Steve Wright Email & Phone Number

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Production editor on Maximum PC and Mac Life magazines (previously Digital Camera).- Oversees production on music, technology and photography titles.- Sub editor on Woman, Woman & Home and Women’s Weekly magazines. - Serving as line manager to production and sub editors.- Responding to problems on magazine workflow reports, resolving short-term issues and identifying long-term trends.- Checking workflow reports for accuracy and feeding back errors and matters that need resolving to production editors.- Reading through magazine editions after they have been subbed and proofed, providing feedback to production editors and errors via regular monthly meetings and more informal discussions.- Liaising with editors to discuss areas of improvement for production editors.- Providing subbing and proofing cover where needed.- Continuing to support fellow editorial operations assistant in the creation of interactive magazine and bookazine digital editions where needed.- Resizing and reformatting issues of Total Film magazine for compact editions using File Transfer software.- Liaising with editorial team members of PC Gamer to localise UK edition of magazine for US readership, making grammatical and punctuation changes when required.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Freelance writer, contributing articles, reviews and interviews to Pets Radar, How It Works, Real Crime, All About History, SFX and more.- Freelance production editor, with experience working on T3, Total Film, MacFormat, SFX, All About History, Total 911, gamesTM, iCreate, How It Works, Airgun Shooter, Web Designer, Linux Format, Edge, History Of War, 3D World, Net, Sporting Rifle, Digital Camera, Web Designer, Imagine FX, 3D Artist, Advanced Photoshop, Clay Shooting, Computer Arts, Digital Photographer, Linux User & Developer, Mac Life, Official Xbox, Photoshop Creative and Play.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Creating and upload interactive content for folio digital magazine editions.- Liaising with relevant magazine teams to ensure interactive content for folio digital editions is delivered and that digital edition deadlines are adhered to, communication any problems to Digital.- Upon completion of digital editions, test them on devices, implementing any changes that are needed.- Undertaking additional tasks depending on the magazine of the digital edition, including uploading videos to YouTube channels,sourcing film and videogame trailers from press websites; removing gutter bleed on page splits, and resizing/reformatting images as and when required.- Liaising with editorial teams of PC Gamer and Official Xbox to localise UK editions of magazines for US readership, makinggrammatical and punctuation changes when required.- Resizing and reformatting issues of Total Film and T3 magazines for their compact editions using File Transfer software.- Liaising with digital team to suggest potential improvements and refinements to digital edition process.- Providing cover for Head of Editorial Operations by sending out regular workflow reports to editor-in-chiefs when required.- Any additional tasks as directed by Head of Editorial Operations.- Uploading bookazine digital editions to container apps.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Managing a team comprising five full-time editorial staff members and numerous freelancers for SciFiNow magazine and SciFiNow.co.uk, all while commissioning, creating and editing content for a monthly, 132-page magazine.- Liaising with PRs, freelancers and industry contacts to cultivate lasting relationships and secure exclusive interview access with the leading acting and behind-the-scenes talent in the fields of film, television and literature.- Ensuring editorial quality and grammatical precision are of the highest standard, and that content adheres to the relevant house styles.- Managing and overseeing SciFiNow's social media presence, including establishing the SciFiNow YouTube channel, and increasing Twitter follows from 35,600 to 44,546 and Facebook likes from 8,400 to 11,016 between March 2015 and November 2016.- Directly supervising the workload and career development of SciFiNow’s staff writer, production editor and features editor.- Increasing the profile of the magazine by participating in promotional campaigns with various groups, including the Star Wars: Identities exhibition and NOR-CON 6 comic-book convention.- Acting as editor-in-chief of SciFiNow.co.uk, including writing articles and maintaining editorial quality.- Representing the magazine at industry events, including conventions, screenings, junkets, set visits, roundtables and one-on-one interviews.- Pitching and contributing articles to other magazines within Imagine.- Keeping track of current trends and topics.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

- Commissioning, writing and proofreading content for publication in SciFiNow magazine.- Creating compelling headlines, coverlines and standfirsts for magazine.- Hosting feature and cover meetings aimed at planning future editions of the magazine.- Assisting with the creation of associated bookazines and digital editions.- Representing the magazine at industry events, including conventions, screenings, junkets, set visits and one-on-one interviews.- Writing SEO-driven monthly e-newsletters for the magazine.- Generating and maintaining budget sheets and workflow documents.- Producing newsstand-ready magazine covers that are commercially focused while still appealing to the magazine’s core readership.- Forward feature planning, demonstrating the ability to plan content at least three months ahead of magazine delivery.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Production Editor for SciFiNow and Total 911 magazines. Duties involve:- Plotting and tracking deadlines for all articles assigned during the magazine production process.- Creating and updating flatplans for each issue.- Raising and delivering purchase orders for each commission.- Continuing with sub editor duties as normal.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Sub-Editor for SciFiNow and Total 911 magazines. Duties involve:- Facilitating, checking and approving flow of work.- Ensuring editorial quality and grammatical precision in magazines, website and digital editions are of the highest quality, and that content adheres to the relevant house styles.- Writing and enhancing captions, headings, sub-headings and content page descriptions.- Contributing articles for publication and pitching ideas.- Updating and enhancing in-house style guides.- Freelance sub-editing for various magazines, including How It Works, X360, Play, gamesTM, Apps, iCreate, Smartphone Essentials, Advanced Photographer and many more.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Section editor and member of editorial team for the Guardian Award-winning Quench magazine (voted 'Best Magazine' in 2005, 2006 and 2008) with a circulation of 26,000. Duties involved:- Managing articles from contributors and ensuring deadlines were met.- Writing features and reviews, conducting interviews, sub-editing and arranging press screenings.- Representing magazine at society fayres and events, and marketing the magazine around the campus.- Contributing to music, travel, opinion and literature sections of magazine, as well as sister publication gair rhydd, the Cardiff University student newspaper.- Awarded 'Best Section' at 2010 Cardiff Student Media Awards, as well as being nominated for 'Best Critic'.

- Monitoring and ensuring correct passage of CHAPs and BIPs payments in Barclays' global ePayments division.- Safeguarding payment process against possible fraud.- Twice awarded Barclays 'Eagle' awards for high productivity.

People Leadership Programme - Level 3, Distinction

Award, Digital Copywriting, Pass

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Film Section Editor of Quench Magazine. Contributor to gair rhydd newspaper.

Education record

A-Levels: English Literature - A History - A Geography - A