Craig Coding Joins our Winning Team! We are excited to announce Craig's appointment as Director of Business Development at Pronk.

Having held senior positions at McGraw-Hill, Pearson Scott Foresman, and Anthology, Craig brings to Pronk a broad-based knowledge of educational publishing and a thorough understanding of publishers’ challenges and needs. Those needs are changing at a rapid pace as educational publishing continues to evolve, and Pronk’s service offerings are evolving to meet them. With a focus on communicating with you, our valued client, Craig will help us ensure that we have the solutions you need when you need them.

About Craig

With over 12 years of educational publishing experience on both the publisher and vendor sides, Craig understands the importance of the publisher–vendor partnership to achieving the best results on time and on budget. He has helped create budgets, track spending, and negotiate vendor contracts on the publisher side, and is acutely aware of the challenges you face on a day-to-day basis.

Recent positions

  • Director of Art, Design & Production at McGraw-Hill
    (with a focus on Production in 2008–2009)
  • Design Manager at Anthology, Inc.
  • Senior Designer at Pearson Scott Foresman

Summary of other experience

  • 12+ years of educational publishing experience, working both on the publisher
    and vendor side
  • Primary background in Design & Production
  • Extensive experience working with Editorial and Marketing teams and facilitating cross-functional meetings
  • 4 years of Art/Design/Photo/Production (or some combination of) Director experience
  • 6+ years of Design management experience
  • 4+ years of Art-Buying experience
  • 3+ years of Photo Research experience
  • Additional freelance Design experience

Get connected with Craig on LinkedIn!

Craig’s Role at Pronk

Craig will be based in Chicago. He is available to help with your product development needs and resolve any issues that may arise.

He will be working with you to look for efficiencies, improve communication, and streamline processes. He will be dedicated to spending the time with you to understand and resolve all the challenges in moving towards an integrated, simultaneous development of print and digital content. Craig is committed to establishing and maintaining a partnering relationship with you, our client, so Pronk will come to be viewed as an extension of your in-house product development team.

Craig will also be instrumental in helping to facilitate the seamless roll-out of new Pronk services and partnerships. As we embrace new realities in publishing, we are committed to ensuring we offer all the services you need with the same quality, creativity, and attention to detail you have come to expect from Pronk. For example, Pronk now offers a complete suite of e-learning services including:

  • product conceptualization
  • content development
  • Flash prototyping
  • Flash/Flex and ActionScript programming
  • gaming
  • character animation

Contact Craig

email: craig@pronk.com
office: (416) 441–3760 ext. 300
cell: (630) 862–6490

We are thrilled to have Craig on board to help us support you as we usher in a new era in educational publishing and offer you a continually expanding palette of digital and print services.