I am an editor living in Queens, New York, and this is my blog. I am an avid photographer. I am interested in typesetting on the Web. I am a sometimes Web designer, developer, and WordPress contributor. Beyond a day job as an editor, I freelance in all these areas.
A less brief introduction
I was born in Colorado and raised in Texas. After receiving my BA in English in 2001 from the University of North Texas, I joined the Peace Corps as an English Language Teacher Trainer. I worked for the District Education Office in Birganj, Parsa District, Nepal.
In Nepal, I taught primary-level English for one year and then spent a second year training teachers. I wrote extensively about it on my first blog, The Peace Corps Experience of Scott Allan Wallick. I was also the first Peace Corps volunteer to have his blog shut down.
After my Peace Corps tenure ended, I went to Darjeeling, India, with Binita and stayed with her family for almost half a year. It was a great life. I would have some breakfast and a coffee, go for a walk, hang out with the family, take some photos, read the paper, etc.
We came to the US and settled in New York. I began teaching ESL in Jackson Heights after being in the city for ten days. I taught to the melting pot I had learned about in school. Teaching a melting pot, by the way, is rather difficult—fun but complicated.
I left teaching after four months to work as an editor of ESL materials for Oxford University Press in Manhattan. I worked mainly in production, i.e., editing manuscript and page proofs, but later became more involved in development.
While at OUP, I produced some excellent materials to which I proudly lent my name. I also developed my editorial skills. I became excellent at crossing t’s and dotting i’s and perfecting example sentences demonstrating differences between verb tenses.
After two years, I found a new challenge: working in medical publishing for the non-profit Cardiovascular Research Foundation, innovators and researchers of interventional cardiology. While retaining a role as an editor, I now dabble in a broader spectrum of enduring materials.
