Resume

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EXPERIENCE

AOL/Huffington Post Media Group                                                                                          
Editor, OakPark.Patch.com                                                                      
Editorial responsibilities include assigning, reporting and editing daily news stories, commissioning story art, soliciting user generated content, engaging and managing communities online and in person, creating multimedia packages, curating content, leading a team of dozens of freelance journalists and bloggers, and growing and maintaining our social media presence.

Sun-Times Media
SouthtownStar - Tinley Park, Ill.
Reporter - Oct. 2008 – May 2010
Municipal beat reporter for Oak Lawn, a village of 60,000 on Chicago’s southwest side. Founder of the On the Lawn news blog, sometimes-contributor to the newspaper’s “Not So Mighty Dollar” blog.

St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times
Reporter – tampabay.com April 2007 – Sept. 2008
Produced the newspaper’s breaking news blog; responsibilities on any given day included police reporting, news photography, finding and creating multimedia opportunities, crafting Web headlines and coordinating breaking news coverage across multiple bureaus.
Reporter – Dec. 2006 – April 2007
Covered the evening shift as a police reporter and general assignment writer in the newspaper’s flagship newsroom in St. Petersburg.
Reporter – May 2006 – Dec. 2006
Covered community news, including city government and general assignment, for the twice-weekly Neighborhood Times section.

EDUCATION
•Master of Arts, Journalism and Media Studies – Dec. 2007
University of South Florida St. Petersburg

•Bachelor of Arts, Journalism – Dec. 2004
Eastern Illinois University

ADDITIONAL EDUCATION, TRAINING and SEMINARS

• Selected as panelist for the 2012 Making Media Connections conference in Chicago
• Recently attended “Hacks/Hackers” Hackers Show & Tell: Data Visualizations with Fusion Tables and The Future of Community Management at Google Chicago
• Participant in numerous online seminars geared toward Search Engine Optimization, Community Management, Headline Writing, Deadline Writing, Social Media and more
• Awarded  a “Patch on the Back,” Patch’s internal company award for outstanding performance

WEB JOURNALISM, SOCIAL AND MORE

Heavy professional presence on social media, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and many more networks; proficient in multiple text and multimedia editing suites; working knowledge of web analytics; always ready to learn more about the future of connectivity. Have worked in a Django framework; above-average familiarity with the Adobe software suites; in awe of open source coding for the web, but can’t quite figure it out yet.