Christian Stuart Lee
Summary of Qualifications
Content development, publishing, and management professional
with a unique combination of traditional and Internet project management
skills and an extensive background in the following broad-based competencies:
| Project Management |
Training & Documentation |
Internet Publishing |
| Product Development |
Staff Management |
|
| Presentation Delivery |
Writing & Editing |
Production Leadership |
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manage multiple
project budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
- Skilled in the creation and implementation of effective
training initiatives, materials, and programs.
- Comprehensive working knowledge of the Windows and
Macintosh environments with advanced training and use of numerous applications
including the MS Office Suite, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia
Dreamweaver, Quark XPress, and many others.
Professional Experience
Thabit Lee Media, LLC - Airmont, New York
2007 - Present
Co-Owner
2007 - Present
- Project managed quality assurance for custom style templates
for Pearson Education's Web Publishing System 6.4.
Pearson Education - Upper Saddle River, New Jersey
1998 - 2006
Senior Media Editor, English and Communications,
Humanities and Social Sciences Division
2005 - 2006
- Crafted media strategy for the discipline to solve
problems for professors and students and meet the assessment objectives
of the courses.
- Worked closely with acquisitions and marketing to
devise media plans for the discipline, courses, and books.
- Traveled to campuses, conventions, and national sales
meetings to visit with faculty to see how they use media and determine
what they need for the future.
- Hired content authors for key technology products.
Managed all content deadlines and ensured content was in order to send
to media production.
- Provided web specifications and reviewed content and
functionality for all websites, CDs, DVDs, and any other media product.
Coordinated with media production team to hire vendors, oversee schedules
and manage budgets for completion.
Manager, Web Publishing System Production Services
2000 - 2005
Supported employees and departments spanning the world's
largest educational publisher in development of content for over 2000
product-promoting Web sites through a distinctive combination of traditional
editorial skills and technological savvy.
- Directed and managed the flow of information between
internal customers, developers and product managers in the course of
supporting the firm's proprietary authoring and content management tools.
- Created specification documents and designed illustrations
to succinctly communicate editorial and production needs to tool developers,
then collaborated with documentation team for help content creation.
- Strong communication skills demonstrated with resolution
of a politically charged situation between several cross-departmental
members of a project development team through focused meetings and discussion.
- Trained and delivered exceptional support to over
200 personnel.
- Proactively drove revision of the Browser Tune-Up
diagnostic utilities that ensured proper content display.
Web Producer, Humanities and Social Sciences Division
1998 - 2000
Managed proofreading, editing, hypertext markup language
(HTML) formatting, and entering of content into the Companion Websites
of this Division of Pearson Education through a combination of hands-on
work and supervision of outsourced personnel.
- Successfully complied with timelines and budgetary
goals for all projects.
- Presented and demonstrated Companion Website technology
to groups of 10 to 20 editors and production personnel.
- Designed and developed the Companion Website Help
system for 1998.
- Wrote and edited the
Internet-based portions of the Instructor's Manual, Sociology on the
Internet 1998-1999: A Student's Guide.
- Received a Special Recognition Award for outstanding
service, continuous commitment, and advancement of the Humanities and
Social Sciences division's media vision.
Simon & Schuster, Prentice Hall - Upper Saddle
River, New Jersey
1997 - 1998
Online Production Coordinator, Central Media Group
- Wrote, edited and maintained the Companion Website
Visual Guide, a user's manual that was used to customize the generic
Web template of the Higher
Education division.
- Created illustrated step-by-step instructions
that facilitated creation of Web sites that matched the style
and character of each of the textbooks.
- Provided HTML formatting, proofreading, and copyediting
to content in preparation for Web publishing.
The MASIE Center - Saratoga Springs, New York
1997
Freelance Web Editor
Recruited by learning and technology consultant Elliot
Masie to apply editorial skills to improve the content, flow, organization
and visual presentation of the Center's Website, as well as add such technical
features as online mail forms and a site-based survey. Personally recognized
by Mr. Masie as being "tenacious" in the acquisition of skills
needed to meet the challenges of the position.
Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs, New York
1992 - 1995
Editor-in-Chief, Folio
1992 - 1995
Achieved rapid promotion from Assistant Editor to Editor-in-Chief
of Folio, the student journal of literature and art at this small,
private Liberal Arts College.
- Managed all phases of journal production, including
solicitation for submissions, submission evaluation, proofreading, copyediting,
Quark XPress layout, and coordination with the printing company.
- Successfully reduced printing costs by approximately
15% while also delivering the finished journal ahead of schedule, an
unprecedented feat at that time.
Expository Writing Tutor
1994 - 1995
Tutored five assigned first-year students and over 60
walk-in students at Skidmore's prestigious Expository Writing Center after
completion of an Advanced Composition class that taught effective instructional
and training techniques.
- Skilled in critique of student work, as well as delivery
of advice on punctuation, grammar, usage, and style.
- Chosen to participate in revision of the Writing
Center Guide To Documentation.
Education
Skidmore College - Saratoga Springs, New York
1995
Bachelor of Arts in English & Creative
Writing
- Overall GPA: 3.52/4.00
- Selected to join the Periclean Honors Society.
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