Perfecting your text using new lens requires tenacity. My 25-year medical journal career led to book editing, juggling between pets and koi.
Collaborated with conference chairs to organize and produce conference proceedings (total = 50 projects/year). Worked with chairs and artists to design and finalize cover art. Formatted and finalized front matter and author index and built complete electronic documents into a single PDF file for submission to the printer.
Prepared promotional products and CD-ROMs at the chair’s request. Designed CD labels and final layouts for more than 35 CD-ROMs for conferences, a compilation CD-ROM of 11 conference proceedings (750 papers), and a CD-ROM of 1,660 files (7,000 pages).
I had the following responsibilities:
Edited (Excel template) mathematics and language arts lessons—using proper grammar and level of instruction appropriate to grade-school children.
Developed a company style manual.
Prepared instructive material for the Web; condensed a 60-page document to 4 pages.
PRESENT FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Edit books: health-related and medical.
CodeMantra: Edit entire content for nonfiction books: general; medical; humanities.
diacriTech: Edit entire content for nonfiction books: medicine; general.
PRIOR FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
MBL Communications, New York, NY: Edited articles on psychiatry.
Castle Connolly Institute, New York, NY: Edited a book on medicine.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD: Edited articles for medical journals.
Demand Media Studios, Santa Monica, CA: Copyedited articles.
Cadmus Communications, Columbia, MD: Edited articles for medical journals.
IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos, CA: Edited and proofed conference proceedings; produced
CD-ROMs.
Shores Editorial Services: edit, format, and finalize text for conference proceedings and medical journals.
American Journal Experts: Edit manuscripts on medicine; critical care medicine; endocrinology; psychology; psychiatry.
Enago: Edit medical manuscripts.
My 25-year career as Managing Editor involved the following responsibilities:
Met manufacturing deadlines of Critical Care Medicine (monthly publication), New Horizons (quarterly publication), Special Publications (three annual textbooks), and Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (quarterly publication).
Edited and read every article in all journals.
Planned an annual budget and worked to stay within the financial constraints outlined by the Society of Critical Care Medicine; recommended plans for increasing the publications’ revenues.
Organized the departmental workload and supervised the editorial and production staffs.
Produced the organization’s Style Manual to ensure style consistency in all publications.
Recommended software programs and procedures to facilitate the electronic production of the journals.
Communicated with authors and sponsors interested in producing special symposium supplements and assisted with the organization, editing, cover design, and final production of supplements.
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Author and editor specializing in music and popular culture.
Hoboken, NJ, USA
I'm an Australian writer and editor living in Greece. Apart from books, my passions are walking, swimming, wine, and photography.
Tilos, Greece