DIGITAL WORK
KAPLAN TEST PREP
Executive Director, Digital Content Development, New York, NY (2010-2011)
Ms. Sachar led all content development in the Product Management Team, including a project to craft 400 personalized science videos for students prepping for the MCAT as well as a course revision for the new GRE Exam in 2012.
Accomplishments include:
- Overseeing all editorial vendors and recruiting writers, editors and subject-matter experts to author courses to prep students for the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, PCAT and other examinations.
- Overhauling the editorial process for creating video scripts, resulting in savings of hundreds of staff hours.
- Managing a $1.7-million contract for the MCAT Video-on-Demand project, eventually moving work in-house to enhance accuracy and save an expected $1 million.
- Overseeing editorial development of 19 hours of new online GRE video instructional lessons, editing more than half of the videos and authoring two from scratch due to time constraints.
- Supervising review and revision of Kaplan Publishing course books for the GRE 2012 revision, including overseeing the rewriting of dozens of math lessons and problem sets to conform to required levels of difficulty for student prep.