Karen Crislip is an accomplished project management professional with over 25 years of experience managing print and digital publishing projects. She has a proven track record of successfully leading teams, planning projects, managing stakeholders, and delivering projects on time and on budget. Currently seeking PMP certification.

1. KAREN CRISLIP
114A Franklin Ave, West Berlin, NJ 08091 • (856) 725-0689 • journeyksc@yahoo.com
SUMMARY
Accomplished project management professional with demonstrated expertise in agile and waterfall project
management. Proven success in team management, project planning, stakeholder management, and accountability.
PMP certification student.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Elsevier
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Project Manager, Process Innovation (December 2015—present)
Responsible for developing work streams and managing projects for innovative, smart content products. Ensure
timely delivery on all projects, engage effectively with stakeholders, help set priorities for the project team. Work
closely with strategic leads to help prioritize new work.
Project Manager, Process Innovation (January 2013—December 2015)
Evaluate, engineer, and implement new work streams for electronic products for various platforms, such as Amazon,
Barnes & Noble, and company-owned sites. Project manage teams with staff from publishing, content innovation,
design, multimedia, and production to develop new workflows to apply best practices and for making content
interactive. Developed an efficient, lower-cost workflow for all books globally to bring eBook conversions upstream
in the production process.
Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Freelance Vendor and eBook Manager (2011- 2012)
Oversaw vendor performance for 50+ nursing and medical textbooks. Liaised between Project Manager and vendor
when production-related problems arose. Reviewed and approved invoices; participated in vendor launch meetings;
tracked print and electronic products through production. Collected metadata, managed quality control process of
Web PDF, ePub, and Mobi conversions, and distributed eBooks for 1000+ titles to B&N, Amazon, Google, and
other platforms. Trained and managed 2 freelancers (assigned work; helped troubleshoot file problems). Participated
in weekly eBook production meetings and provided reports to supervisor on progress of eBook process and uploads
to platforms. Continuously explored process improvements in print-to-eBook workflow.
Director, Journals Production (2005-2010)
Managed all prepress and manufacturing operations for 53 journals, 27 magazines, 11 newsletters, and 4 tabloids
(annual pages: 27,000 print; 1300 online). Supervised up to 21 employees (production editors, print production
coordinators, freelance staff). Managed performance of 5 offshore prepress and print vendors. Successfully balanced
an annual prepress production budget of $450K and a department budget of $400K+. Drove continuous best-
practices approaches in process improvement and reduced costs through standardization and evaluation of costs
against budget.
 Exceptionally coordinated and implemented composition transitions for 12 magazines and copyediting and
composition transitions for 15 magazines and 11 newsletters to offshore prepress vendors. Reduced production
costs by 30% (generated savings of more than $220K+ in 2009).
 Led prepress requests for proposal for 300+ publications, involving approximately 12 vendors. Evaluated
vendor capabilities, technologies, and work samples. Negotiated price scales.
 Trained offshore vendors to produce publications and meet quality, timeliness, and communications
expectations, resulting in high-quality, on-time publications.
 Successfully managed copyediting and typesetting budget -- under budget May YTD 2010 by $90K.
 On-time mailing rate of 98% year to year.

2.  Directed staff to standardize production steps, achieving 97% compliance (up from 67% compliance).
 Oversaw staff’s efforts to standardize editorial style across publications, vendors, and editorial offices.
 Instrumental in leading a re-engineering program across 3 production units involving 300+ journals, magazines,
and tabloids. Purpose was to standardize editorial and page makeup styles and streamline production processes
to improve organizational performance and profit.
 Managed 2 magazine production groups in the Ft. Washington, PA, and New York, NY, offices. Learned
production processes for 13 products. Streamlined processes for efficiency and cost savings.
 Worked directly with society (or association) leadership to ensure optimal relationships in the production of
their journals and magazines (monitored quality and schedules; managed society relationships).
 Wrote myriad correspondences, training manuals, and proposals for new society business.
 Participated in prepress, paper, and binding budgeting process for multiple journals, magazines, newsletters, and
tabloids.
Senior Managing Editor, Journals Production (1999-2005)
Managed a staff of junior and senior production editors and freelance copyeditors. Successfully managed
departmental and PPB budgets for 64 nursing and allied health journals and magazines. Continuously streamlined
production processes and editorial styles as a result of acquisitions and mergers.
 Transitioned all production responsibilities for 24 journals to the Philadelphia production unit from a sister
company, Aspen Publishers. Learned the processes and styles of the publications, created transition plans, and
hired and trained new staff and vendors.
 Evaluated new systems (Editorial Manager and Documentum).
 Acquired management of a magazine production group in the Ambler, PA, office. Learned their production
processes and products, streamlined processes for efficiency and cost savings. Worked with clinical editors and
production editors to standardize copyediting styles across 9 magazines.
Managing Editor (1992-1999)
Managed a staff of production editors and freelance copyeditors. Monitored overall quality and timeliness of
publications. Presented to societies during requests for proposal. Continuously streamlined production processes and
editorial styles as a result of acquisitions and mergers.
 Transitioned production responsibilities for 14 journals to the Philadelphia production unit. Learned the
processes and styles of the publications, created transition plans, and hired and trained new staff and vendors.
Upheld quality and timeliness standards and ensured optimal relationships with societies.
 Implemented a quality control program, which consisted of reviewing samples of copyedited material and page
proofs, retraining of offshore vendors, and using scorecards to measure performance.
Earlier positions held: Senior Production Editor, Journals Production (1989-1992), Production Editor (1986-
1989), and Editorial Assistant (1986).
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: COUNCIL OF SCIENCE EDITORS; SOCIETY FOR SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING; SKILLPATH
SEMINAR: “THE CONFERENCE ON LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND TEAMBUILDING” AND “FINANCES FOR
NONFINANCIAL PEOPLE.”
Studying for my PMP (Project Management Professional with the Project Management Institute [PMI]). Projected
time of completion is November 2015.
TECHNICAL SKILLS: COMPUTER PROFICIENT IN WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, OUTLOOK, VISIO, PEOPLESOFT,
FIREBRAND, CORESOURCE, AND DOCUMENTUM.
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Arts, English, The College of Saint Elizabeth, Convent Station, NJ.