Steve Shea

Albany, CA USA
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Professional Experience

I'm an experienced editor, good at helping clients express technical concepts clearly. Recent work includes developmental editing of educational materials and proofreading pharmaceutical SOPs.

Expertise

Copy Editor
11 Years
Fact-Checker
11 Years
Editor
11 Years

Specialty

Education
3 Years
Family, Children & Teenagers
9 Years
Other, Specify
4 Years

Industries


Book Publishing Trade/B2B
9 Years
Other
3 Years

Total Media Industry Experience

11 Years

Other Work History

Academic Therapy Publications (Novato, CA), Editorial Project Manager, Jan. 2006-present Riverside Publishing (Itasca, IL), Test Development Specialist-II, May 2004-Aug., 2005 Edusoft (San Francisco, CA), Social Studies Content Manager, Nov. 2003-May 2004

Technical Skills

basic photo editing (Paint.net)

Foreign Language Skills

Spanish

Unions

N/A

Computer Skills

MS Word, MS Excel, MS Powerpoint, Omniplan, Apache Open Office, OS 10, Windows 8, Windows XP

Equipment

laptop (Windows 8), Apache Open Office software (compatible with MS Office)

Work Permits & Visas

N/A

Associations

Bay Area Editors Forum

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General

Turning Points is a history book on the theme of historical course changes after great conflicts. The intended readers are grades 4-8, but the reading level is grade 3. I wrote this under a pseudonym, as series editor, when the submitted manuscript didn't meet our standards.