Brian Ruckle Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Greater Indianapolis

Grow Local Media (formerly Times-Leader Publications) publishes in the Greater Indianapolis area including The Southside Times, Center Grove Icon, Hendricks County Icon, Southside Business Leader, Hendricks County Business Leader and Carmel Business Leader.

• Inducted as a member of The Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi in March 2012• Completed all classwork with a 4.0 GPA

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

• Taught ninth grade English for the month of December• (Volunteer) Wrote articles for the Fall 2012 issue of ISI’s Passport Magazine for parents and donors Covered TEDx Indianapolis for the International School of Indiana website and magazine• (Volunteer) Updated ISI staff profiles on the school website

Portland, Tennessee

• Updated company website weekly using Dreamweaver.• Lead production building supervisor. Managed production by leading a team of four employees in imprinting and shipping individual and bulk subscriptions. Always met shipping deadlines. • Created and updated using InDesign and Photoshop all personalized customer magazine imprints • Lead company customer representative. Responded to customer concerns, requests and enrolled new subscriptions. • Coordinated the sales team and conducted collections• Designed, edited, directed graphic design and sold a weekly syndicated page based on Happiness Magazine• Assigned and accomplished several website development projects including setting up an online store and creating a customer order form

Bayuquan, Liaoning Province, Pr China

• Reviewed, advised, and copyedited all garment department e-mail correspondence.• Prepared promotional materials for the company and helped the company vice-president prepare a business plan. • Met with visiting customers to discuss product development and production.• Conducted job interviews with job candidates and gave placement recommendations to the president of the company.

Portland, Tennessee

• Managed reporters, stringers and advertising staff. • Conducted several job interviews and hired a full time reporter and several stringers• In nearly every issue of this weekly newspaper, I wrote an estimated 8-10 articles and published 8-15 photographs• Promoted the newspaper and gave it a reputation for quality coverage of community events• Directed and sold advertising

Xinle, Hebei Province And Beijing

Served four years as a teacher at three educational institutions in Hebei Province and Beijing. • Taught vocabulary, reading and writing courses to undergraduate university students destined for study abroad in the United Kingdom• Lectured on Western Culture to secondary school teachers seeking a Masters Degree• Taught an English conversation class to secondary school teachers seeking to improve their English• Taught eighth and ninth grade students spoken English at a rural school in Hebei Province.• Traveled the Chinese countryside on recruiting and promotional visits on behalf of a secondary school.

Beijing, China

Proofread English language articles written by Chinese reporters for the country’s largest circulated English language newspaper located in Beijing. Worked at the China Daily during summer vacation between semesters teaching at China Agricultural University.

I worked at this daily newspaper located in Lebanon, Tenn. as a late shift reporter where I covered late breaking news and area government meetings.• Covered Lebanon, Mt. Juliet and Watertown city councils, the Wilson County Commission, and the Wilson County school board. • Covered late breaking police and fire stories• Assisted night editor with layout. • Received honorable mention for non-deadline reporting from the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors in 2001

York, Nebraska

This daily newspaper is located in York, Nebraska. • Covered city government, police / fire, courts and business and industry for the daily. Had 1-4 articles and photographs in every issue of the daily newspaper. • Wrote a monthly column.• Assisted the editor with layout and design. • Supervised various editorial tasks with part time reporters

Lincoln, Nebraska

• Wrote and assigned articles• Designed the order and layout of the newspaper• Wrote editorials

Master'S, Corporate Communications

Bachelor'S, Communications With An Emphasis In Print Journalism, Spanish

Activities and Societies: Editor of The Clocktower, Union College's student newspaper. Also served as a reporter and arts.

German Language And Culture

Passed the Goethe-Institut's Deutsch als Fremdsprache exam

Lengua Y Cultura Hispanicas

Education record

Education record