Background and Experience
My editorial background encompasses over 15 years of proofreading, poetry and fiction writing, copy editing, development editing, managerial editing, production editing, technical writing, and website building and editing.
Education
College: Purdue University, BA
Majors: English and anthropology
Background
2008-present
Outreach coordinator for Fraser Riverkeeper in Vancouver, British Columbia. Fraser Riverkeeper is a member of the international Waterkeeper Alliance, one of the world’s fastest growing grassroots water stewardship movements, under the guidance of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The alliance is comprised of scientists, lawyers, and water enthusiasts who act as river, lake, bay, and ocean stewards in their local communities.
2000-present
Chief editor of Jack Magazine, an online literary e-journal that encompasses literary and ecological works emanating from post-WW2 poets, artists, and writers, to the present. The magazine gives special attention to environmental writings and art, including Forest Beatniks and Urban Thoreaus, Jack Clollum’s nature writings, Coral Hull’s eco-prose, Kevin Opstedal’s “Rare Surf,” Michael McClure’s Hummingbird Sutras, and many other expositions. Jack Magazine’s last run is the 2010 summer issue, but the publication will remain online at its domain and is permanently archived via Stanford University’s LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) program.
2003 – 2006
Contract technical writer for Paige Technologies and Ecco Select in Kansas City, and Volt Services in Indianapolis, before moving to Vancouver, BC. In these short-term positions, I designed and wrote software manuals, edited legal documents, developed tutorial and reference guides, wrote use-case documentation, created training requirements, administered documentation networks, wrote standard operating procedures, and managed a Good Manufacturing Processes (GMP) library.
1998-2003
Documentation specialist for Core, Inc. (now Broadspire) in Irvine, California. I created a company-wide intranet with all of our coding, reporting, and user documentation. I managed project codes and status documents, designed and published online help files for clients, and wrote publication quality standards.
1993-1998
Editor at what was then Prentice-Hall (and later Macmillan) Publishing in Indianapolis, Indiana. I was part of the Sam’s imprint, and worked my way up through production editing, senior editing, and managerial editing. I managed a staff of five editors and mentored a team of thirty. I developed editorial strategy by defining standards, tone, and scope of our work. I supervised the production of about fifteen books per year, from author acquisitions to print and proofing of pages. This included editorial, author review, design content, graphics, and layout processes.
Outside of the several dozen books I edited at Macmillan, I’m also the editor of the following books:
A View Beyond, by Larry G. Anderson
I Want a Baby, He Doesn’t, by Donna J. Wade
