Suzannah Alexander Email & Phone Number

Irving, Texas, United States

• Designing an 11-module course series called Practice Essentials of Emergency Medicine• Building a new AI-driven “Netflix-style” video, podcast, and publication library called ACEP Anytime• Developing and managing the PEER (Physician’s Evaluation and Educational Review in Emergency Medicine) product roadmap—11 products that include 3,200+ board-quality multiple-choice questions and associated feedback, infographics, videos, other supporting multimedia, and webinars• Collaborating on an LMS upgrade, the development of a new PEER mobile app, and a new educational analytics solution • Converting Critical Decisions in Emergency Medicine, a monthly magazine-style continuing medical education publication and podcast, from traditional print to modern digital delivery• Integrating products and repurposing educational material for distribution to residency programs as curated learning paths with weekly quizzes• Developing and editing a new series of just-in-time videos on physical examination procedures

Irving, Texas, United States

• Developed and launched product modules to prepare emergency physicians for board certification, focused practice designation, and subspecialty exams, bringing new revenue to the College• Collaborated with subject matter experts and UX/UI developers to build innovative products, including the ACEP COVID-19 Field Guide, which won the ASAE 2021 Power of A Summit Award• Continually assessed and improved products, including creating 2,000+ rapid review multiple-choice questions based on key learning points and tripling the size of the board-quality questions• Edited and maintained thousands of gold standard, board-style multiple-choice questions and created supporting learning materials, such as detailed explanations, images, tables, and videos• Produced, uploaded, and revised content within the content and learning management systems• Created and designed product web pages, uploaded text and images into article blocks, managed serial blog and podcast pages, and improved SEO for better Google indexing• Created social media posts with supporting infographics and instructional videos and collaborated with marketing on emails, website copy, print direct mailers, and promotional videos

Irving, Texas, United States

• Procured funding for new products and developed strategies, ROI projections, and budget analyses• Established a new art and photo program and produced 1,300+ infographics• Created a new photo research and permissions process, negotiating bulk discounts with providers• Created and edited questions and review materials to increase the size and quality of the bank

Irving, Texas, United States

• Formatted, copy edited, and proofread manuscripts with complex medical content and terminology• Produced art and tables, researched photos, secured permissions, and maintained media asset logs• Created and maintained all author writing instructions, forms, templates, and databases• Managed editorial workflows for questions, monographs, textbooks, magazines, and other products• Administered user surveys, benchmarked competing products, and analyzed data• Managed copyright applications, submitted accreditation applications, obtained disclosures, created gap analyses, ensured ACCME compliance, and provided data for annual reporting

Fort Worth, Tx

CONTENT DEVELOPMENT, WRITING, and EDITING• Managed the development and production of higher education and Advanced Placement (AP) textbooks and supplements from concept to completion• Wrote, gave substantive suggestions, line edited, and copy edited technical art, text, and media manuscripts in life science subjects• Analyzed reviews, surveys, competing texts, and other market feedback to create development plans that exceeded project goals• Proofread, incorporated changes, reviewed, and approved page proofs• Estimated costs and managed budgets• Prioritized workflow and adjusted schedules to meet tight deadlines• Collaborated with marketing to write effective marketing copyART DEVELOPMENT and GRAPHIC ART• Created art style guides with color palettes, graphic design elements, type specifications, art sizes, sample artwork, color codes, and other details in Adobe Illustrator and Acrobat• Prepared art manuscript with detailed instructions to artists• Rendered rough sketches of new art with scrap as reference• Designed art layouts for complex illustrations with multiple parts, steps, and text callouts• Created storyboards for various media products, including animations and stepped Microsoft PowerPoint presentations• Performed photo research, determined copyright usage, color corrected images, and optimized photos in Adobe Photoshop for print and digital delivery• Managed art revisions, reviewed art proofs, and approved final art from artists• Rendered original art in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator• Gave detailed feedback to freelance graphic designers on book design and provided solutions to book compositors for complex layout issues to meet page counts

Boston, Massachusetts

• Developed Solomon, Martin, Martin, and Berg’s Biology, 11e, Cengage Learning• Managed full project from inception to print with multiple authors, over 1,300 text pages, and over 1,000 illustrations and photos• Collaborated with interdisciplinary team of editors, authors, production managers, graphic designers, artists, compositors, intellectual property analysts, and marketing managers• Created new art style guide in the tenth edition to reinvigorate the art program and then further instructed artists in the eleventh edition on how to apply the style guide to render new art according to detailed specs• Oversaw new art creation, art revisions, and art proof review process• Provided photo research to authors, helped select final photos, and color corrected and optimized author-contributed photos for print and media products• Created over 100 illustrations in Adobe Illustrator for the answers appendix• Served as final copy editor and proofreader for page proofs to ensure consistency and accuracy of art and text throughout the entire book• Provided detailed feedback to graphic designer on book design and to compositor to find creative solutions to complex layout issues• Created sample storyboard for stepped Microsoft PowerPoint slides with voice-over commentary

Belmont, Ca

• Retained all of the responsibilities of the Assistant Editor and Senior Assistant Editor positions with added emphasis on developing and producing core textbooks• Guided multiple authors and contributors to write high-quality products• Worked on multiple complex projects at one time• Collaborated with an interdisciplinary team of both in-house and off-site editors, authors, subject matter experts, reviewers, media developers, production managers, graphic designers, compositors, illustrators, photo and text researchers, copy editors, proofreaders, accuracy checkers, and marketing managers• Analyzed reviews, surveys, advisory board feedback, and competing texts to create development plans that exceeded project goals• Wrote and reviewed marketing copy to effectively communicate book features• Estimated costs and managed budgets, list planning reports, vendor contracts, vendor fees and payments, art and photo counts, and other project line items• Adjusted workflows and managed schedules to meet tight deadlines

Belmont, Ca

In addition to Assistant Editor responsibilities listed:• Mentored and trained assistant editors and other teammates by holding brainstorming sessions, arranging seminars, and writing training materials• Developed new procedures for life science supplements, giving editors the tools needed to use book illustrations and photos across print and media supplements• Answered various questions about best practices for editorial processes and procedures• Developed training programs and led group training sessions in technologies such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat as relevant to creating print-ready PDFs• Created Microsoft Word templates for study guides, coloring books, lab manuals, instructor’s manuals, test banks, and other educational materials• Managed preparation of media resource guides• Worked with the Editor-in-Chief to bring group initiatives into practice

Belmont, Ca

• Managed the preparation and into-production of multiple print supplements for all Miller environmental science and Starr biology titles • Recruited, contracted, and directed authors and freelancers in writing and preparing print-ready PDFs with images and other layout complexities as well as text and art manuscript for full-production supplements• Copy edited and formatted Microsoft Word documents and converted them to print-ready PDFs, including running preflight checks• Prepared budget proposals for all titles and managed list planning report • Developed content by benchmarking; creating, delivering, and analyzing marketing surveys; managing reviews and preparing review analyses; initiating and keeping the development plan on task; guiding and assisting authors during writing; integrating media elements; preparing the manuscript, art manuscript, and art log for production; and assisting production after delivery of the manuscript

Belmont, Ca

• Handled multiple projects simultaneously, including reviews, marketing surveys, production materials, contracts, payments, reports, schedules, and other editorial tasks• Maintained the publication database with ISBNs and all associated product information

Master Of Science - Ms, Learning Technologies

Graduate Certificate, Science Illustration

Bs, Biology, Summa Cum Laude

Certificate, Technical Writing

Certificate, Professional Sequence In Editing