RESUME

Experience

Knight Digital Media Fellow
Kiplinger Program in Public Affairs Journalism, Columbus, Ohio
The Ohio State University (January 2009 to Present)
Teaching multimedia skills at Digital Media CreatorCamps, a six-week multimedia program; Lecturing journalism students on digital storytelling. Producing an in-depth multimedia project on massive flood devastation in Washington State; Co-producing a documentary about Senator John Glenn for the university. Producing video segments about scientific research for WOSU and University Communications; Developing and teaching a three-day boot camp in Final Cut Pro for Kiplinger Fellows. Mentoring journalism fellows on the production of in-depth public affairs multimedia.

Multimedia Producer/Online Editor
The Chronicle, Centralia, Washington (November 2004 to December 2008)
Taught reporters and photo staff how to tell compelling online stories using a variety of
multimedia tools. Produced award-winning multimedia projects including flooding and
professional boxing documentaries; Developed delivery platforms for multimedia and social media such as podcasting, blogging, interactive maps and video.

Staff Photographer
The World, Coos Bay, Oregon (March 2004 to November 2004)
Covered breaking news, business, environment and enterprise photo stories throughout
Oregon including Greyhound bus crash, logging protest and prep sports.

Staff Photographer and Reporter
The Columbia Missourian, Columbia, Missouri (January 2002 to May 2003)
General assignment photographer and reporter responsible for enterprise photo stories
including coverage of a rollerblading youth pastor, Falun Gong activist and practitioner and murder trial.

Multimedia and Social Media Skills
Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Soundtrack Pro, Motion, Adobe Flash CS3, LiveType, Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Flash Video Encoder, Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Compressor, Quicktime Pro, Cubic Converter, DVD Studio Pro, Audacity, Soundslides Plus, Wordpress, Blogger, Twitter, Facebook

Education

University of Missouri-Columbia: B.J. Photojournalism (May 2003)
The Ohio State University: Accumulated 18 graduate-level credits in multimedia courses
towards an M.A. (January 2009 to Present)

Awards

Video: 2009 National Press Photographers Association Monthly Multimedia Contest- First Place Multimedia Project, First Place Individual Video. 2008 Society of Professional
Journalists Region 10 Online category- Third Place Special Report, Third Place Spot News, Third Place Sports, Honorable Mention Arts and Entertainment. 2007 Society of Professional Journalists Region 10 Online category- First Place Sports, Second Place Sports, Second Place Spot News, Third Place Special Report/Enterprise, Honorable Mention Business

Photo: National Press Photographers Association Region 11- Feature/Multiple Picture First Place, May 2008, Spot News First Place, April 2006, Sports First Place, May 2006.
Society of Professional Journalists Region 10- 2006 Sports First Place, 2006 Photo Page First Place, 2006 Honorable Mention Spot News

References

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