Quality Control Service
Resume:
PAULA PLANTIER
Ewing, NJ *8628
*************@*****.***
www.linkedin.com/in/PaulaPlantier
EDITORIAL AND COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Well qualified to offer up-to-date expertise in a range of editorial
services, including copy editing, content editing, proofreading, and fact
checking for accuracy of the content of print material and online Web site
text in a variety of subjects and across industries. A multilevel resource
person whose editorial talent has saved employers both time and money.
Verifiable record of achievement in editorial leadership and in the
elevation of levels of written communication. Recognized and cited by
managers and clients as a sophisticated, superior performer. AMA, AP, APA,
and Chicago styles and standards.
COMPETENCIES
- Copy editing
- Copy fitting
- Editorial strategizing
- Fact checking/researching
- Modernization of house style
- Proofreading
- Revising/writing
- Training of editors
- Typesetting and typing @ 75 words per minute
SKILLS
- Advanced mastery of spelling, grammar, syntax, cohesion, organization,
and punctuation.
- Critical abilities
> To act firmly and responsibly, thereby ensuring editorial integrity,
style consistency, clarity, and accuracy of content;
> To get it right the first time every time;
> To make concise suggestions that improve text while preserving the
author's voice;
> To exercise flexible, incisive, and independent judgment; and, as
second nature,
> To meet the deadlines of projects with conflicting demands.
- Flexibility to apply various house styles.
- Electronic editing and formatting.
LANGUAGES
Read, write, rewrite, edit, proofread, and translate English, French, and
Spanish.
EXPERIENCE
COPY CHIEF, Public Relations Committee of New Jersey Department of Labor
and Workforce Development Professional Service Group, Trenton, N.J., 08/09-
present
Rescued publication from editorial disarray. Perform pro bono editorial
services for monthly newsletter with a job-seeking readership and for other
group and committee documents.
WORLDWIDE EDITORIAL CONSULTANT (Principal, d/b/a EditAmerica)--concurrently
with full-time corporate positions, Ewing, N.J., 01/90-present
Editorial services across industries. Known as a seasoned editorial coach
and communications adviser and strategist. Builder of compelling and
irresistible brands by facing client business leaders at multinationals and
start-ups that solicit EditAmerica's partnership to achieve their
publishing goals in innovative ways. Client list on the Web at
www.editamerica.com.
Subject and Topic Areas:
- Business: Accounting, advertising, business plans, collateral promotional
material, company annual reports, employee compensation and benefits
handbooks, executive biographies, Forms 10-K and 10-Q, high finance, human
resources, interviews, law, legal notices, magazines and other periodicals,
marketing material, mass communications, press releases, promotional and
public relations material, requests for proposal, Sarbanes-Oxley, speeches,
white papers
- Education: Biology, chemistry, engineering, English as a foreign
language, English grammar, foreign language, history, mathematics, and
social studies textbooks for elementary, secondary, and higher education;
instructors' guides and manuals; SAT prep books; surveys; tests for teacher
certification
- Medicine: Biomedical, nursing, and surgical textbooks and textbook
series; clinical trials; continuing medical education (CME); health care;
learning disabilities; life sciences; medical and pharmaceutical
advertising; patient retention and education; peer-reviewed scientific
journal articles and manuscripts; pharmaceutics; pharmacology; regulatory
compliance; slide kits
- Technology: Aviation reports, biotechnology, communications technology,
computer literature and training materials, high technology, science,
technical user's manuals
- Other: Scholarly and academic works: bibliographies, college view books,
curricula vitae and resumes, directories, dissertations, essays, memoirs,
reference books, religious treatises; cookbooks; drama; fiction and
nonfiction; surveys; travel guides
ENUMERATOR (census taker), U.S. Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of
Commerce; Ewing, N.J., 04/10-05/10
Conducted in-person interviews to gather 2010 census information from
nonresponding households.
SENIOR EDITOR II, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, N.J., 07/04-04/09
Edited, proofread, and made sensitive editorial judgments about high-stakes
academic test questions for undergraduate and graduate school admission;
test questions for teacher certification; and other testing products,
reports, and collateral publications, all of which were of a difficult,
complex nature. Liaison across departments. Cited by management for
superior performance.
- Exceeded company's processing target of 48 items per day by processing
90.
- Guided and coached editorial staff.
- Shaped editorial style guide for consistency and modernized style and
usage.
- Regularly consulted by all company staff on language and writing issues.
- Remediated fatal errors of fact in test items.
COPY CHIEF AND HEAD COPY EDITOR, "Bloomberg Markets" magazine (Bloomberg
L.P.), Plainsboro, N.J., 09/94-02/04
http://www.bloomberg.com/markets-magazine/
Copyedited, fact-checked, and final-proofread magazine articles.
Revitalized copy and refreshed house style, thereby helping develop
circulation for flagship monthly financial periodical for high-end
financial professionals and subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional
electronic financial service. Helped hire and motivate editors and build
their skills and relationships.
- Reduced print error rate to a flat 0%.
- Simplified and standardized editorial procedures to eliminate the time
and expense of reproofing.
- Saved quantifiable production costs, for bottom-line financial gains via
a 300% increase in circulation, a 200% increase in number of advertisers,
and a resultant 200% increase in amount of revenue.
- Eliminated editorial defects in the company's marketing, promotional, and
advertising material via implementation of an interdepartmental task-
sharing system of team quality control procedures. Results maximized
editorial contributions.
- Resolved disputes about language usage by serving other departments'
employees companywide as a language consultant, Results were consistent and
correct diction, styles, and usages in publications.
ADDITIONAL--AND RELEVANT--EXPERIENCE
- Senior Proofreader, Peterson's Guides, Princeton, N.J. Reduced print
error rate 25% at publisher of academic college guides.
- French-Language and Spanish-Language International Correspondent, McGraw-
Hill, Hightstown, N.J. Interpreted intricate publishing documents in French
and Spanish.
- Supervisor, Aetna Life & Casualty, Providence, R.I. Supervised 12 group
insurance department underwriters, with the benefit of no turnover for
three years.
EDUCATION
B.A. (BA); French, Spanish; Queens College, Flushing, N.Y.
PORTFOLIO: REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS EDITED ON A CONSULTING BASIS
CONCURRENTLY WITH FULL-TIME POSITIONS
- "An American Hedge Fund," Sykes.
- Company annual reports and U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Forms
10-K and 10-Q variously for AMETEK, Amgen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mental
Health Association of New York City, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Xerox.
- "Cooking Fresh from the Bay Area," McManus and Rickard.
- "Cooking Fresh from the Mid-Atlantic," McManus and Rickard.
- "Eating Fresh from the Organic Garden State," McManus.
- "Global Entertainment and Media Outlook, 2010-2014," plus the six
previous annual volumes, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/global-entertainment-media-outlook/index.jhtml.
- "A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation," Golden et al.,
PricewaterhouseCoopers/Wiley,
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-047*******.html.
- "Hopewell: A Historical Geography," Hunter and Porter.
- "Paralegal," Bernardo.
- "r&c worlds express," retail and consumer business series,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/retail-
consumer/publications/rc-worlds-july2010.jhtml.
- "Technology Forecast," a quarterly journal, PricewaterhouseCoopers,
http://www.pwc.com/en_US/us/technology-forecast/summer2008/pwc-tech-
forecast-summer-2008.pdf.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Volunteer editor, pro bono editor, literacy tutor, high school career day
seminar speaker, news recorder for the blind, charities volunteer
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