Howard N. Kaplan
80 Cranberry Street Apt. 8N
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Home: 718-596-3134 - Cell: 917-692-5093
EXPERIENCE:
1/04 - Present Caption Supervisor, Voltage Video, New York, NY
o Manage a staff of three Caption Editors, prioritizing, delegating and ensuring the timely delivery of an average of 100 hours of caption files per week to in-house operations personnel and outside clients
o Co-ordinate and supervise freelance Caption Editors for long-term projects, including Spanish language programming
o Maintain computer network infrastructure for the Captioning Department
5/02 - 1/04 Caption Editor, Voltage Video, New York, NY
o Review, research, verify and format closed captioning using Swift software for a video post-production and duplication company
o Caption programs from MTV, Showtime, Sundance Channel, Comedy Central, infomercials and music videos
o Manage and traffic electronic files through digitization, production and distribution
12/01 - 5/02 Caption Editor, Soundwriters, New York, NY
o Transcribe, place, time and review closed captioning using CAPtivator software
o Caption programs from Comedy Central, Discovery, HGTV, Lifetime, Playboy
o Research, verify, copyedit and style captioned text
6/97 - 5/01 Managing Editor, Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, New York, NY
o Manage all editorial stages, from financial acquisition, P&L's, contract negotiation, copyediting, design and production to bound book to produce an annual list of 50-60 children's hardcover trade books per year
o Implement a backlist repackaging program
o Manage database of publication lists to prepare annual budgets and strategic plans
o Resolve royalty, financial and contractual problems with authors and illustrators
o Represent Field Editor in-house, covering 10-14 titles per year
o Create and coordinate seasonal catalogs, tip sheets, and flap copy
o Supervise internship program
6/95 - 6/97 Associate Editor, Atheneum Books for Young Readers,
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division, New York, NY
o Acquire and edit 4-6 children's hardcover trade books per year
o Support Executive Editor to solicit, evaluate, and research the competitiveness of projects within a specified budget, focusing on non-fiction and fantasy for all ages
o In-house representative for Field Editor, responsible for all stages of production, focusing on middle-grade and young adult fiction
4/88 - 6/95 Assistant Editor, Atheneum Books For Children,
The Macmillan Publishing Company, New York, NY
o Support Associate Publisher to prepare 50-60 children's hardcover trade books per year
o Create editorial reports, flap copy, catalog copy and tip sheets
o Evaluate projects from authors, illustrators, agents, book packagers and foreign publishers
1/90 - 2/95 Word Processor, Billboard Publications, New York, NY
o Night shift word processing using WordPerfect 5.1 and Q&A software for data entry, correspondence, mail merges, charts, tables, and dictated material
8/87 - 3/88 Publicity Assistant, Doubleday, New York, NY
o Coordinate author tours, solicit author interviews, create press releases and kits, maintain media lists for children's and religious books
o Process advance book copies, distribute promotional material, circulate reviews and billing
EDUCATION: New York University, New York, NY
January 1993 - Certificate in Book Publishing
9/83 - 5/87 Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
B.A. with Honors, May 1987
Major: English/Creative Writing
SKILLS: Basic Spanish, Swift, CAPtivator, MS Office, Excel, HTML, FileMaker, Power Point, Copyediting