Ed Hazell Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Ma, Us

University Of Massachusetts Boston

Work with clients to develop, copyedit, proof, and write a variety of marketing and informational print and electronic publications for internal and external audiences • Clients include university advancement, admissions, athletics, and a wide range of academic departments• Managing editor of UMass Boston magazine. Coordinate editorial and design between three departments, edit all features and departments, reduced production period by two months, oversaw redesign of news and university advancement departments• Project manage editorial production of commencement and convocation publications• Contribute editorial expertise to conversion of course catalogs from print to electronic formats • Collaborate with in-house designer and clients to launch several newsletters with design and content innovations • Provide editorial input for development of email template for invitations and event marketing • Lead implementation of InCopy/InDesign workflow in small publications office • Manage process for creating uniform document naming system that improved filing and retrieving of old projects and improved efficiency of document tracking during ongoing projects

Features articles, profiles, and reviews in the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe, Jazziz, Signal to Noise, pointofdeparture.com, and other national publications• Author of more than 70 CD liner notes• Contributing writer, Steve Lacy: Conversations (Duke University Press)• Author, Berklee: The First 50 Years• Contributing editor, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (Macmillan)• Co-author of college textbook, Jazz: From Its Origins to the Present (Prentice Hall).

Member of team that developed the 2010 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys fifth-grade student reader • Developed art ideas with design vendors and in-house design team• Wrote guidelines for editorial developers • Maintained workflow among multiple venders • Developed prototypes and guidelines for ancillary products, including practice books, transparencies, and vocabulary instruction flip charts • Aided successful student reader adoptions in California and Texas by adding innovative lesson pages that help students and teachers meet state standards • Improved selection of high-utility target vocabulary words for grades K–6 by developing criteria for database that matched more than 3,000 Target Vocabulary words to desired characteristics and tracked their occurrence throughout K–6 program

Features and departments editor of Cable in the Classroom (1995–2003) and Access Learning (2003), monthly magazines about classroom application of educational technology; Threshold (2003), a quarterly journal of educational technology policy; and Better Viewing (1995-1998), a bimonthly guide to family viewing on cable. • Developed stories with teachers, education administrators, academics, policymakers, education consultants, and parents • Assigned stories, set deadlines, negotiated fees, and worked with writers on revisions • Supervised news editor and edited all departments