Overview
Services
Non-Fiction
Languages
Work experience
Self-employed
-Partnering with authors and in-house editorial staff to develop scope and features of large, multi-year projects
-Collaborating with authors on writing and editing content
-Working on ambitious art programs, including selecting meaningful visuals, helping to secure permission to use those visuals, and assuring effective on-page layout
-Helping to develop a compelling story about each project to reach end users (primarily instructors and students)
-Global commenting and editing for improved content and structure
-Sentence-level editing for clarity, relevance, and effective language
-Applying client project guidelines and house editing rules
Macmillan Learning
-Wrote, designed, and edited educational content and features for print and Web
-Wrote and edited promotional pieces, including brochures, mailings, and catalog spreads
-Collaborated with authors and in-house teams on product development and promotional strategies
-Conducted review programs and synthesized results into actionable plans
-Organized and lead workshops for university faculty
-Coordinated and facilitated focus groups; analyzed outcomes for product development and revision
-Designed and conducted on-campus usability tests and interviews
-Gathered information and established client relationships at academic conferences
-Presented new content and feature enhancements at national sales conferences
-Coordinated development, design, and production of e-book and companion Web site materials
Thomson West
-Composed, formatted, and proofread material for print and online publication
-Developed and managed team-wide project tracking and workload distribution
-Trained peers
-Authored annotations for bound-volume statute sets and
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