Resume

This resume is just a glance at my career, interests and skills to date. Please contact me if you have any further questions.

Experience

Coordinator, Electronic Communication and Web Content Services - Kent State

  1. Intelligently juggle multiple deadlines and competing priorities, essentially serving as own "project manager." Provide quality customer service to more than 100 campus departments, groups and organizations.
  2. Grown role beyond marketing and simple page maintenance. From the complex -- creating an online wayfinding system and programming a "make-your-own-card" application for the Annual Fund -- to the simple -- turning a daily task of updating an RSS feed into a simple ColdFusion script.
  3. Translate difficult concepts for nontechnical users through monthly trainings and supporting materials for university's content management system.

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Board Member, Web Advisor - Canton Citizen X

  1. Assisted staff with redesign of brsq.org, an online youth news publication and main program of educational nonprofit Citizen X. Revamped a broken, half-completed design by previous designer. Staff now using highly customized version of WordPress for publishing.
  2. Working to secure this nonprofit's future, both financial and organizational, through work on board.

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Freelance Web Designer

  1. I design and code awesome web sites for a variety of clients. Please see my portfolio for some examples.

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  • Dates:

Copy Editor - Plastics News

  1. Trained staffers and helped them produce twice-daily video webcast from a German trade show.
  2. Shot a series of videos profiling companies for magazine's plastic-company-of-the-year award.
  3. Helped design in-house audio/video studio.
  4. Coordinated very early stages of web site redesign.
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Assistant Weekend Editor/Web Editor - Times-Reporter

  1. Became the Times-Reporter's first web editor, creating image slideshows, video and other multimedia.
  2. Helped supervise the production of the newspaper's weekend editions.
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Skills

Strong Knowledge

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • jQuery
  • PHP
  • Photoshop
  • Fireworks
  • Google Analytics

Working Knowledge

  • ColdFusion
  • Flash
  • Adobe Premiere
  • Streaming Video
  • MySQL

CMS Familiarity

  • CommonSpot
  • WordPress
  • Concrete5

Education

Kent State University

Bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism

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Recent Conferences/Workshops

  1. Usability Week (mobile track), Austin, Texas, Oct. 2011
  2. Future of Web (conference/workshop), New York City, Nov. 2010
  3. Google Analytics training with SiteLogic, Canton, Ohio, May 2010
  4. Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, May 2010