Freelance Editor - Part Time
Resume:
Diane K. Castillo
*** ******** *****, ********, ***** Island 02878
E-mail: ***********@*****.***
CAREER SUMMARY
Highly detail-oriented professional with excellent organizational skills
Exceptional editing and proofreading skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities
Thirty-two years of experience as an Editor in educational publishing
Six years of experience as a Teacher
Two and a half years of experience as an Executive Assistant for a business consulting company
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Mathematics Editor 1995–2023
Tabula Rasa Publishing Services
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ePublishing Partners
and others
Work on a wide variety of print and digital projects for several educational publishing companies and services. Edit, proofread, and write K through 6 mathematics components including textbooks, workbooks, and assessment programs.
Substitute Teacher, Grades K–6 Fall 2014–2017
Brevard County Public Schools
Executive Assistant August 2009–February 2012
XB Consulting-Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Responsibilities included maintaining records in Excel and Salesforce, running assessment reports, preparing report summaries, proofreading and editing client reports and training materials, preparing training materials for workshops, shipping workshop materials, coordinating travel arrangements, preparing expense reports, filing, answering the telephone, tracking and maintaining coaching reports, maintaining and emailing monthly calendars of client activity, handling email correspondence, and keeping track of office supply inventory. Also used WordPress for publishing updates to company website and iContact for email marketing.
Elementary Mathematics Editor 1991–1995
Harcourt Publishers-Orlando, FL
Worked on mathematics textbook programs and development of mathematics software. Wrote the teacher’s guide for a graphing software program that we developed. Wrote student lessons, edited and revised lessons from author manuscript, incorporated input from editors and reviewers into manuscript, created worksheets, lesson problem sets, and annotations, edited proof at all stages of production, and coordinated the production of an annotated bibliography of children’s mathematics software.
Teacher 1983–1991
Substitute Teacher, grades K–5
Math and Science, Sweetwater Academy, grades 6–8
Teacher, Merriday School, grades 1–2
Taught full time for three years and substitute taught in Orange County, Seminole County, and Pinellas County, Florida.
EDUCATION
University of Florida 1979–1983
Graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education.
Graduated with High Honors.
University of Central Florida 1983–1984
Took courses toward mathematics certification.
OTHER
Experienced Adobe Acrobat Professional, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Microsoft Office user.
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