I worked on the daily online production of news feeds for The Insurance Insider, Trading Risk and Inside FAC. This involved sub editing content, producing graphs and despatching news alerts for insurance and investor executive subscribers and clients.

While freelancing, I sought new opportunities in production and subbing for print and digital media – editing, designing and polishing content for publication with lightning fast accuracy, pride and finesse. My energy and focus drives through change and delivers results. I’ve designed and developed apps, launched new magazines and brands and worked across editorial, advertising, events and marketing teams on a variety of projects. I combine my substantial experience in the Adobe Creative Suite on Macs with solid management skills, a strong grammatical approach and an acute commercial awareness.Key skills:• Significant project management experience, participating in multiple projects internally and externally using Basecamp.• Over three years' experience of Harvest time management software to monitor and achieve department and corporate efficiencies within cost and budget.• Solid management experience (operations, information, people).• Superb presentational flair and creative headline writing.• Legally aware when subbing.• Strong and consistent grammatical acumen.• Ability to adhere to specific 'house styles'.• Excellent proof-reading skills and correct use of proofing marks.• Substantial experience on Macs.• Fully versed in Adobe Creative Suite CS6 / CC – InDesign (12 years), as well as Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat (20 years).• Problem-solving IT-related Apple Mac issues.• Resourceful under pressure.

• Project-managed the portfolio of mining, drilling and farming brands (print and digital) in London and Perth, WA, Australia – Mining Journal, Mining Magazine, GeoDrilling International, Australia's Mining Monthly, Farming Ahead and Papua New Guinea Report.• Set Group production schedules and budget forecasts for all magazines and apps (mobile and tablet).• Planned all workflow into the department, overseeing all PDFs submitted to the printers and assets to the tablets.• Responsible for two teams across the two locations – two production journalists (sub editors) and one advertising production co-ordinator in London; and two designers in Perth.• Met the Australian team to produce and deliver a business plan in line with the department strategy.• Liaised with external suppliers to deliver production services (printers Stephens & George, UK; Vanguard Press, Australia).• Project-managed brand development across the Group with other key Heads of Department.• Found and delivered ways to streamline production workflow processes between London and Perth (ads and editorial).

• Formulated new ideas to drive up revenue potential through in-house advertising, eg. corporate profiles. Directly generated significant advertising revenue by designing and producing company profiles. This also generated revenue in production charges to clients. Also reformatted them as upsells for tablet. Occasionally helped upsell corporate profiles for Mining Journal supplements, achieving strong revenues in one week alone.• Spearheaded the company move to publish titles on tablet by initiating, templating, project managing and beta-testing design files using Adobe Creative Suite to the AppStudio (part of Quark) platform. Launched 1 new tablet edition each month between Oct 2013 and Jan 2014 across the print publication portfolio.• Rebranded and redesigned all print publications in 2013 to align with the launch of their digital counterparts.• Designed, produced and project-managed a series of mining-related sponsored Thought Leadership Guides (c 96pp) – Africa Mining Finance, AntiCorruption, Dispute Resolutions, Global Mining Finance, Global Risk and Insurance and Mining Big Data – in print and for tablet.• Scheduled and met more than 200 publishing deadlines in 2013 across print (110), web (110) and tablet (20*; *rising sharply in 2014). Managed a team to hit these deadlines despite disruption from two office relocations in the City of London (Feb 2013, Dec 2014).• Played a pivotal part in the launch of a new Content Management System – workflow, editorial integration, flatplanning, image and other asset handling. Liaised between internal staff and client for comments, feedback and technical issues.

• Joined Aspermont Media (then Mining Communications Ltd) in 2005 as a Production Editor/Designer, responsible for maintaining consistency across the company's magazine portfolio – three monthly titles (Mining Magazine, Tunnelling & Trenchless Construction, GeoDrilling International), two quarterlies (Mining Environmental Management, Coal Magazine) and regular country/commodity/regional supplements – including Brazil, Burkina Faso, copper, diamonds, gold, Greenland, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, South Australia, Turkey, Western Australia.• Designed, branded and launched a new title, World Mining Stocks, a 100-page bi-monthly magazine that won the Independent Publisher Awards 2006 for 'Best Revenue-generating Initiative'.• Migrated successfully to InDesign CS, as primary application, from QuarkXPress.• Implemented the transition in-house of the production and design of previously outsourced marketing/advertising material.• Principally drove the company's design requirements through brand innovation and fresh events and maintained up-to-date information for shows as part of a growing events-driven company. Produced and oversaw design material for marketing, events, advertising, subscriptions, editorial and corporate and increased revenue streams generated by production – eg. reprints, advertisements, corporate profiles, supplements.

• Managed a team of three sub editors (then seven sub editors and a designer for five months). • Liaised with writers internationally, (section) editors and advertising/production depts.• Wrote weekly reports with updates/action to improve production/copyflow/subbing with the arrival of a new Content Management System.

• Ensured all files for press were to the required standard in terms of design, readability and resolution every week.• Managed the flatplanning of all issues, liaising closely with the in-house production department, advertising, editorial and marketing to ensure all deadlines were met from start through to press time.• Checked and proof-read all copy for style, grammar and libel.• Carried out staff appraisals of a team of three twice a year and assessed staff development.• Researched photos, verifying quality for print/web and approved final copy for web publishing.

• Subedited defence news and features articles in MS Word for style, grammar and libel.• Laid out pages using QuarkXPress 4.1 and designed maps, graphs and photo montages in addition to the core subbing skills above. Researched photos and designed montages particularly for flagship features spreads.• Liaised with the news desk and section editors over any contentious copy and timeliness.• Dealt with correspondents around the world by phone and email, including Bangkok, Tel Aviv, Sydney, Washington DC and Ottawa.

Helped compile the Business of Film magazine, source images, man the office and organise shipping for the 1995 Cannes Film Festival.

Helped and advised customers in the department, manned the cash register and replenished shelf displays from stock room to shop floor.

Handled hotel's check-in/check-out, cash desk and switchboard at the national park's flagship hotel. Overlapped with information desk in support role and took reservations and bookings where required.