# /research/events/elearning/members/sander.htm

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# Heidi Sander

## OCLC Project Manager

As Business Development Manager in the Cooperative Initiatives group my primary responsibility is to identify and assess opportunities in elearning for member libraries and to create strategies and business plans for new products and services.

I am relatively new to OCLC and the library world, and come to the cooperative with a background in both academics and business. In the academic realm I have experience both as a scholar and as an administrator. As a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan in Germanic Languages and Literatures, I specialized in the literature of the late Renaissance and early Baroque with a particular interest in the satire of the period. I taught German at Michigan for four years and, during my tenure as an advanced graduate student, served as the Assistant Language Coordinator for first year courses.

My administrative experience comes from Harvard University where I was the Assistant Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. While running the Center, I worked closely with Harvard's academic, financial and development offices within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and helped welcome, finance and advise visiting scholars and graduate students. During my time at Harvard, I also worked with the Freshman Dean's office as an Academic Advisor to first year students.

On the business side, I worked as a market research analyst in the field of telecommunications at IDC, the research arm of IDG, publisher of the Dummies books. And most recently, I worked at Qwest Communications (the telecommunications company). I was a Senior Manager first in Engineering and then subsequently in IT where my group was responsible for the integration, upkeep and provisioning of a new, large and federally mandated national database.

My most important qualification from the OCLC perspective, however, is that I grew up in a town where the university library was (and still is) the tallest building in the county.