Nick Read Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom

Petersfield

• Produced titles from design/proof and print stage to delivery, responsible for design work, including layout and cover design.• Responsible for working to strict deadlines with efficiency and speed to produce titles.• Liaising with authors and managing design budgets.• Solely responsible for researching and building strong relationships with printing companies and negotiating print costs to which ensure Harriman House received an efficient service at competitive rates.• Monitored stock of existing titles and ordered new books from ‘Print on demand’ titles through to longer litho print runs, ensuring deliveries were made to our warehouse, UK and overseas distributors and many book Launches.• Responsible for titles being visible on Amazon in the UK and US.• Produced eBook titles, recently converting company backlist to the various eBook formats.• Experienced using Quark Design to produce print ready PDFs.• Example books include The Naked Trader Series, The Definitive Guide to Point and Figure Charting, The UK Stock Market Almanac series, The eBay Business Handbook series and Investing with Anthony Bolton.

Guildford, United Kingdom

My initial role was based in Guildford, Surrey but in 1999, I relocated to Belgium for 18 months heading up a team ensuring all commissioning documentation for handover to the customer was correct and deadlines met. • Office administration leading to in-house training to become a circuit provisioning engineer.• Running cell planner running projects.• Supervising an office based team and teams of engineers providing job sheets to install equipment to the 2Mbit network.• Coordinating visits for surveys and work including installing radio dishes for our customer on the T-Mobile network.• Managing and purchasing equipment and organising delivery to site.