Kris O'Donnell Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, Ny, Us

Buffalo

I teach STEM communication to all undergraduate engineering and computer science students. The course focuses on developing and enhancing students' writing and presentation skills both individually and in a group. I utilize active learning strategies, social media, and hands-on activities to assist students in learning to successfully communicate across a range of professional genres and audiences. I also teach a public speaking course for engineering students that allows them to practice their oral communication skills in a workshop environment.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

Generate and research ideas on medical breakthroughs and trends, coordinate story shoots, write scripts, coordinate production team, and conduct interviews. Stories appear on more than 100 television stations across the country, reaching more than 30 million viewers.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Managed daily operations for 60-person newsroom, overseeing six daily newscasts for 1M viewers. • Developed newsroom talent, helping them grow their skills and confidence, resulting in top-notch content.• Created multi-faceted coverage plans for large-scale live events, including 2016 New York Primaries, coordinating 25 on-air and behind-the-camera talent between 8 sites and resources to produce a seamless audience experience. • Approved all scripts and on-air content to ensure accurate, fair reporting.

Buffalo

• Oversaw production for evening newscasts, including content development, story assignments and editing for 30-person news room.• Coached reporters and photographers to improving writing, shooting and editing skills.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Created dynamic communications learning programs incorporating real-world media experience to equip 500+ students to join a rapidly changing, fast-paced industry. • Facilitated classes in Media Ethics, Announcing & Performance, Sports Programming, Introductory Mass Media, which featured hands-on teaching and mentoring to students build their writing, shooting and editing skills. Received 92% positive reviews. • Incorporated a variety of media, including video, audio, online and digital, into training programs, bringing concepts to life. Through hands-on teaching and coaching, helped students to incorporate media into their own presentations. • Facilitated senior-level capstone news production class and weekly student news broadcast for one of the largest universities in the country. • Taught four classes in broadcast journalism, including television and radio reporting, media ethics and large-lecture format introductory mass communication.• Designed and organized learning programs to incorporate a variety of learning methods customized to student needs, delivering comprehensive courses to support learning objectives. • Partnered with academic colleagues to continuously evaluate offerings and develop a curriculum, which prepared students to work at major national and local media stations across the country. • Guided targeted evaluation process incorporating participant and planning team feedback to significantly improve participant experience and learning.

Dayton, Ohio Area

• Sourced and developed 10+ stories per week in fast paced, high pressure environment, presenting them live for afternoon and nightly newscasts.• Developed extensive list of contacts and conducted research for enterprise and hard news stories.• Anchored on air news and sports broadcasts, as needed. • (The station receives the Murrow award, I was part of the reporter team that covered the story and whose work was submitted for the award. It was a months-long story about a woman who killed her two kids in a fire and went on trial for murder)• Honored alongside station colleagues with Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage, recognizing outstanding reporting on a violent murder of two children.

Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area

• Gathered, wrote and presented stories for nightly 10 p.m. newscast• Developed contacts and conducted research for enterprise stories• Provided live reports from various locations

Houston, Texas Area

• Associate producer for the 9 p.m. nightly newscast• Wrote majority of scripts for newscast• Researched stories and conducted interviews for sweeps pieces and special projects• Filled in as a weekend reporter on an as-needed basis

Houston, Texas Area

• Served as co-host and producer of nightly sports talk show, Sportsbeat• Hosted pregame and postgame shows for MLB’s Houston Astros and the NBA’s Houston Rockets• Provided reports from local events and national events such as the Super Bowl• Anchored hourly updates throughout all day parts

Master Of Arts - Ma, Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Communication