Pamela DeVore

Experience

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  American Society of Agricultural Engineers

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1997

  Editor, Technical Communication Department

  Managed editorial processes and staff; edited agricultural engineering manuscripts for three refereed journals and textbooks published by the American Society of Agricultural Engineers in St. Joseph, MI - 8 yrs. ACCOMPLISHMENTSAnalyzing: Analyzed journal workflow using a team approach to facilitated streamlined process that the production and journal editorial staff could agree on, resulting in a more equitable division of labor, cross training, and the ability to juggle more projects.Product Design / Development: Performed the preliminary investigation for a new peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of Agricultural Safety and Health, focusing on a niche that had been virtually lost in the various broader sections of the journals, designing the entire journal from cover to cover, and working with the editor to develop overall content and promotional materials,Problem Solving: Rewrote a Style Guide for Refereed Journals and Textbooks, after a 28-year interval, providing a roadmap for volunteer editors and authors, further streamlining the publication process.Mentoring: Encouraged my assistant editor to continue her work toward becoming an associate editor and to attend college classes, delegating editing of one of three journals the association published to her, allowing me to devote more time to editing textbooks.Promoting: Designed and developed an Author Newsletter to keep the association’s authors up-to-date on what textbooks were in process or had been published and to keep them abreast of the progress of the relational database project. Show less

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  American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

  Jul 1997 - Jun 2002

  Contract Editor - Journals & Textbooks

  Responsible for journal and textbook editing, layout and design, project management, electronic prepress production, and author contact.

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  University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Extension

  Aug 2002 - now

  Publishing Operations Manager

  The Division of Extension Publishing Unit works with University of Wisconsin Extension specialists and staff to create educational media for the people of Wisconsin. I manage a creative, talented and high-functioning full-service publishing staff. In addition to creating several types of educational media, Publishing Unit staff manage the Extension Learning Store. This ecommerce website offers access to university-based research and continued learning. As part of the Learning Store I provide leadership exploring different pricing models, revenue sharing with specialists, and co-publishing agreements with other publishing units within Extension. My position plays a key role in helping to address institutional risk when it comes to copyright infringement. I work with my Extension colleagues to ensure they understand and follow the copyright guidelines, including meeting with all new colleagues during their orientation to offer information about both copyright and the requisite peer review process for all of the content Extension publishes.Supporting language access is another area of my position that has grown steadily over the past several years. Providing equal access to all of Extension's content is a federal mandate. Working with the Translation and Interpretation Workgroup, the Language Access Coordinator and Editor is now a member of the Publishing Unit. I worked with a small team to expand Extension's product line through the establishment of the UW-Extension Video Channel, and the development of train-the-trainer curricula in support of Extension programming and as a potential source of revenue generation for County and Extension offices. Show less