Nancy Peterson Email & Phone Number

Belmont, CA

Manage teams of editors, authors, and typesetters to produce online review courses and exam prep guides (print and online) for engineers, architects, interior designers, and landscape architects. Ensure timely delivery of products on strict deadlines to allow examinees maximum time to prepare for exams.Coordinate with executive director, marketing.

150 Hayes, San Francisco, CA

• Edit online course content for instructional effectiveness and consistent style.Collaborate with media producer to ensure effective instructional design.
• Conduct kickoff meetings with course development team, including instructor,academic department head, and instructional media producer. Set schedule andenforce deadlines.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Contract position collaborating with in-house Adobe editor to improve customer experience with online help documents. Responsibilities: Manage workflow and track progress of a team of freelance editors auditing 39,000.
• We identified 8000 low-traffic, out-of-date docs for archiving and optimized another 11,000. We identified priority, high-traffic docs and improved accuracy through hands-on testing and collaboration with SMEs and doc.
• I created tracking tools to monitor editorial team’s progress, which I converted into weekly progress reports for Adobe managers and executives (shared on SharePoint and Smartsheet). Frequently updated the main Adobe.
• Created detailed reports for production team with lists of docs to archive, redirect, and apply new URLs.
• Ensured editorial team’s adherence to Adobe’s editorial style guidelines and governance. Maintained a voice that’s friendly yet succinct.
• Improved user experience on highest priority documents by targeting high-traffic documents with low user ratings.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Acquire and develop content for a variety of products, including long and short-form ebooks. Manage and acquire 15-20 titles per year, maintaining aggressive editing and production schedule to meet software releases.
• research efficacy of projects
• propose projects to marketing and editorial departments
• negotiate author contracts
• create and manage budget
• hire and manage freelance editorial teams

Senior Editor in charge of the departments section of MacUser and Macworld magazines.Managed team of associate editors to produce how-to articles on strict monthly deadlines, ensuring high quality and precise length.

Bachelor'S Degree, Spanish, Education, And Sociology

Bachelor'S Degree