Charles Ault Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Suburban Philadelphia, Usa

Greater Philadelphia Area

Consultant in museum-quality Book Production and Project Management -- Budgeting, Editorial Development, Art Direction, and Print Supervision

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Provide editorial services and messaging consultation as an unpaid volunteer.

Greater Philadelphia Area

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR / DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION AND ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING• Reorganized Production Department operations to reduce staff by two-thirds while maintaining quality and quantity of book production output• Created model book design program, cutting routine text design expense by 50 percent• Reduced prepress costs 17 percent below peer presses• Reduced average production schedules by 20 percent• Analyzed Press financial and operational performance for Provost’s Ad-Hoc Committee on the Future of the Press• Administered Press operations and developed three-year Business Plan with senior management team during 18-month vacancy in the Director position• Developed policies and goals for electronic publishing initiatives• Designed and implemented Press-wide reorganization of office space• Press representative on Temple University Libraries / University Press Executive Board and Temple University Libraries’ Technology Steering CommitteeASSISTANT DIRECTOR / MANAGING EDITOR• Member of Press senior management team• Responsible for Production Department operations and administration, recruitment, staff training and development, and managing a budget of more than $1 million annually• Supervised six full-time and six part-time staff in manuscript editorial, design, and production operations• Responsible for production output averaging 65 new books and 75 reprint editions annually• Restructured vendor management program, replacing per-project bidding with annual vendor contracts resulting in substantial savings in administrative expense

Rosemont, Pa

Taught courses in publishing and book production and served as master's thesis advisor in the Graduate Program in English and Publishing.

Princeton, Nj

PRODUCTION COORDINATOR• Invited to create new position and job description for myself, resulting in an operational unit to manage production of all fine arts and archaeology titles• Supervised copyediting, design, and production services by Press staff and outside vendors• Evaluated color proofs and performed press checks for printing museum-quality art books • Wrote and evaluated bid proposals for four-color printingMANUSCRIPT EDITOR• Performed mechanical, line, and developmental editing of scholarly books• Pioneered on-screen editing techniques and use of Bitnet (precursor of Internet) for data transmission• Managed projects from raw manuscript to bound books

Encino, Ca

• Responsible for editorial development, art supervision, and production management of vocational-technical education textbooks• Prepared three-year editorial plan for vo-tech department, including market analysis and financial justification • Negotiated contracts with authors, reviewers, and freelance editors

M.A., Philosophy

Activities and Societies: Taught undergraduate courses in critical thinking and ethics, editorial assistant at the Journal of Aesthetics.

A.B., Comparative Literature

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Kenneth A. Oliver Award for outstanding senior thesis, tuition scholarship.