resume
Highlights
The Dallas Morning News
2003-2005
DallasNews.com
Staff writer
Metro section
Duties included reporting, compiling reports, writing profiles and features and collecting election results, all on strict daily deadlines.
GuideLive.com
2005-2008
GuideLive.com
Music & arts editor/producer
The Dallas Morning News‘ arts & entertainment website
Responsible for coordination of web coverage of concerts, artists, music news, local galleries, artists, opera, classical music and theater; Content presentation, coding, blogging, coordination of major web coverage with critics for arts and music events like SXSW, OzzFest, Vans Warped Tour, the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs exhibit and more; wrote product reviews, stories and blog posts; oversaw user interaction with staff through arts and music blogs and Twitter; created weekly newsletters; and more.
Cowboys & Indians Magazine
2008-2009
CowboysIndians.com
Project manager and web managing editor
As project manager for the magazine’s new website, duties included conceptualizing navigation, content, design, layout, ad spots and other elements, all from scratch; and working with the third-party web company’s designers and programmers during building phase to launch the site on time and within budget. As web managing editor, duties included hand-coding magazine copy and images for web presentation and publishing to the site with Alfresco content management system; interacting with readers and users through Facebook and Twitter; coordinating and planning on-location live-blogging and -tweeting at Nashville Film Festival, CMA Music Fest and the CMT Music Awards; writing/rewriting web content, teasers and web heds using SEO best practices; monitoring steady growth with Google Analytics; create email newsletters; coordinated and maintained web ads using AdJuggler; edited audio; and more.
A few of my skills
Writing for newspaper, web, blogs and social network audiences • Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Soundbooth CS4 • HTML • Social networking: Facebook, Twitter, Myspace and others • AP style guidelines
Where I studied
The University of Texas at Arlington
Major: Journalism — media writing
Minor: History
Graduated cum laude
Received Communications Senior of the Year award
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