Carlyle Carter is an accomplished educational publisher with over 20 years of experience in writing, editing, and managing educational materials from elementary to adult levels. He has extensive experience managing teams and projects for major educational publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Glencoe. Currently, he works as an editorial consultant providing writing, editing, project management, and publishing services for educational publishers and private clients.

1. CARLYLE CARTER
www.mcarlylecarter@yahoo.com
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HIGHLIGHTS
Accomplished in educational and custom publishing
o Educational publishing
o Write, edit, and manage elementary, secondary, college, and adult educational materials
o Write, edit, and manage student, teacher, and assessment materials
o Document how educational materials meet current state and national standards
o Custom publishing
o Help private clients publish fiction and nonfiction titles
o Write book proposals; edit content; supervise production, design, and printing
o Manage print and e-books
WORK EXPERIENCE
Skilled in writing, editing, project management
o Proficient in print and digital content writing, instructional design, and copy editing
o Knowledgeable in all aspects of production
o Diversified—language arts, literature, ESL, ELT, ELL,workforce development, French,
Spanish, music, social sciences, business, law, marketing—and master new subject areas quickly
o Empowering—manage editors, writers, authors, consultants, reviewers, vendors, designers, and
production staff to ensure quality and achieve deadlines
EDITORIAL CONSULTANT 2002-2007, 2013–present
o Perform writing, editing, copy editing, proofreading, project management, and product
development services
o Work with publishing companies, development houses, and private clients
Clients: McGraw-Hill, Pearson, Integra, Words & Numbers, Tighe, Quarasan, Tellus Institute,
Paladin, Allyn & Bacon, Fleet Bank, Heath, Heinle/Thomson, Holt Rinehart & Winston, Houghton
Mifflin, Kent, MIT Press Journals, private clients
CONTEMPORARY/ McGRAW-HILL Chicago, IL
Educational publisher of adult and workforce educational materials
Senior Editor 2009–2012
o Demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of the Contemporary/McGraw-Hill adult and
workforce education markets
o Integrated evidence-based and site-visit research to develop curricula and prototypes of adult
reading, workforce, and ESL programs
o Identified new product features and customer needs to meet market demands
o Created writing and editorial guidelines to facilitate sequential phases of the projects
o Monitored closely all phases of writing, editing, production, and scheduling
o Worked with outside vendors and in-house staff to create quality content and meet tight
deadlines
o Ensured that products met market expectations and established goals
o Participated productively in meetings with managers, editors, production, design, and marketing
o Built leadership capabilities and communicated effectively with my project team
GLENCOE/McGRAW-HILL Chicago, IL

2. Educational publisher of language arts and literature materials
Senior Editor 2007–2009
o Demonstrated a comprehensive understanding of the Glencoe/McGraw-Hill secondary language
arts business and its markets and competitors
o Managed a team to write and produce teacher’s editions of two secondary literature textbooks
and accompanying ancillaries
o Customized the texts to match appropriate state standards and requirements
GLOBAL CHILD, Inc. Needham, MA
Company I co-founded and co-owned that offers world-language instruction and products for children ages 5–11
Co-Director 1992–2002
o Co-directed Global Child, a successful, K–6, world-language educational business; sold the
business after ten years
o Developed and published twenty-four multi-level French and Spanish curricula for students and
teachers, which added value to the program and increased profits
o Developed teaching-training videos and supervised teacher-training sessions
o Produced effective promotional copy for brochures, flyers, press releases, and websites, further
increasing sales
o Grew customer base in the Boston metro area to 3000 students annually and annual sales
to $458,000
o Managed support staff of 12, teaching staff of 50, and volunteers, adapting leadership and
motivational strategies to elicit top performance and increase enrollments
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
HEINLE & HEINLE PUBLISHERS, Boston, MA, developmental editor, world languages
RAND McNALLY COLLEGEPUBLISHING, Skokie, IL, developmental editor, world languages,
social sciences
FOLLETT PUBLISHING, Chicago, IL, editor, language arts
WATERTOWN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Watertown, MA, French teacher
EDUCATION
Magistère, French language and civilization, Sorbonne, Paris, France
MAT, education and French, Brown University, Providence, RI
BA, music, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
TECHNICAL SKILLS& LANGUAGES
Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, InCopy, K4, Adobe Acrobat, Internet
Fluent in French, working knowledge of Spanish
VOLUNTEER WORK
ESL tutor; courier training, Frontier Nursing University (Kentucky); Francophone-Bilingual
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