Robin Romer Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon

Creator of Booktec Learning Systems (BLS), an integrated solution to teaching computer apps to secondary school students.

Portland, Oregon

Help publishers produce high-quality, best-selling books by providing editorial services from concept to finished piece, including authoring, developmental editing, and project management. Clients include Course Technology, Rowman & Littlefield, HarperCollins College, Microsoft Press, St. Martin’s Press, Simon & Schuster, South-Western Educational Publishing, and others.

San Francisco Bay Area

Co-owned and operated a college textbook publishing company that specialized in Environmental Studies and Communications. Oversaw the development, production, and manufacturing of all titles. Assisted in the acquisitions, marketing, and distribution of titles. Sold the company to Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Managed all phases of production for 20 computer software textbooks annually. Worked with authors and developmental editors from conceptualization to finished book. Contracted and managed designers, compositors, production editors, copyeditors, proofreaders, and indexers.

Needham, Massachusetts

Oversaw production and project management of 70 titles annually for the custom publishing imprint. Trained and supervised in-house freelance staff and outside vendors. Assigned and scheduled work with proofreaders, formatters, artists, scanners, and suppliers. Tracked and analyzed schedules, costs, budgets, project profiles, etc.

Needham, Massachusetts

Negotiated copyright clearance and permissions fees with publishers and authors to reuse materials in custom textbooks.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Mass Communication/Media Studies, Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A), Classical Studies, Cum Laude