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The Endocrine SocietyDirector, Publishing Analytics, Development Editor, and Podcast Producer
Aug. 2014Washington D.C. Metro Area• Provide QC and support for the successful publication of scientific content in four society journals (https://academic.oup.com/endocrinesociety)
• Analyze publication metrics showing article citation activity using the journal’s resources, Clarivate’s Web of Science, SCOPUS, PubMed Central, HighWire’s Impact Vizor, and Google Scholar.
• Client-side project manager for enhancements and platform changes to the journal websites, defining scope of requests, maintaining regular contact with Web host, performing QC on test platforms as well as the live site, troubleshooting during implementation, and advising editors and the staff.
• Participant and technology expert aiding in the large-scale transfer of all our online journal content to a new Web host (Oxford University Press, on the Silverchair platform) in 2016. This included facilitating the transfer of the Society’s entire journal archive and providing details on back-end matters such as XML and content delivery. This transition resulted in a single-year increase of 102 percent in total institutional subscriptions to Endocrine Society journals, to nearly 9,000 institutional subscribers, and penetration into 11 national markets to which the Society had no access prior.
• Troubleshoot errors to content, working with Web host and content provider to correct errors.
• Produce, record, and audio-edit content for the Endocrine News Podcast: www.endocrine.org/podcast.
• Manage and update the society’s content inventory, maintaining records for recordkeeping and licensing.
• Serve as development editor, supporting new print-on-demand book products and e-books, working with content authors and editors, and ensuring that the PoD platform is updated
• Provide technical content and support for the implementation of secondary enhancements to the journal website and metrics: Altmetric and HighWire Press’ Impact Vizor. Update Impact Vizor regularly with published and rejected article metadata.
• Edit public-facing Web pages
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular BiologyScience & Publishing Technology Manager
Jan. 2012 - Aug. 2014Washington D.C. Metro Area• Provide QC and publisher-based support for the online publication of content in the society’s journals: The Journal of Biological Chemistry, Molecular & Cellular Proteomics and the Journal of Lipid Research.
• Client-side project manager for all enhancements and platform changes to journal websites. This includes defining scope of project requests, maintaining regular contact with Web host and content providers, performing QC, troubleshooting, and advising editors and the director of publications.
• Web editor for the society’s monthly membership magazine, ASBMB Today. This includes building directories, uploading art and creating HTML content, as well as helping the editor implement new content items and series.
• Produce, interview for and edit podcasts.
• Edit videos.
• Provide and edit statistical reports showing article citation activity using the journal’s resources, Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science and SCOPUS.
• Provide support to readers encountering online content errors, working with Web host and content providers on corrections.
• Redesigned ASBMB Today online in tandem with the print redesign in time for the January 2014 issue. This involved editing the site’s CSS and manipulating and adding art elements.
• Oversaw the launch of 17 minisites for JBC, following four that had been launched already. These sites serve as tickers to help readers distill the journal’s large volume of content, each site focusing on one of the journal’s Table of Contents categories. Now I provide QC on the tickers, advise the editor-in-chief and director of publications on improvements to them, and manually edit publisher-controlled content to them.
• Web-edit all publisher-controlled pages on the journals’ websites, such as instructions for authors and special collections of reviews.
• Oversaw and provided QC for the launch of ePub editions of the JLR and MCP.
• Provide periodic updates about the JBC on the society’s Twitter and Google+ accounts and its Facebook page.
Phi Beta Kappa SocietyCopy Editor
Dec. 2004 - May. 2007Washington D.C. Metro AreaOn freelance basis, provided copyediting and fact-checking of articles assigned to quarterly newsletter, The Key Reporter, at both the article and page-proof stages.
American Society of HematologyTechnical Content Editor
May. 1998 - Jan. 2012Washington D.C. Metro Area• Worked with Web host of the society’s journal Blood, as well as with editors, authors, and other staff, to edit, format, and upload supplemental data, including videos, spreadsheets, and images, requiring use of HTML and XHTML codes as well as to be able to format documents so that they fit within the journal’s restrictions.
• Provided statistical reports showing manuscript submission, peer review, and citation activity using the journal’s resources as well as Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science.
• Client-side project manager for the transition of our Web host’s platform from DTL to XHTML, including a universal migration of content. This required extensive inventorying and editing of Web pages as well as QC for production and post-migration content, both front matter and scientific.
• Provided technical support and procedural coordination with internal staff and all outside users of the journal’s online manuscript submission and review system, Blood Bench>Press.
• From 2007–2010 served as managing editor of the ASH Image Bank, working with accepted images and metadata, transferring data and files from the Web submission content management system to the online publisher’s FTP site, then using the publisher’s Web interface to finalize online publication. This required editing SGML and XML data.
• Inspected figures, checking for image and data manipulation.
• Served as a link to Blood’s website vendor and server maintenance provider on matters related to general function and performance, system speed, and back-end requests.
• Aided in writing, editing, and updating online user guidelines for the Web-based system.
• Prepared statistics and provided support for the financial management of the editorial office, including payment of invoices and bookkeeping.
• Also served as Online Systems Manager (2002–2007), Online Review Coordinator (2001–2002), Interim Managing Editor (July–December 2000), and Senior Editorial Assistant (1998–2000).
Hedrick Smith ProductionsProduction Assistant/Assistant Video Editor
Jul. 1996 - May. 1998Washington D.C. Metro Area• Maintained a library of the company’s raw video footage; ensured proper transfer of footage from raw format to VHS; negotiated a deal for professional transcribing of interviews on tape; and labeled, indexed, and logged tape.
• Conducted research and aided in the acquisition of stock footage; maintained stock footage library.
• Provided computer-video digitizing and editing support using AVID off-line editing equipment.
• Formatted and maintained clean drafts of scripts and checked them against footage, as edited, for closed-captioning.
• Aided in logging time code and taking notes during field interviews.
• Worked as production assistant and assistant editor on Surviving the Bottom Line, a two-part, four-hour special which aired nationwide on PBS in February 1998, and on several pieces aired on The Newshour with Jim Lehrer.
The Review AppealStaff Writer and Reporter
Aug. 1994 - Aug. 1995Greater Nashville Area, TN• Regularly reported on and wrote about county government and education for local newspaper.
• Provided continuing local coverage of an attempt by a coalition of homeowners to halt the construction of a road near their neighborhoods and the ensuing county commission meetings and votes related to it.
• Contributed to and wrote newspaper editorials.
• Wrote education and business feature stories, including profiles and entertainment pieces, as well as
breaking and crime stories.
• Helped lay out news section of the paper and edited copy.
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