RICHARD M. ISAAC RICHTEXTEDITING.COM Rich@RichTextEditing.com SUMMARY * Editing skills: Experience with hard copy and electronic copyediting and proofreading of a wide range of materials for a diversity of clients * Strong background in linguistics, grammar, and spelling * Proficiency with Chicago and AP style manuals * Familiarity with Web editing guidelines * Familiarity with medical terminology and scientific notation * Member of the Northwest Independent Editors Guild * Technical skills: Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, Adobe programs, and Internet applications * Basic knowledge of content management systems, Web design, and HTML coding * Facility with foreign languages * Strong communication, writing, and analytical skills * Work well under deadlines * Organized, accurate, and detail-oriented * Work independently or as part of a team EDITING EXPERIENCE Natural Standard, Cambridge, MA (telecommute) October 2008-present * Copyediting technical medical monographs on various herbs and treatment modalities, using house style sheet, returning files accompanied by notes to authors, for an international research collaboration on complementary and alternative therapies * Developed a more concise style guide * Copyediting and proofreading Spanish-language monographs Enago (formerly Edisense), Mumbai, India (telecommute) 2009-present * Copyediting and substantive editing of linguistics, politics, and history articles written by Japanese academics, in preparation for publication. Seattle International Film Festival; Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 1999-present * Copyediting, writing, and compiling original film blurbs for the program guides: imposing a consistent house style; meeting short deadlines; fact-checking * Editing Web content, fundraising appeal letters, auction catalogs, and film calendars Bastyr University Library, Kenmore, WA October 1990-September 2008 * Writing, compiling, and editing articles; crafting and executing graphic design and layout for quarterly newsletter for the largest complementary medical library in the Pacific Northwest * Drafting and copyediting surveys and announcements; producing reports * Improved surveys, helping to make better budgetary and policy decisions Local nonprofit organizations (SEAMEC, Lambert House), Seattle, WA 1990-present * Writing, editing, and designing instructional manuals, brochures, press releases, editorials, news articles, and other literature * Writing and disseminating concise meeting minutes; corresponding with political candidates and organization members, as board secretary for both organizations (1997-present) * Improved organizations' efficiency and productivity by instituting e-mail distribution lists and online archives and calendar Seattle News Fax, Seattle, WA Spring-Summer 2001 (temporary assignment) * Copyediting news articles on a tight deadline by e-mail using an Excel spreadsheet Miscellaneous freelance projects, Seattle, WA 1997-present * Copyediting and substantive editing of a Chinese instructional textbook, Essential Medical Chinese, Book I, by Xiaoming (Helen) Han: improving and clarifying the organization, examples, and instructions * Copyediting and substantive editing a personal memoir and family history * Copyediting an art history doctoral dissertation on Mexican artist Leopoldo MŽndez * Copyediting and substantive editing of a manuscript for a humorous travel book * Copyediting and substantive editing of a science-fiction screenplay * Copyediting a suspense novel manuscript * Copyediting forms, correspondence, and promotional material for a medical practice * Copyediting a treatment for a prospective Mexican TV series * Copyediting a final thesis for an undergraduate psychology program * Incorporating author instructions into files coded in LaTeX, for an acupuncture board examination study guide TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE Mac and PC * Extensive experience, including: Microsoft Office (Word 2003 and 2007, Access, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook); FileMaker Pro database program * Adobe Pagemaker, Adobe Acrobat/Reader, and other graphics programs * specialized applications, such as library cataloging * class in MS Word 2007 for Editors, through UW Extension editing certificate program (2008) * familiarity with LaTeX coding Internet * Extensive experience, including: HTML coding * the Contribute web-page editor/content management system * Unix-based shell and SLIP/PPP accounts * administering e-mail lists, primarily at YahooGroups * designing and administering surveys online * Web-Savvy Editor class, through UW Extension editing certificate program (2008) PROFESSIONAL TRAINING University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Certificate in Editing June 2008 * Including: Career Development Practicum at the Seattle International Film Festival; experience with the Chicago Manual of Style and the AP Stylebook ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE Library Assistant II, Bastyr University, Seattle, WA October 1990-September 2008 * Largest specialized library of alternative and complementary medicine in the Pacific Northwest. * Primary responsibilities: Filling interlibrary loan requests from institutions worldwide * Maintaining collection of over 250 journal subscriptions * Regulating online reserve materials for classes * Maintaining compliance with copyright laws * Leading annual inventory of 19,000+ volume collection * Conducting original cataloging of new materials * Compiling statistics as needed for faculty, administration, accreditation or self-studies * Assisting patrons (students, faculty, staff, public) with circulation, reference, and research, and use of audiovisual equipment and computers * Supervising work-study students * Created, improved, and streamlined procedures; created databases for better information management Peer Review Quality Assurance, Natural Standard, Cambridge, MA October 2008-present * Reviewing technical medical monographs on various conditions and treatment modalities * integrating author revisions made in response to peer-review comments and corrections * composing instructions to authors regarding peer-review comments which author did not address * Collaborated in improving procedures for greater efficiency EDUCATION University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude * Major: Linguistics; minor: Modern Near East Studies * Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Dean's List * Courses included: Linguistics * Foreign Languages (Hebrew, including literature; Modern Standard Arabic; Spanish; Korean; Yiddish) * Political Science Hebrew University, Rothberg School for Overseas Students, Jerusalem, Israel * Courses included: Hebrew * Arabic (Palestinian dialect) * Political Science * Islam * History of Jerusalem Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT * Arabic: intensive nine-week total immersion program: grammar, conversation, writing, and reading * Spanish: intensive six-week total immersion program: grammar, literature, conversation, and history Independent Study * Mandarin Chinese: five semesters at Bastyr University; twenty half-hour lessons in podcasts * Japanese: night class at North Seattle Community College * American Sign Language: night classes at the Center for Hearing, Speech, and Deafness, Seattle, and other locations LANGUAGE AND TRAVEL EXPERIENCE * Fluency in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish * classes in American Sign Language, French, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, and Yiddish * Seattle Spelling Bee, Season 3 finale: 2nd place, April 2008 * Travel (outside United States and Canada): Israel (1977, 1978, 1986-87 academic year, 2009) * Egypt (1986, 1987) * London (1987) * Berlin, Prague, Krakow, Budapest (1997) * China (2007) * Mexico and Caribbean (1998, 2002, 2008) References available at LinkedIn (http://tinyurl.com/3mtngq3) and on request.