Devices
• Enterprise Software
• Business Development
• Telecommunications
• Crm
• Management
• Sdlc
• Integration
• Requirements Analysis
• Testing
• Enterprise Architecture
• Business Process
• Leadership
• Team Management
• IT Management
• Software Project Management
• Pmp