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Professional sub editor with over 20 years experience producing award winning magazines across the B2B sector. As well as taking on any aspect of editing or production, whole jobs can be undertaken - from receipt of information to delivery of the finished product.
Regular work on top quality titles like The RIBA Journal, Building Design, Times Educational Supplement, New Civil Engineer and Mortgage Strategy, as well as a wide range of less regular shifts.
Work can be undertaken in my fully-equipped publishing office or I can come to your office. A network of designers, technical illustrators, artists and writers is also on hand to bring to any project as needed.
Key Skill:Editor / Proofreader Experience:Senior
Other Skills:Journalist (Senior), Current Affairs (Senior), Business / Corporate (Senior), Engineering (Senior), Property (Senior), Editor / Proofreader (Senior), Business / Commercial (Senior), Scientific (Senior), Technical (Senior), Travel / Tourism (MiddleWeight)
Tags: Sub-editor Proofreader Production editor Editor Project manager Typesetter Layout Contract publisher Corporate Ghost-writer Consultant
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Technical information
Software skills: InDesign (senior), Quark Xpress (senior), Photoshop (middle-weight), Illustrator (middle-weight), Acrobat (senior), Word (senior), Excel (senior). Web (Basic in-house, senior available).
Office: All the above packages on Mac, high-speed broadband access, YouSentIt, Fetch
Subbing and proof reading:
Invisible mending of copy, especially cutting, is a particular strength. Excellent copy fitting skills, lucid rewriting and writing inviting standfirsts, headlines and captions and selecting snappy pull quotes to turn any story into a coherent and interesting read. Experience: see CV for full client list.
Typesetting and layout:
While a professional designer is always desirable, some budgets cannot run to this and publications are produced to a templated design. Pages can be created in InDesign or Quark, turned into PDFs and uploaded to the printer's site. Experience: Includes the annual Treasurers Handbooks, Thames Gateway show guide
Production:
Passing pages for press, managing printers, working with authors and designers to produce a finished publication. Experience: Includes 10 years as group production editor/managing editor on leading industry titles, E-Learning Age for two years, plus currently RIBA Journal and Patterns - Buro Happold's irregular quality in-house magazine.
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Ghost-writing and contract publishing:
Articles by experts who are not career writers can tell a good story but even the best benefit significantly from a professional edit. Simple notes and ideas can also be transformed into completed work; interview transcripts or academic papers turned into finished articles. Writing, rewriting, rearranging, establishing a coherent and readable structure. Experience: CRI, technical articles, research papers, in-house magazines, company handbooks.
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Consultancy:
A well organised production desk with efficient systems is essential. Ten years as group production editor at Emap plus five years working for many different clients have supplied an unparalleled insight into the requirements for an effective production desk and its relationships with writers, suppliers and printers.
Aspect Media commissioned and acted on a report with assessments and recommendations to strengthen its system and make best use of existing skills; at Bizmedia hands-on rationalisation and set-up of proper processes solved problems for an overburdened system.
Project management:
With many years' experience of managing a project from receipt of copy to printed product, project management is another key skill, managing suppliers, co-ordinating the process, monitoring quality and making sure the job is done to schedule and budget. Experience: Includes magazine supplements and show guides at Emap, Governors annual reports for Burntwood School in south west London for many years.
Also experience of organising and managing production of daily newspapers from the stand at industry exhibitions including Offshore Europe (oil industry), Interbuild and Civils 98 and 2000.
