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CAREER OVERVIEW
Editor of digital and print publications spanning a wide range of technology issues for consumers, businesses, and government. Proven ability to preserve writers’ unique styles and foster a cohesive group environment while encouraging the production of quality content.
KEY STRENGTHS
• Editing content of varied lengths under the high pressure of short- and long-term deadlines
• Developing and fostering positive relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Passion for use of social-media tools to help promote a brand
• Verbal communication skills that enable me to manage internal and external relationships
• Creative thinking that leads to innovations in editorial strategies
• Superior time-management skills that enable me to switch writing and editing gears in an instant
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
CONTRIBUTING EDITOR | STATEPOINT MEDIA | 01/2005 – PRESENT
Track education, health, arts, technology, and finance news on hundreds of U.S. state government sites on a freelance basis for New York-based company that provides the content for subscribing newspapers.
• Edit an average of 125 stories per month to post to content-management system
• Recommend changes in editorial coverage based on trends in government
• Contributions have led to a regular increase in clients over the last year and the subsequent need for a redesigned content-management system to handle increase in content
ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR | INTERNETNEWS.COM | 06/2007 – 11/2007
Supported the 10-member writing team of the largest subsidiary of Connecticut-based Jupitermedia, publisher of technology news geared toward consumers and IT professionals.
• Upheld high standards of content excellence through sub-editing and graphics acquisition
• Recommended and oversaw the successful implementation of JotSpot, now Google Sites, a wiki page that resulted in an increase in daily production due to the regular dissemination of information
• Conducted bimonthly editing workshops to discuss staff’s writing and trends in their various technology news and product beats
• Advised site developers during the content-management system redesign
• Contributed ideas for site redesign, including ways to highlight writers and promote content using social-media tools
• Led scheduled and impromptu training sessions on the new content-management system
• Wrote procedure manual for new content-management system as a means to empower users who were fearful of new system
• Managed the site in absence of Managing Editor
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR | INTERNETNEWS.COM | 03/2004 – 06/2007
As the first sub-editor in the site’s 7-year history, instituted processes designed to improve content quality and graphical presentation, as well as facilitate writer engagement with the site and its readers.
• Wrote editorial procedure manual to initiate departmental strategies, thus contributing to the staff’s understanding of the site’s mission and the dedication to improving content quality
• Oversaw the flow of up to 10 daily articles, including sub-editing and writing headlines, article summaries, and photo captions
• Developed and implemented a graphics-request and fulfillment system to present content in new and innovative ways, prompting a complete site overhaul to better highlight the editorial content and attract loyal readers
• Promoted the coverage of social media, which was enjoying increasing consumer and enterprise adoption and wrote articles to jump-start our coverage, which led to the hiring of a reporter to cover the topic full time
• Rewrote and regularly maintained the editorial style guide, enabling editors and writers to produce exemplary copy and compete with industry peers
EDITOR, TCDS ‘BULLETIN’ | NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY | 09/2003 – 05/2004
Produced the 16-page biannual newsletter for the Transregional Center for Democratic Studies to help promote the aims of the New School University interdisciplinary program.
• Coordinated editorial lineup with program’s director and staff
• Acquired material from a wide variety of sources in the U.S., Europe and Africa, as well as from New School personnel
• Edited submissions for content and space
• Prepared newsletter in QuarkXPress and worked with printer for its timely distribution
CONTRIBUTING WRITER | GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE | 08/2002 – 05/2007
Submitted articles regularly on a freelance basis to the subsidiary of California-based eRepublic. The magazine publishes news and feature articles geared toward state and local government agencies with a view to promoting their use of technology to improve performance.
• Conceived and researched topics relating to government’s use of technology
• Interviewed public-sector personnel and wrote feature articles, news items, and profiles
MANAGING EDITOR | GOVERNMENT TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE | 08/2000 – 08/2002
Transformed the scope of the position to cultivate the improvement of editorial strategies to ensure the successful production of the monthly magazine and its sponsored supplements.
• Successfully instituted a more streamlined editorial process that ensured timely delivery of magazine
• Managed relationship between editorial and design departments to help coordinate the production cycle
• Established and managed relationships with public relations personnel to produce a monthly products section
• Sub-edited articles, wrote headlines, and photo captions, as well as table-of-contents and cover copy
• Developed strategies to improve relationship between print and online versions of the magazine
• Wrote articles about local and state governments’ use of technology, as well as interviewed local and state chief information officers for the monthly ‘CIO Profile’ column
• Coordinated graphics and photography with production department
ASSOCIATE EDITOR | INFORMANT COMMUNICATIONS | 08/1996 – 08/2000
Provided editorial support to the former publisher of monthly technical magazines for an audience of computer programmers; titles included Delphi Informant, Oracle Informant, Microsoft Office and Visual Basic for Applications Developer and Web Publisher.
• Sub-edited monthly articles and worked with remote writers
• Assigned Web design books to editors for review in Web Publisher magazine
• Wrote Web designer profiles and book reviews
• Proofread articles and interfaced with design department during production cycle
• Managed the quarterly production of VBA Solutions in Industry, a 16-page supplement that required regular communication with sales, acquisition of additional editorial content, and arrangement of deadlines with the design department
EDUCATION
NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK, USA | MAY 2004
• Master of Arts, Liberal Studies, New School for Social Research, emphasis on Identity Theory
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO | CALIFORNIA, USA | MAY 1996
• Bachelor of Arts, English
• Certificate, Literary Editing and Publishing
• Certificate, Technical Writing
