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New York City Metropolitan Area

• Produce live coverage in studio and in the field for CNBC's business day programming & other NBC News platforms including MSNBC and NBC News NOW.• Monitor financial news and stock market movements to identify potential story opportunities.• Pitch, produce and shoot enterprise stories and packages that are relevant for CNBC’s business audience. • Coordinate logistics for field shoots including booking guests, crew and travel. • Conduct interviews with key sources and handle news under embargo. • Collaborate with editors, reporters, and anchors to ensure timely and accurate reporting.

Bristol, Connecticut, United States

• Consistently developed, pitched and produced new show, story and segment ideas. • Produced halftime and fill shows for ACC football and basketball games in addition to producing 1-hour and 30-minute standalone shows. • Produced and executed content for social media and streaming distribution to help raise the profile of ACC programming. • Traveled and produced shows on the road for ACC Network. • Worked with sales, marketing and programming teams to execute sponsored content during various shows and halftime segments. • Served as broadcast manager and coordinated requests between ACC studio and ACC live event crews on game days under tight deadline pressure.

Bristol, Connecticut, United States

• Key member of a small team that launched the ACC Network on ESPN in August 2019. • Helped lead the team that developed and implemented the network’s standard operating procedures and style guidelines to ensure consistency and quality of production elements and graphics across the network’s studio shows. • Regularly produced high-end video elements, interviews, and segments for air. • Produced halftime and fill shows for live events on ACC Network.• Served as the main point of contact and trainer for new Production Assistants and Content Associates assigned to ACC Network.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Sourced, wrote and produced breaking news packages and feature stories for air on NBC Nightly News. • Edited original content for OTT and social platforms.• Represented NBC Nightly News team on interdepartmental projects with sales, legal and marketing teams.• Responsible for line producing both the weekday and weekend shows; building and overseeing the daily broadcast rundown in iNews, building all of the show’s graphic elements (OTS, banners and chyrons) in VIZ-RT, and timing the show to ensure all segment and commercial times were met.• Coordinated show content during breaking news and assisted in gathering elements for air under tight deadline pressure. • Shot interviews and broadcast packages using the latest digital video techniques and equipment.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Assist senior producers and producers in gathering production elements, including interviews, MOS, and BROLL, for day-of-air and future stories. • Produce and edit voice-overs and teases, including gathering materials, selecting shots to use, and cutting videos for air under deadline pressure. • Pitch, produce and shoot stories in the field with various NBC News correspondents.• Provide editorial and administrative support to staff, producers, and NBC News correspondents.• Serve as the show’s line producer on the weekends, building and managing the rundown, coordinating the building of the show’s keys, banners, and chyrons, and timing the live broadcast to ensure commercial and off-times are all met.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for assisting senior producers and producers with the research and sourcing of story elements, quickly and efficiently, for day-of-air pieces.• Participated in daily editorial meetings and presented story ideas. • Booked and helped produce interviews for day-of-air and future stories. • Managed studio bookings with regional NBC bureaus and helped coordinate video feeds and live shots. • Formatted teleprompter and provided music and roll cues for Nightly News director and assistant director. • Performed various newsroom duties including organizing meetings, copying scripts, and logging various video elements for use in stories.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for assisting producers in a variety of production capacities. • Participated in weekday and weekend editorial meetings, conducted research for day of air and future segments, presented story ideas, logged and transcribed interviews, selected sound bites to be used in story packages, and sourced and cleared social media content to be used for broadcast.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Assisted NBC News national assignment editors in gathering details about major news stories throughout the United States.• Sourced and cleared social media content for use on all NBCU partners and platforms, logged and transcribed interviews, reached out to local affiliates around the country to help coordinate news coverage, and assisted crews gathering elements in the field.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Responsible for assisting senior producers on this daily, one hour, primetime program in a variety of production capacities. • Participated in daily editorial meetings, presented story ideas, conducted research for on-air segments/stories, logged and transcribed interviews, assisted booking producers with live in-studio guests, processed viewer email, worked with video producers to find relevant video and sound bites for stories, procured videos to be used on the show, and assisted in the control room during the live show. • Also, from June to July 2015, produced a series of videos for the MaddowBlog website that offered analysis and commentary on different games and aspects of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup.

Storrs, Ct

• Lead all aspects of UCTV's News Department. • Responsible for developing overall news strategy, show formats, on-air look, budgeting, recruiting and hiring staff, crew scheduling, and newsgathering assignments.• Executive produced live bi-weekly newscasts that aired on UConn's local cable channel. • Ran bi-weekly editorial meetings for the news team to discuss strategies, broadcast improvements and ways to increase viewership.

Storrs, Ct

• Generated story ideas and produced content from the field for regularly scheduled programs on this intra-university cable channel. • Operated cameras for live shows, live sporting events, and news packages, worked as a floor producer for various bi-weekly broadcasts and used Final Cut Pro to create and edit news and sports packages.

New Haven, Ct

• Assisted the assignment desk and attended morning and night side editorial meetings. • Helped make beat calls to police and fire departments, research story ideas, file press releases and answer viewer phone calls. • Accompanied reporters and photographers covering stories in the field, and learned the technical aspects of news gathering. • Also assisted producers in newscast development and writing.

Worked during semester breaks in customer and food service roles at the Silvermine Market’s Roton Point Association pool/beach restaurant location for Summer 2013 and 2014.

Hartford, Connecticut Area

Reported directly to the Legislative Coordinator, helping coordinate client participation in public hearings, attending press conferences, and monitoring committee meetings and debate in the Connecticut House and Senate.

Wilton, Ct

• Coordinated and implemented public relations and social media campaigns for the Light the Night fundraising walks, the StarWrite Annual Author’s Luncheon, Team in Training and the Pineapple Classic 5K. • Assembled fundraising packets, organized merchandise, updated local Facebook status, tweeted updates and reconciled and coordinated projects. • Participated in various walks and fundraising events throughout Connecticut.

Master'S Degree, Communications & Journalism Innovation

Master’s in Communications from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, with a concentration in Journalism Innovation.

Bachelor'S Degree, Double Major In Political Science And Journalism

Activities and Societies: UConn Women's Soccer Team, University of Connecticut Television (UCTV)Transferred to UConn from Texas Christian.

Political Science And Strategic Communication

Activities and Societies: TCU Women's Varsity SoccerRecruited to join the Division 1, Big 12 Conference college soccer team at TCU..

High School

Activities and Societies: - National Honor Society - Wilton High School Girls Varsity Soccer - Debate TeamGraduated with honors. Inducted.