— Employment
Wordesign Services, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Co-founder, Vice President, and Executive Director 1994–present
Full-service illustrated-book packager working with trade and university publishers as well as corporate, institutional, and nonprofit clients, preparing and producing award-winning publications, from concept to bound book. Vernon Press, Inc. founded (1994); becomes Vern Associates, Inc. (2002); restructured as Wordesign Services in 2015
Clients included: Abbeville Press • Henry Holt Company • International House New York
John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston • Liberty Mutual Group
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy • Little, Brown and Company • MIT Press • Millennium Partners Museum of Fine Arts, Boston • Northeastern University Press • Peabody Essex Museum
Princeton University Press • Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study
Riverdale Country School • Trinity Church in the City of Boston • UMass Amherst
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Bulfinch Press, Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Senior Editor, Art Books 1990–1994
Stewart, Tabori & Chang, New York
Editor 1988–1990
Birnbaum Travel Guides, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York
Associate Editor 1987–1988
Editorial and Public Relations Consultant 1985–1987
Clients included: AMACOM • Birnbaum Travel Guides • George Braziller • Designframe, Inc. • Harper & Row • McGraw-Hill College Division • Military History Quarterly •
Random House College Division • Stewart, Tabori & Chang • Warner Books
Vignelli Associates, New York
Director of Communications 1984–1985
— Education
Harvard College (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Bachelor of Arts, cum laude—concentration in Fine Arts (art history)
— Volunteer Experience
Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society, Salisbury, Massachusetts
Member of Marketing Committee (2015–present); publications volunteer (2003–present)
Friends of the Newburyport Public Library, Newburyport, Massachusetts
Board member (2005–2015); chair of Publications Committee (2009–2015)
Newburyport Public Library
Member of five-year-plan committee (2009–2010)
Newburyport Literary Festival
Member of originating steering committee; editor for website and publications (2005–2007)
— Computer Proficiency
- Desktop publishing: Adobe Acrobat; Adobe InDesign; Adobe Photoshop; Quark XPress
- Word processing: Microsoft Word; Pages
- Document markup: Adobe Acrobat; PDFpenPro
- Database: Cindex; FileMaker Pro
- Spreadsheet: Microsoft Excel; Numbers
- Project management: Basecamp; Daylite
- Operating systems: Mac OS X and iOS; Microsoft Windows
- Bookkeeping: Quickbooks; Banktivity