Assistant Director

Location:

Posted:

November 09, 2012

Carl Arnold

Brooklyn, NY 11215

**********@***.***

http://www.edit1to1.com/

Member, Editorial Freelancers Association

Editorial Experience

Sep 2006 Copy editor, The New York Times: copyedited Times Company press releases and

Jan 2008 all Marketing Services materials, including advertorials

1986 present Freelance copy editor, book manuscripts (Penguin, HarperCollins); financial texts

(HNW, Oppenheimer); advertising copy (Draft Worldwide, JWT, PRWeek)

Mar 2001 Assistant Editorial Director, Lightbulb Press, Inc.: edited all Web and print text

Jan 2002 of highly graphic financial advice books written in plain English; worked closely

with Web and design staff; wrote company stylebook

Nov 1998 Director of Editorial Operations, Simplify LLC: edited and put into plain English

Feb 2001 all text prospectuses, bank statements, proposals, etc.; collaborated closely with

design director and other staff; wrote Simplify Web site; wrote company stylebook;

administered accounts with clients such as Conseco, Hambrecht & Quist, Bank

Leumi, Hamilton Capital

1995 1997 Copy editor, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, Editorial Services Group: edited teachers

editions of reading, literature and social studies texts

1994 1995 Copy editor, Scholastic Inc., Instructional Publishing Group: edited the literacy

curriculum, using Quark for Mac

1980 1998 Freelance copy editor for publishers, including Random House; Holt, Rinehart and

Winston; Simon & Schuster; Penguin Group; Kodansha America; copy editor and

proofreader for legal, financial and advertising clients, including Sullivan &

Cromwell; Debevoise & Plimpton; Citicorp Select Investments; First Boston;

Kirshenbaum & Bond; Rapp Collins

1992 1993 Writer/researcher, Cambridge University Press: US Canada Gazetteer

Education

Institute of Archaeology, University of London: MPhil program in Near Eastern prehistory

New York University: PhD program in anthropology

Columbia College, Columbia University: AB in anthropology, specializing in prehistoric archaeology

Research assistant on archaeological dig in Turkey, investigating a Neolithic village site

Skills

Varying ability with Greek, French, German, Turkish, Hebrew and Arabic; play several instruments; car and

motorcycle mechanics; rock climbing, hiking, biking, rowing