Michelle Clark Email & Phone Number

San Jose, California, United States

Rose Garden Branch Library

Redwood City Public Library, Redwood City, Ca

The Teen Librarian position aims to create and sustain a place for young adults to continue their love of reading, as well as connect teens from various backgrounds to one another and create a strong network of teens in and around Redwood City. The Teen Librarian is also responsible for maintaining and sustaining the Teen Center, within the library, which continues to be a fun and safe space for teens and young adults that is neither school nor home, but a third place that is theirs alone.The Teen Librarian is also vital in creating a close connection with local schools to provide programming that compliments the curriculum, local culture, and, most importantly, what teens of Redwood City need to thrive and grow. Through outreach programs with local schools, collections and program management, the Teen Librarian is able to offer services, materials, and programs for teens to learn more about what is available to them and, most importantly, provide support for whatever it is they want to do now and when they leave high school.

Redwood City Public Library, Redwood City, Ca

The goal of the Teen Center is to build cooperative, supportive, and trusting relationships with the teens in the Redwood City area who visit the Teen Center. We provide a safe space dedicated just to teens from all over the Peninsula area. We promote respect and kindness and fun in a space that isn't school and isn't home, but the a third place that is theirs alone.Sustaining and growing the Teen Center at the Redwood City Public Library (downtown branch) through recreational and fun activities, providing educational support, help with finding materials and resources at the library, growing materials and resources to provide entertainment and to support learning, and assist with computer usage and answer questions. Finally, to be a source of support and stability for those who many not have a home to go to after school.

San Francisco, Ca

Currently (2013-Present):- Manage the content development, production, and finalization for higher education (college and trade) learning solutions as either printed textbooks or online digital products (assessment, instructor materials, learning aids like branching and mastery exercises and question sets, and videos) for the disciplines of Psychology and Social Work.- Partner with in-house content developers, product managers, and authors to provide them with the highest standard of service to bring to market products that delight, challenge, and help students worldwide and all ages to succeed in their educational career.- Closely reviewed and approved print and digital product budgets ($10k-$150k). Build and approved production schedules and advised on production workflows.- Evaluate, hire, and manage vendors to oversee the preparation and finalization of content, such as, but not limited to, design, copyediting, proofreading, composition, tagging for online use, and indexing.For the years 2012-2013, additional duties included:- Managed the End-to-End (complete production outsourcing) program for the Psychology, Criminal Justice, Math, Chemistry, and Health/Nutrition products. - Trained and managed vendors and their project managers, as well as trained of in-house staff for how to work with our outside vendors.

Belmont, Ca

Served as the production discipline lead for Social Work, but took on the production of a variety of titles from other disciplines (including Biology, Math, Earth Science, Psychology, and Chemistry).Managed the creation of plate budgets and production schedules.Within the last year, managed the production of 15 core titles.Also within the last year, managed the outsourcing of production for 600+ print and media ancillary products.Responsible for revising, organizing, and maintaining the procedures and workflows of print and media ancillary production for both in-house staff and outside vendors.Coordinated training sessions introducing new ancillary production procedures with outside vendors and in-house staff, including mentoring new editorial assistant and assistant editor staff members.Provided expertise in the creation of supporting documentation for our core textbook production outsourcing workflow and participated in a company-wide review and selection of potential new outsourcing vendors.Participated in a multi-business unit task force for reviewing, revising, and introducing new standard workflows and procedures for the production of our printed access card products and media ancillary products.Lead an intra-departmental committee to organize and facilitate a 2-day staff retreat.

Belmont, Ca

Worked as a generalist project manager, overseeing the production of core textbook titles from a variety of disciplines, including Biology, Math, Earth Science, Nutrition and Health, and Chemistry.Managed the budget, production schedules, and production service vendors on all projects, averaging 10 core titles per year.Managed the production of hundreds of ancillary (print and media) projects each year.Assisted in the creation of procedure and workflow documentation of ancillary production for in-house staff.Managed the training of ancillary production vendors.

Managed the production of Math and Science supplemental products, both print and media.Proofread, organized, and prepared final files and hardcopy camera-ready-copy manuscripts for printing.Worked closely with Editorial staff to produce high-quality ancillary products, and coordinated with manufacturing staff in the printing of book and media titles.

Kenneth Kramer is a Professor Emeritus with San Jose State University in Comparative Religious Studies and published author of several books. I worked as his personal assistant from 2003 until 2004. As his assistant, I:- Took dictation for the manuscript for a new book. - Managed and organized manuscript files, photos and slides. - Responded to and managed his email and other written personal and professional correspondence.

Masters, Library And Information Science

Ba, English Literature (British And Commonwealth)

I spent a semester in London, England, as part of the Education Abroad Program, with the University of California. I studied with other UC.