Rohan Ichhaporia Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Ensured top-tier linguistic precision and clarity in scientific manuscripts, maintaining strict quality control measures to guarantee accuracy and adherence to AMA style and medical publishing standards.• Delivered expedited turnaround times while upholding rigorous quality standards, consistently maintaining a high level of editorial excellence.• Developed and mentored new team members and external vendors, providing feedback and post-training guidance to enhance their adherence to AMA and house style guidelines.• Successfully improved the editorial performance of new copyediting recruits in the external vendor pool by implementing individually tailored coaching approaches, resulting in a consistent 30% month-on-month improvement in their quality.• Conducted thorough quality checks on externally copyedited manuscripts, ensuring consistency and compliance before integration into the production pipeline.• Spearheaded quality enhancement initiatives, including refining the journal's house style to align with industry trends and AMA standards.• Collaborated across teams to ensure quality control across all stages of manuscript production, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Ensured linguistic excellence and precision in scientific manuscripts submitted by authors• Applied accurate AMA style formatting during copyediting to uphold medical publishing standards• Demonstrated exceptional speed and productivity, achieving quick turnaround times in copyediting• Mentored and developed new team members, refining their copyediting skills through structured post-training guidance• Garnered excellent author satisfaction and received positive feedback for language enhancements• Efficiently managed manuscript flow by reviewing and directing externally copyedited papers into the production pipeline• Provided timely and detailed feedback to the external vendor, driving improvements in copyedit quality• Collaborated closely with the marketing team to curate visually appealing and concise content for visual abstracts• Diligently proofread internal press releases, ensuring style consistency and grammatical accuracy• Enhanced and updated the journal's house style in alignment with AMA style and industry trends• Fostered cross-team collaboration, ensuring consistency and high quality across manuscripts throughout the production pipeline

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Attained exceptional accuracy in scanning and data entry of both paper and digital documents• Expertly prepared documents for scanning, skillfully removing staples and bindings• Proficiently performed data entry and indexing into the internal database• Conducted rigorous quality control measures, including printing and assembling documents in various bindings• Diligently audited documents to ensure consistency between physical and digital records in the document database

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Elevated the acceptance rate of research manuscripts within scientific journals through meticulous developmental editing and proofreading in accordance with industry style guides.• Reviewed and edited scientific manuscripts targeting journal submission, adeptly identifying and rectifying errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and syntax.• Skillfully adjusted the length of copy to align with space or time constraints while maintaining coherence and content integrity.• Strategically planned and executed copy layout and formatting, considering space or time allocations and the significance of the content.• Consistently met production deadlines, ensuring timely delivery while upholding quality standards.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

• Attained excellence in scientific communication by providing high-quality developmental editing for research manuscripts authored by ESL writers, aimed at journal submission.• Assessed the suitability of manuscripts, articles, press releases, and other deliverables for publication, broadcast, or electronic media, suggesting or implementing changes in content, style, and organization.• Conducted thorough reading and editing of copy to be published or broadcast, meticulously identifying and rectifying errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and syntax, while adapting copy length to meet space or time requirements.• Strategically planned and executed the layout or format of copy, considering space or time allocations and the significance of the content, while ensuring adherence to production deadlines.• Authored or prepared introductions, marketing and promotional materials, and bibliographies to support effective communication and engagement.

Mumbai Area, India

• Strengthened the performance of freelance editors by meticulously reviewing edited manuscripts and delivering constructive and detailed feedback for continuous improvement.• Assessed the suitability of manuscripts, articles, press releases, and other deliverables for publication, broadcast, or electronic media, providing recommendations and implementing changes in content, style, and organization.• Conducted thorough reading and editing of copy intended for publication or broadcast, diligently identifying and rectifying errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, and syntax, while adapting copy length to align with space or time requirements.• Collaborated with authors and other stakeholders to discuss and implement revisions to copy, ensuring clarity and alignment with objectives.• Strategically planned and implemented the layout or format of copy, considering space or time allocations and the significance of the content, while maintaining consistency and visual appeal.• Effectively coordinated and organized the activities of staff, ensuring seamless workflow and meeting production deadlines with precision.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Learned techniques in animal tissue culture, transfection, and western blot analysis and helped establish a cell line with an shRNA-based dual knockdown of desmosomal proteins to study transcription factor dynamics in cancer cell metastasis.

Mumbai

Learned chromatographic fractionation of human plasma to obtain IgG, coagulation factors, albumin, and prothrombin and learned how to separate blood components into fresh frozen plasma, platelet fractions, etc.

Master Of Science (Msc), Zoology/Animal Biology

SOFTCORE SPECIALIZATION: MOLECULAR EPIGENETICS Performed a proof-of-concept study to assess the role of DNA methylation in an X.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Life Sciences / Biochemistry

Second and Third Year B.Sc. Established and maintained Caenorhabditis elegans cultures for the first time in the college laboratory.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

First Year B.Sc.