Jennifer Risden Email & Phone Number

Carmichael, Ca, Us

Remote

*Managed textbook and ancillary projects through editing, composition, proofreading, and publication phases. Handled both internal and end-to-end production titles.*Collaborated with media, rights, manufacturing, and digital teams to produce print and digital titles, ensuring printability and permissions clearance. *Oversaw project budgets and schedules and reported project status to stakeholders. *Performed quality assurance checks on digital products. *Focused on accessibility for computer science and math titles.

(Formerly Thomson Learning)• Managed projects for multiple product families including 4-color print products with complex art programs, ancillaries, and digital products: Led project launch meetings, hired vendors/contractors, set up project tickets in Jira, processed invoices. Created and maintained schedules and budgets through authoring, editing, finalizing, and delivery to the printer and digital production lead. Collaborated with digital delivery lead to create project tagging instructions for XML conversion of content• Reviewed and edited internal documentation to support production policies and company events.• Ensured all third-party assets were cleared and permission obtained.• Successfully resolved and monitored customer queries and issues.• Provided guidance to authors, vendors, and subject matter experts as needed and helped resolve colleague queries.• Served on the alternative text task force to draft guidelines for authoring alternative text for math titles.

• Performed quality assurance checks prior to delivering ancillaries to the printer. • Managed schedules, budgets, and vendors for one- and two-color titles.• Maintained and updated project information in company database.

Roseville, California

• Managed production of book projects from receipt of manuscript through delivery to the printer. Determined the level of edit necessary; established the book production schedule in accordance with at-printer date.• Hired freelance staff (copy editors, proofreaders, indexers, etc.) and oversaw their work.• Edited, proofread, and updated a database of articles about illnesses and conditions, herbs and supplements, and drug-herb-supplement interactions for TNP.com—a website developed from a book series published by Prima Lifestyles.• Trained new personnel on the editing and posting procedures.

• Prepared hardcover titles to be converted to paperback editions.• Managed production of revised editions.

• Functioned as in-house liaison for offsite editors: created purchase orders, coordinated job requests to the production department, shipped manuscripts, routed covers to editors for feedback.• Assisted editors with proofreading and editing.• Corrected editing/proofreading tests submitted by prospective freelancers.