Writes financial, business and HR content for a variety of high-traffic, professional websites. Examples include how-to articles, tutorials, and business-focused explainers for the Motley Fool Wiki, Chron.com, and The Nest.Audits and revises content including refreshing dated information, repairing errors from prior content management systems, and fact checking. Writes advertorial content. Past clients include L'Oreal and Neutrogena.Crafts breaking news stories with unique twists for speciality websites.

Constantly monitors performance metrics and real-time analytics to inform future coverage opportunities.Contributes content regularly selected for USA Today publication and distribution.Maintains an active presence on social media to promote stories and network with readers. Includes management of personal pages as well as brand accounts.Analyzes social media analytics to determine best practices for driving new and returning readers to content.Peer editing and promotion of third-party content in primary beats.Produces short videos to accompany stories.Provides other media outlets with information and interviews regarding local stories. Appearances include Nancy Grace and Unspeakable Crime, an Oxygen special.

Budget all editions of the Bastrop Daily Enterprise and the North Ouachita Weekly News.Write feature, news and breaking news stories. Primary beats include crime, education, court, economic development and city government.Curate inside content, format daily content. Includes a mixture of gathering and soliciting materials from local sources, choosing AP stories, and selecting prepared materials from third parties based on reader preferences.Answer emails and news desk telephone calls. Respond to walk-in questions, complaints, and requests for coverage. Manage the Bastrop Daily Enterprise and North Ouachita Weekly News social media accounts as an Administrator. Includes analysis of weekly and monthly data to determine trends and plan future postings.Review Google Analytics data to guide future postings in terms of timing, length, and web structure. Proofread work of contributors and staff for grammatical, structural, factual, and style errors.Plan content approach and story budget for special sections, tabs, and other promotional projects undertaken by the paper, such as the Morehouse Magazine.

Owned and managed e-commerce business that utilized pre-existing online platforms. Managed inventory, tracked expenses, and prepared and filed annual tax return.

Assumed the responsibilities of a postmaster during the postmaster's absence, including manning the retail counter, sorting and distributing mail, delivering certain packages, and filing daily reports including a drawer audit and a mail dispatch scan log.Interacted with the public and other USPS employees on a daily basis. Provided customers with information about the variety of shipping solutions USPS offered while processing bulk mail shipments and arrivals and managing postal inventory and cash-on-hand. Served on dozens of regular vacation days and on every Saturday; Ran the post office for multiple extended vacation periods for the regular postmaster.