Experience.
- News Digital Director for the Los Angeles News Group // L.A. Daily News, Daily Breeze, Long Beach Press-Telegram, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Pasadena Star-News, Whittier Daily News, San Bernardino Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts — 2013
- Multimedia Editor for the Inland Empire News Group // The Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.), Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.), Redlands Daily Facts (Redlands, Calif.) — 2010-2012
- Design Editor for The Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.) and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (Ontario, Calif.) — 2005-2010
- Columnist/Blogger for Inland Living magazine — 2007-2008
- Page Designer/Copy Editor // The Sun (San Bernardino, Calif.), 2003-2005 // The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.), 2000-2003 // Chronicle-Tribune (Marion, Ind.), 1999-2000
Education.
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1998
Accolades & Affiliations.
- LANG Ethics Committee member
- LANG Futures Committee member
- DFM ideaLab member
- Selected to help plan ONA’s 2012 Unconference
- Poynter Institute Big Ideas/Best Practices conference presenter
- Society for News Design Award of Excellence
- SND Foundation grants to attend SND Denver conference & web-design workshop taught by David Wright of npr.org and Tyson Evans of nytimes.com
- SND’s California state leader for the Inland Empire
- Wes Hughes Award
- Endorsements
Skills.
- Project management
- On/off-site production management
- Workflow development
- Copywriting & editing
- Curation (past, present, present, present, present, ever-present, future)
- Book editing/production
- Print/news design
- Illustration
- Web design/HTML
- Branding
Technical proficiencies.
- Social media || Twitter | Storify | WordPress | G+ | YouTube | Tumblr | Pinterest | Delicious | Facebook | FourSquare | about.me
- Google apps
- NGPS Dashboard/HTML/XHTML
- Coding-based design programs
- Microsoft Office and Open Office
- Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and Acrobat
- Quark Xpress
In training.
- ArcGIS & ArcMap
- Windows parallel
- BrightCove
- ScribbleLive
- Storyful
- Social media (ongoing)
- CoverItLive (on hold)
- Saxotech
