Experience

GDST (The Girls' Day School Trust)

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Physics Teacher

  • Aug 2012 - Present



University of London

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PGCE (Physics) Student

  • Sep 2011 - Present

  I am now studying to become a Physics Teacher. I am now studying to become a Physics Teacher.



The Royal Society

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 200 - 300 Employee

• eProjects Manager

  • Mar 2010 - Sep 2011

  In this role I am responsible for all online projects and hosting. At present that involves launching a new journal, scoping the Drupal content-management platform, an archive-digitization project and assessing data-management strategies.As all of the work involves editorial, production and marketing staff, as well as external suppliers, a collaborative approach is necessary in which team building, stakeholder commitment and the allocation of resources are important for success. I make sure the project scope, plan, budget and risk assessment are clearly structured. As most of the work is centred around content management and is customer focused, quality assurance is paramount, as is the documentation of requirements and progress. I regularly present and report to my senior managers.Since beginning the role I have implemented BaseCamp as a project-management tool to monitor project tasks and milestones; however this will soon be extended to include time management, cost control and a project-reporting tool. I have no project-management qualifications, but look forward to learning more about structured project-management methodologies and hopefully will work towards PRINCE-II accreditation in the future.I am a member of the KBART phase II working group and our representative to the ORCID Initiative. I also participate in HighWire working groups on future technologies and am a keen STM contributor on twitter.

• Production Manager

  • Aug 2006 - Mar 2010

  I managed the journals production team – which consists of one Senior Production Editor and three Production Editors. I had overall responsibility for the quality and timeliness in the preparation, technical editing and production of journals and other publications, both print and electronic.As well as reviewing and monitoring the work (and cost-effectiveness) of (overseas) hosting, prepress and print suppliers, I set the journal publishing schedules and allocate optimum staff resources to meet them. I oversaw the development of quality-control/-assurance processes and defined written standards, including appropriate Service Level Agreements. I recommended and implemented revisions to processes and procedures, and I contributed to departmental strategy and budgeting, with responsibilities for production spending. I had primary responsibility for our online presence and overall e-strategy.In this role, I project-managed the transition of our >340 years (>65k articles) of content between hosting platforms. This entailed detailed content and supplier management as well as in-depth specification and requirement documentation. The hosted sites were re-launched in February 2009 with much improved functionality and content organization.

• Manager, Journals Production (Physical Sciences)

  • Feb 2004 - Aug 2006

  Conducted prepress review, testing and assessment - eventually outsourcing all journal content to an offshore supplier. Managed production for new journal - J R Soc Interface - in November 2004: sourcing typesetter, setting page style and templates and writing instructions to authors. (Interface was 'commended' in the 2005 ALPSP Awards, Best New Journal category.) Made production process paperless and rationalized page/colour charging, increasing revenue. Oversaw redesign of all journal covers for publishing rebrand. Recruitment of Production Editors and peer manager. Assisted in creation of Service Level Agreements.

• Senior Production Editor (Physical Sciences)

  • Apr 2003 - Feb 2004

  Continued responsibility for the online and print production of Proceedings A and Phil Trans A. Line-managed one Production Editor. Updated electronic content management to standardize file structure, file transfer and email system across journal portfolio. Involved in transfer of online content to new hosting supplier.

• Production Editor (Physical Sciences)

  • Apr 2002 - Apr 2003

  Responsible for the online and print production of Proceedings A and Phil Trans A - both monthly publications. I introduced electronic transfer and correction cycles, streamlined style and increased scheduling. This all led to the creation of an online bank of pre-issue-published articles instead of a post-acceptance bottleneck.



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• Freelance editor

  • Jun 1996 - Apr 2002

  Worked for...Springer, Heidelberg (http://www.springerlink.com)2000-2002 - On-screen copy editor of articles for the following journals: Applied Physics A/B, The Visual Computer, Very Large Databases and The International Journal of Information Security.1999-2002 - Copy editor of 17 books (200-600 pp.), mostly in the field of applied physics.Inter-Research, Oldendorf/Luhe (http://www.int-res.com)[As below.]GKSS-Forschungszentrum, Geesthacht (http://www.gkss.de)Copy edited numerous articles in hydrophysics for journal submission, conference proceedings or internal reports.



Inter-Research

• Technical/Production Editor

  • 1996 - 2000

  1999-2000 - Head of Copyediting; managed team of eight; chaired weekly team meetings; instigated subject and grammar reviews; authored style guidelines.1998-2000 - Technical/Production Editor for Climate Research.1996-2002 - Copy editor (on-screen from 2001) of articles and proofs for the following journals: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Climate Research, Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 1999-2000 - Head of Copyediting; managed team of eight; chaired weekly team meetings; instigated subject and grammar reviews; authored style guidelines.1998-2000 - Technical/Production Editor for Climate Research.1996-2002 - Copy editor (on-screen from 2001) of articles and proofs for the following journals: Marine Ecology Progress Series, Climate Research, Aquatic Microbial Ecology and Diseases of Aquatic Organisms.