Create high-impact, engaging visual content for digital galleries, print articles, digital journalism platforms, social media, and video stories on tight deadlines.• Responsible for creating an e ffective presentation of visual content through web galleries, social media, video and print.• Proactively research business needs and key objectives, recommending e ffective and visually eye-catching designs and layouts.• Optimize cross-functional team management to keep and meet deadlines. Maintain project timetables to meet deadlines.• 100% on-time delivery of media assets.• Led the launch of video production by holding trainingworkshops and producing best practices tutorials for newsroomsta ff.• Logistics management incorporating the needs of multipleteams, often with competing goals.• Responsible for organizing and executing photo coverage of NFL,MLB, and NBA.• Ability to problem-solve and improvise in the field under theduress of high pressure and high-risk situations.• Collaborate with editors, reporters, photographers,videographers, and designers on visual media aspects ofstorytelling, editing, and presentation.• Build the bridge between the photography department and thenewsroom for more productive and effi cient cross-projectcollaboration.• Maintain institutional knowledge of local communities, politics,environmental conditions, business, and agriculture to improve quality and context of visual product.

Unit Chair of the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat newsroom guild.• Elected by newsroom personnel to represent employee interests to management and owners of Sonoma Media Investments.• Negotiate terms of labor contract between newsroom employees and Sonoma Media Investments.• Risk management and assessment in the field of conflict resolution.• Liaison between guild-represented employees and management.• Extensive knowledge of labor organization issues and workplacepolicies.

Created visual content for the largest newspaper in the state of Idaho, covering sports, politics, breaking news, and features.• Collaborated with cross-functional departments to redefine the story development process.• Produced self-generated news articles.• Began as intern (3 months), promoted to full-time sta afterdisplaying expertise in visual journalism.