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Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Senior product manager overseeing core news products, including frontend website partnerships, projects & initiatives across USA Today + Gannett's local network of 200+ news organizations.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Worked with development teams to create custom implementations of CMS software for clients.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I was the sole product manager for a digital news startup covering the people, politics and power of technology. I managed relationships and negotiated contracts with vendors and contract engineers. I also managed and prioritized requests for product work for our frontend and backend and managed our roadmap. I helped implement a migration to new newsletter service provider.Protocol was shut down in late 2022.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

I managed a three-person team that worked across the newsroom and with product, design and engineering to prioritize, develop and test/QA work on internal tools for the Los Angeles Times, including the content management system (CMS) used to publish content to and manage our website; a custom-built central budgeting tool; and a system to manage digital assets (photo, video). My team also managed training, support and documentation for these tools for 700+ staff and maintained regular communication with users to gather and synthesize feedback. In addition, my team oversaw project management of select major editorial projects, including investigative stories, multi-part series, podcasts, etc.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Worked across departments and with vendors on migration to and launch of Graphene, a custom CMS built on the Brightspot platform.

Greater New York City Area

Liaison between the newsroom and the product/design/engineering teams working to solve problems, develop new tools and improve editorial workflows.

Greater New York City Area

Co-manager of a 24-hour 14-member team on three continents overseeing the WSJ mobile apps and Apple News. Launched a major redesign of the WSJ mobile app on iOS/Android, which led to a 200% increase in time spent in the news feed, a 667% increase in time spent on the article pages, and a 4.5 star rating in the Apple App Store, up from 2.3 stars.

Greater New York City Area

Curated content and troubleshot technical problems on the WSJ mobile apps for iOS and Android, including the daily e-edition.

Hong Kong

Sole Asia-based member of editorial team that developed, launched and maintained a new iOS news app.

Beijing City, China

Lead editor of the China Real Time blog; increased traffic by an average of 24% per month during my tenure.

Hong Kong

Edited and published stories by reporters from across Asia-Pacific; managed homepage; maintained social media accounts; coordinated breaking news coverage with New York and London offices.

Beijing

Lead English editor for monthly journal published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Industrial Economics, a state-run think tank.

New York

Provided editorial and administrative assistance to U.S.-based foreign editing desk.

Cincinnati, Ohio

Summer editing intern on the sports desk at Cincinnati's premier daily newspaper.

Frankfort, Kentucky

Summer reporting intern for afternoon newspaper in Kentucky's capital city.

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

Semester-long communications department intern for the 2005 state legislative session.

Salem, Indiana

Editorial intern as a high school student at my hometown's twice-weekly newspaper.