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Austin, Texas Area

• Collaborate with newsrooms, developers, project managers and marketing teams across the country to design impactful stories on deadline• Coordinate check-ins and manage project launches • Leverage analytics to understand audience behavior and adapt design choices to meet business goals • Lead virtual reviews of stories and series with project stakeholders • Work alongside the development team to improve the existing design system and internal design tools • Conduct research and design mockups for new features • Train print-first designers on the digital design system, CMS and workflow structures

Austin, Texas Area

• Build an understanding of user needs through design thinking by planning and leading workshops in local newsrooms • Create prototypes and run strategic user-testing of projects• Manage internship program

Austin, Texas Area

• Lead front-end design for national news projects • Research and design new storytelling tools for projects including a story queue, a shadow flicker simulator and a gamification of local datasets • Design and iterate a custom WordPress theme for journalists to elevate their best work outside the standard article template

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

• Design daily feature/news sections for newspapers across the South using layout, hierarchy, color and type to advance stories • Design special weekly products such as entertainment tabs, health magazines and wraparounds • Illustrate stories and covers as needed

Syracuse, New York Area

• Manage an editorial staff of more than 40 students and the nonprofit organization as president of the Board of Directors • Create digital team to overhaul the paper’s online strategy • Plan and run fundraising

Syracuse, New York Area

• Plan all art for news, feature and sports sections • Design cover and spread of special editions • Hire and train new designers • Supervise staff of six designers and one illustrator • Commission all illustrations • Revamp training system

Syracuse, New York Area

• Design daily news, sports and feature sections twice a week, special sections and online graphics • Communicate with editors to meet deadline • Collaborate with photo team to produce photo stories and choose art

Bethesda, Maryland

• Design feature articles and front of book pages • Help design and produce the largest issue in the magazine’s history • Brand ‘Best of Bethesda 2016’ marketing materials • Proof pages at printer • Photo research and pricing

New York, New York

• Create posters, screens and branding for employee events • Design public relations website wireframe • Manage digital records of previous projects • Design moodboards for photo shoot styling • Coordinate photo shoots • Photo research and pricing

Syracuse, New York Area

• Design cover, feature pages and edit all other pages • Design website wireframe and work with development company to launch site • Develop paragraph styles and design library

Graphic Design, Graphic Design

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Graphic Design