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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California

Responsible for communications, branding, marketing, and public relations at Mercy High School. This includes but is not limited to developing marketing plans, branding, website management and updating, social media, analytics, media relations, and all digital, print and broadcast communications.

San Francisco, Ca

Responsible for the completion of the elementary and high school Administrator's Handbook for the Archdiocese. Worked collaboratively with the Department of Catholic Schools, Human Resources, Communications, Real Estate, Building and Construction, Finance, and Legal Departments to coordinate, write, review, copyedit, and digitally publish the revised handbook.

San Francisco, California

Top level content editing which included: curriculum development, content leveling, assessment writing, vocabulary writing, copyediting and proofreading. Currently in good standing as Top Editor freelancer

Remote

On-call freelance writing that included curriculum mapping, writing lesson plans, copyediting, developing content for digital push pieces as part of mobile marketing strategy for conference launch of product and services.

San Francisco, California

As Principal, I supervised all administrative, instructional, and service personnel. I supervised all school programs, policies, and activities to ensure adherence to the school's mission, its brand, and making sure we were providing high quality educational experiences and services for the students ad their families in a safe and enriching environment. Direct accountability was to the Superintendent and the school pastor.

San Francisco

Assigned to supervise the day-to-day execution of tasks needed to keep an elementary school running smoothly. Helpe develop STEM related academic programs, participate in hiring and training faculty, and attend to executive chores such as record-keeping. Maintain relationships with parents and students, and helped represent the school at community and civic events. Routine tasks included:- Enforcing disciplinary policy- Classroom observation- Collaboration with faculty on performance objectives- Leading a professional development activity

Basic duties included: planning organizing and implementing an appropriate instructional program in the elementary learning environment that guided and encouraged students to develop and fulfill their academic potential. Work was performed under the supervision of the principal.I worked in several capacities at Star, beginning with 4th Grade teacher and then Computer teacher, before taking on 5th Grade/4th grade English.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked remotely with colleague in New York to strategize weekly editorial calendar. We worked in conjunction with the Product Manager and Associate Producer on writing and displaying editorial content using in-house designed webpages and basic HTML. Helped coordinate the redesign of site to eventually increase traffic by 300 percent. Responsible for digitizing, editing and copyediting for web reading assigned portions of the hardcopy magazine as well as breaking news. I was also in charge of producing and writing the daily email newsletter.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed teen and college-aged freelance writers and photographers to produce daily editorial content for the youth-targeted site. Managed redesign of site and developed content strategy to attract teen and college-aged users. Developed and standardized site style guide, produced user profiles, wireframes, data fields, and all other production specifications in coordination with Snowball.com's design team and programmers.

San Jose

Recruited and managed high school freelance writers throughout the San Jose area and across the newspaper's outer bureaus.Worked with Mercury Center and San Jose Mercury News Design and Editorial Departments to produce unique, timely and engaging weekly editorial content on the teen- targeted site using html code. Developed and standardized website style guide.Built brand and developed mission of the award-winning project.

San Jose

Worked within assigned beat areas. Analyzed and collected information through various modes such as personal interviews and news briefings to write news articles on deadline. Monitored daily events locally and regionally while assisting others to gather news events. Coordinated with news editor and fellow reporters to develop story ideas. Maintained relations with all news sources. Performed research and wrote both local and regional news. Collaborated with news editors to improve story presentation. maintained knowledge on latest events and news to obtain news coverage and important and pertinent issues. I began work at the Mercury News as a copy clerk, worked my way through interning at the various regional news bureaus, landed a job on the city desk and then won job of Youth Beat reporter before promoted to Mercury Center

Long Beach, California

Worked within assigned beat areas. Analyzed and collected information through various modes such as personal interviews and news briefings to write news articles on deadline. Monitored daily events locally and regionally while assisting others to gather news events. Coordinated with news editor and fellow reporters to develop story ideas. Maintained relations with all news sources. Performed research and wrote both local and regional news. Collaborated with news editors to improve story presentation. maintained knowledge on latest events and news to obtain news coverage and important and pertinent issues. This was a job I held during college.

Bachelor'S Degree, Journalism

Master'S Degree, Educational Administration And Supervision

Teaching Credential, Single-Subject Credential