Experience

Jan. 2007-Present          GovExec.com    Washington, DC

Online Content Producer

♦         Worked with editors, Web development team and reporters to produce daily stories for top-ranked federal news site among government workers.

♦         Edited copy from sister publications (CongressDaily and NationalJournal.com) and from Associated Press for publication on GovExec.com

♦         Coordinated online media kit interface with marketing staff.

♦         Maintained photo selection, editing and toning of main story photos. As well as designed and maintained online photo gallery design.

♦         Created special report packages including Campaign 2008, Telework Initiative and Green Government .

♦         Assisted in launching GovExec.com Twitter feed.

♦         Edited online video and audio for site projects.

♦         Worked with parent company IT department on two metric software moves and maintained traffic monitoring system for GovExec.com

♦         Assisted in launching and marinating sister Web site, NextGov.com.

July 2005-Jan. 2007       The Gazette      Gaithersburg , MD

Internet Content Coordinator/Web Editor

♦         Produced and assigned daily updates to Web site on news.

♦         Worked with CEO, publisher, advertising department and executive editor to manage content on site and make modifications to design and infrastructure of site.

♦         Administered staff member (loader) on converting Quark documents into HTML onto site using Morris Digital Works system. Also trained and worked with members of copy desk in using Morris software (BoxTool, SiteWeaver and Sitestitcher.)

♦         Helped oversee complete redesign of Web content management in July 2005, as well as worked on redesign code, training and deployment from iProduction content management system to Morris system.

July 2003-Present          The Gazette      Gaithersburg, MD

Copy editor/Page designer

♦         Wrote headlines, captions and designed pages for weekly newspaper.

♦         Won two in-house design contests.

Aug. 2003-Aug. 2004      The Washington Post     Washingon, DC

Sports news aide

♦         Took scores over phone fax and e-mail.

♦         Wrote game summaries and box scores, worked on tight nightly deadlines and collaborated with editors on high school sports coverage.

♦         Designed and paginated agate pages.

2002-2003         Columbia Missourian      Columbia, MO

Copy editor/Page designer/Web producer

♦         Wrote headlines, captions and edited content for daily newspaper.

♦         Worked on tight deadline, excelling with Quark Xpress, Adobe PhotoShop, ACT Editorial and MacroMedia DreamWeaver.

1999-2003         KCOU Radio      Columbia, MO

Music Director

♦         Acted as liaison between top-50 rated college radio station and record labels, promotion companies and band management.

♦         Acted as manager for 20-person music staff, reviewing 50-60 albums a week for radio station.

♦          Hosted weekly “College Music Report,” the highest rated countdown show on KCOU during time hosted.

1999-2003         University of Missouri     Columbia , MO

Bachelor of Journalism, Editorial sequence, Online journalism emphasis with political science minor.

♦         Dean’s List recipient.

♦         Field of studies include Cross-Cultural Journalism (diversity training), Women in the Media (women’s studies) and new media courses.

2007-2009         American University       Washington , DC

Master of Arts in Communications, Journalism and Public Affairs.

♦         Cumulative GPA: 3.51

♦          Field of studies include Research Methods In Communication, International and Comparative Communication Policy and Politics and the Media.

Skills

♦         Proficiency in: Windows and Mac, Adobe Creative Suite, HTML , Quark, Omniture and CoreMetrics traffic analytic systems.

♦         Familiarity with: CCS, and familiar with PHP, Javascript and Coldfusion programming languages.