Della Summers

Owner at DELLA SUMMERS Dictionaries

Location
St Albans, United Kingdom
Industry
Publishing

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Della Summers's Overview

Current
  • owner at Della Summers Dictionaries
Past
  • Director - Dictionaries at Pearson Education
  • Managing Editor at Laurence Urdang Associates
Education
  • University of Liverpool
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Della Summers' Summary

Specialties

Dictionary market analysis, linguistic content creation, corpus exploitation and creation, licensing expert, ELT exams.

Della Summers' Experience

owner

Della Summers Dictionaries

August 2007 – Present (4 years 10 months)

Consultancy services to dictionary publishers. Packaging and project management. Project reviews. Strategy for electronic dictionary publishing.

Director - Dictionaries

Pearson Education

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; PSO; Publishing industry

September 1976 – May 2007 (30 years 9 months)

Dictionary publishing for UK, Japan, US, Korea, Germany etc. Licensing, corpus development. CD-ROMs/DVDs/handheld.

Managing Editor

Laurence Urdang Associates

November 1971 – September 1976 (4 years 11 months)

Creation of Collins English Dictionary, other projects for Longman, Encylopedia Britannica, etc.

Della Summers' Education

University of Liverpool

BA, English language and literature

1965 – 1968

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