Contribute to authoring or architecting internal resources or guidelines that support the editorial team and the curriculum team through the product-development process. Contribute to and execute the Great Minds curricular vision for high-quality knowledge-building products by helping define project style, project-specific checklists, stylesheets, and style guides. Edit print and digital content for voice, tone, clarity, flow, consistency, readability, sensitivity, and style, identifying areas for improvement and making revisions while maintaining the intent of the content. Resolve copy edit changes and queries, consulting with the project team as needed. Apply the Great Minds knowledge-building vision, systems, and editorial guidelines with consistency and coherence across products. Support others in authoring or editing content by providing clear and actionable feedback that results in high-quality materials. Adhere to a deadline-driven workflow by completing the appropriate scope and sequence of work within the desired timeframe. Maintain ongoing communication with product leaders and cross-functional teams to mitigate risks, identify issues, address setbacks, and communicate decisions transparently with a solution-oriented approach.

Edit a high-quality ELA curriculum with a meticulous eye for grammar, logic, clarity, accuracy, concision, readability, and consistency, ensuring adherence to a comprehensive set of editorial guidelines. Thought-partner with the Content team by providing strategic feedback that preserves voice, tone, and style. Collaborate with content developers, copy editors, and production to ensure highest quality across projects. Serve as lead editor for Grade 8 products, liaising with the curriculum lead, performing follow-up reviews, and maintaining module style sheets. Help maintain style guides, checklists, and other resources that ensure consistency across the curriculum. Mentor new editors joining the team. Embrace principles and practices of collective editing and authorship.

Orchestrated and performed quality-control reviews of math, science, and humanities curricula and curriculum-related materials, interacting with outside vendors, internal production teams, and project management. Shepherded enormous projects with challenging deadlines through complex quality-assurance processes. Maintained detailed checklists that defined the scope and focus of reviews for a variety of projects, keeping them up to date to capture ongoing specification changes and emerging vulnerabilities. Oversaw team performance, providing regular feedback to encourage continuous improvement. Facilitated communication with Content teams and across all Production Services teams (Quality Assurance, Art, Copy Edit, Page Production, Supplier Production, and Delivery).

Coordinated layout and proofreading tasks for grades K–2 math curriculum. Successfully managed multistep workflows with extremely challenging deadlines. Performed follow-up reviews to identify areas for team improvement. Created and maintained projects checklists to norm reviews. Communicated productively with other teams and with vendors, attending all relevant meetings and updating the Quality Management manager as necessary.

Performed quality-control reviews of math, science, and humanities curricula and curriculum-related materials. Ensured that all materials adhered to editorial and layout specifications.

As owner of Beyond Words Editorial, I offered a healthy range of editorial services for diverse clients. For two decades, I worked as a copy editor in academic publishing, largely for the books division of Duke University Press. I handled monographs across many subject areas, with particular emphasis in the humanities and social sciences. For several years, I provided editorial and desktop publishing services for the instructional-design firm Solutions House, which designed and produced executive training programs for some of the largest, most influential companies worldwide. I also served as developmental editor for projects that ranged from memoir to scholarly treatise. In that capacity, I typically engaged with the writer in a deeply interactive process that involved one or more review stages, as well as writing retreats, whether in person or online, in order to facilitate the unique evolution of each project. Two divisions within Duke University Medical Center regularly contracted me as a medical copy editor for white papers, grant proposals, textbook chapters, systematic reviews, and materials for publication in peer-reviewed journals.

Coordinated all aspects of shepherding manuscripts through the production process on schedule. Prepared manuscripts for copy editing, reviewing each for major and minor copy-editing challenges. Interacted with authors, balancing their needs with Press schedules and the realities of production. Managed freelancers through all stages of production. Cultivated, trained, maintained, and monitored a pool of skilled copy editors.

Managed a range of production tasks: editing frontmatter, manuscript cleanup, crossmarking, proofreading indexes, checking repro, preparing Cataloging-in-Publication data, and processing freelance invoices. Special Assignment: Served as repro manager, coordinating repro with freelancers.

Provided copy editing, proofreading, and desktop publishing services. Performed production checks, approved bluelines, crossmarked manuscripts, coordinated with compositors and printers, scanned and placed artwork, and processed invoices for Journals Production. Offered proofreading and repro checking for Books Production. Special Assignment: Served as Production Coordinator ad interim for the journal Ethnohistory.

Responsible for research, writing, editing, and proofreading of diverse marketing-communications materials for medical and high-tech clientele. Handled monographs, brochures, technical literature, direct mail, advertisements, training manuals, press releases, articles, and media kits. Coordinated photography shoots.

Responsible for production—research, writing, editing, page design—of technical proposals and specifications to promote customizable, computer-based security system. Prepared proposals for presentation to clients such as the United Nations, the United States Air Force, General Dynamics, and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.