Resume
Freelance
May 2004 to Present
You can see my list of clients to the right. I have been a full-time freelancer since 2004, and a part-time freelancer since 2001. I am conversant in several styles, and edit books, journals, and programs and abstracts. Contact me for a bid, including size of manuscript and expectations, and I will respond within a reasonable amount of time.
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC
January 2003 to May 2004
Over the course of my employment with the American Psychological Association, I (a) edited a high profile bimonthly journal, Health Psychology, (b) edited a quarterly journal, Journal of Comparative Psychology, (c) was on the evaluation team to test a new editing tool, (d) developed a means of electronic review compatible with the then-current macro template to help the department move review from hard copy to electronic files, (e) was a productive member in editing, author incorporations, and proofing of overflow articles in our editing team; and (f) as a freelancer, was in the vanguard of a cost-effective process of scanning and e-mailing return proofs to eliminate mail costs and increase turnaround.
American Anthropological Association, Arlington, VA
April 2001 to January 2003
Over the course of my employment with the American Anthropological Association, I (a) was production editor of three quarterly journals, American Ethnologist, Anthropology & Education Quarterly, and Ethos and one biannual, Anthropology and Humanism; (b) reworked the AAA Style Guide to make it more user friendly, accessible in print or electronic form, and helped to institute an annual review process among field editors for the guide; (c) encouraged and helped develop a process of creating and delivering galleys to authors and field editors as .pdfs, again to counterbalance mailing costs and mailing-cost increases and maximizing turnaround; (d) created macros to make Word more efficient and to help the transition away from Xywrite III; and, finally, (e) made the same Word template available to every production editor, creating parity across the workgroup in the use and updating of the Word macros.
Object Technologies, Inc., Bethesda, MD
April 1997 to April 2001
As a staff writer and editing consultant for Object Technologies, Inc., Bethesda, MD, I was involved in lexical/semantical analysis; researched a wide range of textual subjects; performed comparative analysis of actual and intended meanings behind signified-signifier correlations developed for concept-to-abstraction software; and worked with reference materials, general files, e-mail, and primary and secondary sources as well as rating the effectiveness of lexical algorithms for these materials.
