Donovan Aird Email & Phone Number

San Luis Obispo, Ca, Us

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Served as graphics specialist and replay technician, as well as field/‘fan cam’ & primary/secondary court camera operator for ESPN+ productions of football/basketball/baseball/softball games and soccer/wrestling/volleyball matches.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Worked as official NCAA scorekeeper for wrestling and basketball; also served as referees’ substitution coordinator in soccer and as live-statistics spotter for football broadcasts.

San Luis Obispo County, California, United States

• Assisted in updating Library Guide links to current Primo database resources; also updated subject-relevant listings’ call numbers within Library Guides to reflect corresponding new ECE genre format.• Staffed circulation desk (organizing additions to reserves, amending spine labels to reflect new shelving classifications, selling test materials, completing item returns and distributing Chromebooks).• Co-assembled display in support of the ALA’s Banned Books Week and served as a student panelist for Zoom discussion welcoming author Lorena Germán; also prepared wellness & mental health display.• In addition to reshelving via LC system, completed a comprehensive shelf check of North County Campus stacks.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Created a wide range of promotional, informational, and storytelling content for 220 Cal Poly student-athletes (plus coaches and distinguished alumni) per year.• Expanded four teams’ History and Record Books by hundreds of pages, fostering further alumni engagement.• Served as Internship Supervisor for Journalism students enrolled in Cal Poly’s Media Internship course, training students in collegiate athletics PR & communications; submitted progress reports and final evaluations to faculty coordinators.• Researched, wrote, and published four feature articles for Black History Month on GoPoly.com, including department’s first interview with Edwin Mack, who went on to fund the Edwin D. Mack Scholarship at Cal Poly.• Publicized successful development initiatives leading to facilities renovations such as entirely new Track & Field complex (completed in 2018) and new Women’s Basketball Locker Room (2021).• Served as records-keeper and publisher for all student roster, bio, and schedule maintenance spanning six NCAA Division I teams, and as official statistician & NCAA/Big West Conference liaison for game/match/meet/season/career statistical reports.• Shared insight as guest speaker in professor Patrick Howe’s JOUR 352 course (Advanced News Reporting).

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Earned promotion to full-time position in office after 20 months interning.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

• Proofread and formatted corporate press releases; regularly edited & distributed announcements on behalf of clients such as AT&T, MGM Resorts, Microsoft, Sony, Southwest Airlines and Texas Instruments.• Made an average of 98 client-approved corrections per month to punctuation, grammar, and style within releases.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Wrote and edited hundreds of stories on a nightly deadline.• Designed, proofread and released pages for 40,000-circulation daily print.• Won newsroom-wide Best Individual Beat Coverage Award in April 2010.• For 2011, the sports desk won second place for overall coverage among circulations between 35-150k in the California Newspaper Publishers Association Better Newspapers Contest; in 2010, our team also earned CNPA second place within the 25-75k category.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Won newsroom-wide Best Individual Enterprise Award in July 2009.

• Provided daily copy editing, text formatting, linking, photo editing and publishing for top national high school sports website.

San Luis Obispo, California, United States

• Graded students’ homework submissions and exams for journalism chair.

Master Of Library & Information Science - Mlis

• In-progress • Studied Information Literacy & Learning, Information Retrieval System Design, Information Communities, Online Learning.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Sports Editor • Mustang Daily (campus newspaper) • Jan. 2008-Dec. 2008 News Copy Editor • Mustang Daily (campus.

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Transfer Studies

Activities and Societies: Cuestonian (student newspaper)• High Honors grad. • Returned to study Library Services in Fall 2022.