Manager Quality Control
Resume:
STEPHEN CIACCIARELLI
Brooklyn, NY 11204-2216
*************@*******.***
EXPERIENCE
August 2014-Present: Diamond Reporting & Legal Video, Brooklyn, NY. Proofreader.
October 2008-August 2014: Freelance proofreader/editor. Clients include MetLife, Scholastic, Hogarth Worldwide, Harrison and Star, Wunderman and McCann Worldwide, among others.
May 2005-October 2008: TBWA\Chiat\Day, NY, NY. Manager of Proofreading.
Clients included Sprint Nextel, ABSOLUT, Embassy Suites Hotels, Disney Vacation Club, Michelin, Ethicon, Snickers (Mars Inc.), Hotels.com,Visit Britain and others.
Supervised a staff of fulltime and freelance proofreaders
Maintained style guidelines for each client
Assured quality control for all pieces of business
Proofread all print materials, including ads and direct mail
Proofread all interactive materials, including microsites and email
Proofread scripts for radio and television broadcast
May 2000-May 2005: Wunderman, NY, NY. Proofreading Manager. Supervisor of the proofreading department for a large direct marketing company. Clients included Citibank, IBM, Philip Morris, Kraft, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and others.
Maintained style guidelines for each client
Proofread catalogs for IBM, Hewlett Packard and Pfizer
Proofread interactive materials, including text, rich text and html emails
Proofread internal communications, including memos and company newsletter
April 1981-May 2000: The Sterling/Macfadden Partnership, NY, NY. Editor of 11 nationally distributed sports titles. Responsible for a total of 18 magazines per year, from story assignment through shipping. Titles included Hockey Illustrated, Baseball Illustrated, Wrestling World, Pro Football Illustrated, and Pro Basketball Illustrated.
Assigned, edited and proofread all stories
Wrote and proofread all headlines, blurbs and captions
Wrote and proofread features and sidebars as needed
January 1985-May 2000: Berkley Publishing Group, NY, NY. Freelance reader and copywriter for Western and Adventure paperback book covers. Duties included reading and reporting on new submissions.
October 1979-April 1981: Saga Magazine, Brooklyn, NY. Associate Editor of men’s adventure magazine.
Summer 1978: House of Commons, London, England. Parliamentary intern and research assistant to John Sever, MP, Ladywood, Birmingham.
1975-1979: Proteus, Associate Editor of Catholic University’s literary magazine.
PUBLICATIONS
Shawn Michaels: The Story of the Wrestler They Call “The Heartbreak Kid” published by Chelsea House, October 2001
Articles published in Dennis publishing (London) Stuff For Men and One Shots’ sports and entertainment magazines
Wrote entertainment and sports books for Kids Books, Inc.
Founding Editor of literary magazine Big Cigars
Poetry published in The Washington Review of the Arts, Gargoyle, New Jersey Poetry Monthly, Rustlings, and The Ivory Gate
EDUCATION
The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1979. Magna cum laude, Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature.
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