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Miami, Florida, United States

New York, New York, United States

• Creates posts and manages performance on @TheGameDayMLB on Instagram, Twitter & Facebook.• Grew the MLB Instagram page from 35K to 308K followers (+780% OVR, +43.3% MoM), Twitter from 47 to 7,546 followers (+15,955% OVR, +886.4% MoM), & Facebook from 3,020 to 27.2K followers (+800% OVR, +44.4% MoM).• Appears regularly on-camera for Tik Toks, Instagram reels, & YouTube Shorts, totaling 11.9M views (avg. 89.1K views per Tik Tok, 73.4K per IG reel, 113.7K per YouTube Short).• Produces and ideates weekly video content for other on-camera talents across all platforms (MLB, NFL, NBA, CBB, NHL, CFB, others).• Utilizes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro & Audition on a daily basis to create a bevy of content.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Managed all social media platforms with a total following of nearly 300,000.• Assisted with all external and internal communications campaigns.• Created original content, from graphics, to videos, to copywriting, to insightful blogs, and more.• Managed a budget of over $300,000 allocated to company merchandise, which he created.

• Pivoted approach to make custom apparel for professional athletes’ wives and girlfriends starting in October, seeing a 300% growth in Instagram followers and nearly 200% growth in sales in less than five months by pivoting the brand’s strategy alone.• Identifies and collaborates with influencers to help grow West Coast Bias’ following (@WestCoastBiasMerch), including Camille Kostek (934K followers) and Emily Mayfield (222K followers).• Successfully utilizes collaborations, giveaways, promo codes, etc. to quickly grow a following.• Creates hundreds of apparel designs using the Adobe Creative Suite, merging the designs onto various items of clothing with multiple drop-shipping companies.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Hosted an MLB podcast, ‘Ducks on the Pond,’ where he talked about current MLB events, weekly gambling picks, and interviewed former players and current analysts/journalists.• Ran Ducks on the Pond's social media accounts (@DucksOnThePondPod), growing them organically during the 2020 MLB season.• Designed numerous apparel items for Zedia Network's online store, generating more revenue for the company aside from advertisements.

• Composed multiple columns each week on Missouri and B1G football.• Occasionally worked on the news desk, covering breaking news.

Michigan City, Indiana

• Covered a variety of prep sports in Northern Indiana, ranging from East Chicago to South Bend.• Composed multiple feature stories per week, ranging from profiles to analytical pieces.• Wrote columns on professional and collegiate sports in Indiana and Chicago.• Had a strong social media presence, reporting live form events and promoting the paper’s content on multiple social media outlets.

Columbia, Mo, United States

• Covered the Missouri baseball team full-time.• Attended all games.• Wrote game stories, series previews, features and more.• Wrote and made graphics for a five-part series of features on the top five MU athletes since 2005.• Provided updates on the team not only online and in print, but also on social media.

Columbia, Missouri

Created a variety of graphics using Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop and other applications.

Columbia, Missouri Area

Edited hundreds of sports and news stories, working with writers and editors to compose the best story on both print and digital mediums.Helped lay out print editions multiple times weekly, as well as a special Missouri football section called Tiger Kickoff.

• Created "West Coast Bias" — a sports blogging website and podcast network that covers all professional and collegiate sports on the West Coast and Mountain West.• Wrote multiple articles daily.• Edited all stories for the website.• Produces, cuts and edits all six podcasts on WCB's podcast network.• Manages a staff of 23 writers and podcasters.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Covered the University of Missouri basketball team for Rock M Nation — SB Nation's website for the University of Missouri.• Reported at every home game, writing a game story or sidebar. Covers road games remotely.• Completed multiple weekly columns, as well as large feature stories.• Managed Rock M Nation Twitter account on Missouri game days.• Fully credentialed by Missouri Athletics.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Covered the University of Missouri football team for Rock M Nation — SB Nation's website for the University of Missouri.• Completed multiple weekly article assignments, including: depth chart analysis, media day wrap-up, opponent offense preview, opponent defense preview, live game thread, and a game recap/sidebar depending on the game.• Wrote large feature stories as he saw fit.• Managed Rock M Nation Twitter account on Missouri game days.• Featured on multiple different Rock M Nation podcasts.• Fully credentialed by Missouri Athletics.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Composed a variety of stories from features, to profiles, to service packages and more for the largest monthly magazine in mid-Missouri.• Pitched multiple stories per issue, working with editors to hash out the best one or two to work on.• Broadened horizons by writing about non-sports topics — primarily food/drink and culture.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Produced 73 bylines for 590 The Fan on 590thefan.com — FOX's radio affiliate in the greater St. Louis area.• Attended 32 St. Louis Cardinals home games from May to July, gathering information to write captivating game recaps, profiles, columns and other various stories relating to the Cardinals.• Wrote stories and created content for the St. Louis Blues and University of Missouri Athletics as well.• Filmed interviews and cut clips from them for the Tim McKernan Show on the Inside STL Podcast Network — one was with Joe Buck.• Designed graphic content for 590 The Fan's social media; including graphics for Michael Porter Jr. getting drafted by the Nuggets, the Cardinals' MLB Draft selections and various other situations.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Covered baseball and girls high school basketball for all four Columbia high schools, as well as athletics for Father Tolton Catholic High School. Previously covered Battle High School and Columbia College athletics as well.• Wrote feature stories from a wide range of perspectives about anything to do with sports in mid-Missouri. • Applied multiple media outreach techniques to provide a summary of mid-Missouri’s sports action for the day; including in-person interviews, phone calls and social media updates.

Remote

• Produced content for Locked On Texans — one of the largest blogs and podcasts for the Houston Texans.• Wrote timely stories on a wide range of topics from breaking news to profiles on various people relating to the Houston Texans.• Wrote the most viewed story on the website.• Featured occasionally on a podcast that gets over 17,000 listens per month.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Covered the Kansas City Royals for the Maneater — MU's student-run newspaper.• Jumped on breaking news — both for the Royals and Missouri — whenever editor needed someone to write an article.• Took on multiple different articles at editor's request, pertaining to the Royals, Missouri and other sports.• Wrote columns on Missouri Tigers athletics as well.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Ran digital outlets (social media, website) for mid-Missouri’s NBC affiliate.• Edited all national and international video for KOMU8’s newscasts viewed by over 170,000 homes.• Produced, wrote and anchored morning cut-in segments during the Today Show. • Assisted content manager by following incoming news, tracking breaking news and accomplishing a variety of tasks in the news room.• Covered high school sports across the state of Missouri every Friday night during the 2016 high school football season.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Wrote columns on everything from college basketball to the NBA every so often for KCOU's website.• Occasionally featured on a live sports talk show called "Seasoned Beef" to discuss a variety of collegiate and professional sports.

Bachelor'S Degree, Print & Digital Sports Journalism

Activities and Societies: Alpha Tau OmegaCompleted coursework concentrating on multicultural journalism, multimedia journalism and news.

Education record