Claire Rae Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

A passionate, reliable and committed production editor, I work for a small number of clients helping them to produce magazines, online content and research supplements to world-class, award-winning standards. Current clients include: PLQ, Procurement Leaders, Computer Weekly, SEIC, Richmond Kitchens and in-depth specialist analyst reports.

London, United Kingdom

• Overall responsibility for the production of this weekly magazine, including all page layout, design and image sourcing• Managing a team of sub-editors and ensuring the production process ran smoothly and to tight deadlines• Responsibility for the grammatical integrity of the entire magazine: proof reading, creating and sending PDFs andmanaging printers• Creation of weekly flatplans in collaboration with sales and marketing departments• Creation of graphics using Illustrator and working with images in PhotoShop• Production of supplements and marketing literature• Publishing of content and images online and keeping the website up to date• Responsibility for a redesign: creating page templates and deadlines in keeping with the new production cycle

London, United Kingdom

• Laying out feature, news, comment and analysis pages in QuarkXpress• Proof reading and sub-editing the whole magazine and website, including news articles, features and comment pieces• Headline and standfirst writing• Creation of PDFs and printer liason• Responsibility for maintaining all content on the internal data management system• Publishing all magazine copy online, including images, employing search-engine optimisation methods• Training of sub-editors• Making amendments to Illustrator graphics• Liaising with freelance cartoonists and designers

London, United Kingdom

• Writing news articles for the news and management sections when required• Proof reading and sub-editing news articles, features and comment pieces using proofreading marks• Writing headlines and standfirsts• Correcting proofs• Creating Adobe PDFs of QuarkXPress pages and sending them to the printers via transmission manager• Batching PDFs on Adobe Distiller and creating the Zinio ebook version of the magazine• Keeping the content sharing database, DMS, up to date• Producing supplements, including literature for annual awards event for some 2,000 industry experts• Deputising for the production editor