Christopher Schwalm Email & Phone Number

Bilingual, results-oriented communications professional with 20 years experience teaching video production while planning and managing strategic messaging across all media platforms for organizational, community, and national audiences. Lead students in an eight-state area from pitch to publishing on the PBS NewsHour and Student Reporting Labs national digital and broadcast platforms. Experience in journalism, photography, video production, website development and maintenance, and marketing plan development, deployment, and analysis, including social media marketing. Expert in Adobe Creative Cloud video production applications. Produced podcast episodes for season two and three of the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning podcast "On Our Minds".Fluent in Spanish, I prepared business executives in Caracas, Venezuela, for international meetings and speeches; i.e. for the Caribbean Director of the International Monetary Fund. (1993-1994)Completed the Instructional Systems: Educational Technology master's program at Penn State University. (December 2009) and Social Media Marketing component of the Communications Technology graduate program at Point Park University (May 2020). I will continue with the study of the effective use of communication technology to develop professional strategic messaging for organizations.Masters work in Journalism and Public Relations completed at Temple University and Penn State University.I also have four years experience as a yearbook representative for a national company with territory growth of 231% during that period. I returned to education with a specific interest in the integration of communication technology. I have twenty years experience teaching at Cornwall-Lebanon School District, including newspaper production, yearbook production, broadcast and film video production, English literature, rhetoric, writing and public speaking.I have twelve years experience as a correspondent for the Lancaster News.Specialties: Bilingual educator with expertise in Apple's Final Cut production software, Adobe's InDesign, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, Camtasia, and media production software.

Listed skills include Indesign, Software, Spanish, Educational Technology, and 16 others.

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  Penn State University

  Instructional Systems: Educational Technology