Senior Copyeditor at Cureus, Inc. (2022-01 – Present)
Copyeditor for case reports, research articles, and review articles. The articles are sent by doctors from across the world.
- Review content for readability, sentence construction, grammar, and style guide adherence
- Check and correct as needed the formatting of the articles
- Efficiently meet deadlines
- Adapted smoothly to the medical domain despite having no background in it.
Content Editor and Writer at Justwords Consultants (2018-02 – 2021-12)
Content ownership included Lazada, Yatra, HeroFin Corp, PayTabs, HDFC and other logos. Coverage across e-commerce, travel, finance & insurance, payment gateways, health & beauty.
- Research and ensure subject matter context alignment for content
- Optimize content for SEO and review keywords usage
- Review content for readability, sentence construction, grammar and style guide adherence
- Efficiently meet deadlines while working on a large number of diverse projects each day
- Drove turnaround time reduction with domain-aligned editors making content corrections rather than sending back to authors
- Influenced multiple net new logo wins and contract renewals
Script Writer at Nightwhistlers Entertainment (2011-06 – 2013-07)
Script writer for a start-up team working on getting a breakthrough in the movie industry.
- Conducted extensive research on script subjects to perfect the details
- Research included watching 100s of movies, and readings on relevant events, issues, cultures
- Wrote and fine-tuned original scripts based on discussion with directors and producers
- Completed 2 scripts belonging to thriller and horror genres respectively during this assignment
Copyeditor at Mindworks Global (2008-06 – 2010-10)
Copyeditor for the international daily newspaper Miami Herald International. The newspaper targeted English-reading people, specially U.S. expatriates, in Latin America.
- Selected the news and did research to confirm, fill in or expand points in the news article
- Pruned the news to required size, edited it for grammar and style; and rewrote parts
- Chose pictures from the company's constantly-updated picture library to go with the news
- Directed the designer on the needed layout of the page on Adobe InDesign software
- Wrote headlines, lead-ins and captions beneath the pictures, kickers, blurbs and sub-heads
- Prepared the pages by fitting all news and pictures together in the designed layout
- Efficiently met the deadlines even though resources were half the optimal team size
Script and Novel Writer at Freelance (2013-08 – 2018-01)
Ideate and craft engaging stories that have the hallmark of uniqueness. The process involved going through a large number of relevant books and movies.
- Self-published author on Amazon of a novel exploring life in a dystopian world titled 'Godfathers Academy'
- Completed 6 scripts across social, drama, horror, and fantasy genres
