Experience

Lumina Media

• United States
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Editor/Editor

  • Feb 2013 - Present

  • Exemplary process management skills facilitating multiple printed and online projects • Superior communication skills as editorial liaison with other in-house departments, including digital, manufacturing, production, advertising sales (classified and display), circulation and marketing • Help direct company-owned website content creation • Responsible for developing and implementing multiple cost-savings programs • Conduct yearly staff performance evaluations; set goals; hiring and firing • Oversee the production and track movement of all materials (text, photos, art) for two bimonthly consumer magazines with national distribution: Cigar & Spirits, a men’s lifestyle magazine, and REPTILES, a monthly pet hobbyist magazine; edit all content for both magazines • Write feature articles, editorials, cover blurbs, new product proposals, various correspondence • Create contributor budgets, track costs, file budget variances • Generate annual editorial calendars outlining all features and department topics • Recruit, nurture and grow network of freelance authors and photographers • Work with sales and marketing to create media kits and sales programs for advertising clientele • Organize photo and video shoots; recruit talent/interview subjects • Travel to trade shows and other events, domestically and abroad, to interact with community and industry; participate in industry panel discussions; occasional guest speaker; public relations and presentations • Consulting editor for the company’s book publishing division, Lumina Books • Create magazine-specific style guides; familiar with AP Style, Chicago Manual of Style • Social media savvy; REPTILES Facebook page “likes” grew by 400 percent under my watch; blogger • Served as Editor and performed the above duties on eight other hobbyist magazines, some concurrently • Working knowledge of PC and Mac platforms (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InDesign, Photoshop, Google Drive, Egnyte, etc.) Show less



BowTie Inc.

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Editor/Editor

  • Jun 1999 - Feb 2013

  Same as listed above for Lumina Media. Lumina (then i5 Publishing) acquired BowTie's assets in February 2013. Same as listed above for Lumina Media. Lumina (then i5 Publishing) acquired BowTie's assets in February 2013.