HBJ Media Systems, Inc., San Diego, California: Editorial Assistant responsible for performing photo research and permissions work, editorial and production coordination for business books, working closely with authors, freelance copy editors and photographers, book designers and production staff. NOTE: When this division was relocated to Orlando, Florida in 1983, I continued to do both copy editing and proofreading on a freelance basis for Harcourt Brace, Business Books and College Texts divisions.

Titles:
Study Guide to Introduction to Management (2nd edition), Principles and Techniques of Effective Business Communication: A Text-Workbook (2nd edition), Professional Development: The Dynamics of Success (2nd edition). Instructor's Manual for Professional Development.
Reference:
JoAnn Padgett, Director Editorial & Production, Advantage Publishers Group, 5880 Oberlin Drive, San Diego, CA 92121-4794 Phone: (858) 450-3562 Fax: (858) 812-6492.

   Al-Baz Publishing and the International Subud Committee (ISC), Jakarta, Indonesia: Production manager and copy editor for History of Subud, Volume] Working with Indonesia-based author Harlinah Longcroft, edited and
produced the first of three proposed volumes providing a detailed history of an international, nondenominational spiritual association. Took this book, filled with Indonesian names and terms, and complete with maps, photographs, glossary, notes and bibliography, from manuscript to bound book stage. Reference available.

  Hart Publications, Denver, Colorado: Publisher of four slick, monthly regional trade magazines serving the oil and gas industry, including Western Oil Reporter and Gulf Coast Reporter: Copy editing and proofreading from initial draft through blueline stage. Reference letter available.

  Al-Baz Publishing, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, Florida (formerly in Houston, Texas): Contracted to help launch a small publishing company producing fine English translations of the works of Sufi saint Shaikh Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani. Responsible for establishing editorial guidelines and control, detailed copy editing and proofreading, obtaining ISBN and Library of Congress numbers and printing bids, coordinating all aspects of production including book cover design and production. Also developed promotional ads, flyers and brochures, found distributors, and kept cost/sales records until books successfully launched. Brought three translations from manuscript to bound book. Al-Baz is now a firmly established publishing company with more than a dozen translations on its list.

Titles:
Revelations of the Unseen, The Sublime Revelation, Utterances of Shaikh Abd alQadir al-Jilani
Reference:
Ruslan Moore, publisher, Al-Baz Publishing Inc., 1445 NE 16th Ave., Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304.

  American Horologist and Jeweler, Denver, Colorado: international trade magazine for clockmakers, watchmakers and jewelers: Assistant editor - copy editing, rewrites, proofreading and production coordination. Reference letter available.

Revelation Subud, by Emmanuel Elliot. Substantive editing for a British author, whose spiritual biography required extensive reorganization and other editorial 'midwifery" on its way to delivery.

Student Survival Skills by Deane Howard. A study guide designed to help students and their parents, primarily from lower socioeconomic classes struggling with English as a second language, develop study and social skills. Project involved substantial line editing, reorganization and reformatting.

Psych-K™ by Rob Williams, PhD. An introduction to the Psych-K technique, written by its developer in response to demand from a wide national following in the self-help field. Provided light copy edit before he turned the manuscript over to a book packager.

M. Rosenblatt & Sons, Inc., Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, San Diego, California: Four years as full-time Editorial Quality Assurance Specialist responsible for identifying and resolving deficiencies in format, completeness, and editorial and technical content for shipboard maintenance manuals produced under a major U.S. Government contract. Reference letter available.

Dames & Moore, international engineering consulting firm, Denver, Colorado, office: Extensive temporary and freelance word processing, editing and proofreading, most particularly of Environmental Impact Statements, proposals and numerous U.S. Geological Survey reports.

San Diego Unified School District, Materials Development Department, San Diego, California: Freelance developmental editing, working closely with teachers, and production coordination to produce sheltered science curriculum guides in biology and earth sciences for English as a Second Language (ESL) courses.