CV

Personal profile

• An organised, analytically minded editorial professional with strong core skills – copy editing, proof reading, commissioning, writing. Both print and digitally literate 
• Experienced in developing editorial systems, leading staff, and assuring quality 
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office, HTML, and content management systems. Familiar with CSS and XML 

Previous employment 

Editorial projects manager – print and digital: 7.4 Limited, 274 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DY (May 2011 – Nov 2013) 

•  Coordinating editorial production for a number of digital and print projects  
• Expertise in print, PowerPoint, and web projects, with some experience of Apps
• Specifying, budgeting, and scheduling projects, briefing external suppliers, and negotiating with in-house writers and account handlers 
• Managing websites using a CMS and HTML. Investigating and reporting website analytics, and writing and coding HTML emails 
• Hands-on copyediting, proof reading, and layout management 

Clinical editor: Nursing Standard, The Heights, 59−65 Lowlands Road, Harrow HA1 3AW (August 2009 – May 2011) 

•  Commissioning, copyediting and proof reading articles for Nursing Standard
•  Managing peer review for commissioned and submitted articles 
•  Primary commissioning editor for a quarterly supplement to Nursing Standard sponsored by the Association for Nurse Prescribing 

Freelance editor/writer (January 2001 – August 2009

•  Copywriting, reporting, copyediting, proofreading, project management 
•  Clients in the commercial sectors (eg Edelman PR), non-governmental organisations (eg Macmillan Cancer Support) and publishing (eg Nursing Times) 

Editorial supervisor: Medical Action Communications Ltd, Action International House, Crabtree Office Village, Thorpe, Egham, Surrey TW20 8RY (May 1998 – December 2000)

• Responsibility for managing the workflow, plus recruitment and training, in an editorial department of 10 staff
• Editing scientific and medical content for various educational materials

Project editor: Hayward Medical Communications, 44 Earlham Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9LA (April 1995 – May 1998)

• Editing and producing supplements, newsletters, advertorials, training packs, and other bespoke publications
• Earlier employed by Hayward as, first, Sub-Editor and, second, Managing Editor, which involved line responsibility for three staff in the production of trade journals

 

Assistant Editor: Harrington Kilbride, London NI 1SE (August 1994 – March 1995)

•  Editing and writing for a number of contract magazines

 Freelance Journalist (January–August 1994) 

• Writer, specialising in nursing and other health-related issues

 

Staff Nurse: Liver Failure Unit, King’s College Hospital NHS Trust, London (May−Sept 1993)

• Nursing care of highly dependent patients. I worked in the same capacity in the surgical unit at St Mary’s Hospital NHS Trust, Paddington, from May 1991 to May 1993 

Academic and vocational qualifications

• M248 Analysing Data, a Level 1 Open University course in understanding statistics (February – October 2010)
• Various short courses on writing for commercial websites, including keyword optimisation – self-funded 2001−2007
• Company in-house training course: Business Writing •Editorial Management for Managing Editors course at the London College of Communication
• Postgraduate Certificate in Periodical Journalism – from the London College of Communication
• RGN (Registered General Nurse) qualification, gained at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, London
• A Levels in Economics and World Affairs, History and Statistics
• O Levels in English Language and Literature, History, Geography, Chemistry, Mathematics and Religious Affairs

 

Computer literacy

•  Apple Mac and PC platforms. Microsoft Office. Confident with HTML, Dreamweaver, and Visual Studio, and with web content management systems