Benjamin D. Lukoff

About Benjamin D. Lukoff

I am the author of \"Seattle Then and Now\"(San Diego: Thunder Bay Press, 2010, ISBN 16••••••19; revised edition London: Pavilion Books, 2015, ISBN 19••••••06).I am a web producer at Seattle Children\'s Hospital, where I\'ve worked since 2009, and am also a freelance writer and editor.I am an experienced user of Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and ProTools; Windows, Mac OS, and Unix operating systems; and Ektron and Episerver CMS, as well as WordPress. I have nearly 30 years of Internet experience and a good working knowledge of HTML/XML. I am familiar with the Chicago Manual of Style, the AP Stylebook, and other general editorial conventions.I spent over five years at Amazon.com, first as a proofreader, then as a copyeditor, and finally as an editor in the music department. I have also spent a number of years at Microsoft, as an indexer and proofreader on Encarta Encyclopedia and as Zune.net site editor. As a student, I worked at the University of Washington Libraries; my first job after graduation was a summer position at the Library of Congress.Specialties: Writing, copyediting, editing, indexing, blogging, wikis, project management, freelancer management, content strategy

Experience

1. Web Producer, Senior Web Producer

   Seattle Children's

   Jun 2009 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Independent contractor until October 2012; FTE since then)• Named Seattle Children\'s (non-clinical) ARTist of the Month for March 2015.• Publish new content to the site.• Perform developmental edits and IA recommendations for newly requested content.• Approve edits and additions made by other producers, both Seattle Children\'s employees and vendors.• Train other producers• Manage small content projects• Edit page metadata and URLs for SEO, and assign articles to taxonomy.• Use Ektron CMS tools to troubleshoot and improve site navigation and FogBugz bug tracker to log and resolve content issues.• Process change and addition requests from organization-wide stakeholders.• Monitor Seattle Children\'s general information e-mail inbox.• Create FormStack forms.• Process and upload images, documents, and videos to the servers.• Proofread and copyedited content for seattlechildrens.org site migration and integration project, summer 2009.

Education

• University of Washington

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature, with minors in Linguistics and in Russian Language

  1994 — 1997

• The Bush School, Seattle

  High School Diploma

  1981 — 1993

• UCL

  Master of Arts (M.A.), English Linguistics, University College London

  1999 — 2001

Skills

• Writing
• Os X
• Mac Os X
• English Grammar
• Ap Style
• Website Copy
• Content Management
• Microsoft Office
• Non-Fiction
• Editorial Project Management
• Creative Writing
• Published Author
• Local History
• Mac
• Web Content
• Html
• Online Research
• Unix
• Marketing Copy
• Blogging
• Audio Editing
• Line Editing
• Windows
• Copy Editing
• Newsletters
• Brightcove
• Grammar
• Editorial
• Freelance Writing
• Digital Media
• Indexing
• Wikis
• Social Media
• Html/Xml
• Information Architecture
• Proofreading
• Cms
• Cataloging
• Content Development
• Web Content Management