Susan Raley Email & Phone Number

Remote (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Nc)

Edit original content and materials, including lesson guides, lesson storyboards, online assets, and assessments.Review content and materials against writing and editing conventions and guidelines, and make recommendations to ensure consistency and correctness.Contribute to editorial style guide and writing conventions.End-to-end QA of online courses.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, Nc

Write, edit, and proofread quality online and offline content for clients in K–12 and higher education. Manage content development for clients in higher education.Collaborate with clients to create and update style guidelines and procedures for specific projects and across projects.

Durham, North Carolina

Provide content project management and developmental editing support to higher education projects in digital and conventional learning systems, first as a full-time employee and currently as a freelancer. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:Collaborate with publishers to identify unique project features, objectives, and deliverables.Work with authors and freelancers to finalize material for production, including textbook chapters, test banks, and other activities.Review and proofread content throughout development and production. Perform quality checks according to publisher and/or company standards.For multiple projects, maintain budgets, schedules, and workflows; provide status reports to publishers; and update internal documentation, including project centers.

Herndon, Virginia

Herndon, Virginia

Herndon, Virgnia

Recruited and trained editors, and then planned assignments, managed workloads, updated workflows, and provided estimated levels of effort for and feedback to editors across production teams, subject areas, and grade levels. Expanded role to include writers in 2016. Collaborated with print creative director and team members to create procedures and checklist for manuscript “scrub,” a final content and formatting review before print production that reduced the number of clean-read revisions, which was applied to online and offline products.Collaborated with team members to expand the style guidelines from an A–Z list to a comprehensive guide to writing and editing online and offline materials. Captured decisions across functional areas as needed. Maintained and updated guidelines in online wiki so that all production team members (on-site and off-site, staff and vendor) would have access.Worked with other functional team leads in early efforts to interpret accessibility guidelines for implementation in production, with particular focus on accessible Word documents, URLs, Alt Text, text versions, and transcripts.

Herndon, Virginia

Created quality control (QC) checklists for online and offline products to promote quality control with an editorial slant and focus on the end-user perspective. Tracked QC tasks for each project and customized approach to meet each project’s needs and budget. Reviewed online courses and created discrepancy reports of required and suggested changes. Summarized completed QC tasks for future planning. Provided training and feedback to information specialists to improve reading storyboards, entering information in content management system, and proofing entry.

Herndon, Virginia

As a contract editor from Publications Professionals LLC:Edited elementary and high school courses, including online lessons and offline guides; standardized document templates; and updated standing conventions. As the production editor for small HS Physical Science team, finalized storyboards and external document templates. Entered and reviewed lessons in content management system. Clean read the lab manual and identified missing steps or expanded steps from the end-user perspective. Drafted lab safety and general procedures, which were later used in all HS lab courses.

Fairfax, Virginia

Worked on the following selected projects as a freelance editor on the Publications Professionals’ roster, as well as extended on-site assignment for K12 Inc. (see above):Served as editor and statistics administrator in an extended on-site assignment. Compiled statistics and supporting documentation used in company documents, such as marketing and sales brochures, white papers, presentations, and Web pages. Edited state reports for a federal public assistance program, a program evaluation and customer satisfaction survey project, and handbooks for two departments in the federal government.Quality-checked newsletters, proofread GED tests as part of a team, and copyedited and editorially proofread several books.

Manassas, Virginia

Provided editing and proofreading services as required under a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) contract. Copyedited a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on response plan equipment capabilities. Set style for tables, figures, and citations. Created and maintained camera-ready document style guide. Verified references, inserted short citations in document, and maintained bibliography.

Alexandria, Virginia

Fairfax, Virginia

Provided services as required under a U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) contract. Conducted reviews of vessel response plans (VRPs) (including added vessels and zones of operation) against established criteria as an analyst and then as a senior analyst behind other reviewers for the USCG VRP/shipboard oil pollution emergency plan (SOPEP) project. Developed database quality-control procedures and trained staff members on procedures. Analyzed and revised the VRP training manual in collaboration with other analysts, and then finalized formatting of the project manual, checklists, database update forms, and form letters.Suggested changes in grammar, style, and formatting to assist clients and staff members in preparing proposals, reports, white papers, and proceedings documents for publication and distribution.awards: Coast Guard Meritorious Team Commendation, as a member of the 2001 IOSC program team, August 2001; Commandant Letter of Appreciation, as member of VRP/SOPEP project, October 1999

Washington, D.C.

Performed technical research and writing on specified topics, and synthesized material in bibliographies, abstracts, and memoranda.Proofread and suggested editorial changes to committee reports. Identified and located background materials, verified references, and maintained report bibliographies. Designed a template and instructions for camera-copy manuscripts. Coordinated and assisted with the work of support staff. training through the National Research Council: Organizing Technical Information

Washington, D.C.

For a planning meeting on eating disorders in adolescents, completed an extensive search of associations to identify participants; contacted administrators from organizations for the meeting; presented an overview of current professional and educational activities in eating disorders. Provided support, including planning and making all administrative arrangements for meetings, to committees. Created graphs and illustrations for committee reports. Prepared camera-ready copy for publication and distribution. Verified references for committee reports.training through the National Research Council: Editing Workshop

Bachelor Of Arts In Political Science With Honors In Spanish, Graduated Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Comenius scholar - Omicron Delta Kappa (scholarship and leadership) - Phi Sigma Iota (foreign languages).

Graduate Courses In Government

GPA 4.0

Master Of Arts Candidate In Government (Completed Coursework And Exams)

GPA 3.675 graduate research assistant

School Of Continuing And Professional Studies, Publishing And Communications Institute

professional development courses in publishing: Basic Manuscript Proofreading and Copyediting - Copyediting with Style