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Editor, GeoConnexion International
Dates employed: December 2012 – Present
Freelance editor of an international monthly magazine on geographic information, GIS, CAD and other spatial technologies.
Sub-editor, Chartered Institute of Environmental Health
Dates employed: November 2011 – November 2018
Responsible for subbing the monthly magazine of the CIEH, Environmental Health News, as well as annual reports and books including The Stuff of Life.
Sub-editor, Newtrade
Dates employed: March 2004 – Present
Layouts, subbing and production management for weekly and monthly magazines for the retail and wholesale trades. I was the sub-editor of Better Wholesaling between 2010 and 2018, and I provided weekly cover for RN between January and July 2018.
Sub-editor, RCN Publishing
Dates employed: August 2007 – Present
Remote copy-editing articles for healthcare journals in Word, including checking and formatting references, tables, stats and figures. In-house layouts and subbing in QuarkXPress and InDesign.
Production editor, Transport Times
Dates employed: April 2007 – June 2017
Laying out, subbing, proofing, correcting, preflighting, PDFing and uploading the editorial and adverts of a 40+ page magazine every month.
Chief sub-editor, Company and Shareholder
Dates employed: September 2003 – March 2004
Remote subbing and proofing of Word and PDF documents using an online production system for a magazine about corporate social responsibility.
Web editor, Infoconomy.com
Dates employed: Nov 2000 – Mar 2003
Editing, writing and coding for the web site and content management system of Information Age, The Infoconomist and M-iD. Writing news, including translation of French and German newspaper articles for a daily email newsletter. Providing training for junior members of staff in HTML and QuarkXPress, and managing the company’s Macs, PCs and servers.
Relaunch editor, Dreamwatch
Dates employed: July 2000 – October 2000
Relaunch editor for the TV and film magazine, commissioning, editing and writing articles, liaising with advertisers, page-planning and more, to repitch the magazine for a new audience.
Technical editor, Televisual
Dates employed: January 1999 – July 2000
Writing and editing about TV, film and advertising production for the UK’s top magazine for producers.
Editor, Mapping Awareness
Dates employed: September 1996 – December 1998
Promoted from assistant editor to associate editor to deputy editor and then editor. All editorial tasks, including budget management, subbing, writing and managing staff, as well as some layout work.
Awarded runner-up, AGI Journalist of the Year 1998.
Judge, Information Management Awards
Mac operator, Cambridge Evening News
Dates employed: May 1995 – February 1997
Laying out pages for the Cambridge Evening News and its sister daily and weekly newspapers in QuarkXPress. Helped to develop the newspapers’ first web site.
Proofreader, Chadwyck-Healey
Dates employed: 1995 – 1996
Freelance proofreader, checking proofs of indices and transcripts for CD ROM databases.