Professional experience
Yellow Pages Group: October 2011, Temp Quality Assurance Specialist
- Edited small businesses’ websites through the Canadian Yellow Pages for this outsourcing office
- Checked the websites’ design, layout, spelling and grammar, and fact checking.
Illinois Statehouse News: January 2011-May 2011, Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity Fellowship
- Covering the state Capitol
- Covering issues such as pension funding, death penalty, gambling industry, budget cuts, and more
- Producing multimedia contents: online and print versions, audio and videos
The Palm Beach Post: December 2010, Features intern
- Wrote profiles and feature stories
- Wrote a fashion column
The Indianapolis Star: June 2010 – August 2010, Pulliam Journalism Fellowship
- Wrote in the business section of the metro department
WESH 2 News, Orlando’s NBC affiliate: January 2010 – April 2010, production news intern
- Wrote broadcast scripts from news briefs and reports twice a week
- Wrote the weekend box office results for the Sunday evening shows
- Assisted the production team during nighttime local news broadcasts with other tasks such as transcribing video tapes and capturing graphics on tape.
The Palm Beach Post: December 2009, breaking news intern
- Wrote about 20 feature stories, online news briefs, blog entries and breaking news articles in eight days during winter break from college
Orlando Business Journal: May 2009 – August 2009, news intern
- Wrote features and profiles on entrepreneurs and executives
- Constructed four data docks to illustrate trends in commercial real estate, construction, banking and diversity in the workplace
The Palm Beach Post: December 2008 – January 2009, metro and features departments intern
- Worked 30-hour weeks during winter break from college
- Wrote feature and breaking news stories, online news briefs
- Compiled obituaries
Campus media
The Central Florida Future: Summer 2008 – Spring 2010
- University of Central Florida’s community newspaper
- Covered the Student Senate for three semesters and the 2010 SGA presidential election
- Wrote investigative stories and presidency campaign UCF donors and UCF minority enrollment rates, environment
Mulitmedia skills
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Flash CS4
- Audacity, audio editing
- Windows Movie Maker
- Corel Video Editing Software
- Soundslides, slide show maker
- Photography – Canon Rebel XTi
- SPSS, data mining and statistical analysis
Social Media
Education
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Fla.
- Bachelor of Arts
- summer 2010
Palm Beach State College (formerly Palm Beach Community College), Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
- Associate in Arts
- summer 2007
References
- Ben Yount, bureau chief, Illinois Statehouse News, (217) 528-1247, benyount@hotmail.com
- Eunice Trotter, business editor, The Indianapolis Star, (317) 444-6037, eunice.trotter@indystar.com
- Ted Evanoff, economy and transportation reporter, The Indianapolis Star, (317) 444-6019, ted.evanoff@indystar.com
- Rick Christie, breaking news editor, The Palm Beach Post, (561) 820-4405, rchristie@pbpost.com
- Susan Lundine, managing editor, Orlando Business Journal, (407) 241-2892, slundine@bizjournals.com
- Dr. Rick Kenney, Scripps Howard Endowed Professor of Journalism, Hampton University, (407) 488- 7898,kenney.rick@gmail.com
Member of
- Society of Professional Journalists, national and UCF chapters
- Golden Key International Honour Society, UCF chapter
Other experience
Sales associate – GAP, Palm Beach Gardens and Altamonte Springs, Fla.: August 2004 – December 2010
- Paid for Associate in Arts degree out of pocket
- Worked as an assistant visual manager for one year and managed about 25 employees
