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Union Square & Co. is a subsidiary of Sterling Publishing focused on talent-driven publishing for adults and children.

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Inventive designer - Senior product designer with 10+ years of experience in agencies and S&P 500 companies, seeking a role focusing on data-inspired design. Applying advanced creative skills and strategic vision to produce quality products. Effective team player - Track record of project management, employing Agile and UX strategies in line with business objectives. Able to juggle short-turnaround jobs with longer, more complex projects. Creative & thoughtful Individual - Full of creative ideas and humor. Extensive skills in delivering delightful and accessible user experience. Great attention to detail. Skills: Discovery stage design research, User testing facilitation and lo-fi / hi-fi prototyping, Responsive web design, Native app design, Interaction design, Art direction, Photography, Iconography, Illustration, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, After Effects, Motion graphics, Zeplin, Framer X, Figma, Principle, Axure RP, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Design systems

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Hi. I'm a copywriter and content producer with experience in publishing, fiction writing, and graphic novel development, as well as tech and marketing writing. I have crafted compelling narratives and content for brands such as Star Wars, Doctor Who, Atlas Obscura, Verizon and IBM. I specialize in creating attention-grabbing content that resonates.

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VERSATILE SENIOR LEVEL LEADER WITH PASSION FOR GROWTH Multiple award-winning, energetic, and results-driven sales professional with more than 10 years of extensive leadership experience. A passionate and creative sales strategist with an accomplished track record of deploying marketing and sales initiatives that consistently achieve client and consumer satisfaction, preserve brand integrity, translate product vision, and connect with diverse audiences. Skilled at building customer relationships at all key decision-making levels. Acknowledged for effectively managing all areas of business development. Founded company which launched a consumer food product and built a business that grew to over 6 figures in sales within two years and achieved year over year profits for ten years. Heather Saffer is the founder of Dollop Gourmet; a better-for-you dessert company that produces vegan and gluten-free lower sugar frostings sold in major retailers across the country. Heather graduated from SUNY Brockport with a degree in psychology and got her entrepreneurial start as the founder of the nation’s first create-your-own cupcake bakery. Heather has demonstrated success by winning Food Network’s Cupcake Wars, getting multiple offers on ABC’s Shark Tank, showcasing her products on QVC, and authoring two bestselling cookbooks, The Dollop Book of Frosting (Simon & Schuster/F+W Media) and Crazy Easy Vegan Desserts (Sterling Epicure). As a successful entrepreneur and self-taught baker, Heather has been featured in Forbes, People Magazine, Huffington Post, USA Today, Inc., Oprah, Hallmark Channel, Steve Harvey Show, and Sirius XM. Heather sold Dollop Gourmet in 2019 to Mimac Glaze Ltd., an international leader in the gourmet icing industry. Heather's current focus is on helping leaders and entrepreneurs through her speaking and consulting business, along with pursuing her passion for raising money for rescue animals with her artwork on Heather & Donald.

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I'm an experienced fundraising strategist with a background in digital communications and creative storytelling. At the Tor Project, I work with allies to invest in our work advancing privacy-enhancing technology. I also love to help open source projects of all sizes better understand how fundraising and grantmaking works—and how to get funding for their projects.

Frankie Celenza

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Food & Travel TV Host

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Enterprise Sales at Station10

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I have been a full-time freelance puzzlemaker since 1990, focusing mainly on crosswords but with experience in many different puzzle types. I also have much experience in proofreading and editing, particularly in terms of games and puzzles. I am always open to new regular puzzle assignments on almost any subject. I have also worked as a consultant, writer, and researcher for a number of game shows ("Million Dollar Password", "Scrabble Showdown", "The Chase", and "Win, Lose, or Pawn") and would like to continue working in that field. Specialties: I have done much specialty work for clients who want puzzles individually tailored to specific products (for example, in print advertising). My primary focuses are in the areas of word puzzles and trivia.

David Steinberg

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I'm the Editorial Manager, Puzzles, at Andrews McMeel Universal (AMU), where I acquire and edit the Universal Crossword, a daily internationally syndicated puzzle feature, and oversee a team of five puzzle editors and one contractor whose portfolio includes the Apple News+ Crossword, USA Today Crossword, Universal Crossword, and a growing catalog of original puzzles on PuzzleSociety.com. I develop (create, design, and code) playable prototypes for AMU's original puzzle concepts; I created Upwordly, Hex 10, and ThruLine, and co-created The Modern Crossword, all of which are original puzzles currently featured on PuzzleSociety.com. Previously, I was the Lead Puzzle Editor at AMU, editing the Universal Crossword, creating and developing digital puzzles and games, and supervising a team of editors. I became the Universal Crossword editor while still a full-time student at Stanford University; before that, starting in 2017, I edited The Puzzle Society Crossword, a daily nationally syndicated feature for AMU and for which I created and wrote The Puzzle Society Crossword Crossing blog. And prior to that, starting at age 15, I was the crossword editor of The Orange County Register associated newspapers, where I acquired and edited a weekly crossword for more than five years. I've been constructing crosswords since middle school; at age 14, I had my first puzzle published in The New York Times. Since then I've published more than 500 crosswords there and in the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Andrews McMeel Syndication, The Atlantic, Zynga's Crosswords with Friends, BuzzFeed, Simon & Schuster, and many other venues. My first book of puzzles, Chromatics, was published by Puzzazz; my second, Juicy Crosswords, by Sterling/Puzzlewright Press. I'm also the founder and director of The Pre-Shortzian Puzzle Project, a collaborative effort to build a digitized, fully analyzable database of early New York Times crosswords. I've been interviewed on National Public Radio's KCUR and given talks about crosswords at Stanford University; Wofford College; the Davidson Young Scholars Summit in Reno; Toronto's ideacity 2015; the 2013, 2014, and 2015 American Crossword Puzzle Tournaments; the Newport Beach Public Library; the Palos Verdes Peninsula Center Library; the Silicon Valley Puzzle Fest at the Morgan Hill Library; and elsewhere. I also run a custom crossword business.