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
- 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.
- 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.
- Translate difficult concepts for nontechnical users through monthly trainings and supporting materials for university's content management system.
Further Details
- Location: Kent Ohio
- Dates:
- Website: http://www.kent.edu
Board Member, Web Advisor - Canton Citizen X
- 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.
- Working to secure this nonprofit's future, both financial and organizational, through work on board.
Further Details
- Location: Canton, Ohio
- Dates:
- Website: http://www.brsq.org
Freelance Web Designer
- I design and code awesome web sites for a variety of clients. Please see my portfolio for some examples.
Further Details
- Dates:
Copy Editor - Plastics News
- Trained staffers and helped them produce twice-daily video webcast from a German trade show.
- Shot a series of videos profiling companies for magazine's plastic-company-of-the-year award.
- Helped design in-house audio/video studio.
- Coordinated very early stages of web site redesign.
Further Details
- Location: Akron, Ohio
- Dates:
- Website: http://www.plasticsnews.com
Assistant Weekend Editor/Web Editor - Times-Reporter
- Became the Times-Reporter's first web editor, creating image slideshows, video and other multimedia.
- Helped supervise the production of the newspaper's weekend editions.
Further Details
- Location: New Philadelphia, Ohio
- Dates:
- Website: http://www.timesreporter.com
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
Details
- Location: Kent Ohio
- Dates:
- Website: http://www.kent.edu
Recent Conferences/Workshops
- Usability Week (mobile track), Austin, Texas, Oct. 2011
- Future of Web (conference/workshop), New York City, Nov. 2010
- Google Analytics training with SiteLogic, Canton, Ohio, May 2010
- Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, May 2010