WALDA METCALF

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EXECUTIVE PUBLISHING PROFILE

Publisher/Editor/Fund Raiser with expertise in operations, marketing, sales reaching scholarly, trade, and non-traditional readerships, and in domestic and international acquisitions, project management, and relationship building. Consistent record of producing significant books (many prize winners in their disciplines), revivifying programs, boosting audience and stakeholder awareness of titles and brands, and working with multiple constituencies on complex collaborative international projects. Skills include:

Program Development Team Building & Training Proofreading & fact checking

Title Budgeting Over-all Financial Planning Targeted Marketing

Structural & Copy Editing Acquisitions & List Building International Partnering PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

METCALF PUBLISHING SERVICES Philadelphia, PA--Principal 2010-present Complete project management/packaging, idea to bound book &/or blended e-product CHELTENHAM TOWNSHIP LIBRARY SYSTEM Glenside, PA--Instructor ESL/Civics 2010-present Teaching English as a Second Language and basic literacy, preparing learners for Naturalization BARBARA’S BOOKS (Chicago/Santa Fe) Macy’s, Philadelphia, P--Representative 2009-19 Complete in-store liaison for title ordering, marketing, displays, negotiating sales sites NATIONAL BOARD OF MEDICAL EXAMINERS Philadelphia, PA--Senior Proofreader 2016-19 Editing, proofreading technical papers, exams for domestic and international medical licensure, in-house documents, including ACA guidelines for many drug classes, paper and digital MODWorldwide: The Modern Agency Philadelphia, PA--Proofreader/Editor/Researcher 2014-16 Proof, edit copy, per client style guides, APA, AP, AMA, USC (legal), web sites to flyers to updated formularies (following ACA guidelines) and promotional pieces, working with client writers, designers, staff UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM ARCHAEOLOGY and ANTHROPOLOGY Philadelphia, PA Director Publications/Assistant Director Museum 2000-10 CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Budapest, Hungary--Director/Publisher 1996-98 UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA Gainesville, FL--Associate Director/Editor in Chief 1988-96 CORE COMPETENCIES / SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Strategic Planning

• Developed growth plans for private, public, multinational book publishing operations

• Established yearly, 3-yr, 5-yr financial projections--title targets, editorial & production estimates, sales, marketing, & order-fulfillment budgets

Program Development/Acquisitions/List Building

• Tripled Florida’s yearly new-title output (22 to 78), 100 titles in pipeline on departure; grew Museum’s yearly title output six-fold, CEU Press’s twelve-fold

• Designed CEU Press editorial program to reflect CEU’s intellectual strengths & values of Open Society Institute; partnered with Collegium Budapest, popular & fine arts museums in Budapest & other former bloc countries, U.S. National Security Archives, World Bank, WHO

• Expanded concept of Museum’s publishing outreach beyond site reports & exhibition catalogs to include authors of scholarly and trade titles in cultural anthropology, broader archaeological analyses, art history, & books—many with supplemental data-heavy cds

• Partnered with local, regional, national, international institutions, such as Newcastle University

(UK), Pera Museum (Istanbul), Gadda Museum (Martigny), British Museum and University College (London), Ashmolean (Oxford), Fitzwilliam (Cambridge), Daytona Museum, Ringling/Asolo Museum (Tampa), and Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, FL), Tretyakov

(Moscow), National Museum American Indian (Washington), Winterthur (Wilmington), and the State Hermitage Museum--Winter Palace (Saint Petersburg, Russia) as well as art and manuscript collections in the Balkans, the Baltics, the former Soviet bloc, and the Caucasus, Cairo Museum, Luxor Museum, the Neue Galerie (New York City), and the Albertina (Vienna) Management

• Built (hired, trained) editorial, production, design, marketing teams in U.S. & Eastern Europe

• Negotiated & monitored contracts for all publishing functions—peer review, free-lance editing & design, authors, manufacturers, distribution & order fulfillment—per legal departments at all sites

• Led professionalization of Museum Pubs with contemporary electronic techniques, equipment, procedures, e- and written guidelines for ms. & image preparation

• Supervised marketing campaigns for each book—print & Web, ads, dm, exhibits, sales reps.

• Trained as Barnes & Noble store operations manager, including intensive customer service, enabled Museum’s back list from 1893 to be searchable by Google Book; collaborated with Museum Archives, Collections, & digital spine (including Web) staff on interfacing Finance/Fund Raising

• Raised $400,000+ title subsidies for Museum Publications; $500,000+ for Florida titles

• Following fund-raising certification from Wharton/Penn (board development, grant writing, special events, major gifts, philanthropy searches), drafted $2,690,000 endowment plan Museum Pubs

• Wrote grants of more than $1,000,000 from CEU & Open Society Institute (Budapest), Soros Management Fund (New York), WHO, World Bank (Geneva), U.S. National Security Archives EDUCATION

• B.A. cum laude, Syracuse University (English/American Studies), Syracuse, NY

• MBA workshops in Finance and Management University Florida/Dunn & Bradstreet

• Ph.D. ethnomusicology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

• Continuing e-campus Commonwealth PA in ESL, adult literacy, computer; Free Library Philadelphia & Mayor’s Commission on Literacy; Literacy Volunteers of America, New Readers Press (both Syracuse); civics workshops via DHS

SERVICE

• AIA Publishing Consultant, Eastern Europe interest group

• AAUP—marketing, Eastern Europe, contracts, staff development committees

• Distinguished Visiting Lecturer Humanities, American University in Cairo, Egypt

• Instructor publishing interns, credit from SU’s Newhouse School Public Communication, CEU’s Department Media Studies, Penn’s Annenberg Center

• Chair publishing panels International Society for Middle East Studies, Al Al-Bayt University, Mafrak, Jordan, MESA workshops, Rawlings Writers Conferences

• Resident Publisher Bellagio’s Rockefeller Conference Center for Brown/JFK School Government

• Planner and Panel Coordinator,12th Annual National Museum Publishing Seminar, Philadelphia

• Leader dissertation revision strategy workshops for UF, FIU, USF, Penn, Temple, Drexel

• Established The Alachua Press, a local-history volunteer publishing house, Gainesville, FL

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