CHRISTABEL DANIEL
CHENNAI
Summary
Experienced professional with 6 years of skills in managing large-scale projects and driving scalability and security within organizations. Seeking a transition to leadership and managing roles within the Publishing firm. The role offered at your corporation aligns perfectly with my skills and experience, presenting a promising opportunity for growth.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Managing Editor
Straive | WILEY
CHENNAI
02.2023 - Current
- Overseeing the day-to-day production activities of active projects on a daily basis.
- Coordinate editorial meetings and publications.
- Assist in evaluating the finalized manuscripts as they come in, and send them into production.
- Having a good rapport with authors and professors, scheduling meetings and calls, and emailing them on a regular basis to get an update on the progress of their writing milestones.
- Planning and executing projects, determining turnaround milestones.
- Resolve issues as they arise
- Ensuring a smooth process in the projects.
- A total of 80 projects are handled at any given time.
- Enhanced publication quality by implementing rigorous editing and proofreading processes.
- Managed a diverse team of writers, editors, and designers to produce high-quality content consistently.
- Certified by WILEY as a managing editor, with a 3-month training program.
Executive - Copy Editor
NOVA TECHSET
CHENNAI
10.2021 - 02.2023
- Customers handled: Oxford University Press (OUP) and Taylor & Francis (T&F)
- Review promotional materials, including manuscript reading (websites, handshake e-mails, etc.) for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and adherence to brand style/Client Guidelines.
- Conduct a word-to-word comparison against previous versions provided and identify inconsistencies and errors in the assets with an eye for detail.
- Understand different brand styles and adhere to them, and also understand various processes and stages (Review, Accuracy Check, Proofreading, Approval, etc.)
- Verify implementation of changes and proofreading assets to final production phase
- Understand general sense of the asset type, footnote references, and citations and ensure they match with PubMed
- Responsible for maintaining consistency in language, grammar, and styles
- Verify compliance to all digital standards, for example, content related to ISI (Important Safety Information)
- Trained a set of juniors under the guidance of the Manager by QCing their files and giving them the necessary feedback
- Mentored trainees and gave them a review session of the tools necessary to be ran before completing the task and the protocols to be followed
Associate - Language Editor
TNQ TECHNOLOGIES
CHENNAI
05.2019 - 10.2021
- Edit manuscript and articles (such as Editorial, Corrigendum, Letter to the Editor, Erratum, Research article) for spelling, grammar, punctuation, clarity, consistency, and rephrasing sentences
- Edit the manuscript as per the publisher's language requirements and efficiently rephrase sentences sticking to style points
- Regularly check the files copyedited by the editor trainees and give them appropriate feedback
- Review author/publisher corrections, analyze errors, recommend training needs, and implement authors' corrections and responses to queries
- Undertake quality circles based on error analysis and create a report.
Education
B.Tech - Biotechnology
Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
01.2019
Higher Secondary School -
St. Michael’s Academy Higher Secondary School
01.2015
Higher Secondary School -
St. Michael’s Academy Higher Secondary School
01.2013
Skills
- Proficient in MS Office 365
- Workfront Resource Management
- Quick learner
- Ability to work in a challenging environment
- Effective communication
- Strong attention to detail
- Listening skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Planning and coordination
- Project management
Accomplishments
- Exceeded target number of books to be sent to press per fiscal year, thus increasing company revenue at Straive.
- Sent 12 books as a one volume into production at one go.
- Reduced production cost by negotiating/cutting down cost for services like indexing, while ensuring the continuation and enhancement of services without compromising quality.
- Created a tracker that detailed delays in production which helped to identify lag areas and speed up the production process.
- Mentored trainees and gave them a review session of the tools necessary to be ran before completing the task and the protocols to be followed at Nova Techset.
- Trained a set of juniors under the guidance of the Manager by QCing their files and giving them the necessary feedback.
- Awarded and praised for dedication and hard work during training at TNQ Technologies.Underwent extensive training in English grammar at TNQ Technologies for six months and passed CAT (Common Assessment Test) conducted by the company.
Languages
English
First Language
Tamil
Advanced (C1)
C1
Hindi
Elementary (A2)
A2
French
Beginner (A1)
A1
Affiliations
Doodling
Music
Reading books
Travel Enthusiast
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the information and facts stated herein are true and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Timeline
Managing Editor
Straive | WILEY
02.2023 - Current
Executive - Copy Editor
NOVA TECHSET
10.2021 - 02.2023
Associate - Language Editor
TNQ TECHNOLOGIES
05.2019 - 10.2021
B.Tech - Biotechnology
Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
Higher Secondary School -
St. Michael’s Academy Higher Secondary School
Higher Secondary School -
St. Michael’s Academy Higher Secondary School
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