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Austin, Texas

Developmental editing, copyediting, proofreading, book production

—Managed and mentored a fully distributed team of Trust & Safety Specialists.—Drove improvements to internal and external policy, internal tooling, user-facing reporting mechanisms, and staffing.—Created Trust & Safety Specialist job-level descriptions and their corresponding performance metrics.—Provided input to public Policy team regularly on practical implications of proposed and upcoming content- and IP-related legislation in the U.S. and worldwide to help inform GitHub’s lobbying efforts.—Ensured content removal requests were analyzed and processed correctly in order to mitigate risk, preserve Safe Harbor status under the DMCA, and maintain user trust.—Worked closely with GitHub’s Legal and public Policy teams to help create and refine site policies and shape GitHub’s safety strategy.

—Investigated reports of abuse from both GitHub users and non-users, including categories such as objectionable/violent speech and imagery, harassment, privacy violations, and reports of fraudulent activity.—Analyzed and processed legal notices and other types of content removal requests, including DMCA takedown notices and counter notices, government takedown demands, notices regarding unlawful content, trademark violation reports, and requests to remove sensitive data.—Worked closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to identify and remediate abuse vectors on GitHub.

Boston, Ma

—Managed ~$1 million in sponsored content projects annually.—Ensured the timely development, production, distribution, and quality control of content components, including books/ebooks, articles, blog posts, reports, podcasts, webinars, surveys, videos, and interactive tutorials.—Consulted with sponsors on content strategy regularly.—Lead initial planning and regular status meetings with sponsors and internal sales and editorial staff; acted as primary internal and external point of contact for all sponsored content projects.—Worked closely with authors and editors to develop content.—Reviewed content regularly to ensure that all content met sponsor’s business needs while adhering to O’Reilly editorial standards; worked with sponsors to resolve editorial issues.—Reviewed and redlined all sponsored content contracts; participated in contract negotiations with legal department and sponsors.—Promoted from Vendor Coordinator after six months.—Created, implemented, and documented processes for many internal groups, including marketing, editorial, sales, design, and production.

Greater Boston Area

In addition to production specialist/production editor responsibilities: —Recruited, tested, on-boarded, and scheduled freelance vendors, including copyeditors, proofreaders, indexers, and compositors.—Assessed vendors’ work regularly to ensure quality.—Solely responsible for all vendor invoicing.—Updated/reworked O'Reilly house style guide.

Greater Boston Area

In addition to production editor responsibilities:—Helped roll out automated Word→InDesign conversion workflow to production department. —Converted dozens of books from Word→InDesign, both manually and using automated workflow.

Greater Boston Area

—Oversaw complete production lifecycle for ~35 consumer and professional technology books across ~15 different series annually. —Prepared production schedule for each title.—Served as main point of contact for authors, editors, illustrators, and freelance vendors. —Copyedited and proofread as needed. —Implemented and maintained proper markup and tagging of book files to ensure files could be repurposed for ebooks. —Proofread covers and coordinated with marketing and design departments to develop and route back cover copy, distributed cover proofs for internal and author approval, and collated necessary corrections.—Preflighted and prepared final files for print and web; submitted files to printer.

Boston, Ma

As ideaLaunch Associate Editor:—Planned and managed B2B and B2C content marketing projects and optimized them for search engines. Edited hundreds of original articles, blog posts, tips, etc., working directly with clients and freelance writers. Wrote or rewrote articles when necessary. —Recruited and trained expert freelance writers for each project.—Contributed to the company blog.As LifeTips Book Publisher:—Solely responsible for every 101 Tips book from proposal to print. Included acquisitions, developmental editing, copy editing, proofreading, InDesign layout/composition, and submission of files to press.—Created a bookseller sales kit for each title. Negotiated sales and coordinated author events with independent booksellers.—Arranged book reviews with bloggers and national publications (including Town & Country magazine).