Helping to produce the venerable Journal of Commerce (est. 1827 and still going)

Clients include: F+W Media, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson Education, Emerson College, InternetBiz.Net, Argosy Publishing, Compaq, and Rockport Publishers.■ Production Coordinator (freelance), Interweave Press [2001–2015]Oversee editorial and advertising production of all issues of Quilting Arts, Cloth Paper Scissors, Stitch, Modern Patchwork, and Artist & Maker (Studios) magazines, as well as special issues including Quilting Arts Holiday, Stitch Modern Holiday, and Quilt Scene, and ancillary publications such as freemiums, ebooks, and downloadable patterns.■ Consultant (freelance), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [1996–present]Design ebook creation and conversion workflow for HMH’s conversion partners. Create fixed and flowable ebooks and custom fonts, perform graphics conversions, design and execute SGML-to-FrameMaker workflow.■ Compositor (freelance), Argosy Publishing/Visible Body [1996–present]Create templates and compose nonfiction books (one-, two-, and four-color); design nonfiction book interiors; create, convert, and edit images as needed; deliver press-ready PDF files; create complex math equations using FrameMaker, MathType, and PowerMath.

iMac Portable Genius, Easy Mac OS X Panther/Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Mac OS X, Easy Adobe Photoshop 5/6, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop CS3/CS4 in 24 Hours, Photoshop 6 Complete, Sams Teach Yourself Adobe Photoshop Elements 6 in 24 Hours, Easy Adobe Photoshop Elements 3/4/7, Sams Teach Yourself QuarkXPress 4 in 14 Days, QuarkXPress 4 Studio Skills, Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 on Demand (with Steve Johnson), Get Creative! The Digital Photo Idea Book (with Richard Binder), PhotoImpact Solutions (with Jason Dunn et al.), SVG For Designers: Using Scalable Vector Graphics in Next-Generation Websites (with Bill Trippe), Photoshop 4 Complete (with Ted Alspach et al.), Illustrator 7 Complete (with Jennifer Alspach et al.), Maclopedia, and The Whole Mac.

Perform page layout of educational content, catalogs, and directories; create new art to spec, modify existing art per customer requests, and convert received art files to appropriate formats, consulting with SMEs as needed to produce attractive, legible images that correctly convey the content; perform document conversion remediation to restore missing or incorrectly converted content in structured authoring platforms.As team lead, assess and report on needed project resources, schedule projects & assign team members, meet with clients to discuss scheduling, procedures, and project progress; develop and document new procedures and solutions and train other employees. Other functions include editing XML to fix formatting and content errors, recording and editing voiceovers for instructional videos, writing and editing descriptive transcripts for instructional videos, tracking learning platform issues in JIRA and resolving customer bug reports based on SME input, and proofreading and copyediting legal and educational content.Also studied:* Regular expressions* CSS* LaTeX* JavascriptProficient in:* Adobe Creative Suite (including Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Acrobat)* Microsoft Office (including Word and Excel)* Google Docs and Google Sheets* BBEdit* Alfresco ECM* CITE Cypress Structured Authoring (Pearson)* JIRA Software* ChemDraw* MathType* regular expressions* HTML* CSS* MathML

Supervised a small staff of book compositors and illustrators while also working on client projects using QuarkXPress, Adobe FrameMaker, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Freehand, Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Word. Created templates from designers' example files and/or written type specifications; composed textbooks and other nonfiction books (one-, two-, and four-color); created complex math equations using FrameMaker and MathType; applied publishers' text and art corrections; and delivered press-ready PostScript files or camera-ready pages.

Made article assignments, supervised staff reporters and freelancers, edited articles, and designed and laid out out 24 to 36 editorial pages per week at a community newspaper startup.

Made article assignments, supervised freelance and staff writers, edited articles, proofread advertising and editorial pages; supervised layout of monthly issues of four localized lifestyle magazines and delivery to printer.