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Managed creative production of owned channels: web, emails, and app offers. Managed production of the Spring in-store promotion for North America through concepting, stakeholder reviews, product photoshoot, merchandising direction, printing and deployment, fulfillment to stores, digital menus, digital owned channels, and online newsletter.Guiding high-volume campaigns through stacked timelines.Driving innovation projects to meet unique business objectives while aligning with the greater promotion workflow to optimize efficiency and lower cost.Execute monthly in-store campaigns, owning relationships with business stakeholders and acting as point of contact for creative teams.Manage the design and deployment of digital menu boards for alternate format stores.

Contract project: the publication of Modernist Bread and associated marketing/promotional materials (catalogue, calendars). Implement and coordinate changes with designers. Proofread pages and proofs. Prepare content for reprints, translations, carton marks for shipping. Assign ISBNs. Upload photography and information to Amazon listings.

Managed homepage redesigns, creation of a content management system, online sweepstakes forms for clients in sports, financial services, and travel.Developed processes for the creative digital agency. Established folder structure and project numbers.

• Ensure that daily deliverables are completed on time and accurately.• Act as the main point of contact for freelance writers and designers.• Work across functions from project kickoff to final delivery.• Manage internal projects: brand guidelines, website redesign, freelancer guide, holiday gift, online portfolio.• Rewrite copy to align to appropriate voice and tone.• Review resumes and interview candidates.• Schedule projects and solve for conflicts.• Familiarity with SEO best practices.• Facilitate invoicing, budgets, statements of work, incoming estimates, new business efforts.• Proofread for web, print, spec sheets, blogs, marketing communications for accuracy of the copy and layout.• Update internal style guides.• Send files to clients and printers.• Clients: Microsoft, Minecraft, T-Mobile, Physio-Control, VWC, CDK Global, Northwest Harvest

• Evaluate queries from the slush pile to reject them or “pitch” them to the agent.• Read requested manuscripts and provide synopses and recommendations.• Meet with other interns to discuss queries and projects.

• Verify accuracy of copy and layout for websites, web banners, packaging, print ads, product specs.• Write content for web, packaging labels and inserts, two-sided sales sheets.• Review and approve proofs for product labels in phases of 20.• Partnered on-set with Cwenar Studios for a Día de los Muertos portrait. • Clients: GlaxoSmithKline (Abreva, Nicorette/NicoDerm, PanOxyl, Polident, TUMS), GNC, Huffy, Lucky Leaf, YellaWood

• Copyedit 15-20 page scientific articles by nonnative English speakers on a 3-day deadline.• Write 150-word abstracts, cover letters, and synopses for submission.

• Manage translation and coding of 5-10 pharmaceutical clinical trials in 10-30 languages on 3-month schedules.• Saved the company a potential 20-80% in translation fees and time per study and language, and increased study validity, by devising a software “library” to eliminate duplicate work.• Investigate and fix 5-10 software defects daily.• Assign work to associates and verify accuracy/quality of formatting and layout.• Accommodate last-minute scheduling requests.• Troubleshoot problems with files or software.• Build and release software testing packages.• Identify training opportunities and execute training for new hires.• Work with Quality Control to address software defects daily.• Gather a project’s scoping information, from language count to translation/transcription requirements.

• Hand-sell books to support the store’s daily sales goal, with a focus on the children’s section.• Sell 2-4 B&N memberships per week at $25 each.• Promote NOOK e-reader by capturing customer data for product release lists.• Upsell on every order in Barnes & Noble Café; create custom coffee and food orders.

• Evaluate manuscripts and enter manuscript information into the internal tracking system.• Research and print submission guidelines for children’s magazines/book publishers for the editor in chief to distribute to conference attendees.• Introduce new hires to employees in all four buildings of the campus. Lead informational office tours for last-minute or scheduled visitors.• Act as a staff member at the 2009 Highlights Foundation’s Writers Workshop (photographing events and posting to flickr.com, assisting presenters, recording audio, setting up projectors, answering attendees’ questions).• Interview key editors on their experience with magazine features/publications (The Timbertoes, The Bear Family, Hidden Pictures, Goofus & Gallant, Highlights High Five).

• Coordinate the production of 16 academic journals.• Incorporate proof corrections, pagination, create tables of contents, assemble issues, collect transfers of copyright, prepare covers, place advertisements, post articles to the Web.• Interact with authors and editors to arrive at a finished project.

Production Editor Intern in the scholarly journals department.

Assist library patrons with their book requests, account issues.Catalogue books, magazines, and reference materials into the library system.Process requests for interlibrary loans.Reshelve materials.