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Kansas City Metropolitan Area

• Oversee strategic planning to create effective, compelling content for clients' customer-facing social and digital channels.• Push for unique and innovative ways to deliver goal-oriented content via sharp insights and deep understanding of customer journey, tone and voice.• Lead and coordinate with a team of writers, designers and videographers to plan, develop and execute significant monthly content needs for websites, social, email, print, PR and more.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Led planning and development of B2B content for a client's customer-facing channels.• Developed, pitched and executed new ways to present that content to audiences across all channels.• Collaborated with a team of writers, designers and videographers to create content for social, email, print, PR and more.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Edited USA Today’s premier newsletter, The Short List, reaching thousands of readers daily with mobile-tailored subject lines, copy and sends.• Produced and edited USAToday.com and mobile apps, with a responsive eye toward analytics and social trends.• Wrote and produced trending content tailored for SEO.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Reported, wrote and edited features for the magazine's digital and print editions.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Reported on presidential candidates leading up to the 2016 Iowa Caucuses through text, video and social media.• Filmed, edited, produced and hosted video packages for desktop and mobile platforms.• Advised company projects and campaigns on branding, development and copywriting.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Produced multimedia profiles and lifestyle stories for The Des Moines Register and Juice Magazine, including weekly branded columns.• Filmed, edited, produced and hosted video packages for desktop and mobile platforms.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Oversaw daily editing and production of the Register’s iPhone, Android and tablet editions.• Assisted in managing the Register’s social media accounts and home page.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Led coverage of Iowa’s largest city, its politics and people from city hall to its 58 neighborhoods with a focus on downtown development.• Reported and produced multimedia packages combining text, video and social media.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Reported on presidential candidates leading up to the 2012 Iowa caucuses through text, video and social media.• Travelled as an embedded reporter with the campaigns of Rick Perry, Rick SantorumHerman Cain.• Assisted editing of the Register’s caucuses blog and managed related social media accounts.

Proposed, researched and wrote arts and culture features, event previews andcriticism for the alternative weekly.

• Trained students in video production for broadcast using Final Cut Pro.

Graduate

The Gannett Talent Development Program is designed to recruit top talent and build a pipeline of trained professionals in journalism.

School; Bachelor Of Science, Journalism And Mass Communications; Journalism, Emphasis News And Information