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Robert Garvey, Jr.

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ad2btw@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Project Management professional with expertise in planning projects; scheduling; managing workflows; project-reporting; and collaborative problem-solving. Skills: Microsoft Office; including Teams; Adobe Acrobat Pro; proofreading; production editing; fact-checking; creating contracts; processing invoices.

Professional Experience

Senior Project Manager Feb 2022 to Nov 2023

MPS, Chicago

Project: High school biology print and digital books and ancillaries.

• Create and maintain workflow documents, schedules, and budgets.

• Report progress at client’s status meeting.

• Create contracts and purchase orders; approve vendor and freelance invoices. Project Manager 2019 to 2021

LOYOLA PRESS, Chicago

Projects: K–8 Catholic education print and online textbooks and ancillaries.

• Created and maintained workflow documents, schedules, budgets, and project proposals.

• Facilitated planning meetings, project status meetings, postmortem meetings.

• Drew up contracts and purchase orders; approved vendor and freelance invoices. Freelance Project Manager 2016 to 2019

Projects included science textbooks and online products. Senior Content Project Manager 2010 to 2015

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC LEARNING, Chicago

Projects included social studies and science textbooks and supplementals.

• Collaborated with editors, designers, media researchers, composition staff, permissions editors, copy editors, fact-checkers, vendors, and marketing managers to produce highly illustrative instructional materials for middle-school students.

• Created and maintained schedules; identified, reported, and solved any impediments to a project finishing on time.

• Managed workflow; headed up status meetings; planned projects; created and maintained workflow documents.

• Solicited and evaluated bids from composition vendors and created rate scales for composition vendors.

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Project Manager 2007 to 2010

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN HARCOURT (formerly MCDOUGAL LITTELL), Evanston, IL Projects included social studies and science textbooks.

• Produced books on-time during company transition period.

• Managed workflow in the quality-assurance department, ensuring that books were factually correct.

• Scheduled, tracked, and fact-checked high-school books. Senior Production Coordinator 1997 to 2007

Production Coordinator 1995 to 1997

MCDOUGAL LITTELL, Evanston, IL

Projects included social studies, science, and language arts textbooks and ancillaries.

• Managed flow of pages through multiple in-house departments, including editorial, design, composition, quality-assurance, photo research, and permissions.

• Created and maintained schedules and workflows.

• Ensured that projects were completed on schedule.

• Participated in planning meetings and in creating process documents.

• Solicited quotes from and participated in the selection of prepress houses.

• Proofread and/or sent chapters to outside proofreaders.

• Poured manuscript into QuarkXpress templates or assigned this task to in-house composition department.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.