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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 managers, and acquisitions editors to ensure successful product launch.Ensure accuracy and readability of highly technical materials, adhering to strict style standard.

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 help documents. • We identified 8000 low-traffic, out-of-date docs for archiving and optimized another 11,000.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 owners. Improved SEO and tagged docs using tools in Adobe Experience Manager.• 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 wiki with progress on KPIs. • 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 and promotions.Manage all phases of acquisition and development, including:• research efficacy of projects• propose projects to marketing and editorial departments• negotiate author contracts • create and manage budget • hire and manage freelance editorial teams• manage schedule and coordinate with production editors• compose marketing copy to post on Peachpit.com and other sites such as Adobe.com and Amazon.comTitles I produced include content co-published with Adobe Press, such as Dreamweaver Classroom in a Book, Adobe Experience Manager Classroom in a Book, Adobe Target Classroom in a Book, and Hidden Power of Photoshop. Apple Pro Training Series titles include Final Cut Pro, Advanced Logic Pro, iMovie, iPhoto, and GarageBand. Other titles: Illustrator WOW, Dreamweaver Visual QuickStart Guide, JavaScript Visual QuickStart Guide, and Effortless E-Commerce with PHP and MySQL.

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