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Manager of a team of editors responsible for the production and editorial reviews of Vanguard mutual fund regulatory filings.Responsibilities include:Supervise staff. Provide guidance, training, and motivation as necessary to develop staff. Hire, evaluate, and counsel crew. Set performance standards, review performance, provide feedback, and recommend wage increases in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures. Follow corporate disciplinary procedures per established Vanguard standards as required.Provide technical guidance and subject matter expertise to legal administrators and editors in the handling of prospectus production to ensure that content is accurate and that filings follow SEC rules and Form N-1A requirements.Communicate assignments, completion dates, roles, responsibilities, and expected deliverables to team members and provide ongoing feedback and coaching to crew. Ensure that assignments are distributed equitably and provides opportunities for development.Coordinate with team members, attorneys, and legal analysts to ensure timely and effective legal review of regulatory filings.Provide timely and effective communication to management and business partners, including the Portfolio Review Department, Corporate Communications, Fund Financial Services, and independent auditors.Develop and maintain an in-depth knowledge of Vanguard funds, investment topics, and securities law; keep current on industry trends; and analyze and elevate regulatory issues and potential impacts to Vanguard, as necessary.Assess current procedure and propose/implement process improvement to improve quality and minimize error in regulatory filing, to enhance efficiency, and to make appropriate use of technology. Build sustainable change.Develop, maintain, and enhance a systems strategy in conjunction with the department's Business Management & Technology Services group to ensure that appropriate systems are in place.

- Edit and proofread fund prospectuses, statements of additional information, and other regulatory documents in accordance with SEC requirements. Evaluate materials for corporate style, accuracy, compliance, flow, organization, and format.- Interact with legal administrators and Securities Regulation Group attorneys to address comments from various stakeholders.- Writing and editorial consultant for administrators and attorneys.- Maintain a working knowledge of mutual funds, the financial markets, and general investment topics.- Support the Legal Department's VUE efforts by ensuring adherence to the unit's quality standards and by analyzing workflows to identify opportunities and solutions for process improvements.- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Global leader in delivering business intelligence, with 18 offices across the Asia-Pacific region. Responsible for editing and guaranteeing the quality of all English products and services offered to clients in Mainland China.• Coordinated English editors to ensure writing at native level and delegated daily production work;• Lead the editing scope that was responsible for 100-300 translated news articles daily and extraneous English language products, such as political commentaries, media analysis reports, daily media coverage reports and web content. Materials covered wide range of industries for world-famous clients from China, the US, the UK and Australia;• Established proper word usage, writing style and other writing specifications. Compiled reference articles, word lists and other support materials to assist translators;• Improved efficiencies among the teams responsible for accuracy of translated words/phrases and relevance of information included in news articles by translators according to client briefs.

Beijing-based proofreading services provider. Responsible for editing and guaranteeing the quality of all papers submitted online by clients from the UK and China. • Edited business documents (annual reports, business plans, etc.) and academic documents (dissertations, college applications/essays, etc.) related to a variety of fields;• Completed an average of 21.5 documents/45,000 words per month with deadlines ranging from 24-72 hours.

Startup focused on organizing sports leagues and social activities for the local and expat communities in Beijing. Responsible for creation of all marketing/promotional materials and developing marketing strategies to promote the brand and increase brand awareness.• Established and grew base to 1,000+ members, over half of which were core users of the mashup web platform;• Developed partnerships with local Food & Beverage businesses and Health & Wellness establishments in Beijing which resulted in sponsorships and various promotions to mashup members through our “member card” network; • Lead and created the sponsorship program that successfully saw partnerships with internationally recognized brands such as adidas, Li Ning and the National Football League (NFL); • Organized and managed several leagues per week which ran in intervals of 8 weeks. These leagues included basketball (80-110+ participants), coed flag football (70-100+ participants), dodgeball (40-60+ participants) and softball (100-120+ participants);• Responsible for coordination and communications with local and international media outlets, such as Timeout Magazine and That’s Beijing, developing ad scheduling and placement across all their platforms to enhance brand awareness, drive membership and expand business scope; • Designed and oversaw the roll out all marketing and promotional materials including all print/web ads, flyers, brochures, business cards, league T-shirts, etc.;• Planned layout and functions of web platform; designed and coded (HTML5/CSS) front-end UI/UX in cooperation with back-end programmer to ensure proper functionality of platform.

Comedy club started in Beijing that holds events and shows across China featuring performers from around the globe. Responsible for developing brand identity and creating all marketing/promotional materials.• Designed logo and business cards to establish overall brand identity;• Designed posters/flyers for all comedy shows;• Re-designed English/Chinese logos for “The Humor Section” as part of cooperation with The Bookworm, a local bookstore in Beijing.

International center committed to promoting and coordinating the research and development of methods and techniques for rural education. • Completed layout and design of several projects, including 2011 Annual Report, ICT newsletters, book/manual covers and conference materials.

Community brand newspaper owned and operated by Digital First Media.• Designed ads for daily publication, including writing copy and creation of graphics;• Coordinated with sales representatives to meet objectives of clients and clearly convey their advertising goals;• Retouched upwards of 50 photos per day using Photoshop. Conducted quality control for all photos, graphics etc. for daily publication;• Layout and design of two commercial newsletters, one published monthly and the other tri-annually;• Scanned and processed artwork and photos;• Quality control – resolved pre-press or quality issues with ads and newspaper pages before they went to print (e.g. corrupt artwork, incorrect color space, spelling errors, etc.).