Experience
Bringing new ideas to print and online publications for education, scholarship, and the public.
Development editor: Oxford University Press, 2006-
Feature creation and editing in light of content, vision, market research, and competition. Guidelines for design and production; profitability analysis; marketing materials; sales presentations; management of assistants, freelancers, and book-team members.
- Current projects include the first comprehensive biblical studies Web site and texts in marine biology, cultural anthropology, music appreciation, film, architecture, mechanics of materials, and bioethics.
Freelance editor: Prentice-Hall, A-W, Appleton, Cambridge, Garland, Wiley, and others
Other recent development projects include calculus-based physics, astronomy, and microbiology.
New Media Editor: New York Academy of Sciences, 2003-2005
Develop content and produce Web publications for a leading nonprofit, http://www.nyas.org, as the critical tool in mobilizing membership, outreach, and scholarly impact:
- A critical role: Manage and edit freelance writers, set editorial guidelines, write and research articles, coordinate with Academy programs, and produce and help publicize the product and its multimedia features—with sole authorship and coding for many features.
- Fast-paced content: eBriefings and other detailed reports on major conferences and publications in psychology, medicine, the environment, and careers in academia.
- A database-driven structure: Homesite, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, PowerPoint, Articulate Presenter, and Access, as tools in an asp site structure, after full-site conversion from cfml.
- Award winning: Recipient of the ninth annual Webby in the nonprofit category.
Editor: Columbia University Press, 1998-2003
Sole editor for columbia earthscape, http://www.earthscape.org/, a key resource for scholars, policy, and outreach in Earth sciences. Acquisitions, development, fund raising, design and technical support, research, and writing to bring an innovative project to life:
- Constantly expanding content: From sources all over the world—not just links, but searchable full text, images, data sets, unique e-seminars, textbooks, and interactive models.
- Connecting research to education: Using the Web to encourage new classroom approaches and active learning. "Though many Internet sites address environmental issues, few measure up to the university-level emphasis of columbia earthscape" (Choice, November 2000).
- Authorship: Active creation of "Today's Earth News," "Classroom Models," a Conference Calendar, and other of the site's hundreds of pages.
- Pioneering Webcasts: Breaking news, live conference video, and ongoing research missions—alongside text of research reports, entire books and journals, and classroom experiments.
- Critical assessment phase: Redesigned XML-driven interface, reflecting more than a year of classroom testing, surveys, focus groups, and user feedback.
- Commercial partnerships: Content and interfaces tailored to college publishers, with John Wiley & Sons.
- A new public-interest magazine, Earth Affairs: Online only, commissioned from top scientists to engage public debate on Earth's future.
- Award winning: Cited by the Scout Report and the Association of Research Libraries; named online math/science publication of the year by the Association of American Publishers.
Interactive Web design: 1996-
- Haberarts: My own Web page, http://www.haberarts.com/, the most comprehensive review of contemporary art and art history available online, with 30,000 pages viewed each week.
- Interactive chemistry assignments: Storyboard-structured Web tutorial for Prentice-Hall.
- Universe 4.0, the CD-ROM (Kaufmann): In conjunction with a solid revision of a traditional book, this project for W. H. Freeman added the first CD-ROM "textbook" in the sciences.
- Others: Interactive Web design for artists, including Alison A. Raimes, http://www.raimes.com/.
Development editor: W. H. Freeman, 1989-1998
Each of these titles, all with multimedia packaging, had their best editions ever:
- Universe (Kaufmann/Freedman). A market leader's best seller ever.
- Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology (Comer). Accessible offshoot from a steady seller.
- Abnormal Psychology (Comer): With the look of a popular magazine and scholarly balance, this text packaged with interactive video clips took off in its third edition.
- Chemistry: Matter, Molecules, and Change (Atkins/Jones): Once formally dropped after two editions, it became the year's top budgeted title. First-year sales increased 230 percent world wide, 70 percent domestically, over its second edition.
- Discovering the Universe (Kaufmann/Comins) and its CD-ROM: With a new, untried author and a fresh vision, sales roughly tripled in this 4th edition and its Media Update.
- Quantitative Chemical Analysis (Harris): This edition, with built-in spreadsheet tutorial, swept two-thirds of its market.
Physics editor: W. H. Freeman, 1992
Responsibility for a new list until corporate restructuring eliminated the position. Contacts in physics, astronomy, and multimedia led to an award-winning trade title.
Development editor: Harper & Row, 1985-1989
Disciplines ranged widely:
Senior desk editor: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1980-1984
Editing and production of texts, monographs, and journals in engineering, mathematics, and chemistry.
Production editor: American Institute of Physics, 1978-1979
Yes, I began here.
- Physics with Health Science Applications (Urone): The first successful text in its market.
- The Harper American Literature (McQuade et al.): The anthology that at last gave voice to all of America's heritage, including women and minorities.
Project editor: Harper & Row, 1984-1985
Supervising editing and production from manuscript to bound book, with heavy author contact and overseeing of freelancers. Promoted to development editor.
Senior desk editor: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1980-1984
Editing and production of texts, monographs, and journals in engineering, mathematics, and chemistry.
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