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

• Facebook
• Twitter

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