J. Paul Dyson Email & Phone Number

Manchester

Responsible for editing rating reports for corporates.

Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

• Founded the firstwriter.com website in 2001 and grew annual revenues to over $100,000 per annum within five years.• Designed and developed all aspects of both the front end and back end systems of the website, gaining experience in HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Perl, and PHP, using Microsoft Visual Studio Code.• Designed and managed a range of online databases, from flat text to MySQL.• Analysed pages for search engine optimisation using various tools, including Google Analytics.• Provided a range of editorial services, including proofreading and critiquing, in both British and US English.• Acted as fiction editor for firstwriter.magazine, an international online magazine, and was also responsible for the layout.• Compiled and distributed email newsletters to over 30,000 subscribers.• Maintained business social media accounts on Facebook and Twitter with regular posts.• Compiled, typeset, and published books in print and electronic format for sale on Amazon, the Apple Store, Google Play, and other outlets.• Wrote articles for publication in print and online.• Integrated payment systems with third party payment processors WorldPay and PayPal.• Gained an awareness of relevant legislation, including GDPR and intellectual property law.

Editor of scientific papers for academic journals.

• Worked on helping to improve the AI offering of one of the world's largest tech companies.• Responsible for comparing and assessing responses from AI large language models according to a variety of criteria, including accuracy, writing style, and instruction following.• Wrote detailed feedback to help software engineers improve the model’s responses.• Promoted to Reviewer within one month, with responsibility for checking and improving work done by others and ensuring that all work was of satisfactory quality for return to the client.

Halifax, England, United Kingdom

• Involved in managing the commentary Content Management System and supporting users.• Worked closely with the Development team throughout the development lifecycle, including requirement setting, user acceptance testing, and regression testing, using project management tools such as JIRA.• Supported the Development team with contributions of custom CSS stylesheets and HTML / Javascript / JQuery code to enhance the front-end user interface.• Created user reference documentation and delivered training sessions to users.• Managed the migration of legacy products into the new CMS, liaising between offshore vendors and internal teams on keying, testing, and loading to online, while collaborating closely with editorial and the Business Unit to minimise disruption and ensure commercial needs were met.• Extensive use of Office 365 applications, including Outlook, Teams, Excel, Sharepoint, etc.

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the editing and management of a range of legal looseleafs, journals, books, and online content.• Edited copy for grammar, punctuation, sense, consistency and house style, as well as checking citations and accuracy.• Responsible for setting and adhering to schedules, page extents, and budgets; liasing with the Business Unit, typesetters, authors, Production Department, Technical Editors, and freelances.• Experience working in XML and using a web-based content management system.• Independently conceived of, designed, and delivered various HTML / javascript tools to improve and streamline editorial processes, then rolled these out for use by colleagues in sites across the UK and India, providing ongoing support and maintenance.• Closely involved in the development and deployment of company-wide content management systems.

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for producing journals, law reports, books, and looseleafs; sending titles to press; liaising with printers and editorial.• Edited covers using Adobe InDesign.• Checked printed material for quality of printing and binding and checked colour reproduction for accuracy against pantone charts.• Invented an HTML/javascript tool for automating aspects of the send-to-press process and standardising the workflow; presented to management and rolled out across the department.• Provided HTML, javascript, and CSS training to Production colleagues in order for them to take over the management and maintenance of the system at the end of my secondment.

Mytholmroyd, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the editing and management of a range of legal looseleafs, newsletters, books, and law reports.• Editing and proofreading copy and proofs; liaising with authors; marking up corrections; and checking changes made by typesetters.• Experience working in SGML and using content management platforms such as Documentum.• Worked with the Business Unit to formulate plans for each title each year, ensuring factors regarding page extents and budget constraints were taken into account.• Created a “Detagging Tool” to enable the creation of formatted Word proofs from SGML files, meaning more work could be done and transferred digitally, reducing reliance on faxes and hard-copy mark-up.• Created a suite of Adobe stamps to enable electronic mark-up of proofs, ending our reliance on printing and faxing (a request was later received by the British Standards Institute (BSI) requesting permission to make use of the system).