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Denver, CO, US

• Total industry disrupter as the first-ever live OTT service, supporting cord-cutters with several lines of business covering domestic, Latino and foreign-language à la carte streaming TV packages.
• Collaborate with marketing, IT and operations teams to combine strategy and data for highly-personalized, dynamic emails built with RPL (Responsys Personalization Language)
• Own and manage the development of all customer communications through triggered emails, automated email series, adhoc marketing emails, in-app messages and push notifications
• Architect solutions in Responsys to support business needs around offer testing, product communications, consumer insights, customer preferences, engagement data and more

Denver, Colorado

• Strategize, design and develop highly-targeted multi-channel campaigns for current customers, former customers, cart abandons and prospects
• Collaborate with web development, product development and UI/UX teams to create and launch customer communications that unlock the value of new features, app improvements and customer flows
• Own and manage the design and development aspect of all communications within ExactTarget (Salesforce), Responsys, Movable Ink, Swrve and select landing pages within Adobe Experience Manager

Denver, Colorado

• Fortune 500 company with more than $15B in annual revenue that continues to redefine the communications industry through direct-broadcast satellite and internet-delivered TV services, plus IoT innovations and strong.
• Design and develop marketing email campaigns for promotional, engagement and acquisition purposes that serve up to 2 million inboxes daily
• Develop transactional and triggered emails with multiple levels of dynamic content
• Collaborate with all other IT customer apps teams to create and launch customer-facing communications

Boulder, Colorado

• Design hub for over 20 Colorado and out-of-state newspapers and publications, including the Boulder Daily Camera, Denver Post and St. Paul Pioneer Press
• Work with remote editors via Slack to organize, edit and design the daily newspaper and special sections under tight production-critical deadlines
• Ensure quality design and content consistent with both AP and house styles
• Format content according to HTML tags and CSS stylesheets that automatically set print and web typography according to each paper’s style
• Stand in as secondary editor to the Colorado Daily, which requires further planning and preparation of content, including HTML/CSS formatting to prepare all media for the web

Multiple Locations

• Freelance and contract work for independent publications, small businesses, and established marketing companies in the U.S., South Korea and Australia
• Join teams remotely to build websites, test user experiences, code custom plugins, create content and design cohesive branding
• Troubleshoot design and database issues for web clients
• Design and implement marketing campaigns for email and social media
• Set up systems of organization for easy user access to large amounts of information, such as a database of products or archived articles

Ulsan, South Korea

• Bilingual English/Korean magazine promoting arts and culture in Ulsan, Busan and Daegu, South Korea. Winner of the 2014 Korea Observer K-Blog awards for Best Online Magazine and Best Music Blog.
• Maintain and update website with new content
• Design and implement social media marketing, website redesigns, logo redesigns and branding
• Create print publications and merchandise, such as t-shirts, stickers and posters
• Copy edit and polish Korean-to-English translations

Ulju-gun, Ulsan, South Korea

• Contract with the South Korean government's English Program in Korea (EPIK) to bring native-speaking English education and multicultural awareness to the elementary classroom
• Teach 22 weekly classes in two rural schools, plus a Saturday English camp as well as seasonal English camps
• Assist with additional projects, such as keeping student records, publishing an English language student magazine, rehearsing and filming the yearly English theater competition, and creating and editing English music.

Scottsbluff, Nebraska

• Professional work in the advertising and multimedia departments at Scottsbluff’s local newspaper with a circulation of more than 16,000
• Design, code and ship marketing campaigns for email and social media
• Convert content from print to digital via HTML/CSS and the addition of photo galleries and related content to keep the newspaper’s website up-to-date
• Offer web development for advertising clients who a) don’t have a website, b) want a new website or c) need help with their current website>> As a new, much-needed income stream for the advertising department, web.

Kearney, Nebraska

• Professional work on the copy desk at Kearney’s local newspaper with a circulation of up to 15,000, culminating in multiple awards with the Nebraska Press Association.
• Edit local and wire content, plus write headlines and supporting copy as needed
• Design and lay out pages for the daily edition
• Design and manage all aspects of special sections.

Univeristy Of Nebraska At Kearney

• Leadership positions for the student newspaper at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, culminating in top honors at collegiate competitions.
• Assign and edit stories, then see them through to publication
• Manage a staff of more than 20 students and 7 employees
• Work with advertising and marketing teams
• Design template layouts for both print and web
• Create a cohesive network between print, web and broadcast in the journalism/mass media department

Bachelor Of Arts, Journalism, Mass Media, Visual Communication And Design, Gpa: 3.5

Activities and Societies: Honors Program, Students in Mass Media Honorary Society, Ex-Officio, The Antelope Newspaper, KFTW TV, KLPR.

Full-Stack Web Development

Topics of study include HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular, Ruby, Rails and more, all of which come together to create several.

Grow With Google Scholarship: Intermediate Mobile Web Development

Topics of study include offline-first design, service workers, IndexedDB and caching, plus JavaScript ES6 updates. Applicants must be in.

Journalism, English, Spanish

Activities and Societies: The Spectator Newspaper, English/Spanish tutoring and conversation table, study abroad (Costa Rica 2005 / Peru.