​​​​Lisa Allegretti Williams​

Cognitive Arts/NIIT

Cognitive Arts is a division of NIIT's Enterprise Learning Solutions Business, which provides managed training services, including curriculum design and content development, learning administration, learning delivery management, learning technology and advisory services.

 

Project Manager, December 2015–present

• Oversee internal development teams in Chicago and India, including 10-15 content developers, as well as instructional designers, animation, media, engineering and production teams

• Conduct planning, risk assessment, operations management and instructional design for each client

• Clients include Fortune 500 companies in the oil-and-gas, banking, insurance, electronics and heavy-duty manufacturing

 

Content Developer, June 2014–December 2015

• Developed web-based training for an oil and gas company, a 90-module project for an international audience covering upselling, product performance and cost value

• Served as content development supervisor in latter stages of above project, delivering client-facing sector updates, liaising with offshore development team, and reviewing work product of other developers

• Spearheaded web-based training compliance project for seasonal contractors

• Developed and scripted video-game-based training in support of a new product launch

• Gathered content from subject-matter experts and analyzed content source materials

• Drafted course content, e.g. analysis documents and scripts ​

 

Fire Chief magazine and FireChief.com

Fire Chief reached 52,000 fire-service executives, plus a four-time pass-along readership, in the U.S. and Canada. Coverage areas included training, safety and health, communications, fire investigation, finance and budgeting, professional development, incident command, hazmat response, vehicle maintenance and other crucial areas. Ancillary print products included Wildfire, a bimonthly magazine for wildland firefighting and fire-prevention experts, and Station Style, an annual supplement and conference on fire-station design.

 

Editor in Chief

June 2012–December 2013

• Work with publisher and associate publisher to develop new subscriber-based revenue models, including pay-per-view webinar series and gated web content.

• Directly supervise senior editor and art director.

• Edit and produce multimedia offerings, including videos and podcasts.

• Sit on the educational program planning committee for Fire-Rescue International, the second-largest trade show in the industry, hosted by the International Association of Fire Chiefs.

 

Managing Editor

July 2007–June 2012

• Performed substantive and line edits to features, columns and news departments.

• Collaborated with art director and production manager to determine editorial page counts and imposition, create illustration concepts, conduct photo research, revise page layouts, and review proofs in PDF workflow.

• Managed special projects, including posters and Station Style calendar and awards portfolio.

• Wrote, search-engine optimized and posted stories for www.firechief.com.

 

Senior Editor

April 2006–July 2007

• Supervised development of special projects and supplements, including annual federal response poster, Station Style supplement and design awards, Chief of the Year Awards, and Fire-Rescue International Show Guide, distributed to 30,000 conference attendees

• Developed art and cover concepts with art directorSupervised assistant editor in the production of Fire/EMS Product News, a 40,000-circulation, bi-monthly product tabloid

 

Wildfire Magazine Features Editor

June 2002–March 2009
Coordinated re-launch of 32-page, bi-monthly association book, including working with editorial board members develop editorial content and supervising the redesign. 

 

Associate Editor

October 2001–April 2006

 

Assistant Editor

July 2000–October 2001

Supervise production of Fire/EMS Product News, a 40,000-circulation, bi-monthly product tabloid. 

 

Urgent Communications magazine and UrgentComm.com

Penton Media (formerly Primedia Business Magazines & Media and Prism Business Media), Chicago, Illinois

March 2009–June 2012

 

Urgent Communications served 30,000 private radio and wireless systems operators, as well as commercial and public-safety communications users.

 

Managing Editor

June 2012–December 2013

 

• Collaborated with production managers to determine schedules, editorial page counts and impositions.

• Conducted art meetings and oversaw monthly art and editorial budgets, processing invoices from photographers, agencies and freelance writers.

• Collated content for multiple e-newsletters and posted stories to websites using a content-management system.