• Innovation: Oversaw the creation of a new magazine out of our Watonga newsroom, a weekly e-newsletter which brought in a new revenue stream and changes to our 20-plus websites that increased revenue.• Oversaw the operations of 13 weekly newspapers and 20-plus websites. • Lead sales for our 13 properties across Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma in addition to selling for our 14 sister properties across Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Nebraska. • Increased Advertising, Digital, Circulation and Commercial printing revenue. • Increased cash flow over prior year all three years in the position.• Increased online ad sales and audience and developed new online sales programs.• Managed costs at all newspapers to meet the budgeted expenses.• Prepared annual sales goals for all 13 properties. • Prepared financial flash reports weekly for all 13 properties.• Tracked sales reports and created the company’s first ever sales dashboard on Google Docs. • Facing a consolidating industry, increased total contribution by more than 43 percent, and improved ad revenue per page by 39 percent. • Responsible for developing sales in designated target markets across multiple states by identifying new sales opportunities and contacting prospective customers by cold calling, networking, lead generation, proposal submission, and phone appointments in order to meet and exceed established sales and revenue quotas. Developed and managed relationships with existing business accounts in order to attain additional business. Develops action plans to cross-sell and up-sell accounts to increase overall total customer spend. Provides comprehensive account plans and strategies to win new business from new and/or existing accounts. • Managed daily operations of three weekly newspapers.• Work with all the department heads at our 13 newspapers to stay focused on the sales goals of the newspapers.• Work with local community organizations to represent the newspapers in a positive manner.

• Financial impact: All three papers advertising revenue increased a combined 27.3 percent YOY despite their location in one of the more economically-depressed and least-educated areas of the state of Oklahoma. • Editorial judgment: Orchestrated the coverage of three newspapers in three separate markets for a print and online product.• Innovation: Oversaw the first implementation of a digital-first philosophy within our company, which dramatically altered the news that was covered and how it was presented. This philosophy called for a large emphasis on the utilization of video and social media to enhance the content of our product. • Productivity: The traffic to the online portion of all three websites increased over 1,000 percent during my tenure.

• Financial impact: Increased revenue by 86.32 percent in Hinton and 93.2 percent in Geary within the first month. • Consolidated operations from two newsrooms into one in order to cut expenses.

• Financial impact: All three papers advertising revenue increased a combined 27.3 percent YOY despite their location in one of the more economically-depressed and least-educated areas of the state of Oklahoma. • Editorial judgment: Orchestrated the coverage of three newspapers in three separate markets for a print and online product.• Innovation: Oversaw the first implementation of a digital-first philosophy within our company, which dramatically altered the news that was covered and how it was presented. This philosophy called for a large emphasis on the utilization of video and social media to enhance the content of our product. • Productivity: The traffic to the online portion of all three websites increased over 1,000 percent during my tenure.

• Financial impact: Increased revenue by 86.32 percent in Hinton and 93.2 percent in Geary within the first month. • Consolidated operations from two newsrooms into one in order to cut expenses.

• Financial impact: All three papers advertising revenue increased a combined 27.3 percent YOY despite their location in one of the more economically-depressed and least-educated areas of the state of Oklahoma. • Editorial judgment: Orchestrated the coverage of three newspapers in three separate markets for a print and online product.• Innovation: Oversaw the first implementation of a digital-first philosophy within our company, which dramatically altered the news that was covered and how it was presented. This philosophy called for a large emphasis on the utilization of video and social media to enhance the content of our product. • Productivity: The traffic to the online portion of all three websites increased over 1,000 percent during my tenure.

• Financial impact: Increased revenue 56.35 percent in my first year at the helm of business operations. • Financial impact: Greatly improved the efficiency of the newsroom through better utilization of resources, while markedly lowering expenses and increasing revenue.• Productivity: Increased website traffic significantly and improved print circulation an additional 29 percent. Newspaper went from 14 pages on average to 30 pages as a result of advertising increases. • Creativity: Created an entirely new product from its design to philosophy.

• Handled the creation of content and pagination of pages for the newspaper. • Wrote an average of 15 stories a week.• Covered sports, local news and wrote editorials as the lone writer for the newsroom. • Won three first place awards from the Oklahoma Press Association in 2014. First-Place for Feature Stories, Advertising and Enterprise Writing. Won a second-place award for News Coverage and a third-place award for community leadership.