Brian Garwood,
** *** *** **, *** Arbor, MI *****
Phone Number: 734-***-****
Email address: *****.*******@*****.***
Summary:
A highly skilled and deadline-oriented writer, technical writer and editor with 10 years of
experience managing multiple projects in the legal publishing industry; including content
marketing, online and print publishing,
Education:
Columbia College of Chicago, IL 1997
Bachelor of Arts, Creative Writing
Skills: XML, HTML, SGML, Arbortext, SAP Product Management System, Tigre, MS Office Suite
Employment:
Thomson Reuters Group, Cleveland, OH 7.2002 - 10.2008
Business Organizations' Team
Senior Editor – Analytical Legal Department
• Acted as a liaison between the authors and the product managers, sales and customer service
representatives when product questions arise.
• Communicated with editors, staff and C-Level managers.
• Provided product managers with pertinent information for sales and marketing purposes.
• Managed 6-10 projects and publications of assigned content in accordance with established
production schedules; met deadlines.
• Effectively managed the flow of author-submitted content for assigned treatises by monitoring
schedules.
• Proofread manuscripts provided by an attorney, coded it in XML, HTML or SGML using Arbortext
editing system, added graphics, images, tables, and / or hypertext links, then submitted products
to prepress.
• Tracked and recorded each stage of the content into the SAP product management system.
• Transmitted and reviewed final proofs that ensured immediate changes.
• Prepared monthly newsletters in Photoshop, were Corporate Acquisitions, Corporation Forms,
Quarterly pamphlet product was Corporate Practice Commentator.
• Editor for annual and semi-annual, single and multi-volume, online and print products;
Shareholder Litigation, Basic Legal Transactions, Attorney Corporate Client Privilege.
Thomson West Group, Deerfield, IL 1.1998 - 7.2002
Editor – Workbooks and Legal Forms Team
• Wrote publications for newsletters, journals, books, legal texts in addition to HTML and SGML
tagging and coding using Microsoft Office Suite systems.
• Primary editing utilized the Tigre text editor.
Extracted Table of Contents, Appendix, Index, and other reader reference aids.