Resume 13

OBJECTIVE

• Design, create, and produce presentation materials, including displays, maps, newsletters, online content, for policymakers and public education employing Microsoft Office applications, as well as GIS Arcview, QuarkXPress, Photo Shop and more.
• Webmaster for Maui Tomorrow Website, updating content daily, using Dreamweaver and FrontPage.
• Volunteer Webmaster for other non-profit organizations.
• Research and translate technical hydrology data from public/private archives to create easy-to-understand publications and presentation materials for the general public.
• Design, create, manage, and maintain full-feature Web sites utilizing Web authoring and imaging tools, HTML, CGI, Java, JavaScript, Perl database, and e-commerce technologies.

• Create user interface taxonomy and logic for education-oriented Honolulu dot-com startup.
• Manage all marketing and corporate documents, as well as all Web content.
• Creation and maintenance of the corporate style guide, creation of feature requirement and specification documents for implementation by the development department.

• Manage all marketing, corporate, and Web editorial content for a Silicon Valley post-startup software company, including the monthly Fusion News newsletter.
• This position also requires effective interface with Marketing Communications and Manufacturing departments, utilizing cross-platform file formats for print production, and providing text compatibility with HTML editors and dynamic content delivery systems for Web page production.
• Developmental Editing: Take raw drafts written or oral from content experts and develop publication-quality, non-technical content for small-business audience.
• Copyediting and Proofreading: Review drafts of product documentation, training materials, and Web content for standard style and consistency without changing technical accuracy.
• Editorial Project Management: Work with writers, editors, and reviewers to deliver content to manufacturing or production.
• Track deliverables, schedules, and resource requirements.
• Facilitate movement of electronic resources content files, builds, backups between team members across Windows, Mac, and Internet platforms.
• Writer/Content Provider: Additionally, author corporate, marketing, and technical content for user guides, Help, and online publications as necessary, including brochures, display ads, white papers, technical articles, email blasts, and corporate identity materials.

• Responsible for planning and implementing the conversion of this weekly, 2-color magazine from mechanical paste-up to electronic production procedures on-site for 12 weeks.
• Installed Macintosh Ethernet network, 12 Macintosh workstations, hardware, software, and telecommunications required for interface of internal editorial, advertising, and production departments, as well as external correspondents, contributors, and vendor and printer.
• Trained 20 staff in the use of Macintosh hardware/software QuarkXPress, PhotoShop, Illustrator, MSWord, etc. , while maintaining weekly publication schedule using parallel processing.
• Established electronic editorial procedures including e-mail of correspondents dispatches, elimination of re-typesetting copy, and online acquisition of events data.
• Created digital templates based on mechanical designs for all sections of the magazine and trained the production staff ranging in age from 19 to 66 to implement and utilize electronic page production.

• Implemented Web site creation/production to HTML, PDF, and CGI using various imaging and Web authoring applications.
• Managing Editor/Production Editor of the online publication DesertUSA Magazine .
• In addition to traditional editorial and production responsibilities, I copyedited, wrote, and photographed, as well as supervised editorial, technical, scientific, and production staff.
• Edited "The Digital Desert," an online monthly newsletter.
• Maintained Ethernet, ISDN communications, ISP connection; installed and maintained PC and Macintosh hardware and software; maintained imagesetter and film processor.
• Responsible for management of Web and digital prepress production including scheduling, organization, staff assignments, 4-color film output, and customer interface.
• Supervised programmers, Web and digital prepress production personnel.

• Responsible for coordinating and managing the production of technical books and textbooks from manuscript through 4-color, digitally imposed film.
• Directed the schedule and activities of in-house production departments: design, composition, proofreading, color scanning, electronic illustration, image setter film output.
• Supervised coordinators, expediters, production, and prepress personnel including, hiring, firing, and reviews.
• Acted as interface between publishers and internal production departments requiring creation and maintenance of schedules, submission of bids and quotes, communication and resolution of technical, billing, and quality issues.

• Responsible for overall editorial management of this monthly, 4-color magazine, including story concepts and assignments, folio size, imposition, color use, and quality control.
• Responsible for day-to-day business management coordinating the activities of in-house office and editorial staff, as well as designers, contributing writers and artists, as well as all vendors associated with creation, production, and distribution.
• Created budgets and supervised bookkeeping, advertising, and circulation.
• Converted the mechanical production procedures used for 27 years at this magazine to DOS- and Windows-based Ventura Publisher editorial department and Macintosh PageMaker and QuarkXPress advertising department , initiating electronic page production.
• Acquired, assembled, installed, and maintained the requisite hardware and software for office bookkeeping and database maintenance, editorial electronic page composition, and color prepress.
• Installed production department Macintosh network.
• Performed standard editing, writing, and production tasks including photo selection, sizing and cropping, page design and layout, copyediting, mechanical and electronic paste-up, creation of digital files for 4-color output to film.