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Directed production of the seventh largest magazine in the country (4 million circulation). Managed double-digit million-dollar budget, solved personnel matters for staff of 40, supervised fact-checking and copy-editing, and ensured on-time delivery of each issue to printer. Mediated contributor contract disputes and legal issues; served as Editor in Chief’s primary liaison with all other departments within company. Directed creation of Oracle-based financial estimating program that enables… Show more Directed production of the seventh largest magazine in the country (4 million circulation). Managed double-digit million-dollar budget, solved personnel matters for staff of 40, supervised fact-checking and copy-editing, and ensured on-time delivery of each issue to printer. Mediated contributor contract disputes and legal issues; served as Editor in Chief’s primary liaison with all other departments within company. Directed creation of Oracle-based financial estimating program that enables editors to predict manuscript/art spending and perform deep-tissue analysis of spending patterns to gain complete control of the budget. Using this tool, a managing editor can plan any issue at any dollar amount and hit that number to the dollar when the issue closes financially. Show less

Supervised daily activity of 50-person staff and 18-28 freelancers at national monthly with 2 million circulation. Managed through transition between editors-in-chief and massive staff turnover while directing on-time press delivery of each issue. Created 2002 budget and instituted this publication’s first-ever methods of cost control.

Created infrastructure for 42-person staff at national startup teen monthly with 1.2 million circulation. Implemented deadline schedule from idea generation to ship dates, office policies and protocols, and systems for tracking and controlling spending on multi-million-dollar budget; also directed office move and renovation.

Ran day-to-day operations of 37-person staff at national teen monthly with 2.2 million circulation. Calculated every line of multi-million-dollar budget and kept spending strictly within its limits; worked with production and advertising departments to formalize pagination of each issue.

Managed entire product at national monthly about purebred dogs. As second in command, supervised 14-person staff, top-edited every story, participated in long-range planning.

Maintained day-to-day operations of 25-person staff at national monthly with 900,000 circulation. Created deadline schedule from idea generation to ship dates, resulting in routinely on-time press deliveries. Hired as copy chief, but promoted to managing editor in 1990.