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Pamela Ritzer

**-** ***** ******, ***. *D, Forest Hills, NY 11375

Cell: 917-***-**** / email: adlkj9@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Offering diversified experience in these key areas: Copyediting/Proofreading • Ad Copy • Fact- checking • Marketing • Writing • Interviews • Research • Publishing • Production Coordination • Pre-Press and Color Printing • Book Design • Page Layout • Costing/Budgeting • Training • Problem Solving

PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS

Saatchi & Saatchi Healthcare Communications, NY, NY 7/06 to present Senior Editor

• Copyedit and proofread documents to ensure that all materials meet company and client specifications, using AMA guidelines.

• Maintain timely workflow of all materials by prioritizing jobs, communicating with team.

• Check content documents for errors in grammar, spelling, usage, readability.

• Review copy for comprehension, flow, any facts or claims requiring references.

• Check style against AMA guidelines and client’s guidelines.

• Work with writer to keep style sheets for each account up-to-date, noting anomalies and deviations from AMA style and the correct way to style/spell frequently occurring terms.

• Review references for accurate use of Web sites, content, charts and statistics; ensure references support all claims in copy.

• Review copy for style consistency, ensuring accuracy and inclusion of required content, such as fair balance, prescribing information, use of branded logos and generics.

• Perform QA of Web sites/telephone numbers to ensure overall accuracy.

• Ensure application of all FDA guidelines.

• Knowledge in rheumatology, psoriasis, diabetes, cancer, gastroenterology, and others. Thieme Medical Publishers, New York, NY 7/04 to 7/06 8/96 to 9/02

Senior Production Editor

• Responsible for all phases of medical book and periodic journals production.

• Tracked manuscripts throughout production process, to pre-press, 4C printing and distribution, trafficking all materials from freelancers to compositor; galleys to author; proofread all galley proofs corrections; galleys to printer; printing; QC on all artwork.

• Coordinated promotional activities with ad agencies, pharma companies, academic institutions and the Marketing Department.

• Book design, page layout, art sizing for both books and journals.

• Hired freelancers and prepared manuscripts for editing and html coding.

• Prepared estimates/cost projections, producing publications on schedule and within budget.

• On-line editing, and pre-editing (AMA, APA styles); ensuring accurate and timely completion of jobs

• Logged all articles, permissions, art; pursued permission letters, fulfillment of agreements. Advanstar Communications, New York, NY 12/03 to 6/04 Marketing Manager

• Planned and executed strategic marketing campaign for major pharmaceutical conference. 2

• Maintained marketing budget of more than $100,000/conference.

• Coordinated estimating, design, proofing, printing and mailing of all direct mail pieces.

• Liaised with designer for creation and mailing of promotional emails, and monthly print ads for placement in science/health magazines.

• Planned/scheduled, budgeted and executed diverse lines of promotion, including telemarketing, faxing, voice mail, on-line promotional campaigns; establishing media partnerships and seeking out sponsoring organizations.

• Produced monthly ad promotions for multiple healthcare magazines, highlighting issues’ value-added opportunities for sales reps to send to their advertisers.

• Coordinated among several departments in company offices in US and UK.

• Updated Event Web site, ensuring accuracy of speaker information, sessions, site usability.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and other database management tools.

Advantage Communications, New York, NY 9/02 to 12/03 Copy Chief

• Established and oversaw standardization and updating of in-house copyediting style.

• Copyedited and proofread all medical education materials, including monographs, abstract books, slide presentations, invitations, posters, CD ROMs.

• Interfaced among editorial, art, and management to maintain workflow, schedules and quality assurance under intense deadlines.

• Assumed responsibility for hiring, training, and supervising of all new copyeditors.

• Promoted from copyeditor to copy chief.

Springer Publishing Company, New York, NY 3/91 to 8/96 Production Editor

• Directly involved in all phases of production for books and reprints.

• Production from manuscript to book, including page layout, book design, choosing colors, pursuing permissions, verifying editorial changes and style, modifying design specifications, approval of final artwork and covers.

• Coordinated materials flow between authors, copyeditors, typesetters, artists and in-house staff.

• Supervised, trained, delegated assignments to assistants; coordinated efforts of freelancers.

• Responsible for book reprints, estimates for costing, book clubs orders, updating copyrights

• Assisted in creation of computer database to track status of books/journals in production.

• Promoted from prior positions of Production Assistant and Associate Editor. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Brandeis University, Waltham, MA—BA in Sociology, concentrations in English and Education, 1988

The New School, New York, NY

Completed course in desktop publishing, 1995

ACTIVITIES (previous and present)

Features Editor, Israel Women-to-Women organization; Editor, NYC Ballet Volunteer Newsletter; Publicity Manager, National Council of Jewish Women

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