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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