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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

University Heights, Oh

Akron, Oh

NOSC Akron Honor Guard Member Performed funeral honors for Cleveland-area Navy veteransMustering Petty Officer, EMF Great Lakes 1 Detachment A Maintained all mustering records and reschedule forms during drill weekendCollateral Duties/Annual Training: Public Affairs Officer (PAO), Northern Lights Training Exercise 2014 – Fort McCoy, WI (April 28 - May 16) Shot 400 photographs during 3-week training Created Facebook page and Flickr account to share photographs, update participants and their family members on daily operations Wrote, edited and published two feature articles for navy.mil Shot and edited three video packages for All Hands Magazine, a navy.mil internet publication Interviewed Navy personnel for Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) recruitment videos Media Production, Toledo Navy Week and Cleveland Navy Week (August - September 2012) Covered events as principal news writer for navy.mil Assisted PAO with scheduling local television news interviews Served as class leader in charge of education and tutoring for both corpsman training and dental assistant training at Fort Sam Houston, TX; awarded Top Graduate in dental class 11-230DA

Solon

Managed grassroots marketing efforts to connect and promote Earth Fare Solon to the east Cleveland community: Participated in 12-14 local events per month to provide in-kind food donations, children’s activities, coupons and store information to attendees Led 2-3 store tours per month for local organizations and schools Visited schools during lunch periods with healthy snack displays and activities to engage students Performed cooking demonstrations and delivered presentations on healthy eating to groups of 25-30 Represented Earth Fare Solon at monthly Solon Chamber of Commerce networking events As the location’s first CRM, established and maintained initial contact with more than 70 community partners within Solon and surrounding communities Planned, organized and promoted quarterly community block parties at the store, featuring local nonprofits, entrepreneurs, artists and entertainers Managed Facebook and Twitter outlets with unique daily content, including promotions and contests; grew each outlet to 1,200 fans and 220 followers, respectively

Write SEO content on disability-related topics in order to increase website visibility for Mobility Works, a wheelchair-accessible vehicle marketing company

Girard, Oh

Advanced clients’ growth and public exposure by writing compelling press releases, pamphlet copy, feature length articles and B2B website contentDeveloped topics and wrote three 250-word articles per week on independent music news

Toledo, Ohio

In early 2011, I helped lead the NBC 24 Today news team as the show underwent a complete restructure, to eventually become WNWO Today. I developed and produced new human interest segments, with topics including cooking, finance, technology and physical fitness. I also produced new "chat" segments, in which the anchors would discuss stories that were trending on our website. This encouraged more viewers to visit our site and Facebook page in order to join the conversation. My daily responsibilities were as follows:Gathered content and wrote scripts for 2-hour local morning news programPosted breaking news to Facebook, Twitter and station websiteProduced daily live interviews and segments; established and maintained contacts with local leaders and newsmakersPitched evening news story ideas to News Director based on what was trending in the morning

Cleveland, Oh

Wrote web stories from newscasts, press releases, and news wiresEdited and posted video clips using Sony Vegas

Toledo, Oh

Selected and wrote stories for newscastsEdited video clips for newscasts using EdiusPosted stories and video clips to station website

Co-anchored live, 30-minute newscast, one day per week

Bowling Green, Oh

Developed content and wrote news scripts for live, 30-minute newscast from the campus of Bowling Green State UniversityProduced content and rundown for 3-hour live broadcast of BGSU’s Dance Marathon

Kathmandu, Nepal

I traveled to schools within Kathmandu and outlying villages, interviewing students and teachers on education in Nepal. My main assignments were for the Education Journalists Group, where I wrote a news article and a 23-page report on the state of girls’ education in Nepal.

Bachelor Of Science, Broadcast Journalism

Activities and Societies: BG 24 News, BG Radio News, The Gavel, Alpha Omicron Pi, Order of Omega, Dance Marathon, LeaderShape 2007

Educational Leadership And Administration, General