WILLIAM IVERS JOHNSTON
WATERTOWN, MASS.

wij@world.std.com

Education

HARVARD COLLEGE 1985

Cambridge, MA. Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in Visual and Environmental Studies (graphic design and film studies). Phi Beta Kappa. F. Skiddy von Stade Essay Award. John Harvard Scholarship.

WESTON HIGH 1981

Weston, MA. First Honors. National Merit Scholar. Presidential Scholar Finalist. National Honor Society. Advanced Placement in Calculus, Physics, English literature, and French language.

Work

TEXTBOOK EDITOR

Houghton Mifflin Company, McDougal Littell Division, Boston, MA. Work with authors to create secondary school mathematics materials, including 4-color student textbooks, teacher editions, overhead visuals, assessment booklets, computer software, and documentation. Develop, copyedit, and proofread manuscript. Collaborate with art editors to establish photo and illustration specifications. Prepare artwork for overhead visuals. Design and debug educational software. Created color cover designs for Mathematics Teacher magazine. (1988-present)

MATHEMATICS TEACHER

Weston High School, Weston, MA. Taught Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II. (1987-1988)

MULTIMEDIA DESIGNER

The Townscape Institute, Cambridge, MA. Did research, photography, copywriting, and screen layout for an interactive computer city-guide to inform tourists visiting Cincinnati's 1988 Bicentennial celebration. (1987)

ASSISTANT EDITOR

Harvard Student Agencies, Cambridge, MA. Prepared maps and edited manuscript for Let's Go: Europe (New York: St. Martin's, 1986), a budget travel guide. 130,000 copies sold worldwide. (1985)

Other

MACINTOSH

Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, Macromedia FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator.

LANGUAGES

Near-fluent in French and Italian.

BOOK WORK

Wrote HIV-Negative: How the Uninfected Are Affected by AIDS (New York: Plenum Press-Insight Books, 1995), a book about the psychological and social issues facing uninfected gay men. (1992-1995)

ISBN 0-306-44951-X paperback, ISBN 0-306-44947-1 hardcover, 332 pp.

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revised 25 November 1997
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