Senior Editor
Cruise Critic, A Tripadvisor Company
• Wrote and edited content including ship reviews, travel features, destination guides, and news for Cruise Critic, world's largest consumer cruise website -- through May 2020 • Drove sprint approach designed to increase production of content team, quadrupling output from staff • Led an initiative that nearly doubled organic traffic over a two-year period by targeting content engagement and SEO keywords (resulting in top Google SERP placement for hundreds of articles) • Successfully directed the toughest projects for our team, including transitioning editors to JIRA for workload management, building out luxury and theme cruise sections, serving as editorial liaison on redesign projects, and creating traffic reports in Adobe Omniture • Oversaw $250,000 global freelance budget, coordinating across sites in the U.S., U.K., and Australia • Streamlined e-letter content process, leading to an additional weekly mailer to 1.7 million subscribers