Conducted nationwide undercover videotaped shops of retail stores, banks, restaurants and other businesses as facilitated by employers who contracted with our company for training and quality assurance objectives.Operated concealed computer equipment and adhered to assigned script to gauge product knowledge and consumer interaction, ethics and business/sales etiquette.Utilized years worth of diverse interviewing and personal interactive skills acquired through experience with news, government and corporate resources.Successfully completed company’s 1,000-shop milestone and earned bonuses regularly for conducting assignments efficiently and error-free.Completed spreadsheet and other required evaluations to reflect that employees met standards required by respective retail, bank, restaurant and home construction employers.

Provided media support for three commissioners and senior executive staff of the Texas Workforce Commission. Produced weekly Intranet message for agency’s executive director and edited press releases, media advisories and wrote stories for a quarterly magazine. Provided photography and back-up on graphics projects. Wrote materials which reflected agency business, employer-focused events and issues to promote agency’s statewide initiatives to foster workforce and economic development. Collaborated with executives of state’s 28 workforce development boards, successfully promoting the state of Texas as the country’s leading environment for doing business. Pitched and chronicled hundreds of success stories in which job seekers secured employment because of services provided by workforce offices statewide.Maintained effective working relationships with agency executives and commissioners, news media and the general public.Facilitated coverage of TWC initiatives and arranged media opportunities for the Texas Workforce Commision chairman.Provided photographs and illustrations for newsletter stories and internal agency events.National organizations such as Veterans of Foreign Wars and U.S. Department of Labor requested and published my photographs. Also provided back-up support for graphics projects using InDesign and PowerPoint software.Conceived “We Make Texas Work” theme selected by agency executives for annual Texas Workforce Conference attended by thousands of Texas Workforce System board associates from state’s 28 workforce board regions as well as statewide employers.

Collected and edited data for nationwide alumni directories. Ranked in the top 20 percent in sales within five months.

Interviewed highway engineers and prepared press releases about Houston region's multimillion-dollar highway construction projects.Developed and produced newsletter stories on groundbreaking projects impacting thousands of motorists within the six-county metropolitan region served by the Houston district office. Prepared daily media advisories for distribution to regional media about current construction-related closures and detour information. Provided motorists with feedback via incoming telephone and e-mail inquiries about real-time traffic conditions.Partnered with officials of TranStar, the Houston region's traffic monitoring agency, to coordinate online database for entering highway highway/road closure data. System enabled authorized department officials to provide motorists with more immediate highway conditions and detour information. Planned Safety Zone Awareness press conference and introduced local dignitaries. Promoted agency's "Earth Day" initiatives at college expositions.Marketed local "Don't Mess With Texas" litter-prevention campaign, which attracted media interviews and heightened agency exposure.

Budgeted content and produced stories and photographs for twice-weekly county newspaper. Diverse subject matter included county's school districts, city and county government, and athletic events.Edited all staff copy and news briefs, announcements and public service announcements submitted by Fayette County subscribers.Incorporated pagination and redesigned entire publication using Adobe PageMaker software.Implemented greater sports coverage within county and enhanced feature story content, dramatically increasing newspaper circulation.

Managed a staff of four staff members; conceived and produced local government, school and sports content, edited, took photographs and implemented pagination for community newspaper.

Managed morning news desk overseeing and dispatching six reporters, responded to inquiries from daily newspaper's editorial board and subscribers.

Covered athletic events for four school districts in Matagorda County, Texas.Increased coverage in a department previously operated by two staff members. Work included planning, covering, writing, editing, page design and paginating sports section of this publication which then was distributed six days a week.Column writing about topics not sports-related was often published as well.

Covered enterprising human interest stories for campus publication with circulation of more than 40,000 readers.

Wrote articles about campus life and edited letters to the editor for proper content, style, punctuation and grammar usage.